Dave Adey - Craft Punch Art

...pretty damn sweet. Check it out.

Sometimes Stratching in the Dirt with a Stick Yields Amazing Results.

Andrew van der Merwe

Check out this guys work.

Celebrities Who Might Be Fun to Hang Out With

I haven't posted anything in quite a while, probably because I haven't done much of anything in quite a while. I did however make this list of people who I think would make interesting friends:



Ellen Page**
Dave Grohl
John Goodman
Foghorn Leghorn***
Willy Nelson
Olivia Wilde**
Kurt Vonnegut*
Heath Ledger*
George Clooney
Benjamin Franklin*
Tyler Durden***
Santa
Lance Armstrong
Bill Murray
Paul Newman*
Garfield***
Bill Clinton circa 1992
Optimus Prime***




* ...If they were still alive
** Maybe more than just "friends"?
*** I know he/she is a fictional character, but I like to pretend that he/she is real.

Super Sweet 3-D Tattoos

These are by a guy named Lionel @ Out of Step Tattoo in France http://el.fahy.free.fr/

I really want a tattoo. Maybe I should get a 3-D one to start off with. A little gimmicky, but still super rad.

Martin Wilson

Martin Wilson remarkably creates images of words and symbols using every frame in a roll of film sequentially. He explains his process:

My pictures are painstakingly created frame by frame on 35mm film. I get the whole film developed, scan it, then piece the final image together on the computer, making a large contact sheet. It’s only when the completed film strips are laid out side by side in the contact sheets that the final image appear.

Each work usually takes months to complete, as each frame is obsessively taken in sequence. No pasting together after the event, no cheating in Photoshop!
If I make a mistake or take a frame out of place I start the film again from the beginning.

Greatest...Thing...Ever...

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

I'm International!

An art lover observing a poster of one of my bears at an exhibition called "Design and Life"
Jinan, Shandong, China.

The 2nd Coming...

So I had this orange tree.

It was a big, beautiful, potted tree that provided me with delicious oranges and it filled the house with the most amazing smell whenever it bloomed. I loved my tree.

Then I moved away and I had to temporarily leave a friend in charge of the tree. When I returned to retrieve my beloved I realized that I never left care instructions. The friend had left the tree outside, in the middle of winter, for several months. My once majestic bearer of fruit had withered to a leafless, dried up hulk of its former self. For all intense and purposes my friend had passed on to the big arboretum in the sky. I kept him around for several months, next to the biggest window in the house, close to a heat source, and gave him plenty of water, hoping for a miracle rebirth, but it never came.

Then one day, months after I had given up all hope, as I was getting ready to throw the corpse of my tree into the recycling bin, my mom spotted the tiniest little sprout of green coming from the under side of one of the branches. Elated I cleared away all the dead leaves and cobwebs, and trimmed the tree down to almost nothing. Since then he has grown like a weed.

So yeah...longest blog post about a house plant ever. Sorry. It's only been a few days and I'm bored already. And I seem to be putting off the last few things that I need to do to finish my last college class. Probably because I don't want college to be over.

I think I'm going to name him Jesus. Either that or Mickey Rourke.

This is it

Two days left of college...
Then a blank canvas...
Sadly I don't have any paint...

Or money to buy paint...

So Awesome

Jan Vormann: Lego Dispatch Work - Berlin

Wounds on buildings, in Berlin, caused by Soviet bullets, repaired with Legos. This makes me so, so happy. I wish I would have thought of it first.

Really? .....really??

This is the cover of the latest REI catalog.

And this is a close up of the bush behind this lovely family's tent. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this bush? Hey REI, I need a job, and I bet I can cut out bushes better than your current bush-cutter-outer guy.

Yes!

How's this for the coolest color combination ever?

New Stuff

The last one looks eerily like Christ on the cross huh? That was not my intention but now that's all I can see. I was planning on cutting the ends of those dowels off so that they are flush with the heads, but maybe I won't.

Officially Licensed War Hysteria

Mickey Mouse themed gas masks for the rug rats. Hilarious? Creepy? Shameless corporate exploitation of America's understandable fear of chemical attacks in 1942?

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Used to Make My Business Cards!!

Snip snap!

cards...

I need some new business cards. What do you guys think of these?

Boosh!

snip snap!

Bearzilla

Please forgive crappy photo - light was inadequate, but you get the idea. Fifteen foot tall teddy bear!

Make-a-thing-a-day #36

File this one under "missed opportunity."

I saw this girl on the bus today and fell in love instantly. She was a tall, slender, freckled, pierced, strawberry blonde with a purple streak in her hair and an over-sized paper mache tooth in her hands. Basically the beautiful nerd of my dreams. It only occurred to me later that her profile had eerie similarities to a couple of my drawings: tall, slender, very large smile, carrying a giant tooth (see make-a-thing-a-day #1 & #26).

