Pizza By The Slice » Flying Spaghetti Monster http://pizzabytheslice.com Photography, Illustration, Web Development & Scary Rants Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:17:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 FREE Printable Kid’s Coloring Book Pages http://pizzabytheslice.com/free-kids-coloring-book-pages.htm http://pizzabytheslice.com/free-kids-coloring-book-pages.htm#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:51:00 +0000 Buz http://localhost.pizzabytheslice.com/?p=13 Just finishing up the first of what I plan to be five or six kid's Halloween activity & craft pages, including a couple for Cycleway Coffee and thingamababy. In addition to coloring book pages I'm thinking I'll make a page of printable... ummm, what are those called? "things you glue onto toothpicks and stick into cupcakes". Seems that "Cupcake Toppers" or "cupcake flags" are common labels. So a page of Halloween cupcake flags.

Dang! Martha Stewart's already got a terrific set here: Clip-Art Craft: Spring Cupcake Toppers (PDF).

The major problem, as I see it, is that young kids would pluck one of these from the cupcake and immediately poke their eyes out, an un-YouTube worthy moment. Need alternatives to toothpicks. Perhaps candy cigarettes or carrot 'n celery spears. Yuck.

In the meantime, download my Pumpkin (also part of my growing "Coloring Book Pages" Flickr set or right here on Pizza, Kid's Coloring Book Pages, A Grab Bag Of Uneven Illustrations).

]]> Here’s a roundup post: 14 coloring book pages, themes ranging from the Flying Spaghetti Monster to Santa Claus, Hallowe’en gets a good respresent’n, so, too, do shameless plugs for pet/side projects.

I suppose some kids enjoy coloring, and sure, Crayola Crayons smelled fantastic, right up alongside purplish mimeographs (ahhhh, slightly cool and damp when fresh, ready for the surreptitious sniff!), but I rarely strayed from my true love — pencils, mechanical ones if possible.

Coloring BOOKS, however, now those were great, even (or especially) the ones printed on unbleached, rough newsprint. Great, that is, not for coloring, but for the art; these introduced me to line art — fantastic variations in width and stroke, for this I’m indebted (see a master at work, Patrick Owsley).

So here’s my recent efforts, for kids who do color or don’t. Also available in my Flickr Coloring Book Pages Set.

Flying Spaghetti Monster Coloring Pages

These are my first efforts, play on Chick pamphlets or VBS activity books.

For other sizes and file formats: Flying Spaghetti Monster Coloring and Activity Book.

Zanzabelle, Silver Lake

Octopus, ‘n Giraffe, ‘n Jack-o’-Lantern Coloring Pages

A fantastic shop filled with retro goodies, touch of kitsch, and good treats — some promos for Zanzabelle General Store

For other sizes and file formats: Zanzabelle Ice Cream and General Store.

Cycleway Coffee, Hermon (Los Angeles)

Halloween: Witches, Pumpkins, & Jack-o-Lanterns Coloring Pages

A worthy coffee house just down the hill here in Hermon, the forgotten LA (adjacent to Highland Park and South Pasadena), Cycleway Coffee.

For other sizes and file formats available at Cycleway Coffee’s “FREE Kids Stuff” pages.

Thingamababy – a dad’s eye-view of Baby & Toddler Stuff

Halloween: Mad Scientist Printable Coloring Page

AJ runs a great website – a rich resource for parents or any folks who find kids pretty darn amazing, yet baffling. He reviews products aimed at new parents and generally finds the lighter side of sharing your home with ‘lil persons.

Visit the thingamababy’s You-Print Halloween Coloring Pages for Acrobat PDF versions of these pages! I’m really pleased with “Thing in a Jar” activity/coloring page, as a concept if perhaps lacking in the execution. Its intent is to provide children a fun framework in which to draw their “thing” — animal, vegetable, mineral — inside a steampunk-tricked-out Leyden Jar!

A Classic Los Angeles Institution

“Bob Baker Marionettes” Christmas Coloring Page

If you have kids, or can borrow a couple for a morning, head over to this theater for classic, true retro showmanship. Oh, and you’ll get cake and ice cream, too.

Visit Bob Baker Marionettes for show times and specials!

