As the great Timothy Speed Levitch once put it “in front, you will see commuters. running towards their destinations, and away from themselves. ” In an age when being busy is a badge of proof that we are important, it takes real courage to slow down and think. The image above explores just that notion and asks the question “what are we running towards” or better yet “what are we running away from”
if you are a We Rule (iphone game) player then you have a chance to win this awesome t-shirt illustrated by myself. it was a rush to do this project not only because i had less that 24 hours to complete it but also because i love ngmoco and everything they produce. thanks michelle for putting the good word in for me. you can check out shirt on ngmoco’s site here.
If you haven’t been able to pick up a copy of the OC Weekly this week you can see the spot illustration from the article above. The article is about the discrepancies in the treatment of two non profits in San Juan Capistrano. you can read the article here.
Just finished a project with NGMOCO for their game We Rule. I am excited to see the final result. More soon
Its a circus out there. spent most of yesterday making this piece. inspired by the carnival section of Disneyland’s California Adventure. Tools used in order: Ink, Illustrator, printer, water, graphite, scanner, photoshop, you.
After coming across a website by the “Christians” of Westboro baptist Church evilly named godhatesfag.com i slowly started to realize that so many christians are focusing on the wrong fight. Should gay couples be allowed to marry is a question so many Californians are asking themselves right now. Its a good questions. Many people have deciding to take action and stand up for the “protection of the institution of marriage”. This is a great thing. The institution of marriage needs protecting, especially lately but i think they are missing an even greater enemy to said institution than same sex marriage and that is Divorce. How can we ask others to respect this union if we ourselves don’t. In fact divorce runs more contrary to the idea of marriage than two people of the same sex wanting to spend the rest of their lives together. Marriage vows proclaim that NO MATTER what happens these two people will be together. We have broken this promise to many times claim any sort of property over it. take the log out of our own eye before you try to take the spec out of your brothers eye.
This image was drawn and then rendered in Adobe Illustrator. then printed and smudged up by hand. I was inspired to make this image after seeing a series of illustrations by Chris Ware and Raymond Biesinger two huge inspirations for me.
Four of my illustrations will be making there way into the Houston Press’ best of issue. the magazine hits the racks sept 30 if you live in Houston pick up copy and enjoy. For those of you not in Houston sit tight because ill post something on this blog. It was a fun project cant wait to see the printed version.
Art has a voice, and our words have flavors. this is a diagram of the taste areas of the tongue but it also seconds as a diagram showing the flavor areas of our words. i couldn’t find a place for -pissed that person just took my parking spot- plus thats no a flavor, at least not in this country.
Radiolab Presents Words
I would expect nothing less from Radiolab than this beautiful, mesmerizing essay on the subtle power of language to thread through human experience.Very cool.
As you may have noticed were not doing so hot, America that is, at least economically. We all have our theories as to why and i am no exception. So what is eating America (in my opinion) is Greed. An overarching lack of moral responsibility lays over our country, and as this illustration displays it is eating us. I am sure it is more complicated than i understand it to be, but as far as i can see we all want what we want but dont want to pay for it. Unchecked this will cripple us. But maybe hard times are what we need. My Noni (grandmother) as a child worked her way through the great depression, growing all there food and not having any hot water. as she told me this story said ” i am afraid for your generation and the next, because they have never known life without comfort.” I agree with her, more comfort doesn’t mean better quality. We need to learn how to live with less.
This illustration was collaged using old magazine newspaper ads, and recently published newspaper graphs.
For the last few weeks i have been traveling all over for vacation, conference, wedding and bachelor party. now i am back and ready to start work again. although i dont really know what that looks like i am excited to find out what that will look like this season. this is a piece i did this morning, a little bit of experimentation with newspapers and old books. I really like the way old print looks and will probably experiment more with this. cheers
Experimentation day! Yay! i have recently realized the importance of experimenting in your work. its great for finding new processes and also for keeping your interest from fading over time. So i dedicated the entire day to just letting myself explore new things with the materials i had. My goal is to create a process that is mostly hand made. I get tired of looking at a computer but i have a longer attention span with real materials. This is one of the things i made from yesterday really experimenting with style and process. when experimenting it is important to let go of content (unless your experimenting with content) this will free you to only focus on the materials and process. so i focused on the recession rooster. freedom is exhilarating but it can also be scary, there is nothing scarier than doing something no one else has ever done before. there is no way to know if it is good. you just have to trust yourself and let go of that thing on your shoulder that gives you a hard time about everything. yeah first punch that thing in the face and then get to work, i am much happier when i do this.
