weather?

  • fog

Monday, March 7, 2011

I thought this arrangement was complete until I found a bag of pork-rind-type-snacks a few feet away...

(much better)




An instant installation how-to guide:

1. go outside
2. find something discarded on the street (some call this "trash")
3. arrange it
4. admire your own creativity
5. put pictures of it on the internet



(the last step is optional)

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

A big man in a tiny hat.





So this is what I've been working on lately:

(I watch a lot of anime obviously)






(this one was inspired by Blood +)

If you're an anime character you can have any eye color you want! And if you're an anime character with an evil twin then you probably won't have the same eye color as your twin does because one of you is evil and genetics are irrelevant in Japan.





That one eyebrow got a little outta hand there so I didn't draw the rest of his face. Sometimes I stop caring near the end of a drawing.
eye color
no eye color




Now it gets sort of Lichtenstein-like... but gayer.














This was the first one I did.


I love anime!!!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011



Art? What is Art?





Flashback to my time in England:

(I posted a few pictures of this installation about a year ago... but they do not suffice.)



My installation, titled "Two Trees" uses J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium (aka The Two Trees of Valinor) to illustrate a cycle of creation and destruction. As the work was being shown I invited viewers to pick out items from the scene I had constructed and then smash said chosen items with a hammer. Then I would bring in more elements to be added to the mess so that it was never finished, just continually transformed.


This here is a pedestal that I turned upside down and poured black paint into so that when you looked inside you saw your own reflection. I hung a string from the celling and attached an empty glass jar to it, then lowered it into the pedestal. This helped draw interest as to what was on the end of the string which led the viewer to their own face at the bottom of the hole.




"Telperion and Laurelin the Silver Tree and the Gold that brought light to the Land of the Valar in ancient times. They were destroyed by Ungoliant and Melkor's, but their last flower and fruit were made by the Valar into the Moon and the Sun." -Wikipedia






Also I didn't have the internet for a while so I made this. When I showed it to my banjo teacher he said, "Marijuana's a hell of a drug." I deny any such accusations of inebriation. It was withdrawal from a lack of internet that produced this strange collection of moving images.


(all the pictures after 00:45 are from www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com

except for that rooster)




Breakables being broken...

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Part Deux

Second week of the animation class and...

OH WOW THAT GIRL CAN EDIT!




(that's what they're saying about me)




(all of them)



So just appréciez s'il vous plaît.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Flying Mustaches


I took a workshop on stop motion animation at Root Division in the Mission. There's no sound. Sing yourself something while you watch it.


Look at me mom! I'm an animator! OOOOOOOOOOOH WOWOWOWOWOWOOOOOOW! I'm finally cool.



(et c'est tout)

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Ballad of Stan



ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A DEAD CLOWN IN AN ALLEY.


His name was Fiddles, Fiddles The Clown.



Nobody noticed him die and he laid rotting in the alley till his body bloated and someone called the cops or the paramedics, even though it was too late for that.




Anyway this is about Stan who only knew Fiddles in passing as a retched sot. So anyway... it was a lovely day in the summer...



... many clouds, lots of wind...

weather stuff...
... ...lots of ellipses floating about... ... ............
................ ..... .......... ...................... it was ellipses season apparently.....

Oh and underneath all that fecund punctuation nature was out doing its thing.


Making shit bloom.


Yeah it was nice.



Yet somehow, somewhere Stan lurked in the shadows. Aided and abetted by his child molesting friends Victor and Tuvak. Who looked a lot like Fiddles from the back.





Chapter 7
Behind Pink Doors




What's going on in there? Indoors... behind doors... behind pink doors?

DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!!!!!!








OH GOD NO!

it
was

porn




And then the Unabomber showed up...


and he said, "go away" to everybody because he was a grumpy jerk.


So they shut the door and continued to forget about the dead clown in the alley who had nothing to do with this story in the first place.






THE END




... and now some promo shots for "Stan or Satan"

(Oh so juicy!)





DOUBLE TAKE!!!



Arrest that man for handsomeness!







And back to looking at playboy, please notice the placement of the thumb.



(Not to give it away but it in the end of "Stan or Satan" it turns out he's Satan. No surprise there.)