Environmental malarkey.

Overcome

I have intentions of touching this up a bit more. When that is, I have no idea, considering I'm kind of busy as hell right now and I'm going to continue to be kind of busy as hell for a while. So here it is!

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Th' Legendary Shack Shakers - Pandelirium

Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SMFDWZSO
Tags: rockabilly, psychobilly, punk, country, blues

An ol' favorite of mine. I'm going to exercise my fondness of hyphenated punk genres and call this "bayou-punk". ...Yeah.

Mailbox love.

Some stuff:

Cougar skull done with ink-soaked thread pressings.

An exercise of motion. Pretend it's 6' x 6'...That's an easy way for this to be appear impressive.

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Beat Circus - Boy From Black Mountain

Download: Removed by artists' request
last.fm tags - dark cabaret, circus, gothic americana, freak folk

Beat Circus' third album that came out back in October. Ugh, so good.



Also, this past weekend, I've been listening to a lot of Tom Waits' new live album, Glitter and Doom (Came out this past week). I'd normally host it here, but I'm far too in love with that man to illegally post any of his music and run the risk of him finding out and hating me. Also, Anti- Records is probably legitimate enough to yell at me for doing so.
Besides, I'm sure that you'd only have to spend a handful of minutes on Google Blog Search to find it. I mean, come on...it's Tom Waits, for crying out loud. Now go download/buy it and listen to the awesome rendition of Shoot the Moon. Awesome omelet-making music, I tell ya.

"You can't eat some place that is also on fire."

More friction.

You're looking at the blog of one terrible blogger.

"I really like greyhounds! They're like little dinosaurs!"

This "bison" follows the "giraffe" in my previous post. I'm kind of going for a lazy "Surrealist Menagerie" series. Or something...

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Brown Bird - The Devil Dancing

Download - http://www.mediafire.com/?mykm4nomybj
last.fm tags - folk, singer-songwriter, mellow, acid folk

Recommended by/stolen from Maxwell.
Maybe one day, tags on last.fm won't be so silly.

The greatest place on Earth...

I love the Museum of Natural History.

(Please take note of my handwriting at its downright worst).

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Hurray for the Riff Raff - It Don't Mean I Don't Love You

Mediafire - http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ea85ef9c099eb16d4c17ca8801618ef7bbe785ec26483552b16e5c9d3b204475

last.fm tags - folk, hobo revival, country, blues, female vocalists

More of this "hobo revival" crap. This album must be listened to on the floor at eight in the morning, while eating a fruit. If you don't, you're not listening to it correctly.

Where all music fits...

So I guess I'll put some more work up. Jeez, I'm really producing a lot. I'm just too lazy to scan it. Or take photos. Maybe sometime soon.

The Deer God

Madison Square Park Tree Study
(I think I'm going to fill that sketchbook up with a lot more tree studies)

Ugh, the image upload is taking too long. Rest assured that I got a lot of crap to put up.

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In other news, I've never been so happy with where I am in life. I could go into detail, but eh. Not now. Just rest assured that I love where I live and I love the people that I spend my days with.

Here's a few shots of us gettin' settled.

Nothin' compares to eating 3AM grilled cheeses with good company on the floor while complimenting each other's work to the pluck of a banjo in the corner.

Mighty Django

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The Peculiar Pretzelmen - Uncanny Eyes
mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7d175fdd975ab46fe5c3dee5769931ecd710445db61128bdc95965eaa7bc68bc
last.fm: cabaret, dark cabaret, alternative, new cabaret, avant-garde

Don't know how much those Last.fm tags help, but it's really good. Trust me. If you don't download it, you're lousy.

Heck yeah, education.

Well, I'm in my new, surprisingly accommodating hole for the next year. My room mate hasn't arrived yet, so I've been spending the past day or so here setting stuff up, doing Alex Krokus-esque things and starving since I haven't been motivated enough to buy food yet (But I suppose that can fall under the second category).
Pictures may come soon, if Julian and I could manage to make this place cool enough to warrant taking them. We'll see, I suppose.

Classes start tomorrow. Yeehaw.

(Who wants to sell me a banjolele? I'm tired of losing eBay auctions in search of one.)

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Gangstagrass - Gangstagrass
Download - http://www.gangstagrass.com/

Download this album now. It's bluegrass hip-hop. Bluegrass hip-hop!

Some things.

Fictitious animal study. I was laying out the skeleton for a new species of rodent. I'll go into specifics when I get around to doing the final versions and the muscles.
(Forgive the horrible exposure).






Arthropods.






It was late. There were plums and carrots.










Nothing special. But I like it.

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I got around to scanning and uploading the disposable camera pictures from tour. They can be viewed here.

