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TIMESTAMP is Almost HERE!

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:44:26 -0700

Well this is too exciting! There are lots of preparations for the show underway, here is the Official Time Stamp Site I just finished building for the exhibition. If you want to know when and where and how and what, go to that link, it should explain everything. I haven’t had a show in TEN YEARS! Come celebrate at the opening with me if you can!
On August 7th, the website will open up showcasing over 1,000 postcards, including opportunities to purchase prints and a book containing collections of some favorite postcards from the show.
But this means that we’re scanning every single postcard, front and back, entering keywords for each one, and building a comprehensive database that will even enable you to vote on ones you like! The genius spearheading this highly ambitious project is none other than Cristin Pescosolido. Ever the harbinger of technologically-advanced ways to do things, she has devised a system that is pretty darn amazing, you’ll see for yourself when it launches.
I’ve been working on some beautiful wedding invitations for the last few months, but those will probably be unveiled after the show goes up, check back though, because there are quite a few things on the horizon... Gothtober for instance!

Card for [Scrubs]

Wed, 7 May 2008 16:55:17 -0700

Guess it was about three weeks ago that one of the prop fellas from Scrubs called, asking me if I could draw a cat in a wheelchair.
“It’s for a greeting card” he said.
This is the initial sketch before it was colored and submitted for use, the studio approved it, so if you are a [Scrubs] watcher, stay tuned for this card in the show!

40 Little Churches!

Wed, 7 May 2008 16:52:51 -0700

A total treat this week: 40 pop-up placecard replicas of St. John’s Episcopal Church. The Church was founded in 1850 and still stands today in Essex County in the town of Tappahannock, Virginia.
My client’s father grew up going to this church, and for his 70th birthday, has asked that people donate to St. John’s. For the big birthday dinner, I was hired to make pop-up place cards for each person’s spot at the table.
This is one of those little dream jobs I enjoy, illustrating, planning and building small interactive structures from very pretty paper!
Each one was laser printed on Stardream Opal cardstock, cut and assembled by hand, in an issue of 40, each individually signed.

More photos here...

Vampiresses, Wizards and Sock Puppets, Oh My!

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:43:40 -0700

“Forgetting Sarah Marsall” premieres this weekend, and if you go see it, hopefully you’ll get to see some of my handiwork. I made 10 vampiresses, 10 wizard marionette heads/hands, 2 sock puppets (one evil, one good), and a host of angry townfolk armed with pitchforks and other implements of destruction. Check out my portfolio to see some of the other puppets.

April 7th, Here Comes White Gold...

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:14:42 -0700

The first job of 2008 was to sketch a rock waterfall tiger what would have milk coming out of it’s mouth. I knew it was for a milk commercial, but I had no idea it was going to be so ridiculously funny.
When I visited set, they were putting bigger teeth on the tiger cave, they’d carved the teeth too small, so they had to do a bit of dental work. Then I saw him: the long-haired adonis who would play White Gold!
He was wearing a man diaper, and getting ready to play the plexi plastic guitar full of milk made by none other than Allesandro Thompson, aka “Smilee Barnacle.”
Brandweek says “A new metal guitarist on the scene is basing his image not on Satan, white powders or groupies, but on milk. On April 7, network TV spots will air in California and, in the near future, the White Gold catalog will become available on iTunes. Regional print, outdoor and Whitegoldiswhitegold.com support.”
You can read more here.