There she goes, my beautiful world
I don’t know where this is heading. I’m running right up against the limits of my rendering vocabulary here and I feel like I’m fumbling around in the dark. I’m finding myself wishing I was working larger so that I’d have more room. At this scale I don’t have much room to use texture without muddying it up and making it too dark. That leads me to rely on outline, and that way there be monsters.
I’m not sure how … Read the rest
Like many Americans these days, I’m hunting for positive cashflow and investigating ways in which I can trade my time and effort for paper I can turn around and trade for food and lodging and art supplies. And in this day and age, the way to do that is through a variety of websites that connect job seekers with employers.
The highest value sites are ones where the employers have to pay to look at a résumé. The logic is … Read the rest
Looking at this scan I’m having a lot of trouble seeing the good in here, so I offer this in my defense: the image to the right is a section of the drawing in progress about two inches wide. So all the sloppiness is exaggerated by the amount larger the image is shown on screen than on the drawing table.
I do think I’ll have to touch this up after I finish the rest of the drawing but for now I’m … Read the rest
I struggle against clutter. I don’t like it, but it is all around me. I have to confess my envy of those who have placid Zen-like open homes and workspaces. I generally do a pretty good job with my living room, but even now I see a few piles of unopened mail, boxes, and assorted miscellany waiting to be shoved away somewhere out of sight and out of mind.
Lately I’ve been listening to the 43Folders podcasts, specifically Merlin Mann’s … Read the rest
Once upon a time, I could pull a small computer from my pocket while sitting in a cafe and use it to check my email, write blog posts and short stories, update my resume, and create invoices for clients. I’m not even talking about my Newton, which stretched credibility to call pocketable. No, all these things could be done and done well by my old Palm Tungsten|T3, which I bought in 2003. If truth be told, most … Read the rest
In the long-standing tradition of launching ecommerce websites with incomplete features, minimal consideration to user experience and inadequate testing, I bring you the new incarnation of the old Paroxysm.com.
Sadly, you won’t find the adventures of ‘Zoop’ Dubin, Private Eye there any longer, but maybe that can be added at some later date. What you will find is a collection of my pen & ink drawings, photographs, and luxographic prints, and a shopping cart for purchasing prints … Read the rest
A recent debate/poll in The Economist ended with a tally of 71% to 29% declaring that copyright laws do more harm than good. While I’m the first to admit that there are serious problems with the existing handling of intellectual property, I’m appalled at the seemingly widespread notion that creativity should not be legally protected and encouraged.
Last year, only the $700 Billion bailout distracted the House of Representatives from passing the Orphan Works Act, which would … Read the rest
I’ve spent the better part of the afternoon in the studio working on the second in my series of drawings of San Francisco landmarks (if I’ve started the second it’s officially a series, right?) I’m in the early pencil phase, doing a lot of study of reference photos and creating a lot of outlines, not attending to questions about texture.
One of the fascinating things about the human mind is its capacity to create connections from totally disparate fields, and … Read the rest
I’m watching the second episode of the History Channel series The Universe and am getting aggravated. I seriously hope that the series improved over time. The narrator’s voice is grating on me and the quality of science displayed is poor. The writers seem to have made their decisions based on dramatic impact rather than facts.
The second episode, about Mars, is better than the first episode, about the Sun. I had to roll my eyes when the narrator introduced the Sun … Read the rest
Thursday night at Art Explosion on Seventeenth Street in San Francisco Spring Open Studios 2009 kicked off with an «after-work preview» show to provide a peek at the new work that was on display all weekend, beginning with Friday night’s opening at 7pm. I haven’t the time or inclination to provide a complete survey of the variety of the work at Open Studios this year, but I took some snapshots of a small sample of this year’s notable work.… Read the rest