Is It The Sea?

Obama means...

a breath of fresh air

The 44th President of the United States of America!

interns & election day!!

Done for the wonderful wonderful Shane Luitjens over at MyMidwest. Full page & spot for a story about how to properly utilize your intern.

A Season in Hell starts Friday

For all of you west coasters, Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch's solo debut opens November 7.
Press release here.

Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 So. First Street
San Jose, CA 95113
408.271.5155

Happy Halloween, all you Halloweenies!!

p.s. i know all this movement can get a little annoying after a while, so ill turn it off after today.

happy halloween!

What would Halloween be without a black cat?
A little animated version courtesy of Jashar!

Boo!

Happy Hallow's Eve WFoFers!
What's everybody dressing as?

tagging at home: fun with decal art...

Woo...I got my hands on these letraset-like decal art of David Shrigley's doodles, BIG FUN! I marked most of my belongings within 24 hrs, including Jalapeño's food jar.

Dan James Interview!

Another exciting interview for Lost At E Minor! Dan is one hell of an entertaining interview. Read it HERE!

Damara's Got Prints For Sale!

Damara Kaminecki aka Damarak the Destroyer has an awesome new set of razorblade themed prints for sale at Cannonball Press! Holiday shopping just got a little easier.

Joseph Hart's New Etchings

Today's Gaze (left), Pretty Posture
Four plate, six color intaglio etching with aquatint, sugar lift, spit-bite, digital inkjet collage, 24K gold leaf collage, and hand additions with graphite.
Sold as a set, edition of 35. Published by Forth Estate.

The above diptych from Joseph Hart will be on view at the Forth Estate booth, at the Editions/Artist Book Fair this weekend in NYC.

Pretty Posture was accepted into the 2009 North American Print Biennial. Congrats, Joseph!

Editions / Artist Book Fair, with Forth Estate (booth #11)
October 31 - November 2nd, 2008
The Tunnel
293 11th Ave, between 27th & 28th
New York, NY

Shrek on Broadway

Here's a piece I did for this week's 'On the Horizion' section of the New Yorker!

Robert Sikoryak

I ran into Bob Sikoryak at the Strand on Sunday. Emily, Ilana, Drew and I met him when Chang Park had us speak at Parsons. Bob was checking out the graphic novel section while he was taking a break from working on his book. Drawn & Quarterly is putting out a collection of his Masterpiece Comics next year. He's currently featured in “An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories, Volume 2.”

the making of a pizza cookie

last year it was the burger cake for jashar's b-day. this year, pizza cookie! emily, jed & i spent the entire afternoon yesterday cutting out marshmellow pepperoni, onions, peppers and mushrooms....looks a bit like play doh pizza but nevertheless well worth it i'd say!

The Oedipus Cycle

The Oedipus Cycle, The New Yorker, November 3, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, The New Yorker sent me to see The Oedipus Cycle at the Pearl Theatre. I attempted some life drawing during the play, but the theater was too dark to draw anything coherent. Fortunately, there was time during the intermissions to sketch out thumbnails. It was a great show- I'd definitely recommend checking it out.

an unused sketch with an ink wash experiment

happy b-day jashar!

Cliffside Houses

The November backpage of Paper Magazine.. I snuck an Obama pin on the dress in the finish and they ended up crediting it in the printed version.. Paper's the best!

(dress: Proenza Schouler, Flower Headpiece: Anna Sui, Pin: Obama campaign)

David Stone Martin

On my other blog (no, not that one... the other one), I'm always saying that "Today's Inspiration"- a blog about old school illustration- really lives up to it's name.

Check out their entries on David Stone Martin-
Modernism meets Traditionalism
Early Days
For the Record
"...unusual pictures, vitalized by many strange textures"
"Bending a wire"

His line quality is similar to Ben Shahn and Andy Warhol's illustrations.

Check out a full gallery of Martin's work here.

We want Plu-to! We want Plu-to!

I have very fond memories of watching this video when I was a kid. I had the one where the narrator was a magic mirror, this one is just a lame talking pumpkin but I think the videos are the same. When Pluto goes to cats court in part three is a classic.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5