2005: 337 posts.
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Did I post this yet? (Jan 11, 2005)With These Rings, We Thee Wed Originally uploaded by artlung. Represent.
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Wedding Balustrade (Jan 21, 2005)Wedding Balustrade Originally uploaded by artlung. I think we look cute.
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Bas (Apr 22, 2005)Bas, originally uploaded by ellison. I forget if I posted this Photo Meg took back when she and Joe T took care of Bas. Either way, I don’t care. 🙂
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Simi Valley Blog Search (Apr 22, 2005)simi-valley-blog-search, originally uploaded by artlung. If you google for “Simi Valley Blog” you get me. I’ve been here less than a month. I, as the kids type these days, pwn!!!!!111
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Bas: A User’s Manual (Apr 22, 2005)Slightly improved from the version I emailed my Mom, who will now be taking care of Bas: Bas is *very friendly* – he will jump in your lap and purr if you let him. Bas loves everyone, but he will leave some hair on you in the process. Bas is declawed in the front; he…
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The Neighborhood (Apr 27, 2005)The Neighborhood, originally uploaded by artlung. No photos of the new house yet. Here’s one, courtesty Google Maps. It’s annotated with some of the neighborhood spots. Enjoy.
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Bus Errror, Core Dumped (May 14, 2005)Bus Errror, Core Dumped, originally uploaded by artlung. This made me laugh harder than I would have expected.
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Kitten War! (May 25, 2005)Who will win? Che: Bas: As Jason Kottke commented, _this is what the internet was made for_. *Update:* Fixed those links
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Meg Vader (Jun 02, 2005)Star Wars, Episode III, originally uploaded by ellison. Last week Devon and I sneaked away and saw an afternoon showing of _Revenge of the Sith_. We were greeted with the startling visage of Meg Vader, pictured here. Oh, on the right, that’s also Blockerman, sporting his custom-made “Prequels Suck” t-shirt. That man has style. *Related*:…
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Garage (Jun 06, 2005)Garage Originally uploaded by artlung This weekend, we actually made headway on this. We have a pile of cardboard to recycle. Books on our bookshelves inside thanks to Leah. Oh, and the garage no longer looks like this image from two weeks ago. A lot of work got done this weekend, of this kind, and…
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Expatriate Francophile American Babies! (Jun 09, 2005)I awoke so sleepy this morning. Busy day yesterday. What do I get in this morning’s email? A wonderful note of _naissance_: the birth of Julien Joseph, to Laura et Joe, two friends and former employers. Where? In France man. France. What was I just saying? It’s a whole French thing happening lately. Here’s a…
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Batman & Robin Bookmark, 1988 (Jun 17, 2005)Batman & Robin are ©DC Comics (I said I’d be doing some scanning. Given the _Batman Begins_ movie is out right now, this seemed appropriate)
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Boxer, 1990 (Jun 17, 2005)I have no idea what the “last line” text there is. This archaeology of old drawings is kinda kicky. It’s nice to have an office with enough room to get at the scanner.
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Liberty Bill: Put The Constitution on the Dollar (Jun 18, 2005)This is the best idea I’ve seen in a long time: A bill before Congress, H.R.1785 and S. 244, initiated by students, to put an abridged version of the Constitution on the back of U.S. currency. via:robotwisdom
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Leah’s halfway home! (Jun 21, 2005)Or thereabouts. Pretty nifty how you can plug a flight number and airline name into google and get links to flight status information in pretty-much realtime. The irony is Leah’s going into work when she arrives, and by the time work is over, and she’s on her way home, I’ll be off to my first…
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Virginia Landscape, 1989 (Jun 22, 2005)I remember this one as one of several I made by looking out the window on a train trip from Roanoke (well, actually, from Clifton Forge, Virginia) on my way to Washington, D.C. My 19 year old self was on his way to see a David Byrne concert in D.C. I had no reservations for…
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Old Guy with Glasses, 1990 (Jun 22, 2005)With colored pencil. He’s got a nice, circumspect look to him. I also love the hair.
