I drew this while staying at the warm and friendly Kasbah du Toubkal in the town of Ilmil in the High Atlas mountains of Morocco. The peak in the distance is Jebel Toubkal, the 2nd highest peak in Africa at 13,671 feet above sea level.
We were all pretty worked over with various maladies when we got up to this beautiful spot, and here Julie is wrapped up in a scarf, hoodie and sunglasses taking a nap.
i often draw onto of magazines photos for inspiration and character development; a form of coffee table graffiti, i guess
Kurt and I attended our first Dorkbot NYC get-together tonight. Having been told from trusted sources that it was in my “wheelhouse”, I was finally lured to attend when I saw the list of projects being presented. The one that caught my eye was RepRap. On their website, RepRap is described as follows: “RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is a practical self-copying 3D printer.” My mind jumped to images of self-assembling nano-machines from Neil Stephenson’s The Diamond Age The concept they have working is far less fantastical, but just as exciting.
Basically, they are attempting to make a very simple, CHEAP, open-design rapid prototyping machine (all designs and software open-source).The killer feature: the parts which it will be made of can be made using the machine itself.
So if I have a working RepRap, and you come over, and see it working, and say you want one, I can print up all the parts of the machine for you to make your own. All you need are a few extra components that cannot currently be “printed” by the machine, some raw material (plastic, resin or metal) and you can assemble your own RepRap.
My mind was spinning thinking of the possibilities.
Dorkbot NYC meets on the first Wednesday in every month.
LINK: http://reprap.org
A glacier in the Patagonia region of Argentina. Drawn and painted in the sketchbook.
Illustration for economic survey which suggested the US Gov pursue alternative energies.
One of my favorite themes of The Creature from the Black Lagoon is how the gill-man evolved through time in a lost corner of the Amazon. This savage fellow of the Devonian Age is also utterly girl-crazy and spends much of the film chasing after Julia Adams. So it only made sense to me that given a little time, the Creature would evolve to reach outer-space and continue his lustful pursuits to the far reaches of the galaxy. As a result I created the illustration above and mocked it up to appear as if it were an old sci-fi book cover. I think Michael Chabon should write this book and a subsequent screenplan which could be the sequel to the remake which may or may not come out in 2008.