Some Christmas Leftovers

Christmas: Santa & Reindeer, Gingerbread Man with his Gingerbread House Coloring Pages

These were not created for coloring book pages, but are in fact puppets I made for a short animation a few years back. Just thought I’d re-purpose them here.

To download this pages right-click and save to your computer. Page thumbnails link to full-sized images.

]]> http://pizzabytheslice.com/free-kids-coloring-book-pages.htm/feed 0 Flying Spaghetti Monster Appears in Coffee Froth http://pizzabytheslice.com/flying-spaghetti-monster-appears-in-coffee-foam.htm http://pizzabytheslice.com/flying-spaghetti-monster-appears-in-coffee-foam.htm#comments Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:32:00 +0000 Buz http://localhost.pizzabytheslice.com/flying-spaghetti-monster-appears-in-coffee-froth.htm I had just walked out of Our Blessed FSM’s Church of the Olive Garden, where we’d enjoyed many tasty servings of His sacraments, including all the breadsticks and salad He so amply provided, when the Spirit, still with us, moved us to stop in at Starbucks for a cup to go — which I brought home to enjoy while reading Modern Pirate Digest online. Imagine my surprise then, when I saw…


Blessed likenss in coffee foam

FSM Ministries pamphlet cover

yes, His visage!

His very likeness in my beverage!

Though my initial thought was "put it on eBay, so that others (or, at least, the highest bidder) might likewise know his beneficence and enjoy walking closer to
Him", sadly, the flesh is weak, I was sleepy, and in a moment succumbed, drinking His blessed Image.

(See images below.)

If your languid life lacks the carbo-loaded indifference of FSM’s noodly touch, then perhaps the FSM Ministries tract that changed my life will change yours, too. View cover

And for the young ones, here’s a lovable Flying Spaghetti Monster, manga-edition. Stop blaspheming with Pokemon, microwave your Jars of Clay crap, and hop onto the salvation train. large image.

May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage, too!

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Flying Spaghetti Monster Resources

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See Also

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Miracle Photos

Flying Spaghetti Monster in Coffee Foam

Full-size picture of this miracle here

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Flying Spaghetti Monster in Coffee Foam Close-up

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Flying Spaghetti Monster Manga Edition

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NOTE: There are those that accuse me of shenanigans, tampering with my espresso machine to get the crema (tan-colored foam on the top of well-shot espresso) to form his likeness. Hah! I never.
I’ll pray for you.

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Raising a family in the faith is difficult in this world in which we find ourselves. Children wearing an innocent eye-patch, shoulder-parrot, or have elective surgery for a prosthetic peg-leg are routinely singled out for ridicule by our secularist school system.

Much needed Pastafarian-friendly resources for children are particularly scarce, and it pleases not Flying Spaghetti Monster. That’s why we’ve started the Flickr Flying Spaghetti Monster Pool, as a place where the faithful can share images. My most recent work has been the creation of a Flying Spaghetti Monster Activity and Coloring book for children (links to large images below).

I encourage you to check out the flickr pool to suggest titles and/or morals to accompany these coloring book pages as well perusing the other cool art and photos being posted by other Pastafarians. (Links below are to large versions of the color book pages) And, of course, may you be touched by His Noodly Appendage.

Download the Coloring Book Pages

Download large GIF images or Adobe PDF/Acrobat versions. If you experience problems here’s help downloading Acrobat documents.

FSM coloring book page 1
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Adobe PDF (81 KB)		 FSM coloring book page 2
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Adobe PDF (94 KB)		 FSM coloring book page 3
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FSM coloring book page 4
He Boiled
For Our Sins
 
Adobe PDF (101 KB)		 FSM coloring book page 5
Pastaman Revolution: Bob Marley
 
Adobe PDF (138 KB)

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GIF Images are 1,294 x 1000 px, perfect for refurbished Pirate monitors!

No, I won’t explain the caged marmot, pray on it for a while.

At right, the special collector’s cover for the coloring book: available only at Burning Man last week. George and Sara took a stack out to playa, along with a bucket of crayons.

I, will, however, apologize for what is certainly among the worst Bob Marley caricatures / cartoon parodies ever. This, sadly, is my horribly failed attempt. I rushed. I got lazy… I’m so sorry. Somehow thought I’d cleanup it up quickly in Illustrator… yikes. Didn’t happen. That thumbnail? Looks like O.J.