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Leather Jacket Girl, 1989 (Jun 23, 2005)The hair is good. I liked doing drawings of girls back then. They all seemed to have the same or similar hair. Cropped close or slicked back on the sides, with a wild mane on top. Quick strokes in pen that were made expressively and fast. No editing. No pencil. I hated pencils back then….
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Sunglasses Girl with Sweater, 1989 (Jun 23, 2005)Another one of a girl. Again, slightly punky hair. I like the cross-hatching on the sweater. Funny that I never know, as I look through old drawings, what will catch my eye to post. I think I’m trying to post things that look “finished” somehow. Have you noticed all these “drawings” are in pen? Yes,…
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Orange Green Guy, 1989 (Jun 23, 2005)An experiment in watercolor. Color stands out in my notebooks because most of what I’ve ever made has been with pen and only pen.
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Robot Fighter, 1982 (Jun 24, 2005)1982. I was attending school at Christ The King Church in Gretna, Louisiana. My nickname was “Crawdaddy” among the other kids. If you live in Louisiana and your last name is Crawford, you’re pretty much gonna get called Crawdad, Crawfish, or Crawdaddy. These words are what they call Crayfish. Gretna is just outside Louisiana, just…
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Tim the Dog, 1990 (Jun 24, 2005)Created during a respiratory therapy class. I took a lot of notes, and occasionally I would doodle non-respiratory things. I love the name “Tim” for a dog.
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Flash: The Fastest Man Alive, 1977 (Jun 24, 2005)When I was 7 years old I really liked comic book characters and would draw them. When I am 35 years old, I talk about Ra’s Al Ghul and Anakin as exemplars of the idea that the end justifies the means with my stepsons. Questioning the wisdom of this outlook, of course. Comic books are…
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Crackpot Junk Mail, 1992 (Jun 24, 2005)From my scrapbook archives, a Book of Revelations bit of nuttery 14 years later. Where’s those end times?
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Square Guy, 1988 (Jun 25, 2005)During High School my family had a pad of paper next to our phone. It had little squares of flimsy construction paper. They were perfect little comic panels.
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Dog No Where, 1989 (Jun 25, 2005)“Dog No Where” reminds me of “Goodbye Che.” There’s definitely something about that _sadness_, that sense of loss, that I like. It’s probably why sometimes I like to listen to Mazzy Star and Morrissey.
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Hero vs. Dragon, 1987 (Jun 25, 2005)For a period after graduating from High School I was doing a lot of watercolor. I never was much for sword and sorcery stuff. Dragons and faeries and guys in armor. I never got into Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit or any of that stuff. But I loved my comics and science fiction….
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Seascape, 2004 (Jun 26, 2005)The garage may be much cleaner than it was, but there’s still unsorted stuff out there. This is from a small sketchbook we took with us to Utah this Christmastime. Several members of Leah’s family made drawings with the watercolor pencils, this is one of mine. Not terrific, but not bad either. It’s pretty. Night…
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Angry Fellow in a Box, 1989 (Jun 27, 2005)Funny how angry and boxed in I felt in 1989. This communicates frustration. Thankfully, much has changed.
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Tree, 1990 (Jun 27, 2005)A tree I created with brush and ink and water, 1990. It’s organic, yet a bit mechanical as well. I chose this one because it reminded me of some of Leah’s trees, as in these, and most particularly, these. Leah uses a straw to blow the ink this way and that way. I think I…
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Abstract Composition, 1987 (Jun 27, 2005)A cartoony abstract. There’s a dialogue between the two men — the abstract man front and center, and the seemingly skeptical man on the right hand side. I was decidedly ambivalent about abstraction in my own work. It was enjoyable, but I wasn’t quite sure it was _relevant_ in any way to anything I was…
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Narcissism, 1991 & 1993 (Jun 27, 2005)Archaeology: Me in 1991 and 1993 on separate vacations, in panoramic photos. Of particular note: seeing the World Trade Center in the background is a bit odd. Also, note the hair lengths here. This was on the path to long hair.