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Dark Dark Dark - Love You, Bye.

Mediafire - http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=56709098b42ee1f55bf1f12f1ff3f30abebcc7a9f3d3d4cd5621d66e282a0ee8
Megaupload - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TRNHOS1X
last.fm tags: new weird america, indie gypsy folk, hobo revival

In essence, this was the soundtrack of tour. I figured I'd upload it on the grounds that I really, really like this release and because it doesn't seem to be super readily available on the Internet. Hopefully, it'll help some kid out who expresses an interest in..."hobo revival". Whatever the hell that is.

Tyto Alba.

Portrait of a Barn Owl (18" x 24")

For Father's Day. I'll get a better picture of it, soon. Swearzies.

It's been raining for a long time. Though the overcast, chill and drizzle make up my favorite kind of weather, some sun would be nice. Mrm.

I'm sure I could say other things, too.

Give my best to May.

When the hell did it become June?

Wood Spider's MySpace needed a new layout. So I used that as an opportunity to make something brown and mundane. Here it is.

Check out the 'Space.

There's also a few upcoming Wood Spider shows I said I'd design fliers for. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to throw them on here.

Wood Spider is also crankin' out new tunes soon...I'll probably wind up whoring them out here, as well.

What else?
- Wood Spider this
- Wood Spider that
- Good Lord, I'm unemployed

Consistent.

Typical medium. Typical subject matter.

I'm going to take off my shoes and go for a walk.

A study.

I've been on quite the velociraptor kick. And could you believe Spell-Check doesn't acknowledge "velociraptor" as a valid word? Ridiculous.

A Violent Rampage of Productivity

This is for my high school Psychology teacher, Mr. Epstein. A few months before graduation, he asked me to paint him something that he could hang in his classroom "forever". And I, being the scumbag that I am, pursued my immediate, petty teenage agendas instead of fulfilling my promise.
So here it is. A year late.

He said it can be as ridiculous as I pleased. And I followed through with that. It's a shame that probably my best painting thus far was wasted upon such a stupid, stupid concept. Or maybe that makes it awesome. I don't even know anymore.

Epstein receives it on Wednesday. I am excited.

The Summer of Alex

I did the drawing last night, fell asleep...and then woke up this morning and did the color. Boy howdy, do I love summer.

I've got a lot of things to do. Lots'a paintin', drawin' and musicin', hopefully. Oh, yeah...I should find a job, too.

"Janky."

Last week was the twenty-first birthday of a friend of mine. Her name is Katie Armstrong and she really likes whales. I felt it was only appropriate to make her something incorporating the skull of one.

I settled for a humpback whale. The gal seemed to like it. She's good people.

"The Tree of Hunger is withering because pizza is here."

Some final assignments

I've gotten around to finding a scanner big enough to upload some projects of mine.

For my Perspective class. Our assignment was to combine two animals and place them in an enviornment with perspective in mind. I went for a bisant, the product of hybridization between a bison and an ant. I posted a pen drawing of one on here a while back. Go look for it. I like it more than the painting, which was done with acrylic (Figured that was worth mentioning).
There are things I need to touch up on this. I hope I'll get around to that sooner or later.

(Jeez, I scanned this poorly.)

For General Illustration, our assignment was "Alice in Wonderland in New York". Those were essentially our only guidelines, but we had to go through a painstaking composition process that took basically a month. I however, left it to the last two days. I'm happy with it, considering this was my first time using watercolors.

That scanner really flattens colors. Hopefully, I can find a nice camera to shoot these two.

I hope she likes jackalopes as much as I do...

"I was in the cereal aisle today and started wondering when you'd come back home."
- Jeanette "Mommycake" Krokus

There's a whale in the moon when it's clear

For Color class, we had to to illustrate a song lyric in a color triad. So I picked Fish & Bird by Tom Waits (Off of the album, Alice). I mean, technically...the song pertains to a whale and a bird, but I took some liberties. Once again, I'm pretty new to gouache, so I'm happy with how it came out.

He said, 'You cannot live in the ocean' and she said to him, 'You never can live in the sky.'

SPEAKING of crap from last semester...

Done pretty early into first semester, but I finally got around to uploading it. And it still holds a place in my heart, so here you are!

I can only avoid my schoolwork for so long. Soon, there will be recent things besides sketches up.

March of Robopotamus

A few weeks ago, I was experimenting with wet brush and charcoal...Oh, and there's some Micron pen in there, too.

Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter

This is a bisant. You will see more.

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra produces music that everyone should listen to. And I am here to facilitate that.

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=e7pyfqx6

The only description I will give is that their name is appropriate.