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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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BRICK DUDE
My young friend Emmerson sent me this awesome drawing he did of a robot.
I thought it kind of looked like a brick guy in the forest, so i sent him this back.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
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WHAT I SAW TODAY
Super Curbster
I thought it was the northern lights at first glance, but it's lights (from McMahon stadium, I think) shooting up into a cloud.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
GREEN LANTERN
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The trailer was so bad I never bothered to watch the Green Lantern movie. Shame, because the character/concept is pretty cool. He was created in 1940 (below left) and revamped in 1959 (middle). And 50 years later, still has legs (below right).
I decided to tweak the costume a bit. I did a kind of stylized lantern-shining-in-the-dark thing and gave him white boots to match the white gloves. Actual boots. Even if you can get on board with the conceit of running around in a speedskater-type onesie, you want more between your feet and the pavement than a layer of lycra when you're fighting crime (or fighting anything, for that matter).
A 1950's F-100 Super Sabre in the background to signify where he has come from and outer space glimpsed through the upper atmosphere above to show where he's gone.
It's interesting the extent to which popular entertainment shows where people's heads are at. In the 40's there seemed to be a preoccupation with magic/occult and exoticism. The Shadow, the Phantom, Fu Manchu; and superheroes got their powers through magic talismans from far off lands.
Post WW2, superheroes were no longer necessary to the publics psyche, the war having been won and America enjoying prosperity.
In the 60's there was a resurgence of the costumed hero along with the rise of the counter-culture and it was science, especially radiation, giving them super powers.
Now that there is again a resurgence of super heroes in popular culture (usually created by some kind of genetic modification in the new batch of movies), you have to wonder why we're once more drawn to the superhero. The world is looking a little dire at the moment. We must feel we need saving again.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
E2T
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This is a poster I did for an upcoming thing in September. I removed the text as the event's details may still be unfolding. I often throw some things I like into an image without too much thought about how they'll contribute to the meaning of the piece as a whole. It's always fun to see how they synch up and become something larger, or present a narrative of some kind. I suppose one's subconscious is doing it's thing, giving you little puzzle pieces to fit together.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
SHAKESPEARE TAROT
Calgary's The Shakespeare Company premiered a play called Queens this week, about some of the Bard's female characters. I provided some illustrations that will be used as projections. I was asked to insert drawings of the actor's faces into specific tarot cards. Using Pamela Colman Smith's illustrations from the Rider-Waite tarot deck, I decided to take it a little further and redid the linework for clarity and tweaked the colors somewhat (a lot). Below are the original cards alongside my reworkings. Click for bigitude.
I was asked to provide just a scan of the Tower card as well, but I did this one too, so they would hang together as a series more.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
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