February 2008 Archive

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Scrap Drawings
I think a great quality to have and one I'm proud to possess in resourcefulness. Anytime I make something, I look at the scraps and often sparks the next idea. I had a heck of a lot of fun making these drawings from the scraps of the Congratulations sign I made below. I especially like the purple acrobats.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

How I Got Here - La Linea

When I was a pup, I watched The Great Space Coaster.

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I've been sitting here about ten minutes thinking about the The Great Space Coaster. I didn't like TGSC. Huh. I found Baxter super creepy. And Gary Gnu. I kinda liked Speed Reader.

Maybe I'm just a Muppet purist.

Aaaaanyhow... the one thing I really loved on TGSC was the La Linea cartoons. Osvaldo Cavandoli's cartoon of an artist's hand drawing one continuous line drawing of a guy.



Mr. Linea walked along the line. The line runs out. He curses at the artist in gibberish. The artist draws another line. Sometimes the line is water, a rope, and animal. Simple premise with a bajillion variations. I was a big fan.

Or maybe I like the swear-y jibberish most.

I draw constantly as a kid. Am an artist. Fall into this work as a graphic facilitator and take on a continous line style:












There's evidence of the La Linea influence all over the place.

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Congrats!
I wanted to send the VizThink organizers a Thank You/Congratulations for a great conference. I made this out of Astrobright paper, Mr. Sketch Markers, black permanent markers, scissors and rubber cement. It was super fun to draw.






And I may be a little high from the rubber cement...

I've now got my VizThink '08 index cards archived in my portfolio right here.
posted at 2:44 PM

Charley Harper + Todd Oldham
Today's CBS Sunday Morning had a wonderful piece about Oldham's rediscovery of Harper's work. Here's a transcript!

Jackie had watched the same segment too, and before the show was over she sent this other clip:

posted at 10:23 AM

Friday, February 01, 2008

Adventures in Wiki
After two days of nursing my annual headcold and prepping images, I've updated my page on the VizThink wiki!