I’ve been keeping a sketchbook handy lately and though I’d post some drawings. This one is a bit of a repeating theme that came out better than usual. The first version is felt-tip marker. The second is all shined up in Photoshop. Special thanks to my close personal friend Elvis Costello for the lyric.
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Having cut out the centers of two thick hardbacks to make secret compartment books for the kids this past xmas, I can really appreciate the sheer effort it must take Brian Dettmer to create these works of art. The aesthetic value is obvious. I think I’m going to give this a try. I love any excuse to wear through dozens of x-acto blades and even think I’ve a few books that would be well suited to a project like this.
I miss Don and Janet. We used to see them all the time and went to their house every whatever-day-of-the-week it was to watch Friends when Julie and Don were in Graduate school together. Janet is one of the most talented interpreters of imagination and how it splashes out all over everything that I’ve ever known. She once made a bar (yes a bar) for Don as a birthday present.
What happens when they decide to make something together? Tales of the Merman, that’s what. If you’re one of those fuddy-duddies who need things to make sense, then I don’t know what to say to you. I never have.
I’ve seen a lot of photographs of wild animals. Hell, we all have, right? I’ve even seen them up close and personal living in Kenya for a year. I’ve taken a few pictures of zebras in Hell’s Gate and elephants near Amboseli that I’m even a little bit proud of. But I’ve never seen the likes of Nick Brandt’s photographs. Looking at these things I can’t help wondering why anyone else even bothers.
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Phenon wanted me to put sometihng she made on my blog, so she drew this for me. When asked what she wanted it to be called, she said…well it’s pretty obvious what she said, isn’t it?
This one is from back in November. Here are all the previous Meeting Sketches.
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And it continues. It started here and then went here.
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I have found that doodling is a more effective way for me to remember what has happened in meetings. Maybe it’s an ADD thing…I don’t know. Rather than let these works of art languish in spiral notebooks and in the margins of Functional Requirements Documents, I’ve decided to blog them.
You’re welcome.
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My dear friend Jeff just put up a bunch of new artwork. Please do take a look. It’s lovely: http://www.jeffrossart.com
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I’m so glad that Andrew Bell opened up his head for us to see inside: http://www.creaturesinmyhead.com/
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This guy printed out a bunch of blank catoon-speech ballons and put them up all over the place. Then he went back with a camera and took pictures of what people wrote in them.
It’s got all that I love about AdBusters (off-kilter ways of re-purposing the advertising messages of corporations) without all thatbugs me about AdBusters (their elitist above-the-hoi-palloi kind of crap…like dropping bunches of dollar bills off a balcony in a mall and videotaping the dirty, dirty lowlifes as they scramble).
Thanks boingboing!
The first one in the series is