November 13, 2009
October 04, 2009
conquer pain
This James Jean postcard encapsulates how I feel oh so well.
// The Velvet Underground: Sad Song
+ Leonard Cohen - Avalanche (Live)
+ Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
September 11, 2009
batman, dramatic and hilarious
Being a dramatic and hilarious reading by Chip Kidd from the Bat-Manga book. Around the 40 minute mark.
+ Happy Ending Music and Reading Series: Chip Kidd
September 01, 2009
A day in the life of Adam and David
"How did you get them?"
"Museum Heist" was one of our answers.
People's puzzled looks never ceased to amuse us. You'd think New Yorkers have seen it all but we got a lot of people to engage us in conversation because of these statues. Doc Brown certainly enjoyed taking David all over the place.
July 21, 2009
July 07, 2009
July 06, 2009
April 11, 2009
singer
By Chip Kidd used with permission. Thanks Mr. Kidd
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Singer
Okkervil River - Singer Songwriter
+ Wired:Chip Kidd's Batman Fandom Gets Arty in Bat-Manga
+ Good is Dead: Chip @ NYCC `09 for Salon
April 07, 2009
March 29, 2009
August 27, 2008
Any Frank Miller game will do
+ Screw Comic Book Movies, Where Are Our Comic Book Games?
Hello Fables game! ( for the Whimsical Wii of course). Who wouldn't want a game box with art by James Jean? P.S. He's not going to do the covers for Fables anymore :(
+ Coming soon-ish: Ghost World: Special Edition ( YES!!), Check out the video preview
+ Meet The Superman You Almost Knew
May 20, 2008
I keep the wolf from the door
FABLES COVER COLLECTION
+ Radiohead: "Wolf At The Door", live @Dallas, TX - May 18, 2008
+ An amazing live version of "Nude", live @Dallas, TX - May 18, 2008
January 24, 2008
October 02, 2007
This City
[ Plaid: This City from Tekkonkinkreet OST ]
+ "Tekkonkinkreet is an inspiring piece of cinema" - I couldn't have said it any better.
+ Official Trailer
+ Chase Sequence Clip
+ It's Art if the MoMA showed it, right?
+ "Tekkonkinkreet" something like the animated equivalent of an Altman film.
December 10, 2006
concerning animated openings
Cowboy Bebop is the best intro to any animated series. Closesly followed by the Venture Bros.
December 09, 2006
what is Tekkon Kinkreet
+ Trailer
+ Making Taiyo Matsumoto’s “Tekkon Kinkreet” into anime [via]
[ random ] Captain N: The Game Master on DVD
[ random ] the Angry Nintendo Nerd
November 26, 2006
[ Elephant ]
One of the absolute favorite parts of my New York City trip was going the the MoMA. The exhibit I liked the most was "Douglas Gordon: Timeline". Especially "Play Dead; Real Time" which looked like this:
November 20, 2006
September 03, 2006
Woman like a Man
Intervention d’une femme au moyen d’une machine
Intervention of a Woman by Means of a Machine
Francis Picabia
+ video: Damien Rice - Toronto - Woman Like A Man - Solo, With backup
June 27, 2006
Dr. Venture Meet Dr. Venture
James Urbaniak in Fay Grim ( via Spencer ) and his alterego Doctor Venture.
It goes without saying that I love "The Venture Bros." and Henry Fool.
+ 10 Questions: Dr. Venture
+ Episode Guide
+ Dr. Venture @ MySpace
June 21, 2006
Lolita 1990
Peter Lindbergh + Milla + Harry Dean Stanton = Lolita 1990
April 25, 2006
April 04, 2006
james jean + chapelle
James Jean is one of my favorite artist but I had not been by his site in a while. Now he has a blog in which sometimes he shares his process - like on this post about the above piece.
+ JJ: Drawing outside the box
+ Interview at The Hundreds [via]
May 09, 2005
Crumb and Miscellany
Portrait of the artist as a young deviant from Newsweek's Photo gallery of "The R. Crumb Handbook". I've never been into Crumb much, except for liking the documentary, but I can't resist a James Joyce allusion. Robert Crumb on Fresh Air.
Paste Magazine: Female Characters in Comics + International Comics
Chris Martin: Police, nudity, furious punters and taking out U2 : "What matters is trying to write the best tunes in the world. And having a picture of U2 on the wall, and trying to pump enough logs to take out the Drago [the Russian villain in Rocky IV] that is U2 - that's our mission. I don't care about being big. I don't care about being famous. I care about being a streamlined fighting machine."
Tori "I believe" + Tori covers Billy Idol, Bon Jovi, Cindy Lauper, et al.
He Said–She Said: Ten Relationship Dialogue Songs
April 30, 2005
THE RAMIFICATIONS OF SOMETHING SO UNUSUAL
THE RAMIFICATIONS OF SOMETHING SO UNUSUAL
by Anna Sunshine Ison
On Wednesday, they pulled a woman,
once-woman, out of the lake—
drowned who-knows-when
and turned into soap.
This is not the sort of transformation
we are taught to expect—
girls into birds, plastic surgery,
born-again Christians.
These changes we can deal with,
with little more than a stretch of belief.
But this. Bones become soft,
a face that fingers could reshape.
Is that what they did to bury her:
sculpt her into her original form
like Avicenna’s bear-mother
nosing her whelps? Or
is now the time for artistic license,
to gift her with a beauty she never had,
an apology for seeing her so undone?
