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Whartscape is a nationally known festival held in Baltimore.  It was started as a protest against the state-sponsored Artscape--the largest free art festival in the the United States (if the organizers are to be believed, I don't know the metric they measure it by). The criticism was that for all of the bluster and pomp of Artscape, local musicians were shafted in favor of mainstream acts with no real ties to the city.  So in response Whartscape was set up five years ago by the Wham City collective (http://www.whamcity.com) to highlight local fringe and indie music. Since the first festival many of the acts have grown a national fanbase--th

I've been meaning to try out the canvas tag for quite some time.  If you don't know, the canvas tag is a way of drawing vector graphics in a web browser without using a plugin like Flash or Silverlight.  You can also use the tag to manipulate images--crop, pinch, that kind of thing. Its supported by every current-gen browser not called "Internet Explorer".  The current interest in canvas is probably due to the iPhone whose internal web browser supports it and not flash. Though the element is intended for static images, it can be coerced into making animations. This is my first attempt, a simple click-sensitive animation loop:  http://www.si

https://joeljohnson.com/2009/wally-woods-22-panels-that-always-work-unlimited-edition I'm as big a Wally Wood fan as my age allows.  Which is to say I've only been able to get my hands on a few xerox-quality strips of illustrations.  That said, he was a master and somehow represented every aspect of his era, producing significant "comix", mainstream work with Marvel and DC, humor with Mad and everything in between. Candid throw-aways these are like life preservers thrown to the ages.