i want to make illustrations that look like this music video.

I need to reach my 50th post. I just needs ta’.

I want to tell all you shambles about EAT POOP YOU CAT. It is an amazing party game that I read about awhile ago online. It’s kind of like a combination of Telephone and Exquisite Corpse, which are two games I LOVE. SO MUCH. However, I’ve never played it with real people, I’ve only played it online, via thesentencegame.com. But it’s still fun! Here, let me show you some of the images I have come up with while playing this game:

guess which one has jerry seinfeld in it? The last one is the most recent one, which I did today after remebering about EPYC (as the cool kids call it) and getting excited.

Also: guess who’s watching SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE right now? That’s right. Me n’ Joel. And Ben. and soon Bill. And probably Lindsey for a few seconds too.

hello, shambies. I just thought I’d let you know that (1) I updated the website of Emma Trithart (being myself) with two arts that you may have already seen, and (2) I have the best stuffed frog ever. To make up for it for those who don’t have a stuffed frog, here is a comic:

i found a scrap of paper in my pocket today that said “thirty”, but it wasn’t in my handwriting. I don’t know what it’s all about, but I am going to make it my new personal mantra. Thirty. Thirty. I think we shamboters need to have a fancy tea party the next time you iowa kids are in town. I will make some sort of crumpet.

what will the next party be? WHO KNOWS. (p.s. the images were supposed to be in a 2×2 grid, but apparently i’m not so good at fixing html..)

Sometimes I wake up and instead of remembering a dream, I’ve got a song stuck in my head. But! It’s not an established song, nooo. It’s a DREAM SONG. Dream songs are little snippets of melodies that my head manages to create while I’m sleeping and then it puts it on repeat and I wake up with a tiny melody stuck in my head. Sometimes they’ve got lyrics, which are always nonsensical, and rarely do I remember them. But today I woke up and decided I would remember my most current DREAM SONG by recording it in Garage Band. Would you like to listen to it?

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Some disclaimers: I really suck at Garage Band. I also really suck and making music, even if it is in my dreams.

Onto other things. You guys may or may not know about all the crime that’s been going on, but I am beginning to become paranoid, considering most of it involved me in one way or another. I think, obviously, it’ll take time to get over such events.. but I’m glad I have good friends to do it with.

In other, less depressing news, last night Chance and I got squished in an elevator by a bunch of high schoolers in an elevator with one of those portable ipod speaker things. Then we went outside and hung out with Bill, Ben, and Desiree and then Chance turned into the WERE-ROCKER and we fell into hysterics.

i have been making a lot of artwork recently! Since one of the pieces had to be scanned tonight, I took a jaunt to the school with Alli + BenBill and scanned some of it. There’s some exciting art-related things going on in my life right now. I hope they come to fruitation soon! Bill is making me want to make my own products… but I don’t know what to do!

Recently I have been really inspired by an illustrator named Isabell Arsenault (my first image wavers dangerously close to copying her style, I know), white ink, yellow, hair, and Andrew Bird. Yeahyeah, it’s cheeezy to the max to put lyrics into art, but I couldn’t help it. I love that man SO MUCH. Sing to me Andrew, sing to me again. When I saw him in concert I almost died, guys. Really. I also need to design a postcard, with artwork in the right dimensions. God!

Also: can I please not be sick anymore? I have to be verging on over a month of some level of sickness. This is bad. My teeth also hurt a lot. I think my body is revolting.

p.s. chicago.apartmenttherapy.com featured my bedroom as their good question of the day. check it out. I think I’m going to wallpaper my dresser.

12:49:39 AM supaninjaanimal: i need to shamby post
12:49:41 AM supaninjaanimal: but i have nothing good
12:49:49 AM artgoeshere: that’s what i’ve been like
12:51:01 AM supaninjaanimal: SIGH
12:51:09 AM supaninjaanimal: post this conversation right here
12:51:18 AM artgoeshere: haha, i’m sure everyone would love that

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Oh man. Thanks to one of my favorite co-workers (they’re all my favorite, really), I now have in my hot little hands the first season of FRAGGLE ROCK.

Seriously, guys. Laugh your cares away, worries for another day, etc. etc. Fraggle Rock is JUST as amazing as I remembered it, which is more than I can say for some other stuff from my childhood. There is some really funny stuff going on, and geez-o pete if there isn’t 500 gazillion muppets EVERYWHERE all of them movin’ around and stuff. I’m looking forward to watching the special features. Also, the music is REAL GOOD. I’ve decided that I want to start a Fraggle Rock cover band, and we will sing all the Fraggle Rock songs in a kind of Rilo Kiley-esque style. This one especially. Love ittt.

Summer’s going pretty well so far. I’m working a lot, although this week not so much, since Alli and I thought we would be in New York. Sigh.

p.s. while trying to find a video of rock-a-doodle, I found this little gem. Don Bluth, you are a cheezball, but dizzAMN, your animation is amazing.

Yeah. Yeah. I’ve got Seussical music stuck in my head. WANNA MAKE SOMETHING OF IT?! That godawful musical is just weasaling it’s ugly, pastel throw up marshmellowy way into my life. So be it.

Hey! I’m in a book! Lindsey e-mailed me and bill about it, and I submitted one of my sexytime girls, and bing bang boom, I got an e-mail today that said I was in. It’s kind of weird, I don’t really know how big the book is or how many people submitted.. but you know, whatever. I get a copy of the book, and as an illustrator I should be entering as many things as I can. So, cool! Yay!

I’m making a poster for Andrew Bird for my final poster project .. and I kind of realized that my sketch for it had a similarity to something else from my life…

v.s.

Buggy! I didn’t even think about how much this guy looked like Buggy (who, if you don’t know, is a paper bug I took about a gazillion pictures of over the summer). It was a subiminal shout-out to buggy.

In other news, I am in class and I don’t feel well and I am talking to Joel who will never beat me in InkLink, ever.

It’s called “what random images are in emma’s random files folder?!?!?! OMG YES!!” let’s go!

1. This is my favoritest picture from the internet! Nothing is funnier than a squished otter! NOTHING.
2. A bubble wrap bra! Perfect for.. um… well… nothing. (Evan says “shipping boobs”) I just like how extremely happy she looks to be popping the bubble wrap.
3. Cute japanese haircuts! Inspiration!
4. That rabbit from that one episode of Lost! Totally the best episode. Any episode from television in which there is a rabbit (see: the OC) is the best episode from that series.
5. Froggy!
6. I GOT 850 ON INKLINK. BEAT THAT, PUPPIESANDDRAGONS.

That’s it for “what random images are in emma’s random files folder?!?!?! OMG YES!!” part 1. Stay tuned for part 2!!