Its been a minute since I posted a bedtime sketch.  This one was completed last night and is a proposal composition for a mural my very talented artist friend, Santiago Heredia, and I may be doing on a large space in Glendale.

The theme is bascially Sumo vs Octopus; those are supposed to be an army of sumo wrestlers parachuting down to take on a giant octopus.  The sumo theme is related to the space we were ask to paint for but the rest is just some random scene I started thinking of (also, i wanted to draw a big ass octopus).  I’ve never done a mural nor painted something so large, so this is an experience I’m looking forward to.  Not sure how the project will go and what the final design will be, but thought it was a cool little sketch nonetheless.

I’ve been a big fan of generative art for a while and one of the reason I became a flash developer.  This is nice post with tutorials links and app you can use to get started making your own pieces.

Really slick UI for filtering and selecting music tracks that fit the mood you are in.  Love the Flash execution, tight.

so funny

Been a while since I went out for a drink, just came back from one

Last night, the LACMA held a private reception for their very cool new exhibition: Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India’s Comics.  The exhibit highlights some of India’s newest talent interpreting characters from ancient Hindu mythology into contemporary South Asian comic books.  It showcases original black & white boards from some of these comics and the art is quite lovely.  Being an illustrator, I loved seeing these huge drawings in pen and pencil before they have been inked for high quality mass production.  I highly recommend checking out this unique show while it lasts.

Speaking of the reception, I was invited to DJ the event and was joined by my good friend, Robin Sukhadia (TablaPusher).  We played together for the first time in over a year, he on the tablas with effects pedal and me on the decks; was good times.  The invite to the reception was pretty rad and now that it is over I can post it.

Several months back, for a hot minute or so, I really got into drawing birds.  My typical method of drawing things is scouring Google images for photographs and then just illustrating bits and pieces into a composition I like.  I ended up creating my general business card out of some of my doodles and was really pleased with the final printing from vistaprint.

They actually have a pretty solid heavy stock with a nice finish, quality and print was good.  I got a free t-shirt out of it too. nice.

Just discovered this site via the iso50 blog, but i’m really digging it.  I love site of just straight design and music, and looks like i’ll be adding this one to my daily feed.

i’ve always thought it would be interesting to compile photos of various shopping carts of the homeless.  Each cart is a bit different and has its own style if you want to call it that.  Looks like this artist has already done so and even more interesting would be to see what kinds of possessions they have have in there.

Oct 26, 2009 Sketch for my house frying party.