Beach House

Me and Claudia went to see Beach House last night. It was a good show! I saw them 2 years ago when they played the El Mocombo. This time they played a bigger venue and it was packed! They're a great band to groove to and I constantly get "Gila" stuck in my head. Very impressive opener as well. Bachelorette is a one woman "band" who loops herself through 2 laptops to create her music. She was very bashful but very talented. It was fun. Sorry about the poor quality Cell Phone pics. It was all I had.

Enjoy!

Mother Nature!

This is a post about the weather. That's right, it's like I've run out of things to say on a first date and now all I can do is remark cooly about the crazy weather we're having and silently hope that this oh so witty banter will be enough to earn me a sloppy goodnight kiss.

That being said, the weather's been strange lately. It's overly warm for early spring and the temperature shoots up and down all willy nilly. I guess it's not that out of the ordinary. I think maybe I'm just bored and looking for something to talk about...

Didn't end up seeing Greenberg or Mother this weekend. Greenberg was sold out so instead we watched Atom Egoyan's latest, Chloe. In this remake of the French film Nathalie a rich, middle-aged Dr. Hires a prostitute to seduce her husband. One thing leads to another and before you know it there's some steamy, weepy lesbian action. Meh.

Kids!

Here's a portrait that I made of my two nieces, Kate and Emma. I haven't posted it anywhere before so I thought I post it up now. It was an experiment for me since I've ever worked in this style before. I think it turned out pretty goo. It still needs a bit of work but the likeness of both girls is pretty good. My family seemed to like the picture as well so I guess that means they recognized them!

Gonna go see the new Noah Baumbach movie tonight. I'm looking forward to it. No one writes such unlikeable, selfish assholes quite the same as Noah. All of his films so far have been pretty high on my list (except kicking and screaming, which while it is very interesting, full of great lines of dialogue and rather poignant for someone my age, the film moves way too slowly - no need for the extended flashbacks!) I'm also excited to see The Mother. I was gonna go on Friday night but instead I stayed home and watched TV. I just didn't want to bother leaving the couch. Maybe I'll see it Monday after work.

1/2 hour painting!

Tonight I challenged myself to do a painting in half an hour. I grabbed a random record (Sgt. Peppers) and painted a portrait of Paul McCartney (I'm like a twelve year old girl in the 1960's that way). I did the whole thing in 30 minutes, no pencil roughs. It turned out OK. It's not terribly interesting and the likeness isn't perfect but for 1/2 an hours work, I'm pleased.

Sometimes it's fun to play with ink and paint and see what happens. Maybe I'll do more of these personal challenges... there's three more Beatles after all.

"We're with Dinosaurs for roaring out loud!"

Printing!

Here's an example of the New printing technique I mentioned. I've been printing a lot of my pieces on the dedication pages from old novels. No real reason behind it other than that it looks good and it reminds me of when I was a geeky little kid who read a lot of science fiction books. Well, I'm kind of still a geeky guy who reads a lot of science fiction books. So I guess you could say that I feel nostalgic about things that happened yesterday.

I'm watching "Adventures in Dinosaur City". It's really awful. I waste a lot of my time watching really awful movies. I wonder why I do that?

Anyway.... Enjoy!

It's been too long!

It's been way too long since I posted anything. I've been adjusting to a new work schedule and as a result I've been extraordinarily tired lately.

I've updated my website to include some new illustrations and a new sketchbook section. The sketchbook section will need some work, but it can be pretty cool to see the process work. I often think that my sketch books are way more interesting than any individual piece of art I can create.

I've also finished another personal piece called "Scouts Honour" You can see it here or on grammajones.com.

What else.... I watched Karate Kid 2. It wasn't nearly as good as I remember it being from when I last saw it at 9 years old. Last Sunday we shot the second episode of Kevin's web show. The show is now tentatively titled "Apt." Get it? Short for Apartment. Cause the whole series takes place in an apartment. It's going well. So far it's really fun to shoot. Colin is editing the first episode right now and he says it's coming together pretty well. I'm looking forward to it.

I've been experimenting with different printing techniques. I'll post some examples soon.

Pretty soon you'll be able to buy your very own jetpack. That's cool.

That's all the news I have for now.

Enjoy!

Web-Com

Kevin has written about ten episodes of a web based sit-com... a web-com. It's about three roommates and the wacky situations they get into. I get to play one of the roommates. We shot the first episode today. It was a long day but we had fun. I'm not sure what the timeline is for getting these online. Hopefully it will be a quick turnaround. I do know that Kevin hasn't even got a name for the series yet. Anyway, here's some photos of us on set.

Enjoy!