Scott Pilgrim vs. Me Coming to Turns with Becoming an Adult

I turned 20 on Tuesday!

To celebrate my brother and I went to see Scott Pilgrim vs The World. We went to the early showing and the theater was completely empty. We had a raucous good time and the movie was one of the best I've seen all year.

Here are some of the presents I received from my lovely family:

Also, on Saturday I got to hang out with my friend Robyn Ng before she left for Brooklyn and later that evening I happened to be standing next to Shepard Fairey at AS220's Foo Fest. He was really sweet and he gave me a bunch of stickers.

A very memorable birthday, thank you everyone for the birthday wishes!

Enter the Tap Room

I got lazy this time, "computer paper and licorice-scented markers" lazy.

If you're at RISD feel free to stop by!

"2001" iPhone Skin

Another Illustration II assignment with Kelly Murphy.

Assignment: design an iPhone or iPod skin.

Carmen 2010

From Illustration II with The Great Kelly Murphy.

Assignment: Design a poster for a 2010 for a production of George Bizet's "Carmen".

R.I.P. Harvey Pekar

Prepare to meet Kali... in the Tap Room!

Little poster I did for the summertime screening of Indiana Jones.

If you're a RISD student on campus right now you're welcome to come!

Expecto Anung Un Rama

The happy thought I would use to conjure a Hellboy Patronus would be "Having a Hellboy Patronus".

Summer Reading

Hi, Everyone!

So, I successfully completed my Sophomore year at RISD, went home for my brother's birthday and high school graduation (he's going to Pratt next fall) and now I'm back on campus working at Residence Life.

I've been to lazy to do any real art but that will change in a couple weeks when because I have to do some posters for transfer/summer study student movie nights.

I spend a lot of my free time reading and here are some books I've read since the start of summer that I've enjoyed:

An Education by Lynn Barber

I saw the film a few months ago and loved it and was surprised to find the movie is based on only one chapter of the book and Lynn Barber continued to have a seriously fascinating life as a journalist.

The Aya series by Marquerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie

This is definitely my favorite of the three books shown here, it was incredibly refreshing and lovingly written and illustrated. They're adapting it into a film coming out sometime next year and I am too excited.

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

The prologue was really intriguing but after a few chapters I wasn't sure if I wanted to finish it. Frankly, I found it horribly depressing although every other media associated with Nick Hornby (the screenplay for An Education) I've enjoyed.

More to come. Have a good summer!

Not really art...

But still technically a joke.

R.I.P. Frank Frazetta

Happy St. Patrick's Day, my babies!

This goes out to my mother and everyone else who loves Conan O' Brien and Irish things.

One can't have it both ways and...

This is a really good read, I recommend it and well as her other books.

Started Spring Semester on Monday and it's shaping up to be an excellent one!

Cupid, Draw Back Your Bow and Let Your Arrow Flow

... straight to my lover's heart, for me.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

"Cupid" by Sam Cooke

And for you folksy types: a folksy version by Colin Meloy and Laura Gibson. This is the version I saw at the "Colin Meloy Sings Live" concert in Somerville two springs ago, it was excellent and we got to meet them afterward, they were really nice.

Subway Dogs

It's true.

A couple of weeks ago I bought a for-real Pentel Pocket Brush Pen after several months of believing I already had one when I really had this.

I am dangerously in love, it's like it was designed specifically for moleskines, it's ridiculous.

Here are some star trek doodles I did testing it on my sketch paper.

They all look like creeps.

"Black Orpheus"

Wow, I am way behind on this. Embarassing...

"Six Movies" Project: Black Orpheus by Marcel Camus (1959)

A modern re-telling of the "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth set in Rio de Janeiro at the start of the Carnival festival.

Final Piece:

My scanner didn't pick up a lot of the very light blues but it still looks o.k. I'm not that good with watercolors but every once in a while I decide to pick it up again. This came out not as good as I would have hoped but still much better than it could have been. I had a good time none the less.

Next time: The Virgin Spring

Romanovs

Project: "Six Movies in Six Weeks"

About a week before leaving school for vacation, I blindly signed up for what I thought was a Friday 9:30am- 12pm shift as a computer lab monitor for OIT. I'd forgotten to give my boss my hours for Wintersession so I had the last pick, but in addition to a Monday 9am-1pm shift I thought I had gotten lucky. I couldn't imagine why no one had signed up for such a sweet Friday shift.

A few days later, my boss forwarded the official Lab Monitor shift schedule and I realized my mistake: I had signed up for the Friday 9:30 pm- 12 am by accident.

Needless to say, I was pretty pissed with myself but I didn't want to drop the shift because that's the coward's way out and the pay is too good. But what to do?

"Wait, 2 1/2 hours is just long enough to watch a movie," I thought.

So, I decided to create the "Six Movies and Six Weeks" project. Each Friday, I'm gonna watch a movie I've never seen and then do some little illustration stuff for each film. It seems like a pretty good exercise considering I'm only taking a Liberal Arts this Wintersession.

With the help of some of my friends I've created this list:

• Black Orpheus by Marcel Camus, 1959 (1/8)

• The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman, 1960 (1/15)

• The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (1/22)

• Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, 1950 (1/29)

• Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog, 1982 (2/5)

• Band of Outsiders by Jean-Luc Godard, 1964 (2/12)

I'm gonna post the drawings and illustrations for Black Orpheus in a day for two, I would have done it earlier but I've been sick and sleeping all week. After The Virgin Spring everything should be caught up.

I hope everyone had a great vacation and that all my friends are having a challenging and rewarding spring term and I hope all my RISD bros are having a wonderfully lazy Wintersession/ mind-blowing time abroad.

John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark?"

More like World's Greatest Painting.