With a major lack of Cosmote doodling this year I recently began capturing some real-world Cosmote in iPhone pics. So I made this little set of Plain Black & White images, objects and scenery to begin noting the bizarre black and white phenomena suddenly appearing around me daily.
Been catching up on my He-Man recently. Thought this was a perfect April Fool’s Day contribution.
Or should I say, “Back to the Cosmotes!” Either way my Cosmote doodling discipline had escaped me for a while. My attentions had been shifted to economic recovery, and the struggle that lies within. But the Cosmote must continue…
…so I’m striking out on a series that has to do with connections and the new era of joining forces, building teams, and sharing the best of our abilities. We’ll see where it goes.
It’s coming! This year is my first time showing a painting in the KVIE Art Auction fundraiser. You can find all the info in the prior link. There are some really amazing pieces up for bid. You can see my entry below. It’s acrylic on canvas, titled “The Brains Behind This Operation”. I painted it back in 2002 and would consider it one of my early original geometric philosophical abstracts. It will go up for auction at approximately 11:30pm on Sunday September 26th. Or you can see it in person and pre-bid at the Preview Party, Monday Sept. 20th. details?
I’ve been noting a lot of interesting resemblances in things. In a quick glance I respond to first impressions of things and usually blurt them out to whoever is around me. So I thought I’d start blurting some of them out to everyone. First off, ever since Avatar these Toyota Yaris’ keep looking like Thanator heads cruising down the street. I can’t pinpoint what it is exactly. What do you think?
Here’s a little blast from the past, while we’re on the Thanator subject.
This drawing is from my 1993 sketchbook. I did it when I was 12. My best friend Adam and I went through a little phase getting completely carried away with muscles. It wasn’t enough to make buff superheroes, so I made this beasty all muscle from head to toe. Who knew I was having a Pandora prophecy (give or take)?
Cheerios started putting some kids books inside the box and since we have a kid now, and feed her lots of Cheerios, the books were a nice bonus. Then one evening I was reading my little one this book…
…when I noticed that the author/illustrator was, low and behold, JOE FENTON! I thought, “Wait…when did I do this?” But I didn’t do this. There’s another illustrator out there sporting my identity. That might be a bit too strong of a statement. But there is another guy out there illustrating his heart out, who happens to share my name. I actually see some striking similarities between his style and mine. I found some more of his work at www.joefentonart.com. I thought about contacting him to see if he wants to team up. We could be twice as prolific.
In 2009 Cosmote had become a beautiful discipline for me. Early this year, however, I shifted from my small, manageable note-pad-sized sheets to a ginormous multi-panel piece. My pace was pretty good, and I did have a target finishing date. As that date neared I realized just how unrealistic finishing this piece was and had already sacrificed a great deal of time on other pressing projects.
So for the time being Cosmote has become DAMMED!
I’ve believed 2010 would be a very special and productive year for a long time. What I’m seeing is that this is very true— it’s just that the productivity and success isn’t playing out how I expected. Does it ever?
Please stay tuned. This DAM! will break, and when it does I think you’ll enjoy it.
Did you ever wonder what they did with the middle of the tire? Wonder no more.
I’m not much of a gamer, but this new game, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, looked pretty gnarly. Michel Gagne is a genius and one of my favorite artists. I think I’ll stick with reading his books for now, but if this game hits the iPhone, I’m all over it.
Seriously! Over the last 10 years I’ve managed to get through college, start a business, go through 3 website redesigns, start 4 blogs and a forum all without paying for an official internet service in my home. BUT NOW, maybe I’ll actually be able to participate in and maintain some these things like the real guys do, because today I GOT THE INTERNET! So thank you to all the cups of wi-fi-providing-coffee-shop coffees, neighbors with no regard for security, jobs with lax internet policies, 21st century mobile phone capabilities, and offline development technologies compiled over long hours of R & D. Without you my internet presence would be non-existent.
I’m reminded of 1992 when our neighbor, Boo said “This computer has a ‘modem’! If you put one in your computer, our computers could talk to each other.” This thing’s really caught on, eh! And now I’m officially in.
