Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
October 30, 2005 7:25 PM

Just finished this image, which will be my new promo postcard. This image is somewhat inspired by my gadget-filled life, and I often marvel at how people use and interact with their array of gadgets. I try as hard as I can to keep things simple and accessible on the gadget front, yet some people I see on the street do come close to this kind of bandolier of technology. I look forward to the day when I can have some little media brick sitting in my bag wirelessly transmitting my music to my ears, no wires please.

I'm getting 3,000 cards printed up at Modern Postcard, using 2,185 contacts from my Adbase mailing list (focusing on magazines / newspapers, book publishers and graphic design houses all over the country). Works out to about $.31 cents per card, which is a very good deal, though not always easy to lay out the cash for. But you gotta spend money to make money...

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October 28, 2005 3:45 PM

A graphite drawing I have been working on.

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Posted by: pa (190 posts)
October 27, 200511:27 PM

A drawing from the last page of my moleskin sketchbook - influenced by a Johnny Cash song and a so-so Polanski film with Johnny Depp as a rare book dealer who's chummy with ~gulp~ Satan.

Posted by: jamie (116 posts)
October 26, 200510:53 PM

pa took this one, right before Bighead gave him an awful haircut. BOO!

Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
12:08 AM

Tropical Sea Flowers, 2005. collage (screenprint, fabric, acrylic on paper), 17x22"

The sassy ladies over at rose-coloredglasses.com have posted the first of their "Artists interviewing Artists" series of articles. Julie Kirkpatrick (full disclosure: my invisiblewoman) interviews fellow Brooklyn artist Melissa Barrett Lundquist about her work (shown above), which will be shown at the AAF Contemporary Art Fair in New York City this weekend (October 27-30).

LINK: Interview with Melissa Barrett Lundquist

Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
October 24, 2005 3:18 AM

This is a detail of a new drawing I'm working up for a promo postcard. I've been saving screenshots of it in-progress for a good step-by-step after I'm finished. I have really enjoyed working on this one bit, after Julie, my wise invisiblewoman correctly concluded that the head I had previously drawn on there wasn't up to snuff. Much could change between now and the finish...More later!

Posted by: pa (190 posts)
October 23, 2005 8:05 PM

Woman reading a magazine article entitled 'Celebrity Feuds'/Jazz musician in Washington Sq. Park

Posted by: pa (190 posts)
2:32 AM

We ate two delicious chickens.

Posted by: bz (54 posts)
October 20, 200510:26 PM

here i am super busy in grad school. our show opens tomorrow! if any one is in philly. :)
(i'll post some pix of my works after i take them. my circle is the 1st one on the bottom row...)

ps i saw chip kidd, chris ware and charles burns speak at the philadelphia free library tonight. good stuff...

Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
2:17 AM

Alas, the stars have aligned and a confluence of fantastical events have led to this glorious post. Halloween is nearly upon us, Apple has spawned millions of video iPods, and nobody has anything to watch on them. Today we are releasing our baby, "Bighead"- neatly encoded for your video iPod (or just to watch on your computer).

A good chunk of the invisibleman team spent a hilarious weekend in Kempton, PA filming and acting in this opus. Hard-earned money was wasted on high quality sausages, tyvek worksuits and chocolate syrup. Another year or so of feverish bi-coastal editing ensued, and it has been languishing in our HQ's armored media vault for a while now. If you love something, set it free...We're releasing this 20 minute film under a Creative Commons license ( Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 to be precise), so feel free to share this with your friends- although as the license states, please keep our credits intact, and resist the urge to sell copies of this masterpiece on Canal street out of duct-taped luggage.

The latest version of QuickTime is needed to watch this. It's a big download, but trust us, it's worth it.

DOWNLOAD - bighead_final.mov (88.9 mb)

Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
1:04 AM

Last Sunday (October 16th) 83% of the Invisibleman team got together for our first "art lodge" (Sorry Barb...maybe when you're up in NYC next!).

We brewed about a full pound of dark, oily Gorilla coffee, scarfed many hearty Bergen Bagels and busted out 25 pieces of artwork which we all had our hands in.

Kurt was the task master, setting the majority of the sessions to 5 minutes per artist, then the artwork was passed to the artist sitting next to you, and you picked up where they left off...or completely obliterated thier planned masterpiece. We did a few speed rounds of a minute per artist at the end. After a full rotation, we grab some new paper, forage for some new supplies and start again.

It was a fascinating, liberating exercise, with many guffaws and strange marks being laid on paper. Unusual materials were passed among artists, and bizzarre images emerged as we listened to WFMU's terrifying Horror Compilation as a soundtrack.

Posted by: pa (190 posts)
October 19, 2005 9:04 PM

I've been working on a children's book for a while, a story about a family camping trip and a furry beast lurking in the woods. Recently I finished up the drawings and the manuscript and started thinking about how to create the mockup to show to publishers (I've made these mockups in the past with a previous story - think glue-sticks and kinkos trips). I was pondering how to go about presenting my new story when I stumbled across the booklets Apple will printout from within iPhoto:

Posted by: jamie (116 posts)
October 13, 200510:58 PM

These drawings were inspired by necessary items we never think about. Like wine glasses and knives. Familiar and banal, they can be fun things to draw. Also, it's hard not to be shaken by our energy crisis. Maybe in the future we'll all have a personal gas can/energy account to look after.

Posted by: bz (54 posts)
October 12, 200512:44 AM

did i mention i'm in grad school for book arts and printmaking yet i am loving the illustration...

brian biggs is my teacher. check out his site.

this illustration is for a mural in a bookstore...

Posted by: bz (54 posts)
12:13 AM

list 5 things you believe in. now illustrate one.

i believe in coffee.

yep. i do... feed your brain. milk. 2 sugars.

(PS the picture is 9" x 14")

Posted by: pa (190 posts)
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Posted by: pa (190 posts)
October 9, 2005 7:38 PM

This is the kind of drawing/painting one does after looking at Pieter Bruegel the Elder
drawings for a few days. I'm really hoping this is the week Rove gets frog-marched out of the White House... maybe he'll be forced to hop if the authorities supplement his departure with ankle-cuffs.

This image isn't as dynamic as the sketch in which the horses were galloping. Here they're doing more of a mosey. After seeing it scanned in I realize I still need to improve some of the line work and shadows.

Posted by: jamie (116 posts)
12:27 AM

Images of dead sharks always shake me.
It's as if someone cut off one of my legs.

Posted by: jamie (116 posts)
12:10 AM

To prevent voluminous grinding-great for married people. Took the image from an ad you've probably seen. Mouths are just as alive as the eyes.