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!
wish good beginnings to all creative spirits!
and here is my thing for today:
and today’s theater shot:
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.
i like russian poster style, and lately i’ve been wanting to draw a giant squid, because someone at work had a cool sweatshirt with some on it. but i opted for an octopus, and decided to mash it up with the russian poster thing. i’m not sure if the green takes away from the russian feeling, but i like the result anyway. long live the sharpie! i also like that octopusses have so many legs, and the russian text on the drawing translates into “Our strengths are uncountable.”
and so they are…
…I know, but here’s the evidence. We pulled into the Tacoma bus station, our last stop before Seattle, and I had to run one block back to take this photo before the bus pulled away. Perhaps it is ironic that this city is named after the longtime residents before Europeans arrived (it is also, incidentally the true name of the nearby mountain, that the Europeans renamed “Rainier”); this gun store display seems like the epitome of backwards, stereotyped thinking.
When I returned to the bus, the driver asked what I had taken a picture of. When I told him, he said “there’s a dark history to that place; that’s where the ‘beltway snipers’ got their guns.”
When I got home, I looked it up, and, yup, it’s apparently true. Shiver.
Stop the war and all the other nonsense, now!!
February 26th
I can’t post what I did here because I’m not sure if it’s okay to post an essay from my pending application on the internet. So I want to play it safe. I submitted my college application for Colorado College (as a transfer applicant) on the 26th, and so decided to use that for my thing-a-day considering I had just finished edits on several rather creative essays that were required for it. Basically, I was asked to detail and design my own class. I had a lot of fun doing it. Those on the lj thingaday08 community should be able to see it though, friends locked.
Guess what I’m busy doing.
This is actually an image I’m using in a powerpoint presentation- I added the cussin just for you, though.
The rare lost poster artwork from the 1972 Bollywood remake of Masculin Féminin.
I made this “Thanks for the add” MySpace graphic for my bestest friend. She’s a school counselor and sponsors a high school chapter of PeaceJam. I’m not totally sure what PeaceJam is (too ADHD to read whole website), but I sure do wish they’d had a chapter at the shitty redneck high school I went to. I’m sure if she’s in charge of it, it’s freaking awesome.
She has recently created a MySpace profile for her chapter here.
So, Thing-A-Dayers, if you’re on MySpace, go add them, and you’ll get one of these posted on your very own MySpace profile:
You know you want one!
Now, more about that friend. She signed up for Thing-A-Day, and hasn’t posted a thing since, like, day 3. So everyone click here and go bug her and tell her she needs to post because T-A-D isn’t as fun without her!
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.
I had some beets in the fridge and wanted to try some sort of food carving on ‘em, but there was nothing in the book I had, so I went literal:
raw cut
I also tried a viking ship made out of a cucumber from the aforementioned book:
That ugly bird head with what looks like a mickey mouse hat on was my way of trying to recreate one of those dragon/ loch ness monsters you see on some old depictions of viking boats.. not so much.
But hey, it floats in water! (without the mast which is heavy and messes up it’s balance)
Long story, but I needed to make some relatively to-scale drawings of my house to take to the city zoning board. They are going to look crazy, but the issue is parking, and the relative height, width, and size of my driveway and garage. Believe me, you don’t really want to know.