Very Weird. I should have broken out my sketch book and shown her. That would have been a good ice breaker. But hindsight is always 20/20.

Make-a-thing-a-day #35

Koa the Conqueror

Make-a-thing-a-day #34

Make-a-thing-a-day #33

A thing I made. No rhyme or reason.

Wares

Fourth row down, on the left. I made that one! Yay for being "featured." http://skreened.com/beeplusdesign

Make-a-thing-a-day #32

Turns out this piece isn't new at all. In fact its quite old. But apparently it needs to come down off of the studio wall by this time next week. So, so long big blue vinyl head guy. I liked you, and I will miss you.

(Also, I'm a little drunk and didn't make anything new, so there's that)

Make-a-thing-a-day #31

Today's thing: stir-fry

That's right, I'm counting food I cook in this thing.

Make-a-thing-a-day #30

Terrible. Terrrrible.

This one is kind of embarrassing but the idea with this project is to post whatever I come up with, no matter how horrible it turns out....even if it looks like fan art made by a 12 year old.

But what ever! Usagi Yojimbo kicks ass (the Ninja Turtle's radical samurai rabbit friend for those who are unaware).

Hopefully I'll come up with some thing more useful and contemporary tomorrow.

P.S. I was going to title this one whatever Lindsay's rabbit's name is, but I'm not sure what it is. Shout out to Lindsay's rabbit! (or rabbits?)

Make-a-thing-a-day #29

Make-a-thing-a-day #28

I wanted to try my hand at coloring in Photoshop. Not too bad for a first try I think? It's still pretty sloppy but I'm getting the hang of it.

This Geoffrey the Giraffe (if he were to play with all the lead infested Chinese toys that his store sells). Apparently he's also a direct rip off of my last drawing. Guess I'm on a gross teeth and giant eyes kick.

Make-a-thing-a-day #27

This is my salute to Smokey from "The PJ's." Remember that show? Its probably the last decent thing that had Eddie Murphy's named attached to it.

Make-a-thing-a-day #26

Finally starting to put stuff together for the Pushdot show. This is a preliminary sketch for one of the images I want to show. I think it will end up being a set of 3. The second one below is kind of a mock up of the composite drawing/photograph set up that I was thinking about.

Make-a-thing-a-day #25

Back at it again, and what better way to start than with something that actually took me several days to make - a light table! With a little help from John down in the shop, and Zach's wiring know how, I was able to slap this bad boy together.

Zach diagram explaining how to wire it up.The final product installed under my glass top desk. I cut a piece of plywood to hold it in place, that also doubles as a shelf. Hopefully I will get some use out of this guy, but if not at least it was fun to make.

Scary Robotic Pack Mule via the U.S. Army

Creepy. Awesome. Useful?

As my roommate pointed out, why not just use a real mule?

IKEA sucks

I had never been, so yesterday I went.

That places is evil. The whole time I kept looking at things and thinking to myself, "f*** me that's cool.....how do I not already own one of those? And what's this? It's only $9.99?! I would be a fool to not buy it!" Then I would carry that object around the store for a while until I realized that I really DON'T need a stainless steel wall-mounted wine rack. I mean when have I ever let a bottle of wine sit around long enough that storage was even a consideration? But then again, maybe if I had a sweet stainless steel rack to put it in I would be more inclined to have more than one bottle in the house at a time? God damn though, that thing was classy as f***.
I ended up leaving it in the check out line.

There were several other things that thought I needed but eventually came to my senses on (like a 11 quart stock pot...might still get that one, again only $9.99). But I did fail on several items. I ended up leaving the store with a new work lamp for my desk (which was what I was originally there for) and a sweet molded plastic, lime green office chair (only $19.99!). I'm such a terribly compulsive shopper.

I'm thinking about going back tomorrow and getting that stock pot and some meatballs. Fucking IKEA. Here I am broke as hell, living mostly off of Top Ramen and instant hot chocolate, and you have to come in and convince me that my home furnishings aren't nearly Swedish enough.

Winter BFA Review

I've had mixed feeling about both of the end of term reviews thus far. This time I ended up spending the last 5 days before the review working a lot and getting about 4 hours of sleep a night. So when it actually came time for the review I wasn't mentally present, and I was having a very difficult time absorbing what was being said. If nothing else I learned that I need to stop working at least a day or two before a big review, and allow myself time to sleep and think about my work. That will be key for the end of year review.

I felt like the consensus in my review was that I need to take things to a more impressive level. A 3 foot multi-colored teddy bear is still cute, but a 9 foot teddy bear standing in the middle of the street would definitely turn some heads.

And I think I'm going to stop the bear illustrations, at least for now. No one seems very impressed with them, not even me. I'm still going to try to draw a lot, but not bears. With the positive feedback that I've gotten from the sculptural pieces I've decided to focus my energies more in that direction. I have some ideas for these 3-D pieces that I think could be pretty strong if done right.