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Dead Man, 1997 (Jun 28, 2005)In 1997, I was still working as a Respiratory Therapist. I was working at a hospital in downtown Los Angeles. So this is an image of a man I was going to be giving a treatment to. Instead, I discovered the man was not breathing, and was pulseless. He was dead. I don’t know how…
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Dwayne the Bear, 1990 (Jun 28, 2005)Another invented character. I like him, but he really does not have much of a personality beyond looking lanky and bemused. Great name though.
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Estero Beach Wooden Fish, 1993 (Jun 28, 2005)From my journals. An illustration of a wooden fish I bought on the beach at Estero, in Baja California. We were staying at the cheap campground on the resort, waverunning and such. I haggled and got what seemed like a good price. I think I gave it away as a gift, but I honestly can’t…
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Cyberpunk Guy, 1988 (Jun 29, 2005)When I was a sophomore in high school I had a friend named Jason Erwin. He was an oddball, computer nerd, and geek. I distinctly remember being driven to see _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai_ with him. He was cool. I don’t remember what the debt was, but in return for _some_ debt from him…
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Roanoke House, 1991 (Jun 29, 2005)This was a study for a possible Christmas card I was going to make. A caricature of our house in Roanoke while it was snowing. Very quick, very rough. This is the kind of drawing I really enjoy doing.
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Portrait, Design Class, 1988 (Jun 30, 2005)Aside: So I got the gift of a flickr pro account from Steve Agalloco. This post is the first of many where I take advantage of the 2 Giga with a “G,” Gigabyte per month upload limit. Profuse thanks Steve, for this wondrous gift! As my first post using this, here’s an image that really…
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Mapping is fun with Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps APIs (Jun 30, 2005)Check San Diego Blog for some news about some interesting work I did porting the geodata of the San Diego Bloggers sites into maps powered by Google Maps API and Yahoo!Maps API.
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Stew Song for SpongeBob Squarepants (Jul 01, 2005)I know I’ve been all introspective and it’s all about me and all lately, but this is too _cool_ not to share. Stew (& Heidi, he says “we”) wrote a song for the SpongeBob Squarepants TV show! It’s a little thing called “Come Home Gary,” here’s what the man himself said on the negroproblem mailing…
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Monster & Man Diagram, 1987 (Jul 01, 2005)I used to go to a lot of art supply stores. You know, to browse. I would look at the foamcore, and expensive watercolor paper, and acrylics, and fancy pens, and exotic inks, and lust after them. Oh, and the exotic “letraset” sets. Man there were some really cool things that I just /knew/ would…
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Chewbacca, 1977 (Jul 01, 2005)I really loved Star Wars as a kid.
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Sun. TV. Dots., 1987 (Jul 02, 2005)I have always liked symbols, icons, pictographs, signage. An oddity here, just a bit of watercolor, saying… what? I have no idea my intent here. Was I working on a logo? Was I trying to tap into symbols? I have no idea, but it’s a pretty little composition. Today was pretty good. Got the brakes…
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Princess Leia, 1977 (Jul 03, 2005)It’s a beautiful morning. I really like that 7-year old self of mine. Princess Leia smiles, though I think she only smiles one time in that whole Star Wars movie. I saw that movie 5 and a half times, by the way. I mean, in the theaters, that Summer. Kids did indeed keep track of…
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Luke Skywalker, 1977 (Jul 04, 2005)I like the texture on Luke’s cloak here, though the two misspellings: “Luke Skywaker” and “Star Warss” dismay.
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Han Solo, 1977 (Jul 04, 2005)I’m almost done posting these Star Wars drawings from my 7-year old self. If you’re getting sick of them, take heart, I’m running out. Han shot first, you know. He’s trigger-happy in this image.
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Bas! From March (Jul 04, 2005)Basilone, aka “Mr. Bas,” drowsy and handsome.
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C-3PO, 1977 (Jul 05, 2005)Have a good fourth? We did. We went to the Reagan Presidential Library for about a nanosecond, but that was petering out. So what we did was go to the Simi Valley High School event. We hung out and brought a picnic lunch and it was a good, mellow, fireworks-filled event. Have a great day!…
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Respiratory Tools, 1993 (Jul 05, 2005)This is a drawing from my days as a Respiratory Therapist. What are these objects? Oxygen Key The first one, the one you probably have never seen before, is an O2 key. Hospitals with organized systems for the distribution and maintenance of portable cylinders. Typically these are E cylinders and are brought along during patient…
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Wendy’s Screen (Jul 05, 2005)I forget when this photo was taken, but it makes me smile. In case you can’t read it, it says: WELCOME TO WENDY’S THIS SCREEN IS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE ORDER ACCURACY AND SERVICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS!
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Fiery…, 1988 (Jul 06, 2005)I mentioned before always seeming to draw the same hair on these women / girls. Here’s a morose-looking woman. She sure is androgynous. Much more androgynous than I remember. At the time I was inspired by the work of Patrick Nagel. His work involved beautiful women, rendered in a graphically austere way. I _think_ I…
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R2-D2, 1977 (Jul 06, 2005)“May The Force Be With You” And I love my stylized signature. My seven-year-old self seems to have been going for a futuristic rounded rectangle look. I have always loved letters, lettering, and typography.
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Jamison/Gold (Jul 07, 2005)J/G was a pretty great place to work. We made websites and digital stuff at a time when it was still pretty fresh and new. We played Tekken on a big machine Namco had given us. We played for free and enjoyed it. “Take that you Tiger-headed Freak!” I once exclaimed during a bout with…
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Me in Woodland Hills (Jul 07, 2005)I kind of like this photo of me. I’m working away on my iBook. We lived in the Woodland Hills apartment for just a few months. It was a good time.
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Prom Photo, 1987 (Jul 09, 2005)O, callow youth! So here I am at my Prom, with my date, a friend of mine I’ll call “G.” In truth, we were just friends, G and I. We spent time together, but her sights were on older, more experienced men. I was such a kid in many ways. At my Prom I was…
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Eddie & Comic-Con (Jul 09, 2005)In 1995 I was living in Los Angeles. I had moved back to California after having gone to school and worked as a Respiratory Therapist for a while. I was back to figure out how to get into the movie business somehow. I took classes at UCLA Extension and was not sure what to do,…
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Rose, 1986 (Jul 10, 2005)I really like this one. It’s done in a few strokes of ink, which I was experimenting with in my teens. The color was added first with marker, then when I was disatisfied with the richness and vibrancy of the color, I added a layer of pointilistic pastel marks. It’s interesting what 20 years (well,…
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Me at work, 2001 (Jul 11, 2005)Workaholic, thy name was Crawford. Still, I did get this out of the period where I always seemed to be at work, and on the webcam.
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Leah’s and My First Movie Date, October 2002 (Jul 11, 2005)Was our choice of movie the Universe’s way of providing some foreshadowing? The red stuff is the fancy coloured glue from a scrapbook.
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Smoldering Man, 1989 (Jul 11, 2005)This is a hard drawing to look at for me. It bespeaks pain. The man is on fire, or covered in smoke. It could be interpreted as anti-smoking, perhaps, as many in my family smoked and paid dear prices for it. The style is so fast, so confident, but not so much deliberate. It’s part…
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Steampunk Anglo Warrior, 1990 (Jul 11, 2005)I like this one. Most of the work I’ve ever done with a science fiction feel was in a cyberpunk vein, but one of my favorite books was Difference Engine, (mentioned before in my book post)and the idea of alternate history is very compelling to me. I think what I was thinking of with this…
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Experiment, 1992 (Jul 12, 2005)In 1992 I was working in Charlottesville, and would come home to my folk’s house in Roanoke. My Dad had bought a Mac IIci, and I would fool around with it interminably. It was a handy machine, for its time. I think at the time this was a large image at 532 x 388 pixels.
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Space Woman with Goggles, 1987 (Jul 12, 2005)I dig that the earpiece and microphone don’t look archaic. That looks like it could be a bluetooth headset for a cellphone! I love her wild hair, I like the androgeny, I like the furry jacket (inspired by Vadim’s _Barbarella_?), I dig the minimalist goggles. I was probably inspired by Jean “Moebius” Giraud, a french…
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PMR Bag and Resuscitation Bag, 1992 (Jul 13, 2005)_I will write more about these drawings. But not right now._
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Comic Con, 1988 (Jul 13, 2005)On my lunch hour I just uploaded all my old Amiga pictures to my flickr account. See the set here. I think there was a contest that year to design a badge for San Diego Comic Con. This was the start of something like that. DeluxePaint II (aka DPaint) was a darn good program. I’m…
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Carpool Lane Gate Barrier, 15 Freeway, 1988 (Jul 14, 2005)After High School and before moving to Virginia, there were a few times I went and visited my friend Chris at Cal State Fullerton. This drawing was done from memory of whizzing by it on the 15 Freeway on the way to Fullerton. Why I took the 15 I don’t remember, I don’t _think_ of…
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My Name in Japanese, 1987 (Jul 15, 2005)I was fascinated by Japan as a teenager. Everyone seemed to think they’d buy everything up and kick everyone’s ass. So I played around with learning the Katakana and Hiragana script. I’ve forgotten it all, but this looks like it could be a sign on the Ginza to me. The type is not a font,…
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Mood. (Jul 19, 2005)This morning I’m not in the mood for a post. Please, enjoy this photo of the computers I work at until I’m back this afternoon. And there’s some great links at robotwisdom lately. Go over there for now. Or J-Walk. They give good link.
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Oh, the weekend you say? (Jul 19, 2005)I look like a goofball in this picture. Nonetheless, a grand time was had by all at San Diego’s famous Turf Supper Club last Friday on our little trip to San Diego. It only took us a few hours to get there from our Simi Valley home. We took the new van, which runs good….
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Untitled, 2000 and WebCollage (Jul 20, 2005)Andy Warhol has been on my mind recently. I have an ink drawing from years ago that’s in the on-deck circle for posting here. When I was in High School, I thought Andy was a genius. His famous-forever statement that “everyone would be famous for 15 minutes” was inspirational, and his knack for plugging into…
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Measure Twice, Cut Once, 1997 (Jul 21, 2005)I mentioned before my appreciation of things Japanese. I think of the character in _Breaking Away_ who is obsessed with the Italians and even speaks in Italian. I was not that bad, but I did put a an imperial flag on my wall in High School. It was a bit more than being just a…
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Joe Japanese Cute Style, 1990 (Jul 21, 2005)That’s 15 years old! Wow. When I drew this I was deliberately trying to draw something in a Hello Kitty way. It’s not till a few years ago I heard the term super deformed, so I termed it “Japanese Cute Style.” Superdeformed is (from wikipedia): In anime and manga, characters which are drawn in a…
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Dave’s Alarmed Look, 1985 (Jul 25, 2005)Speaking of Dave Letterman… I had particular wants when I was a teenager. For example, at Christmastime I would ask very specifically that any t-shirts bought for me have no logos whatsoever. I still prefer blank t-shirts. Though the kids recently had the totally original idea of getting me a “Joe Cool” T-Shirt. Dude, I…
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Brushy Shorthaired Girl, 1986 (Jul 26, 2005)Here’s that androgynous girl again. A minimal bit of brush and ink and there’s an image of a girl. This is an earlier incarnation of what became Leather Jacket Girl 1989. I like that a lot is conveyed with a very few strokes. With the space afforded by my big workbench back then, I was…
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Color Style Guy, 1986 (Jul 26, 2005)Wild, colorful, out-of-character. Red Blue and Yellow only. My 16-year-old self was in a “primary colors” phase and was trying to stay focused on that. I don’t think it’s great, but it sure looks like I had fun, dripping goache on the page the whole way through. Pretty colors!
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Larry “Bud” Melman IS Roy Orbison, 1987 (Jul 26, 2005)Along the same lines as Dave’s Alarmed Look, this is Calvert Deforest as Larry “Bud” Mellman (sic) as Roy Orbison. Larry “Bud” is great. This is another quickie. So silly. Absurdist is absolutely the right word for the show that was Late Night with David Letterman. Please remember that this blog is only an exhibition,…
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Dragon, 1989 (Jul 27, 2005)This is a bit more polished. Notice the careful cross-hatching on the body of the dragon. There’s a literalness to this rendering that I quite like. I mentioned before that I never was much for sword and sorcery stuff., but dragons are fun to draw. The Wikipedia article for Dragon has some silly stuff in…
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Winged and Saddled Creature, 1986 (Jul 27, 2005)Another in a fantasy vein, but there’s a definite techno slant to the rider. Interesting, “fuzzy lined” piece. It’s sort of the opposite of what I was saying about wanting that precise line. The shaggy line affords a rendering that builds up with individual lines. Is that pointillism? I suppose it is.
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Girl with Flower Top, 1986, 2005 (Jul 28, 2005)I’ve always liked this drawing of mine, by my 16-year-old self. Just a marker on paper if I remember correctly. It’s definitely a drawing that was made with the aesthetic of “do it fast and do it now” — I think I may have been sad at the time given the melancholy of the pose….
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Demon Teen, 1986 (Jul 28, 2005)Made with the same marker as Girl With Flower Top, a nonetheless much darker image. Menacing, scary, aggressive. I wonder what would have happened if I could have gotten the melancholy and the aggression to work together. Then again, maybe I did. I did a lot of drawings of vampires when I was in my…
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Alien Astronaut, 1988 (Jul 28, 2005)Nice design, not great in terms of color. This “Alien Astronaut” piece is kind of fun.
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Polka Dot Big Hair Girl, 1987 (Jul 28, 2005)Quick and dirty. The texture is an experiment of ink dabs onto a wash of water. Tinted in PhotoShop.
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Snoopy the Red Baron, 1975 (Jul 29, 2005)I’m 5 years old and I loved Snoopy. My mother worked in an academic library when I was even younger than that, and when I would visit her library I would go find the Peanuts Treasury. And I would read and read. And Snoopy was my favorite. I like very much the variation of the…
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Blade Runner Man, 1990; The Art Center Trip 1986ish (Aug 02, 2005)Blade Runner is one of my favoritest movies EVAR (as the kids would say). I believe I’ve talked about my liking of cyberpunk things before, and Blade Runner is definitely in that category. When Blade Runner was rereleased in 1992 in the Director’s Cut (with the lost narration and the not-The Shining ending) I drove…
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Mr. Roth Caricature, 1987 (Aug 02, 2005)Mr. J.C. Roth taught high school physics at Uni High — USDHS — University of San Diego High School. I have no idea what years he taught there, but he was a great teacher who I totally underappreciated. I got semi-famous at school for this caricature, perhaps my best caricature ever. Roth had a wonderful…
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The Eyes of Leah and Joe (Aug 02, 2005)*Leah:* *Me:* In October of 2002 Leah and I got photos taken of our irises from this really interesting cat we met at a web design meetup. I _think_ it was a webdesign meetup, anyway. He had this crazy setup to take pictures of your eyes. The technique was digital. The fellow had…
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Self: Art Crawford, 1988 (Aug 03, 2005)Look at me. I look a bit hapless, which is how I felt at the time. This is more-or-less a retracing of a previous self-portrait, but with a longer haircut, and is that a soul patch? Goodness me. And I was going by “Art,” hacking on my identity and using my middle name instead of…
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Autobiographical Mise en Scene, 1983 (Aug 03, 2005)Over on my flickr account, I just posted a very old image from when I was 13 years old. I’m calling it an “Autobiographical Mise en Scene,” though I don’t think that at age 13 I would use a term like “mise en scene” — but if I knew it I bet I’d try. At…
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Andy Warhol (2), 1988 (Aug 03, 2005)I said before I’d post the Andy Warhol images I had. As far as I know this one and the last one are the only ones I have. Andy was a hero, and I remember crying when he died. It’s strange. I have not cried for many deaths of famous people. I cried when Stanley…
