Beginnings of a repeat pattern

Making a new background for my twitter page, and this is the start. I think I want to keep adding large and small details to make it more kaleidoscopic. I saw this today and feel like I should bite some of this style, too. I like how there's something lozenge-like about how these fit together in this pattern. Maybe I can work some sort of Akira/Kaneda imagery into the background as well.

Drawing From the News

Striking factory worker in today's Times:

It is definitely not a great drawing, but it's an ok drawing. Drawn in a 9x12 moleskine, using a koh-i-nor mechanical pencil with HB lead only. It just feels good to be doing some freehand work and that it looks somewhat like the original source.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/08/04/business/jp-paycuts.html

In the year 2000

If television and phone service 50 years ago had been equivalent to AT&T wireless and Time Warner Cable today, tv and phones would have NEVER HAPPENED.

Accepting spotty service in an emerging technology is one thing. Accepting the occasional bug in a beta version of a software is another. But these are things that purport to be everyday reliable services that are quite the opposite. The immediacy and volume of information available is both daunting and incredible at the same time, and I think it may be exactly those factors that allow us to forgive the shortcomings.

This is definitely not exclusive to those two service providers. I have heard (and experienced) bad service, bad customer service, bad hardware, bad software, false promises, etc. from other companies, these are just the two that I'm dealing with currently, and it frustrates me and makes me sad. I have to spend the money either way ... I don't HAVE to, but to live in the environment and lifestyle (creative professional, freelancer, educator, NYC) I need these services. The fact of the matter is that there are NO good options, and all we have is a choice of lesser evils, shitty or shittier goods and services.


Even more depressing: there is no solution, because there is no alternative. Promise the moon and deliver the upper atmosphere? Crappy metaphor for a crappy situation.


http://tinyurl.com/32k2r9j

Pitcher sketch

Drew this today for a project I'm working on: adapting one of my father's stories into a graphic novel. Been planning (procrastinating) this for about five years and very excited that I have finally stopped being so lazy and have started working on it.

Location:Sackett St,Brooklyn,United States

another one on the way

Partway done with another one. I'll call it a bunnybear but really this is going to be a giant salamander dragon...

A New BunnyBear (Hope)

Not chapter four, or rather, chapter IV, just a new bunnybear.

Burton-Ize

The final project I am giving my Digital Imaging students at City Tech is to "Burton-Ize" a self-portrait. We are teaching to a "Core Text" at City Tech this semester and the Core Text is Tim Burton. They chose Burton because of the coinciding show at MoMA and the release of his version of Alice in Wonderland. Visually I figured this would be something both challenging and fun for the students to do as they yearn for the freedom of Summer vacation.

So much fun that I did a quick one of myself this morning:

The assignment can be found at the wordpress site I have been keeping for the class:
http://adv1260.wordpress.com/
Oh, and this here is the original: