Just a quick update - B-Movie Starlets #1 is at the printers and will arrive in time for the Con! I'll also be selling original artwork, T-shirts and prints.
I had the privilege of attending Baxtale at the Bordello last week. I brought my trusty Moleskine along, since tribal belly dancing isn't something I can sketch every day. For the record, drawing in dim red light is difficult. (Dead sexy, but difficult.)
Here's some footage of Se7en's performance:
I couldn't find footage of Petrojvic Blasting Company from that night, but here they are in broad daylight.
B-Movie Starlets is still rolling along! I'll post more stuff soon. (Hotel reservations for the Con filled up in the first two hours of opening! :( But something always opens up later.)
This is NOT MY ART. ...but I wish it was. These pieces were done by an advertising agency called DDB for an AvP movie marathon in New Zealand.
http://www.ddb.co.nz/
I posted these because I watched Aliens vs. Predator 2 and it was just terrible. Thank goodness it was a rental. But in its defense, the movie was ALMOST as ridiculously funny as these images.
So I saw Watchmen this weekend. It was really fun and it stayed pretty true to the book (yeah, except for the ending). I gotta say the slow motion brutality was overdone and the sex scenes were mini-pornos (really awkward mini-pornos) but it was, overall, a pretty good movie. For the folks who detested it, I have to echo Patton Oswalt and say that there are FAR worse comic-adaptation movies out there (Daredevil, Elektra, Catwoman). So there.
I brought my moleskine sketchbook along with me for the wait beforehand. Inspired by geekiness, I drew the same two blue dudes that Dave Gibbons drew. (Two, you say?) Most folks are now familiar with Dr. Manhattan, but unless they read 2000ad (the same birthplace as Judge Dredd) they've probably never heard of the Rogue Trooper. Blue's MY favorite color. I think Dave Gibbons has the same opinion.
The Comic-con is coming up July 23, so I'm plugging away at B-Movie Starlets book one. I though I'd show just a few panels before they get inked and colored.
Sometimes I'll put movies on while I'm drawing. It's pleasant white noise and it's also a good way to gauge breaks. Das Boot was my movie of choice last week.
There actually weren't any women on board. But maybe that's why they were so angry all the time.
(There's art in this post but none of it is mine.)
I went to LACMA to see the Machine Project last Saturday (http://machineproject.com/). In a nutshell, it was a day filled with installations and performance art scattered throughout the museum. By ten, my feet were sore and my camera was full. Here's just some of the cool stuff that was there:
Greeting you in the grand entrance was a huge cardboard model of the museum:
This was really cool to watch. I only wish I kept recording through Smoke On the Water and Hungarian Rhapsody. They're totally different songs when played on precision glass.
I couldn't watch this pair descend the stairs backward. I guess if you're going to die, it's best to have company.
Every hour on the hour, a speed metal guitarist emerged from this arch and played. At night, he wore a hooded cloak and red lights illuminated the smoke.
Here's the outside of one of Richard Serra's sculptures:
And here's the inside:
This telephone would randomly ring in the Ahmanson Building. But there was a catch...
The humble readers hid beneath a stairway below:
An early Iron Man prototype:
But it's best to see him in action:
There was a birdhouse workshop on the 3rd floor of the Art of the Americas Building. Any birdhouses made that day were attached to existing structures and branched out as the numbers increased. It was avian sprawl at its finest.
The houses were species-specific. I chose the chimney swift, whose house featured an oval door, mood lighting, and a hardwood floor. But there was a bonus feature: a recessed area in the back for (I kid you not) a bat roost. (Those scratch marks are for the bats to cling to.) After the event, they bring the birdhouses to you and install them. So now I have to come up with a cool name for my pending pet bat.
This guy almost made it the whole day:
There were multiple video presentations at 8, but inbetween them were performances by Lasagna Cat (www.lasagnacat.com). I REALLY hope someone serves up Family Circus like this.
I cruised Mulholland highway last weekend and it was awesome. Lots of beautiful scenery and interesting places. I'm DEFINITELY going back to the Rock Store (and if I'm dared enough, I'll try the haunted steak joint).
The highway ends at PCH, across from Leo Carrillo state beach. I had my board shorts, sunscreen and sketchbook ready. (Beach sketching could be habit-forming. Better get in as much as I can before summer's gone.)
