Been working on this the past few days. There’s a LOT of pencil and acrylic paint in here, and it’s now proving very difficult to photograph. This is a slightly Photoshopped approximation of how it should look. I’ll try again maybe tomorrow.
You may not know this about me, but I am a man of many hobbies. Fantasy baseball, bike riding, ping pong, tennis, crossword puzzles, connect four, boggle, scrabble, innovative drinking games, the list goes on. One hobby I especially enjoy is collecting domain names. I think at the height of my craze I owned around 40. Why? I DON’T KNOW. Well another, related hobby I enjoy is letting those same domains expire. (13 in the past 9 months!) Sometimes in my frenzy I let one that I like slip through the cracks. Such is the case for oragainstus.com, which apparently had enough traffic to become a billboard for some girl with a backpack.
Not a site I made. I don't even know this girl!
Luckily I own the far superior youareagainstus.com, which should be up and working in the next day or so. In the meantime, if you’re seriously jones-ing for some wordless comics about fear and politics you can check them out at http://ytorf.com/oragainstus, which will always be there.
So update your bookmarks please!
A couple of new posters I recently finished for the Harvard Square Business Association. Neither of these are the final versions, but the ones I WISH were the finals. If you live in the Boston area stop by Harvard Square and check out the printed versions (and the events themselves…) to compare and contrast.
Romanteek and Lady Magma are playing at the Cake Shop Wednesday April 1st, along with Dynasty Handbag and DJ Stache Master.
Romanteek is part of the Olympia, WA DIY rock scene and its “infectious hooks and driving beats sound somewhere between “Remain in Light” era Talking Heads and the funky stylings of Prince, and convey one solid message: all of life’s problems can be worked out on the dance floor.” (from their website)
Lady Magma describe themselves as “scrap rock” and that’s probably a pretty accurate description. It should make for a pretty memorable night
http://www.myspace.com/romanteek
http://www.myspace.com/ladymagma
http://www.myspace.com/dynastyhandbag
Romanteek plays two other shows in New York: Thursday at Zebulon, and Friday at Secret Faggot.
Over the past year or so I’ve been slowly revisiting my Or Against Us project. My original idea was to experiment with form a bit, see how different presentations affected the message. So in kind of a cop-out way I’ve done that.
Paginated versions
Or Against Us (just realized that my page count is off for this. Oops!)
Annotated Rwanda
Poster-sized versions (a less success but more fun experiment)
UPDATE: I am lazy and let the URL expire. The project now resides as http://youareagainstus.com
Nerd baseball is a mix of really geeky baseball talk about WARP and such, and posting of really geeky looking baseball players. I mean, look at this guy:
Pretty much guaranteed that this guy heard of BALCO the same time you did
Can you believe that he was really a Major League Baseball player?
Anyway, I made their logo! They are great guys! Geek out and read their site!
Some of my favorite coins from around the world. Notice a theme? More on this later.
Mike Briggs and I have started a new comic about our friend K-Ya! We take turns drawing and then the other person tries to write something that goes with it. It is very fun. For us. Check it out!
Storyboarding is just about done for the animation segments for What’s Organic About Organic? They’re planning on submitting to a few festivals before they’ll all be done, however, so I had to do some placeholder illustrations.
Here are a few. As always, you can learn more about the film here: http://whatsorganicmovie.org
Found these from the vault. The first is of St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin. The other is outside of Donegal, I’m pretty sure (it’s been a while).
