I guess I could reword and repost it here, but why don’t you just head over to my own blog and read my little re-cap and requiem for Thing-a-Day 2008. And you can find out what the hell this thing is:
Thanks for a great month, everyone!
This is dated the 29th, but it is actually my thing for the 28th (it was just after midnight when I put the date in I guess). We get one more last one tomorrow.
again concert after work, so not much for today:
and a concert sketch
Sorry this one is a day late… but.. hey.. so sue me! I’ve already got a couple of people in mind for this little “stair” trick, I’ve got no problems adding some more names to that list!
Gads, I think I’m in a bad mood!
Doodling a character for an animation. Little Indian girl, still needs a name.
(I’m rusty with people and faces, so this was a good exercise)
Other doodles:
<– Mole men in the office
<– Large owls
<–Small owls
<– Gerbil powered solar system model
And this is my 3d assignment for tomorrow, playing with dynamics. It’s nothin’ special, but it’s not a big assignment:
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The rare lost poster artwork from the 1972 Bollywood remake of Masculin Féminin.
Bart Hopkin calls it a boo - a tongue drum made from a tube of bamboo or a box. It might not seem complicated compared to some of my earlier instruments, but for me, cutting and attaching these five pieces of wood was like brain surgery. Notice that no two sides are the same length, and the notches for the tongue are all slanted. Anyway, it goes a little bit like this.
So I found out today that I was re-cast at Universal Studios. I used to work there a few years ago, doing both shows and street atmosphere characters. One of their attractions is Shrek 4-D, which is populated by new interpretations of fairy tale characters. I’m going to be playing Hansel (as in “…and Gretel”), complete with lederhosen. Sweet!
I can only hope I can base some of my character traits on the classic Bugs Bunny version:
I created a short visit to Outpost for the express purpose of making this drawing, but the soy latte was a pretty sweet bonus. And I’ll take pretty much any excuse to visit Outpost.
Ever since I saw it in the instrument collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I’ve been obsessed with the trumpet marine, a giant one-stringed instrument that’s supposed to sound like a trumpet. Besides its monstrous size, the most important characteristics of the trumpet marine are that it’s fingered at the harmonics and played with a bow (like Glendon’s harmonic violin) and that it has a buzzing bridge that gives it the brassy sound of a trumpet. The bridge has to be carefully balanced to get it to buzz, which is done by adjusting the tension on a string called the guidon that tugs the main string sideways. (You can see the guidon in the closeup shot.)
My instrument with no bow at all is a pretty poor imitation of a trumpet marine, but it does sound a bit salty. In the sound sample, you can hear as I fiddle with the guidon to get a buzz that I like. On the last four notes in the sample, I supressed the plucking sound in software to simulate what it might sound like when bowed. (And I cranked the reverb way up.) It does kind of sound like a trumpet!
What was I saying about making stringed instruments too big for myself? This one is over seven feet tall.
Today was my first day back at Nemo since spraining my wrist. As you can see, it’s been taped within an inch of its life. Got thru the shows pretty well, tho.
Everyone must have felt this. You know that feeling when someone is walking away or something dissipates. I guess it’s called letting go.
