Anthony Romero’s Shaman Test:
Romero uses youtube-level video, performance, and trash art to transform himself into a shaman who emotes like he’s casting a magic spell that will free us from our stunted lives.
October 9, 2009
October 8, 2009
Brian Chippendale/Sun Ra/Disco 3000
This video’s an awesome mashup (Lightning Bolt vs Sun Ra!):
via Arthur Mag.
In that video, when Chippendale is flipping through his Sun Ra records, he stops at Disco 3000. That record is sick, here’s one of the tracks:
It’s a four- or five-piece Arkestra that was recorded live in Milan in 1978.
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October 6, 2009
Taffy Hips #5 Release Party this Friday
My comic Herakles of Mars Attacks the Lion of Tharsis has been included in the latest issue of Taffy Hips, here’s the cover:
They’re having a release party this Friday at Desert Island Books in Brooklyn (where you can also pick up a copy of Hyperbox #3, as my buddy Lanneau just reminded me!). If you’re gonna be in the area, be sure to check it out!
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October 4, 2009
Froghead Attacks Shamanman: 16-Hour Comic Book Day
I spent 16-hour comic book day drawing a single page (that’s not technically true – I learned Manga Studio 4 and did pencils for a number of other pages …). Anyway, here’s the page that I finished, let me know if y’all enjoy it:
Our 16-hour comic book day ended up going from 11 am to 3 am. I admire anyone out there who actually made 24 pages in 24 hours – that’s an inhuman feat!
October 3, 2009
Manga Studio 4 Makes 16-Hour Comic Book Day Possible
It looks like I’m just going to be almost two days late with both my posts this week. Since 24-hour comic book day started today at 10 am, some of my cartoonist friends and I decided to hole up in my studio at my new place and spend all day drawing comics (we’re calling it 16-hour comic book day – 10 am to 2 am!).
Because I’ve discovered that I can produce comics three to four times faster on the computer than on paper, I downloaded Manga Studio 4 the nite before last and finally got to start messing around with it today. This is my first drawing with the program:
The algorithms that it uses for the various nibs and markers feel really realistic, altho the tapering effect is annoying. I’ll have the final product up sometime after 2 am!
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September 30, 2009
Wolf Woman Herakles
Hey ya’ll sorry I missed posting on Tuesday, I’ve been busy moving. I was going to post something about the Devin Flynn show/screening here in Austin this past week, but I missed that too (also because of moving), so here’s something I dug up from deep in my swipe file:
via cpb.tumblr.
This is how I should’ve reinterpreted Herakles for the 21st century.
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September 25, 2009
Submission for Taffy Hips #5
Sorry this post has been a bit delayed y’all! I’ve been busy moving and finishing up my submission for Taffy Hips #5. Here’s a panel:
The one-page comic is called “Herakles of Mars Attacks the Lion of Tharsis”.
September 22, 2009
Dispersal/Return Animation Remnants
The opening reception for Dispersal/Return will be this Friday (9/25) at the University of New Mexico Art Museum in Albuquerque from 5 to 7 pm. If any of y’all will be in the area, be sure to check it out – it’ll feature a special performance of “America’s Big” by my two good friends the Dirty Monke (AKA Jonathan Loth) and Li’l Bunny Krunk (AKA Gabriel Romero). You can also view my installation, Cryptostructure, alongside many other thought provoking works by Land Arts of the American West alumni.
Smudge Studio recently reblogged my post about my installation, and you can scroll down and view the work of the other artists in the show here.
I spent a lot of time working on different animations for that installation, and I’ve collected together some of the remnants into a new video animated GIF, check it out:
7/12/22 update: I replaced the old video, embedded from Flickr, with an animated GIF hosted on my site. Same content as before, but now it seemlessly loops!
The floating, segmented being with yellow eyes that you see in the beginning contains the longest bits of hand-drawn animation that I’ve done to date. This is definitely something that I plan to do more of, as I find the time in between comics and drawing projects.
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September 18, 2009
No More Worlds Gallery Hours
We don’t want to conquer space at all. We want to expand Earth endlessly.
We don’t want other worlds; we want a mirror.
–Dr. Snaut, Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972
If those of y’all in Chicago missed the opening of No More Worlds at Concertina Gallery, you can go check it out every Saturday from 12 to 5 pm until the last day of the show on Saturday, October 10th.
Corinna Kirsch, co-curator of the show, has written an essay on the exhibit that mentions yours truly, here’s an excerpt:
Mark Hensel, another artist interested in the “reconventioning” of conventions, has uploaded old science fiction paperback covers onto his Flickr account. Documents of what was, the covers on these out-of-print editions–populated by scenes of a lonely cosmos or solitary wanderers–echo the oftentimes desolate landscapes in Hensel’s own comics and installations.
You can read the full essay here.
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