Optimum Wound

It’s always interesting to see how a third party looks at your website even if it’s just software.

Wordle was a site created by Jonathan Feinberg who while employed by IBM Research coded this as a personal project. Here’s a description from the site:

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

If you go to the ‘Create‘ tab you can plug in your website’s URL or the RSS feed from your blog and see what kind of cool graphic it spits back out.

Here’s what I ended up with for Optimum Wound.

And here is the one that resulted from plugging in our sister site Blunt Force Beating. It’s a little more intense.

And finally a good slide-show presentation on some more badass ways that you can utilize this cool site and tool. Have fun.

And finally the moment all of you zombie fanatics have been waiting for. AMC has released the 4-minute trailer for the Walking Dead.

I know thousands of you are stoked for this coming Halloween.

From the AMC site.

Close your windows, lock your doors and clear your schedules. Come this Halloween, you’ll have more to fear than trick-or-treaters. AMC has announced that its newest original series, The Walking Dead, will premiere on Halloween night, Sun., Oct. 31 at 10PM | 9C. The Sunday night series will debut with a 90-minute premiere episode. Subsequent episodes will be one-hour long presentations.

Filed under cool shit that shows up in my inbox. Artists Aaron Crawford and Scott Saw have joined forces to put out a new print. Aaron ‘redrew’ one of Scott’s paintings in his style. We’re big fans of Aaron Crawford here at Optimum Wound and were pretty stoked to get a chance to interview him last month. And now I’ve been officially introduced to the art of Scott Saw thanks to Aaron.

It’s cool to see more poster artists making more waves at Comicon as well.

From Aaron’s blog:

I only recently became familiar with his work through the power of twitter. We started chatting one day about collaborating, and long story short,
WE FINALLY DID! It wasn’t your traditional collaboration, because we live 28736 miles away from each other, but with the power of the internet, and a few massive file exchanges, we made it happen.

He sent me one of his paintings titled “The Good Fight” and I basically went and redid the concept in my style, which is going to be made (by Scott) into limited edition prints that will be available at this years COMIC CON!

I’ve always hoped to be involved somehow in the Con, so Scott is sort of making a dream come true here, by having this print available at his booth. (#4632)

I unfortunately won’t be able to attend, but you if you are going, you HAVE to, I repeat, HAVE TO go check out his booth and all of the art that will be available there. There will also be a few other goodies available from yours truly.

And here’s the original Scott Saw painting ‘The Good Fight’ that this new illustration and print is based on.