See more at the site!

A little while back I had the notion that I wanted to make some letterpress prints with my college friend, Harold Kyle, of Boxcar Press. Then I was also thinking that I know a lot of artists who I’d love to make art with. The two great tastes tasted great together, and the Cloudy Collection was forged in a flaming furnace of fiery, um, flames. Or on a big fat Heidelberg, really.

Prints are on sale now! There’s all kinds of other exciting information about the project on the site, so please take a look.

I almost forgot to post about this mask I made for the San Francisco Plush You! venue, double punch. And what better day to post a mask than All Hallow’s Eve? See more in this Flickr set, including in-progress shots.

Now go eat some candy!

It’s that time of year again: the fourth annual Plush You! show at Schmancy in Seattle opens Friday October 10! The opening runs from 5-9pm and will be up for a month. BONUS: This year, there will also be a San Francisco venue as well! WOW! I have sent different work for each place, but the work I did for Seattle is up on my Flickr page.

I have not stayed in the habit of regularly making plush toys out-of-season, but every time Plush You! rolls around, I have a great time playing with my big boxes of random felt and fabrics that I have collected. I use it as an opportunity to try out an idea, or as an outlet for something that has been on my mind. This year, I wanted to make wearable things, so I created a set of three Cryptid Crowns: Nessie, Sasquatch, and Yeti.

I also designed some labels for the crowns. I think I almost have as much fun designing and making the labels as I do making the actual plushies!

P.S. I just posted a set of haikus to the blog of Adam Rex, children’s author and illustrator extraordinaire. The poems I wrote seem to have a familiar theme…

Back to basics comic meme

Draw a ten panel comic about what you were doing ten years ago. Put pen straight to paper – no pencil, no computer, no planning, no starting again if you make a mistake. Simply draw, scan, publish. Tag some people who you’d like to see do the meme too. Oh and if you want to do it even if you haven’t been tagged you are most welcome!

So, here’s me 10 years ago:

(Click for larger/legible version)

If you’re listening, I tag John, Adam, Elio, and Meg to do their version. And don’t feel the need to wait to be tagged (I wasn’t after all.) Anyone else going to bring it?

The inimitable Frank Chimero has done it again! Frank decided that this Wednesday and all Wednesdays forward will be known as Webless Wednesdays, where we all unplug for a day and share our stories of limitless productivity on Thursday. I think I’ll join him– won’t you?

This video struck a chord with me initially because of the paper plane, but it also makes me think of one of my favorite mainstream movie scenes, where the boy in American Beauty films a plastic bag caught in a swirl of wind. It is a lovely experiment with no grand motives or any sinister intentions:

(via Fark)

I have also dabbled in animation a bit, and I’ve been trying to think of ways to satisfy that part of my psyche without having the time to devote to a full-on animated short. Here are two experiments with my camera, using it to do “live” stop-action. Basically I walked around with the shutter button pressed down and then imported the image sequence to Quicktime. I think there’s some potential for future use here:

Especially with this first one, I think it starts to look a bit like a Super-8 film with the jerky light metering and the jumpy camera.

Doesn’t the house (aka “HQ”) look haunted? It’s much cozier inside, but the outside can look a bit creepy. I did a drawing of it that should be in the site before long. And on the tree at the end– those plums are REALLY GOOD.