Wednesday, May 14, 2008
'Til Infinity!
Some sketchbook pages for your butt! Old to new[ish] doodles [remember, I'm still tryin' to catch up w/ myself; I've been meaning to put some of the stuff I'll be posting online for literally a couple years].
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Phone vs. Elephant [the eternal struggle]
...An addition to my last post. Another old painting. It was, again, a mock illustration for a kids' poem called "Eletelephony", if I remember correctly.
I painted it more than a year ago, but I just added in the fez, and in my opinion, it made the whole thing come together. It was somewhat boring otherwise, though the hat didn't come out as visible in the scan [it was kinda a bad scan altogether]. Acrylic on board.
Most of the stuff I've done more recently has been larger, so I'll have to take photos. And, I'll probably throw up some sketches and dook.
By the way, "Taxi Fare" by Sly & Robbie is still in print, and out now on CD under Island Records. So pick it up! [no silly pun intended]
SHABAP!
I painted it more than a year ago, but I just added in the fez, and in my opinion, it made the whole thing come together. It was somewhat boring otherwise, though the hat didn't come out as visible in the scan [it was kinda a bad scan altogether]. Acrylic on board.
Most of the stuff I've done more recently has been larger, so I'll have to take photos. And, I'll probably throw up some sketches and dook.
By the way, "Taxi Fare" by Sly & Robbie is still in print, and out now on CD under Island Records. So pick it up! [no silly pun intended]
SHABAP!
Thursday, May 1, 2008
"Mao, Mao, Mao!... Mao!!!"
So here's my new effin'...*sigh*... blog... I never thought I'd be one of those people. But, of course I never thought I'd have a Myspace either, but look at my sad shell of a self now. No matter how much I hate my generation I'm still part of it. Plus, a blog is practical in a stupid sorta way. This can be my "official" website, or some crap.
Anywhoo, on to business. I'm not gonna have a mission statement 'r nuthin', but I think I'd like this thing to be partly focused on selling-myself-out and trying to get me, and my work [paintings, drawings, etc.] out there, no matter how degrading and career-minded that may be, and partially devoted to just bein' my online play-thing [posting stuff that I may be interested in, or just wanna talk about, blabbidy-bla. Most of which you will never care about.].
To start off with I have some very old junk that I did at the beginning of the semester before last. Just a few...
Portrait of a young Mao a la WW2/Sino-Japanese War era.
Done in oil and colored pencil on illustration board.
Another portrait. But instead of a highly influencial, but slightly crazy, Stalinist dictator, it's of a big-headed turtle. And yes, there actually is a whole variation of turtles that are known as "big-headed" turtles.
Painted with acrylics on illustration board.
Mock illustration for some article on gorilla poachers in Africa. I kinda focused mostly on how they mentioned the poachers ritualistically [I think] eating the gorillas. The guy in the background was the head of the rebel militia who was known for killing the buggers.
Pen and ink.
...Oh, and this month's album is "Taxi Fare" by Sly & Robbie. I picked it up on cassette recently, and I highly recommend it. Released in '87, it is by far some of the best I've heard from this humungously prolific duo. Although it is strange that I dig this stuff, 'cause I've always been an adamant believer in the power of Jamaican music right up to the mid-70's, and everything after was shit. But I guess it's finally waring on me. It's still difficult for me to get into anything since electronic music took hold of that little isle, besides say Jimmy Cliff, Gregory Isaacs, my main-man "Delroy", or Michigan & Smiley. But you can't over-generalize.
To me, West Indies-style music; calypso, mento, ska, burru, rocksteady, bluebeat, reggae, roots, dancehall, dub, skinhead reggae, etc., etc., whatever you may call it [and maybe some old Motown or early 60's British junk], is the perfect background music. If I'm planning on getting something done, there's nuthin' I like more than throwin' on my Johnny Nash LP, feelin' the groove, and whippin' some HW out. When I'm listening to some faster tunes, I usually wanna get pumped or hang-out maybe. As a result, I tend to not actually listen to the Irie music's lyrical content as much because my mind is elsewhere when I usually put it on. This could be why I tend to support the earlier-the-better theory; after the 60's, everything was less instrument driven, and more and more about what they were saying or the crooked beat that you couldn't quite shake your booty to as well. And that's why I listen to this sweet soulful music, because of that beat that could only be played by someone w/ rhythm in their blood. [HUGE DIGRESSION]
But, that's why this album struck such a chord with me I think. It's the unstrumental songs that really get me, i.e.; "Taxi Connection"'s infectious bass line, or "Triplet"'s driving rhythm. Also though, there are some other good jams, like "Sitting & Watching", or "Those Tricks". All in all, I think the B-side's a lil' better, but it's all good.
Anywhoo, on to business. I'm not gonna have a mission statement 'r nuthin', but I think I'd like this thing to be partly focused on selling-myself-out and trying to get me, and my work [paintings, drawings, etc.] out there, no matter how degrading and career-minded that may be, and partially devoted to just bein' my online play-thing [posting stuff that I may be interested in, or just wanna talk about, blabbidy-bla. Most of which you will never care about.].
To start off with I have some very old junk that I did at the beginning of the semester before last. Just a few...
Portrait of a young Mao a la WW2/Sino-Japanese War era.
Done in oil and colored pencil on illustration board.
Another portrait. But instead of a highly influencial, but slightly crazy, Stalinist dictator, it's of a big-headed turtle. And yes, there actually is a whole variation of turtles that are known as "big-headed" turtles.
Painted with acrylics on illustration board.
Mock illustration for some article on gorilla poachers in Africa. I kinda focused mostly on how they mentioned the poachers ritualistically [I think] eating the gorillas. The guy in the background was the head of the rebel militia who was known for killing the buggers.
Pen and ink.
...Oh, and this month's album is "Taxi Fare" by Sly & Robbie. I picked it up on cassette recently, and I highly recommend it. Released in '87, it is by far some of the best I've heard from this humungously prolific duo. Although it is strange that I dig this stuff, 'cause I've always been an adamant believer in the power of Jamaican music right up to the mid-70's, and everything after was shit. But I guess it's finally waring on me. It's still difficult for me to get into anything since electronic music took hold of that little isle, besides say Jimmy Cliff, Gregory Isaacs, my main-man "Delroy", or Michigan & Smiley. But you can't over-generalize.
To me, West Indies-style music; calypso, mento, ska, burru, rocksteady, bluebeat, reggae, roots, dancehall, dub, skinhead reggae, etc., etc., whatever you may call it [and maybe some old Motown or early 60's British junk], is the perfect background music. If I'm planning on getting something done, there's nuthin' I like more than throwin' on my Johnny Nash LP, feelin' the groove, and whippin' some HW out. When I'm listening to some faster tunes, I usually wanna get pumped or hang-out maybe. As a result, I tend to not actually listen to the Irie music's lyrical content as much because my mind is elsewhere when I usually put it on. This could be why I tend to support the earlier-the-better theory; after the 60's, everything was less instrument driven, and more and more about what they were saying or the crooked beat that you couldn't quite shake your booty to as well. And that's why I listen to this sweet soulful music, because of that beat that could only be played by someone w/ rhythm in their blood. [HUGE DIGRESSION]But, that's why this album struck such a chord with me I think. It's the unstrumental songs that really get me, i.e.; "Taxi Connection"'s infectious bass line, or "Triplet"'s driving rhythm. Also though, there are some other good jams, like "Sitting & Watching", or "Those Tricks". All in all, I think the B-side's a lil' better, but it's all good.
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