I want to know if the coroner
found his hands unexpectedly clean
where he’d lifted her,
and if he plunged them into the muck
so he could have a stain to wash off
when he got back home.
From The Greensboro Review, Spring 2004
Art: (c) Aya Kato
April 24, 2005
Leibovitz's Women @ the D
I was in Dallas this weekend but I didn't get a chance to go see Annie Leibovitz: Women. Thankfully it will be there until August so eventually I'll go. Who the hell knew there was a Women's Museum in Dallas? The Wall of Words looks interesting.
April 16, 2005
Michael Zulli's TMNT
Before Michael Zulli did "The Wake" I had encountered his work in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #31, a comic book i really liked when I was kid for its stark contrast to the tv cartoons. I think this was collected into a trade paperback but I'm not sure. Funny that it featured many Matthew, The Raven like birs all over it. Years later Zulli's take on Matthew sort of became the best version of the character.
+ "The Last Morpheus": 'Evolution of a Dream', A Painting in Progress by Michael Zulli
+ Sandman - Morpheus Poster
+ Sandman - Daniel Poster ( which I had up on my wall for years )
+ Sandman - Zulli's pencil work
March 27, 2005
Chris Ware Miscellany
Print (September/October, 1997) - Cover
I can't find the last page. If I do, I'll update this.
Also, I skipped one page that only had Acme covers.
January 2005, Esquire
+ Arte TV behind-the-scenes documentary on Chris Ware [via waxy ]
+ Chris Ware + Ira Glass = DVD [ via kottke ]
+ Krazy Kazt Book Cover by Mr. Ware
March 05, 2005
James Jean Book
Process Recess:
The Art of James Jean by James Jean. Published by ADHOUSE BOOKS
1-color dustjacket
224 4C pages
$25 US funds
ISBN 0-9721794-6-1
Shipping in March 2005
PROCESS RECESS collects the art of James Jean. From his
travelogue-sketchbooks of Vienna, London, New York, LA and Taiwan to
his finished illustrations and paintings we get to see a side of the
artist that most have not seen. James artwork blends media such as
watercolor, oils, computer work, and sketching — all of which is
collected here in a beautiful hardcover format.
[ PREVIEW PDF ]
+ PopImage talks to James Jean [ via thoughtballoons ]
+ JJ colors Paul Pope art in SOLO # 3
February 17, 2005
Artists were talking While you Where sleeping
WYWS interviews Karen Oxman, who did this lovely cover them. On the archives: Hunter S. Thompson.
Meanwhile, Newsarama talks to Jeames Jean: Part 1 and 2 [ via thought balloons ]
October 20, 2004
Chip Kidd & Frank Miller
(My favorite designer) Chip Kidd & (one of my fave writer/artists) Frank Miller come together. Mr. Kidd has designed new editions of Mr. Miller's Sin City volumes ( at least two for now ). To be released next year to coencide with the movie.
+ A Dame To Kill For
+ The Hard Goodbye
Designer Chip Kidd: Entertainment Weekly, 1992
From my singed copy of "The Cheese Monkeys"
June 04, 2004
Chip Kidd
A few years back I got to go to a book signing by Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes and Chip Kidd. Believe it or not I was there for Chip Kidd. He designed the book cover to "Dreaming In Cuban" and it is one of my favorites. At that time I was not into "Ghost World" so I paid no attention to Daniel but got my "Jimmy Corrigan" signed by Mr. Ware. I noticed not many people were paying attention to Mr. Kidd so I asked him if he would sign a copy of "Dreaming In Cuba" and rushed downstairs to buy one. He came back two years ago but I missed his appearance. I was waiting until the in-store to get his book "The Cheese Monkeys", but since I missed it I just went and got it at Barnes and Nobles ( not the place where the in-store was at). It turns out that on his way to the bookstore he was signing at, he stopped at B&N and signed whatever copies they had of it and I got the last one. I think it says something witty, I'll have to look for it.
May 25, 2004
Sally Mann
I've always liked this picture by Sally Mann that I saw in an issue of Entertainment Weekly, but never did know what the story behind it was. Turns out that its a photo of her daughter. When you click on the image it takes you to a page that has an audio clip of Sally giving a lecture.
David Lachapelle
Did you know David Lachapelle shot the poster for Clueless? It is very hard to pick one favorite photo, but this one of Thora Birch sitting on a moon is certainly one of them.
May 23, 2004
Annie Leibovitz
Behold great photography: Elvis Presley's Turntable, The White Stripes, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, Norah Jones, et al.
May 12, 2004
March 16, 2004
"Some Men fight...
Conan, Bart Sears
"Some men fight for things other than gold"
February 25, 2004
THE BEST ANIMATION SINCE AKIRA?
APPLESSED: japanese Trailer. Incredible Animation
| | I'm behind on my Anime watching. I think Witch Hunter Robin started running on Toonami. Random Fact: I have deep love for Anime. I grew up on the stuff. I watched it dubbed in spanish all through my childhood. Vintage ones I remember the most: Cobra, Tresure Island, Mazinger Z , One about Don Quixote , and one about an orphan boy in France. | |
January 09, 2004
October 28, 2003
A Happy Couple
Desire and Passion sitting on a tree..
October 17, 2003
October 03, 2003
September 18, 2003
September 07, 2003
Banner
A lil banner I did a while back.
September 01, 2003
Work In Progress
I'll be spending a lot of time at work so I need new stuff to sorround me.
August 17, 2003
August 15, 2003
July 24, 2003
Cartoon
Something I drew today, while on the phone at work.
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