remorse

gasket project

alright, so perspective drawing's not my forte. nonetheless, here's the bhb factory in an isometric view.

gasket project

sculpture garden, first concept sketch.

gasket project

the factory, first concept sketch.

sketcheszs

couple of parade updates, prior to actual website update (need more new material).





. . . and a drawing of the kitten:



ugh, stagnation. i need to paint something, soon.

jerry c ::: canon rock

i know everyone's seen this, but i'm kinda sick, and it fucking snowed all day, and basically i think that watching this once a week or so is probably good for your general well-being, so indulge me.

beasts! book two

the votes have been tallied, and the voices heard, and my painting was not accepted for the fantagraphics beasts! book two open call. this is okay, although kind of a bum-out. but! what's real cool is that someone set up a flickr pool for contestants to post their non-winning submissions. it is worth checking out. there is some good stuff to look at. i would recommend it.

the mynah bird

r.i.p. gary bialke

my cousin, painter/sculptor/character designer gary bialke, died on march 2nd, 2008. i'd never met him, but i had seen his work, and i was inspired by it. recently, my brother e-mailed me a link to sort of an in memoriam page for gary on animateclay.com. it contains links to some of his work at will vinton studios in portland, samples of which i've posted below.







gary also did a lot of work on the california raisins, and apparently did much of the design for the "speed demon" part of the michael jackson moonwalker video, in which michael jackson turns into a giant claymation rabbit to escape from the giant claymation paparazzi. the dance-off at the end is pretty awesome / adorable.

gasket project

i realize i'm posting a lot. i'm new at this, so bear with me; i'm sure the novelty will wear off soon. i wanted to post one of the new concept scans for the project i'm working on at gasket.





robot treehouses. right on.

conversation transcript

matt: Have you ever seen John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise?
me: nope
matt: There is a chapter in that book entitled "700 Hobo Names"
me: i imagine it is hilarious?
matt: I heard an excerpt from the audio book recently which is John Hodgman reading all 700 of the hobo names, accompanied by Jonathan Coulton playing Big Rock Candy Mountain on the guitar for an hour
me: just repeatedly?
matt: Yeah
me: with lyrics?
matt: No, it's just acoustic guitar and hobo names. Actually, I think it's online
here. There is apparently also a website where different illustrators have drawn all 700 of the hobos at http://e-hobo.com
me: when was this written? when was it recorded?
matt: Recently
me: i was gonna say, it sounds like it. so whys it on archive.org?
matt: They don't necessarily just have old stuff, I think
me: just public domain stuff
matt: It's a good source of crappy royalty-free music to use in your non-union late night mattress store commercial. #52: Boxcar Benjamin Disraeli
me (aside): whoa, i do NOT want a job designing sets for a rock opera based on the revelations of st john the divine which incorporates the imagery of ezekiel and daniel!
matt: That sounds terrible
me: yeah
matt: Oh lord
me: it said, we'd prefer someone with a creative eye. uhhh....
matt: Did you ever see the video of the Ten Commandments musical starring Val Kilmer?
me: i dont want to again, please
matt: Fair enough
me: that was pretty awful
matt: It's supposed to be coming to Radio City. I'm awfully tempted
me: is val kilmer still in it?
matt: Yeah
me: can he hear the life of his career being hate-crime-dragged behind the touring bus the entire way?
matt: I can only imagine
me: #76: vice-president garrett hobarth . . . are there really 700 of these?
matt: Oh yes

/// maybe you've already heard this. i don't think you're supposed to make it the whole way through, really. it's pretty funny, although i don't recommend the illustrated part.

sign /// release

i'd say it's always unnerving to randomly happen upon a strange old photo of myself featured in someone's online portfolio, but it's honestly never happened previous to this. as far as i know, maybe it's only unnerving the first time.

image dump 3!

decorative trucks from japan, the us, and pakistan; scrap robots; the scrap from which they were made. this last photograph, of the broken down apartment, is completely beautiful. it's also completely just an advertisement for some garbage removal company.





hisaharu motoda's "neo-ruins" lithographs of a post-apocalyptic tokyo.



. . . and a vision of the future architecture of london.

nerdesizer

remaining within the nerdlinger vein of earlier today: in my search for c64 and amiga synth covers, i found that vangelis papathanassiou has a website. i guess that's not surprising, or maybe only as surprising as the fact that "vangelis" is one dude who has a last name; still, holy crap! the website looks like it was designed in about 1995 by someone with limited access to microsoft paint, but is updated and maintained.
the internet's a strange place.
tangentially, most of the other heavy-hitter sid composers have websites, too. check out the high voltage sid collection links page for those.
and if you have no idea what i'm talking about, the sidplayer download is worthwhile (and available through the links page linked above). a lot of this music was composed for computer games, which makes it much cooler or lamer, depending on your perspective; however, most of it's legitimately good music. plus, these dudes coded it all up from scratch. take that, house djs.

stéphane halleux

so, the word steampunk gets thrown around nowadays with an irritating regularity (nerd alert). regardless, i guess in this case it's appropriate. based on thirty seconds of research (google search "stephane halleux marc caro") and a little artistic intuition, it appears as though he might have had some hand in production design for city of lost children. (this assertion is in no way based on fact.) anyway, mix that aesthetic with a tim burton character design, and put it in an elaborate victorian tank or jetpack, and that's about what this is. that's not to belittle it in any way, though; these miniatures are really awesome, and despite their steampunk classification, they're not the kind you arrange on a hexagonal grid and roll dice at.

image dump 2!

ascot how-to, so you know . . .



for london's lady firefighters.






old . . .







. . . and new. "hairts" - this has to be the worst product name the designer could have chosen, but the idea is pretty rad, regardless.