Doritos have now become the first company who will officially try to sell stuff to aliens by beaming an ad "pulsed out over a six-hour period from high-powered radars at the EISCAT European space station in the Arctic Circle." [link] According to the boffins, “The signal is directed at a solar system just 42 light years away from Earth, in the ‘Ursa Major’ or Great Bear Constellation. Its star is very similar to our Sun and hosts a habitable zone that could harbour small life supporting planets similar to ours.”

The 30 second advert can be seen here [link] , but I wonder what an alien will think of it if they see it considering it depicts a bunch of corn chips sacrificing one of their own in a salsa volcano. Nice ad, but it will make for an awkward first contact when the aliens come here trying to liberate the corn chip people from the tyranny of their uncouth human gods, expecting little corn chips with face paint and kilts shouting "FREEEDOOMM!!!".



In a not-so-new news, apparently a study in Cytogenetic and Genome Research (vol 103, p 58) has studied the gene expression of the unigenes (those that make the same proteins) in 17 different organs (liver, lung, testis, brain, ovary, uterus, colon, stomach, heart, eye, kidney, spleen, gall bladder, breast, thymus, prostate and pancreas) and found that the greatest similarity in gene expression was, surprise surprise, found in the brain and testis.

Kind of reminds me of what one of the Monty Python once said: "Men have two major organs, the brain and the penis, but only enough blood to run one of them at a time."



Lastly, following in the footstep of the Mythbusters, someone has published a more detailed article in the American Journal of Physics (Vol 76, Issue 6, p 551-557) regarding the famous Mentos-Diet coke reaction, including quantifications of the effect of falling speed, surface roughness, and surface tension. I can imagine whoever wrote it trying to convince everyone else in the lab that he/she is actually working. "Yes, this IS work. Serious! What? Alright, I'll mop it later!!"

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Comission prices

Lineart/black and white : $15-50 depending on complexity

Coloured : $ 50-150 depending on complexity

Sample pricing:
Lineart [link] - $20 [link] - $30

Coloured [link] - $60 [link] - $70 [link] - $100


Tutorials that I've made:
Drawing Wings: [link]
BG-painting: Stars [link]
BG-painting:Moon [link]
BG-painting: Clouds: [link]
Painting Scales: [link]
Painting Fire and Feathers: [link]
Lineart preparation for colouring (photoshop): [link]
Basic CG Colouring Part 1: [link]
Basic CG Colouring Part 2: [link]
Basic CG colouring Part 3: [link]
Basic CG colouring Part 4 (End): [link]
Drawing anime faces: [link]
Painting grass and trees: [link]
Cel shading: [link]

My print store: [link]