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g train doodles

2010-03-10T16:29:00.000-05:00

some doodling on the g train. lately i have been having a renewed love for my wee sketchbook, hey there, lil' guy.

oslo

2010-03-05T12:24:00.000-05:00

we're taking it back to two thousand and nine! (i still haven't quite caught up with last year's sketchbook scannings)

toe

2010-02-25T08:00:00.000-05:00

you could argue that this is in fact a thumb, but it originated as a toe.

slate: olympic sap-o-meter

2010-02-16T16:18:00.001-05:00

it's time for the winter olympics in vancouver, and nbc is all ready with heartfelt stories of success, hardwork, suffering, perseverance...sap. slate has dusted off the ol' sap-o-meter which tallies the daily cheese-quotient of the on-air crew. be sure to check in for your daily dose of schmaltz and the 'sappiest line of the day," it's enough to make a grown peacock cry.

slate: olympic sap-o-meter / complete coverage

nerdentines

2010-02-12T08:00:00.000-05:00

♥♥♥ happy early valentines day! is your special someone a nerd? does sir patrick stewart make you hot? well, send them a valentine's ecard, featuring elves, klingons and na'vi speaking in their native tongues. (and yes, these are actual translations, the good people at lemondrop got actual translations from actual 'people', not just from google). so find yourself a cute boy or girl who twitters from their parents' basement and send them one! ♥♥♥

lemondrop ecards: talk nerdy to me

mouse trackin'

2010-02-09T15:59:00.003-05:00

this isn't terribly useful, but kind of fun, a little app that tracks your mouse usage for, uh, however long you leave it turned on. this is only a couple of hours, with a coffee break at the end (yes, the big dot).

anatoly zenkov's MousePath: mac/pc

via jez burrows

blue stove bakery

2010-01-25T12:21:00.002-05:00

muffins and watercolor, this might be turning into my lifelong work.

second stop cafe

2010-01-20T09:00:00.000-05:00

some more coffee shop drawin'.

sva figure drawing workshop

2010-01-19T09:00:00.000-05:00

i am behind on my sketchbook scanning, so here are some drawings from the second to last figure drawing session of the year. it's still '09 on this blog!

bookshelf

2010-01-11T11:50:00.000-05:00

a drawing of a bookshelf utilizing fancy new japanese tape.

happy winter

2009-12-21T15:24:00.000-05:00

we're a couple of days early, but in honor of the great snowpocalypse/snowmageddon which dumped feet(!?) of snow on the east coast this weekend, winter seemingly has already arrived.

marlow and sons

2009-12-16T09:00:00.000-05:00

marlow used to have my favorite breakfast, a spectacular biscuit served up with butter and jam...big, flaky, crumbly, moist, delicious. however, the pastry chef who made those biscuits left, and this biscuit was not THAT biscuit.

sva figure drawing workshop

2009-12-15T13:07:00.000-05:00

it's december, thus more naked drawings on the blog (huh?). one of the better models of the season.

peter pan bakery

2009-12-09T09:00:00.000-05:00

greenpoint's own peter pan bakery where i have just been introduced to their red velvet donut, their red velvet donut WITH COCONUT!? and their whole wheat donut which sounds like some kind of delusional health-nut abomination, but in fact is possibly their most delicious invention of all (and not healthy at all)!

crap scribbling

2009-12-08T09:00:00.000-05:00

this page is really just a mess, and not even a particularly good mess. internet, you're welcome!

doodling

2009-11-24T09:00:00.001-05:00

it's a short thanksgiving doodle week, doodle, doodle, doodle.

sva figure drawing workshop

2009-11-23T13:06:00.001-05:00

some bamboo and ink messes from wednesday night figs. i have missed way too many figure drawing sessions this fall, as opposed to the amazing and dogged gb tran, who currently has a perfect attendance record (are you happy now? jerk).

also, special request to shake shack, please change your winter wednesday night hours to 10pm. thanks.

15 Uses for Newsprint

2009-11-20T09:00:00.002-05:00

i am very pleased to be part of the illustrators and designers working in the pencil factory building in greenpoint, brooklyn who have stopped being polite...and start getting real...to create a recession special poster-zine for your wall...
15 USES FOR NEWSPRINT.

More information available at www.thepencilfactory.org, heck, you can even buy one!

first 100 orders get an original drawing by one of these drunk pencil factory artists:
Kim Bost, Josh Cochran, Jennifer Daniel, Gilbert Ford, Jessica Hische, Grady McFerrin, Ted McGrath, Alex Eben Meyer, Chris Silas Neal, Zacharia O'Hora, Leif Parsons, Rachel Salomon, Joel Speasmaker, Jillian Tamaki, or Sam Weber.

*special thanks to josh cochran and jennifer daniel for making this sucker happen.

rebel iphone

2009-11-19T09:30:00.000-05:00

think you're a tech badass? oh yeah? come on then, jailbreak that iphone of yours. ooooh, it's so precious, i'm scared, i'm scared. yeah, i thought so. (full-disclosure-illustration note: the creator of this illustration's iphone does not have spiky hair, ride a motorcycle or smoke.)

pcworld: jailbreaking your iphone: the pros and cons, by mike keller

letters, numbers, cutting and taping

2009-11-10T09:00:00.001-05:00

more effing around with cutting out paper and taping, cutting out some more paper, etc. november, you certainly are designed for plodding and pondering, football watching too.

nytimes: letting your grad student go

2009-11-09T14:30:00.000-05:00

a spot last week for the new york time's education life section about parents letting their grad student child go. seems obvious enough, but these are parents who are still helping their kids get into grad school, going on interviews, etc. uh...

nytimes: letting your grad student go, by amanda m. fairbanks

paris, france

2009-11-04T14:21:00.001-05:00

i love me some parisian rooftops.

paris, france

2009-10-28T09:00:00.000-04:00

i started to get worried that all i did was draw in coffee shops, so ao and i decided to hop across the atlantic to have the opportunity to draw in cafes. seriously though, just got back from a lovely vacation in paris, and while i never draw as much when i'm away as i hope to, here is some wine and cheese soaked sketching (the second drawing is actually wine soaked).

paris

2009-10-16T15:24:00.002-04:00

in case you are surprised by my lack of chatter, twittering, blogging this coming week, it's because i'll be being on vacation (wahoo!). yes, the lady and i are off on a lovely fall trip to the city of bears, paris. plenty of sketching and bloggering upon my buttery-winesoaked return.

sva figure drawing workshop

2009-10-15T16:00:00.000-04:00

nothing like kicking the tires on a new season of figure drawing. some pen, some pencil, a hint of watercolor, and some ink and bamboo (good suggestion, josh). some of these are tough to look at, you've been warned.

was getting a lot of back poses from the models, so hello to other people in the class! (note: clothed)