What I have been working on

Z-day

"V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a young woman in a white dress on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945...Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the celebrations he didn't have an opportunity to get the names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either person involved in this embrace and several people have claimed to be the subjects."

This piece was inspired by such a spontaneous display of the human spirit; in a time of much needed morale. Conveniently, I finished this piece around the time of Remembrance day. Up for voting at threads click the link below to vote and stuff.




Ps. Bet you thought this blog was dead, ha.

Crazy Ecology fact that ties into Post Rock

In the 1950s, the Chinese government underwent an serious self-improvement campaign to increase the efficiency of its nation. A part of this plan was to annihilate all pests in the country: flies, mosquitoes, rats, and SPARROWS. That's right, Sparrows!
Through research, scientists found that if a Sparrow were to stay in flight for more than a minute straight, it would die of a heart attack. So Farmers from all over the country were "encouraged" to bang pots and pans, and scare sparrows they saw into staying in flight.

Millions of sparrows were killed in the following months, and as a result, its natural food source, the locusts thrived. With few sparrows around to eat and control the locusts, the latter species thrived to the point where they were eating most of the crops of China. Millions of people died as a result of the ensuing famine.

This was the premise for the 2006 album from the Red Sparowes which I have heard all these years, but didn't know the whole story about until now. The names of all the songs make a lot of sense now. Anyways, what a random fact about them. Neat.
They might seem pretentious, but if that's what you view post rock as, you will hate every post rock band no matter how unpretentious they really are.

Here are some of their songs from the 2010(best album of the year) and 2006 album:

newest submission

"The Incredibly Mixed-up Toons Who Were At Some Point Cancelled And Went On A Muderous Rampage Anyways!!"

The following is a log about the making of my latest shirt design. I really hope it becomes a threadless tee. This design kinda came out on it’s own, and evolved through many stages to be this final product.
Originally, I was just going to do a bunch of my favourite cartoon characters as zombies. It was only after I drew the care bear that I remembered Alexmdc just had a design about them printed recently. So I chose to get rid of him. I would have really liked to have the bear in there, but I also like Alex’s design and there would be no point in including something so similar to it.

So I got rid of the care bear and replaced him with good ‘ol Astro. I also decided to go with my alternate idea ( at the suggestion of my friend Shawn -> aka brownstar) of having only characters of cancelled tv shows. Only problem was I really liked how the futurama guys turned out and technically they were on the air again. However, techincally they were cancelled, so its ok (technicalities are sometimes a good thing). So I was forced to take out Cartman, and aded other canceled toons. All the toons being killed are still on the air ; )



I decided that only Heffer was needed to represent Rock’s modern life, and went with The Brain instead of Rocko. I also thought Andy French could look a bit more beat up.


It was brought to my attention that Heffer looked too much like he did on the show, so I decided to redraw him, and add the rest of Kenny’s body into the mix. I liked how he turned out after the redraw. Added hatching. And Bam! Done!

On a shirt.

Partition the empty sky (Photography and digital media)

The location for this photograph was somewhat unplanned. It was a hot and humid day as we made our way to Riverdale farm, to do a photo shoot at the Necropolis cemetery. We had to cross a bridge overlooking the via rail tracks, and it was pretty much a must shoot situation. I am pretty happy with our choice, because railroad tracks, although somewhat are cliches, still make great shots.

Just playing around with pen and ink, and then did some colours in photoshop. I wish I didn't have such a crap scanner though.

WIP

Just started this last night while watching world cup reruns. Yes you heard right. Re-runs. I missed a lot of matches. No spoilers.

More photography...

Another in the series featuring the rabbit.

Electric Easels art show!

Some of my art at the show, I had more on the other side of the room.

It was somewhat packed, but mostly a high turnover rate for people there.

Some of Elan's work

So this was the reception for the "Do artists dream of electric easels" art show. I wish I had taken more pictures, but I think I was a little drunk by the time I remembered I needed to take pictures. I don't even have pictures of all my work that was at the show, but I will post them on here individually anyways.

Photography!

Thanks J for helping out. So yeah, here is the final product.