Over the holiday my Dad and I put together this nice case for the skull that I found with William out in Pullman, WA. Took the photo with my new soft box set up, but still figuring out how to use it. Pretty difficult with glass because you can see the light sources in the reflections.
the work of Steve Lambert
Man, who doesn’t love th0se old metal signs from the 50s? The type, the shapes, the colors, the lights! Steve Lambert makes work that draws on that aesthetic to create signs that aren’t exactly advertisements. Check out more on his website.
Art of Valerie Hegarty
Valerie Hegarty‘s rotting armoires and melted paintings highlight the beauty of decay. In her Altered States exhibition at Marlborough Gallery in New York, finely crafted furniture and paintings lie in various states of destruction and degeneration. It’s difficult to tell what disaster is supposed to have affected all of these objects, sometimes there’s charred evidence of a fire and elsewhere rotting wood covered in barnacles. But what makes her pieces more than a collection of fabricated shipwreck salvage is that the decay seems to distort, highlight and destroy the original forms in ways that complement their composition.
All images © Valerie Hegarty
F’ed Up vinyl
This is an impressive look at a bunch of Fucked Up releases on vinyl:
http://seekingthesimple.wordpress.com/vinyl/fucked-up/
They’re gonna be in Seattle in September with Ceremony and Lightning Bolt! And on a Saturday, no less!! Wonder whether they still tour with limited edition 7″s..?
Slacking on my daily drawings
Been slacking on my daily drawings since I got a new job, but this morning I was attacked by a crow! So I figured I’d better document and share.
Hogan by Peter Millard
I don’t know exactly what it is that I find so appealing about drawings that look like kids’ drawings, but it works just as well in animation. I love the way the letters and shapes drift around and distort from being traced over and over.
New Cat Power Album!
New Cat Power album just announced! It won’t be out until September, but you can check out a track online. http://www.catpowermusic.com/
Mugshots
Lots of great old photo collections at These Americans. I particularly like the Minnesota Mugshots; everyone’s got so much character. Apparently that size letter board went out of production for years, and then this company Alphabet Signs started making an 8×12 model again. It’d be cool to have one, but the font is a bit too modern and they’re kinda expensive.
Bang! Bang!
Over the past few weeks the construction crew working next to my office has been driving huge piles into the ground. They work all day between 8 and 5, which means that there’s a near constant pounding sound, and a shock wave so powerful that it literally rattles the building. We’ve performed the Jurrasic Park test, and observed that a glass of water will, in fact, ripple with every strike. I think the rig is a diesel hammer, but I drew this little cartoon from memory during a staff meeting.
Sure, I know that there’s no risk of this happening, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t imagined it could.
Solid Gold poster!
In January 2012 Olson Kundig Architects threw their annual Winter Party and I was given the opportunity to design a graphic for the invitation. I put together this poster to fit the Solid Gold soul-dance party theme of the party. The image above is how the graphic was emailed to the office, and below are some variations made to look like poorly made screen-prints. I actually really like the effect of all the colors bleeding and overlapping, it really looks pretty authentic.