• @tamawil hopin you feel better. Fight dat bug! #
• new favorite palindrome: "Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas." #
• (Hmm. Why not?) Win a new Macbook Pro on Cyber Monday 2009. Details here: http://bit.ly/29rFES #

• I can tell I'm liable to accept the illusion of progress over the real thing b/c I'm still playing Mafia Wars. #

• @hethfen thanks for the link! in reply to hethfen #

• Future Friday 02: Five Futures for Hip-hop: http://wp.me/pxhw1-8z #

Originally posted at T-Rex Arms.

(two in an intermittent series of very quick thoughts about possible futures; see the other one here)

Since hip-hop has repeatedly been declared dead for at least a decade, I decided to widen the terms of debate a little and put together five variations of where hip-hop might be headed. Go with me on this, and see if you think I’m not entirely full of shit. (continue reading…)

Finished this a couple of weeks ago, as an experiment in taking a simple sketch and outputting a digital piece in Adobe Illustrator. I also posted a version of the drawing on Mojizu, which is a site for character designers. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s worth checking out. It’s fun to look at the wide range of styles on display. Here’s the final piece, and the sketch will be after the jump:

(continue reading…)

• Headed out to drink and draw with Floating Island cru @ tha Blackthorne;, 834 Irving; roll thru if you wanna get creative #

• @sydtek re: yr tweet from thurs: yes indeedy. it was stuart candy. good stuff. in reply to sydtek #
• @jaybeans yes, tomorrow we are doing the drink'n'draw, but it will be at the Blackthorn on 9th/Irving. #
• Man, did I just reply to a tweet from Thursday? I am bad at Twitter sometimes. #
• @sake1derful yo man, I think you live farther in the future than I do. I do deserve the F- tho. I'ma go back to tying messages to pigeons. in reply to sake1derful #
• @sake1derful Haha yeah, you'll have to tell me how that goes in reply to sake1derful #
• (via @harryallen) RT @garrytan: Record companies are gonna lose their archive catalog copyrights. http://post.ly/CmX4 #
• RT @Chali2na: RT @BootsRiley: What you do is the real indicator of what you believe. What you say you believe is merely interesting. #

Apologies for the lack of posting the last couple days. I’m trying to get on a daily blogging game up in here, but… sometimes I slip. Mea culpa. Onwards.

Via Laughing Squid, I present to you Sixty-foot Ghost, a site-specific art installation by Todd Freeman and Meg Perec. Installed at 47 Commerce SW in Grand Rapids, MI, it includes a drawing of a giant squid, allowing viewers to experience the creature at its proper scale, and a collection of related objects and books with information.

From the artists’ work statement:

Large animals captivate like few other beings can. They are deified, hunted, consumed and catalogued. While our culture has seemingly amassed a working knowledge of all living species on the planet, one of the world’s giants has successfully eluded the scientific community for centuries. Save for a few partially decomposed specimens virtually nothing is known of Architeuthis dux, the Giant Squid. Architeuthis is a 60 foot ghost, moving unnoticed through deep and dark.

Our representation of the giant squid was conceived out of a need to see the animal for ourselves, beyond pale museum subjects or small renderings in books. At life size, the true scale of Architeuthis becomes clear, a massive, unfamiliar animal deserving of the same fascination and wonder owed to any whale, elephant or dinosaur. Our intent is to bring the myth into a gratifying real space, and give the viewer a chance to be confronted with one of the largest and most secretive animals to ever live.

I love the way this installation uses the entire space, yet it’s not busy; it still focuses your attention where they want it. It has a calming, ghostly atmosphere to it. I also resonate with the notion of bringing “the myth into a gratifying real space”, creating a fictional representation that manages to ground the reality of the thing being depicted.

In a way, although I’m often using overtly sci-fi or cartoony elements in my work, that idea — of bringing a myth or an abstraction to life — is something I strive to incorporate. At some point I’ll probably post some college work in that space. Sixty Foot Ghost also reminds me that it’s been a while since I’ve done an installation. I’ve been working digitally so much, it’d be nice to deal with physical space.

Consider that foreshadowing.

Much more detail on Perec and Freeman’s installation can be found here.

I hope you didn’t think Walken was the weirdest celebrity stuff I had. Oh no. We start light, with William Shatner reading the disjunctive poetry that was Sarah Palin’s farewell address.

Then… this video, which explores the burning question: Why is Captain Kirk climbing a mountain?

Hahaha. I love that shit.