More about FSM and Pirates at venganza.org

See Also

Flying Spaghetti Monster Appears in Coffee Froth (plus Manga/Anime version of Him/Her?) photos of FSM as he appeared to me, in my coffee. No, really. How rude, it did happen, you can’t fake photos, heretic.

Flying Spaghetti Monster Valentine’s Day Cards print ‘em and trade with your "friends".

Bible Stickers: Evolution v. Intelligent Design v. Enchilada Casserole: a proposal for requiring warning stickers in publicly held bibles.

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About the Sketches

You know how less is more? Well, had a tough time recognizing that point while doing " Noah’s Ark" page. Some choices were easy, however. So many critters and such that it was easy to remove the rainbow (besides, a unicorn AND a rainbow in the same sketch? how gay is that? exactly). Tried to be less on the nose with the copy, too. For example, the following tagline is too much more:

"…and, lo, after 40 days and 40 nights of dinosaur dung and a certain horned quadruped’s whining ‘are we there yet?’ — Flying Spaghetti Monster did change his mind a bit"

See, way too much of that. Anyway, keep sending your ideas for any of these images as well as suggestions for future pages.

My goal was to capture the quick, weird images we got in Vacation Bible School arts and crafts activities (yes, in Kansas): part cartoon, part a manic "hey, this is fun, kids" plea (we knew better — it wasn’t), and a last minute dose of macabre arm-twisting, as in, "sure, it’s all fun and cartoon art today, but tomorrow, we’re toasting your brother!".

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I hope schools still do this: provide a stressful holiday, one introducing the vagaries of popularity. Even more so I hope that kids still feel the excitement as I did as I lifted the pasteboard lid off my box of oh-so-thin cards with matching envelopes.

My grade school, Antioch Elementary, indulged us this way: we had a classroom party, lots of cup cakes with pink frosting (homemade! no CostCo, our moms baked, often with a little help from Betty Crocker and Jack Daniel’s), but the highlight was popping off the lids of our Valentine Boxes.

The Valentine boxes were made early in the preceding week, then set on the shelf by the window, where we hoped our secret crushes would find satisfaction. The making of the box was a very personal act. Its shape, whether you opted for a shoe box or an oatmeal box, various grades of construction paper, stickers, stuff you’d saved up… it all got glued on. With a WIDE slot on top so no card would be refused.

We even had contests for best box. I won. I recall one red telephone shaped box and one, and here I’ve no idea why, but one year it was a black (posterboard) pot-bellied stove.

The inexpensive cards — a box of 36 ran about $1.65– were printed single-sided on card stock, the envelops really crappy. The better sets included stickers and printed envelops. Also, a good set had a Teacher card.

The idea was to ration the good cards, give those to your real friends, then dole out the cruddy ones to the kid that always smelt of playground asphalt and pee. Sometimes, even using last years cards. Or a Ziggy.

The card designs changed even in my few years of buying them. Shinier, more branding like Barbie, GI Joe, and Snoopy replacing the no-name ones.

Hey, I’m rambling– screw this. Let me know your ideas for other designs.

Check back, I’m planning on doing a few more designs and a bonus Teacher Card!

Answers to the two types of emails I’ve received: first, where are the hi-res versions (see below) and, two, how do I make these (sketch, software, etc)(see belower)

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Hi-res versions

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More Resources

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About the Sketches
valentine day card sketch #2

While a few of these were done from scratch on the computer in Painter (a killer program) most of these pieces began as quick pencil sketches (sometimes in a pocket notebook, sometimes on Ajisen place mat — really nice paper, and great NOODLES!). Sketches get scanned then (usually) traced in Illustrator. Sketching takes two to fifteen minutes, Illustrator takes 1 to 8 hours.

The teddy bears/pirate/shark card was traced in Photoshop — mainly due to my dread of rendering believable water with Illustrator paths.

I’ve favored Illustrator for FSM-work mainly because his luscious noodles are just faster to do with Bezier curves than by hand sketching. Though I did one to good effect using Painter’s pens, I just don’t possess the coordination required on my Wacom tablet to use this exclusively.

Shown below, the original sketch for first Valentine’s Day Card (“I’d be off my Noodle if you’d be mine”). Here’s the original sketch for “I Love You… But You Must Die” card

original sketch for valentines day card

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