Guess what, guys! My computer is dead! Well, not dead dead, but the batteries are gone and I haven’t been to the Dooples yet to charge good ol’ Compy, and all my chargers are either (1) in the trash can because they lit on fire WHILE plugged into my computer and almost ruin my life or (2) have been sparking a lot which makes me think that they too will set on fire. I can now safely say that I never want to see something on fire that close to my computer EVER AGAIN. Oh yeah sure hey.
So I am in the library, having just finished writing a bunch about Elizabeth Shippen Green who is a cool illustrator from the olden days. I also tried my best to find good illustrations of some sort of nerdy 50s dad with plaid shorts, but my search is still ongoing. I can find a bunch of images from vintage patterns online, but they are way too small for me to use. WHAT TO DO. (this is for an invititation project I’m working on for Product Illustration, btw.) sigh sigh sigh. I am having a good time in the ‘brary, though. It’s nice to sit down and look through books. Especially because I am way overtired from playing really good four square (I was ON FORM last night, oh my gosh. You did not want to cross me, I got revenge FOR KEEPS) and then coming home and eating a huge spaghetti dinner with Evan and watching the Sopranos until 2:00 AM. LATE!
I made the image above and the one linked below a few days ago and I don’t know what to do with them!! Make them into postcards and sell them at the art sale? Get an Etsy account and hope for the best? AUGH. I just know that I like them and Evan likes them too except he doesn’t like the lobster heart but I do.
Today we shot at an old abandoned school. Not kidding. Toatally cool (Im drunk). So we had like a zillion kids come in and do shootz, most of whom were cool and excited, some of whom were either annoying or their parents were annoying. BUT nevertheless, a very good day. Also i am drunk.
Here is the awesome shoot in the awesome gymnas\ium/theater:
Here is the awesomest kid and his girlfriend that ive ever seen (sorry i dont have a better picture of him) that we ran into at a bowling alley later on:
More to come: more pictures, i promise? and also posters, you know those cool old cliche ones that have a picturte of an orangatang on them that say “hang in there”?? yes/. those.
Ben took pictures at the beach today with the Yashica medium format camera. Bill and I came along, too. Bill brought Don’t Break the Ice, I brought my camera. Check out the rest of the pictures here!
Okay, so we weren’t in Walker the whole time… we were all OVER the place. Bemidji, Cass Lake, Park Rapids, you name it. And YES we went to the Eelpout festival. It was disgusting.
Here is one of the many things I am proud to say that I did today: photographed a 12-year-old girl in a Versace dress on a frozen lake… (who probably has THE MOST beautiful big doe eyes I have ever seeeeeen) observe:
Also photographed: a cop, his drug-sniffing dog, little girls in cheerleading uniforms, a church youth group member named max who is all punk-rock. Needless to say, I had an interesting and wonderful day. Especially since I got to see Alex for 5 mins while I was at dinner at an italian restaurant in downtown bemidji.
More to come: abandoned high schools? hippie teachers? flamboyant new york men in fur-lined hats?!?! Stay with us!
this is from my sketchbook. i was bored so i scanned it and colored it. for some reason, i didnt finish the left foot. girl versions of DC superheroes are fun to draw. i did a supergirl too, maybe ill scan that one as well.
Alright guys first of all, i have a bandaid on my finger, so if i type weird its cuz i have a bandaid on my fingewr. Second, here weeee GO! I am officially on a W magazine shoot. We (Josh, Phil and I) just arrived here in a fancy red rented dodge durango. At the super 8 motel. And I have a room ALL to myself?!?@!
Look ther is my stuff so you know its mine! On the bed! Exciting! So, seriously, if i am this excited already and we havent even met high-profile W people yet, or started shooting aything, i am going to be a mess when they get here.
More to come: basketball games? dinners at bars? pictures of my classy co-workers? Stay tuned!
PS: sorry if i over-shadow everyones’s posts this weekend, but i think i will make a post everyday. soooo. there.
A scene from Caffetto, a local coffee house. Lindsey, Joel, Ben and I have been making weekly trips there to shake out the weekly blues every Saturday night. It’s a pretty cool place, and it’s nice to get away from the whole Spyhouse/ Bad Waitress scene every once in a while.
I’ve been taking a lot of time-lapse videos this last week or so. Here’s a video (with fake sound) of Ben, Bill and I watching a documentary about Frank Gehry. Fidgety Boy on Vimeo
