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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Look out, hippies

Maybe I’m trying to compensate for the lack of variety in my professional assignments right now. Maybe it’s because without provokation, it seems like I don’t draw anymore. Whatever the reason, I’m saying yes to creative collaboration this year. So I was really pumped to hear from Danny O’Neil, an old friend and college roommate [...]

Paranoid Parkway

Seizing on a moment of spring-like weather, I biked Minnehaha Parkway down to Chicago Avenue Wednesday night. Paranoid Park was playing at the Parkway Theater, a lovably disheveled teen-run operation that fit the movie’s ambiance perfectly. Before I get to the movie, a little on the theater experience: The film was loaded backwards at first, [...]

YouTube 3-fer

University of Arizona marching band does Talking Heads medley. Barak Obama walks down a street. Kitty plays theremin.

Johannarama Pt. 5

INFORMED! I added a new version of her song, by Robyn Hitchcock this time.

Comp’d

Today, I’m trying new things. True to my style, they are easy new things that require no commitment. I just threw together a music comp (listen here) at Muxtape and earlier, I explored this time-saving way to create an image and movie directory-type web page, which could allow me to make my long-postponed portfolio site.

The cycle is fulfilled

Andrew Neher and I worked together a few years back, mostly on tedious brochure and logo assignments. But he’s also engaged Sarah and me in more satisfying ventures (directly and indirectly), including Bird x Bird and RFD (“request for drawing”) projects he posts on his website Greatmiddlewest (here’s a past example). Now of Chicago, Andrew [...]