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Artist, 1988 (Aug 04, 2005)I always seemed to be drawing this guy. Longish hair with a curl at the end, mustache, and a beret. The iconic artist. If I posted one artist drawing a day from my files I could probably go 3 months with just pictures of this guy in particular. I was always doodling him. Huh, that…
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Strange Idol, 1990 (Aug 04, 2005)In pencil. Quasi Mayan or Aztec, but I suppose it could be North American Indian / Native American. What inspired me to make it I have no idea, probably the idea was to make something in the style of totem poles. The result is interesting to me now for how out of place it seems…
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Bronchoscope, 1993 (Aug 04, 2005)In color! (I carried around a set of colored pens and drew this one in a travel scrapbook that is mostly filled with memories of a Europe trip I took with my parents and sister). At UVa I was one of the Respiratory Therapists on the bronchoscopy team. Basically we assisted on bronchoscopies for patients…
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Self Portrait, 1988 (Aug 05, 2005)O callow youth! Doing a Mirror Project thing in this photo. Joe at 18. (Wasn’t there a tv show called James at 15)? Well, of course it was. A TV movie first, apparently. It was good and only lasted a year. What a surprise. Had an excellent time with Leah at the Bruce Sterling speech…
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Squinty Big Hair Girl, 1988 & 2005 (Aug 05, 2005)Sometimes what I come across in my pile of drawings is a fragment, like this. I like the boldness of the line, the feel of the line (gotten from a heavy inked brush on a nicely textured watercolor paper). I dig it and it reminds me of a retro-1950’s style as seen in things like…
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Spacesuit Headlight, 1987 (Aug 05, 2005)I added some tinting to alter the colors a bit. The original is very faint and I think the paper was not acid-free and has darkened a bit. Plus it’s in pencil. For all I talk about not doing much pencil, I sure seem to be posting a lot of pencil stuff. Once again the…
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Congratulations Mom, 1977 (Aug 05, 2005)Ending the week on a sweet note. I have one sister, Kelly. I was 7 when she was born. She rocks. And my Mom rocks too. This drawing just plain made me smile for various reasons, not the least of which I’m gonna get to see my parents and sister this month, and I’m looking…
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Lil’ Johnny Crivello, 1983 (Aug 06, 2005)Leahpeah: Who’s that? Me: John Crivello. LP: Who’s John Crivello? Me: A guy I sat next to in a drawing class. LP: He’s got crazy hair. Me: Yeah. LP: Was this the exercise where you don’t take your pencil off the paper? Me: And not look at the paper. LP: How old were you? Me:…
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Perspective Study; My Room, 1983 (Aug 08, 2005)This, one of my first ever studies in perspective, was for the same high school drawing class as this. It shows my room, or at least a simplified version of my room. At the time my parents, sister and I were living with my grandparents and I lived out on the patio. This included my…
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Superman, 1986 (Aug 08, 2005)So I’ve posted The Flash, and also Batman & Robin. So here’s Superman now. You know, there’s a new Superman movie that’ll be out next year. Check Blue Tights dot net for more info. It may even be good. And I’m sure you know about Smallville, a show that were I younger I think I…
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Leah took this (Aug 08, 2005)…at Art Center the other day.
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Dog and Desk @ 2:30, 1987 (Aug 11, 2005)Omega the Dog, ink on paper, 1987. This was from the summer after high school and before moving to Virginia. Omega was a good dog, loving, goofy, and she made a great pillow. I have another drawing of Omega that’s pretty good, when I post that I’ll talk about all my memories of Omega. Today:…
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Vampire Morning, 1985 (Aug 12, 2005)Ever have one of those days? I felt like this yesterday. I thought I was all suave, but I was actually exhausted and irritable and irascible and lots of other ir-starting words that mean _mean_. Today is a brand new day and I get to choose how to be. And I am rested, so I…
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Omega the Lazy Dog, 1987 (Aug 12, 2005)Related: Dog and Desk @ 2:30pm, 1987. Omega was the friendliest dog in the world. She did not really understand that we owned her. I guess it’s all a matter of perception. Many times we’d get phone calls from people saying “we have your dog, the kids love her” — we would go to the…
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Man With A Gun, 1988 (Aug 13, 2005)It’s hard to imagine a more aggressive picture than this one. The 18 year old self of mine could be pretty aggressive in his head, but he was passive on the exterior. Too many years bullied. Led to tendencies toward passive aggression. Not my best quality. Working on it still.
