I love this little short. I’m not sure what my favorite part is: the boiling packing bubbles, the rubber band noodles, or the Post-It Note butter.
It’s this kind of visual simile play that continually amazes me about my own daughter and children in general. It seems that we are all born seeing these simple creative relationships between things, but somewhere along the way to adulthood our interpretations harden and become fixed.
For the record, however, I watched this with my little girl and she only vaguely understood what was being made. She thought the stick noodles were straws and the pushpin tomatoes “little cakes.” The Post-Its, however, she declared were “silly” and “not butter.”
I’ve finally added a gallery for some of my art. It has really been nice to dust the ol’ stuff off again. You can get there by clicking the “Posters” tab above. Special gracias to Carl for the encouragement.
I originally conceived of these plant-powered robots for a short story, but since then they have mostly lived in my sketchpad. Now, finally, I am going to develop them into a short series of paintings. I hope you enjoy them.
I’ve received so much feedback on my “the Angels have the phone box” t-shirt designs, that I’ve decided to release them to you for free. If you feel so inclined, you can send a micropayment via Paypal by clicking on the magenta button below.
Download these designs and have them printed for super-cheap at Cafepress, Zazzle, or the like. Keep in mind that these designs use transparency and often have white text, which won’t show up on the white background. Silly, I know. If I can figure out how to display them on black I will.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
This is one of my first paintings in a long time. It is in acrylic, with a bit of watercolor on a handmade gypsum tablet. I’ve been experimenting with forming little tablets with a gyspum compound and this was one of my first attempts.