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Girl Spraypaintcolor, 1987 (Aug 14, 2005)Old experiment with ink and spraypaint, a metallic blue if I remember. And some other colors as well. A very fun experiment. Great texture.
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Alien Spraypaintcolor, 1987 (Aug 14, 2005)Another in a series of experiments with ink and spraypaint. Less effective. I like the idea of this one more than I like it. He could easily be part of the Star Trek rougues gallery. I like the inclusion of an alien alphabet on this one.
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Man in Ink & Charcoal, 1987 (Aug 15, 2005)This is my favorite of the inky colored pieces I have. I’ve said before I don’t have that many pieces in color. Ones in black and white and red are among the strongest pieces though. I like the clarity of this one, decisive line work. This one is not with spray paint though, it’s with…
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Halloween Pumpkin Designs, 1987 (Aug 16, 2005)Nine designs for pumpkins. I believe I did these in anticipation of Halloween, 1987. On paper, and with Micron Pigma type pens. I like ’em. My favorite thing about these is that I can tell I showed them to my grandma, who declared that Pumpkin Idea 5 looked like he “doesn’t have good sense.” I…
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Self Portrait, 1990 (Aug 26, 2005)Little more than a scribble. The mustache is an afterthought. Not a great likeness. I can tell the year because of the mustache, and the lab coat. Maybe it’s not obvious to you it’s a lab coat, but it’s sure obvious to me.
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Guts Cake (Oct 10, 2005)Yeah, no posts in a while eh? Latest bit of interestingness is the cake I made for Alex’s birthday: White cake, raspberry filling, and powdered sugar icing. The ribs are made from white chocolate. Sculpted by Joe. It was a lot of work, but very fun. More later this week.
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Joker Joe 1991 (Oct 12, 2005)I’m a big fan of Halloween. In 1991 or so I won a costume college (I was either first or second place out of maybe 2 dozen or so health science students at CHRV College of Health Sciences). The other day I posted the “guts cake,” which I submit as evidence of liking Halloween. Funny…
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Lincoln Memorial, 1990 or so. (Oct 12, 2005)I guess I’m making up for lost time. The Lincoln Memorial is by far my favorite place in Washington, D.C. I can’t not cry when I turn to the right and read Lincoln’s great words, his second inaugural address. This bit, among others, always slays me: The progress of our arms, upon which all else…
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Me @ La Jolla Cove, 1995 (Oct 14, 2005)And I played around with these experimental photos after scanning them into PhotoShop. If you’re counting, that means I have TEN years of experience in PhotoShop. I love the Cove very much. It feels like I still have much to learn, still.
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Found Object of the Day (Oct 21, 2005) -
LaserTats.com: Custom Engraving on your Motorcycle (Nov 02, 2005)Leah and I launched Laser Tats at lasertats.com the other day. What are Laser Tats? They’re laser etched drawings and words that can be put on virtually any surface, but primarily everything having to do with Motorcycles — “timer covers, derby covers, horn covers, gas caps, battery covers, switch housings, chrome oil tanks, mirrors, dash…
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Bursty Halloween Traffic on artlung.com (Nov 08, 2005)I got a spike of traffic as a result of coming up high for some Halloween search terms, notably “pumpkin designs” and “halloween pumpkin designs” But with the end of the spooky pumpkin season, traffic abates. As Tom Bickle would say, c’est la vie.
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Before Feist (Nov 09, 2005)Leah has great photos of the Feist Set at Amoeba Records in Hollywood yesterday evening. They’re not really my favorite, but they are doing some interesting things with their music. And they are undeniably great live, even for a 30 minute in-store appearance.
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Me by Candlelight (Dec 08, 2005) -
Leah by Candlelight (Dec 08, 2005)She’s lovely.
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Happy Anniversary Baby (Dec 21, 2005)Leah, Happy First Anniversary. Can it possibly have been a year since we got married? Leah, I love you. Thanks for helping me learn what a partner is and for helping me become a better man and being there as I go through the process of becoming. Onward!
