I think it's finally got a title, if it at least tentative, and things are getting all greased up. The summer's been amazingly summer so far, and I can't complain. Nothing really amazing to report here, just really an excuse to show you a pink picture of a Rhino! (Also being the first image done with my new wacom intuos tablet! Cool, eh?)



Also, this is very cool. Makes you want to bust out those DVDS on a Saturday morning, only except for the whole "morning" part.

Here's an illustration for a zine and possibly for use for the major grant in the fall. Oil pastel's fun, but I can't scan the other big one that I could send too, and I'm not finished with the other other one. Animation stuff coming soon, I swear it!

I still half-expect to wake up at least six different places every morning (or well afternoon) and, its true, reverse culture shock is a strange thing. And I still really haven't gotten over the whole jet-lag thing-- the schedule in Evanston last week was a doozy and now in BR, with exactly 1/5 of the house under construction, there's 0% chance of sleep past 8am. Schizer!



But its summer! So, this will no longer be Danish Seismograph but instead Animation Seismograph (or something lame-sounding like that). After our epic roadtrip of the Nicaraguan titans, I'll be toiling away in Evanston and finally trying to finish this damn thing (it gets a little tiring when everybody laughs when you say that you're still working on the same project from last year). So, from now on, this site'll be a sorta "plog" of sorts, production blog, and when I get the time, I'll be posting updates and coolish images from the project. And its way past time by now for some kinda title other than the dubious sounding "animation project." Any suggestions for a 2 min short involving 50's suburbia and stubborn dangerous pilot elephants?



I've got a lot of pics from the last week in Denmark and from Evanston & Dillo Day and some from BR, but if you want to see them, just ask me, I'm too lazy to post. But I really like this pic of Ryan, Max, and Andy a lot, though I wish Ryan wasn't dancing as quickly as he was, crazy fool. So, until later, its some more illustrations and pieces and a whole lot of inbetweening, yeesh. Stay tuned!

Here we go: another batch of pictures for yer feastin' eyes. These are some scans of my Russian and Italian Extravaganza, though mostly Russian. Like I said earlier, my St. Basil's sketch was featured on moleskinerie.com so check it, yo.





I have many sketches of Russian architecture, as it was the cool thing for all the archy kids to do for their classes. So whenever they whipped out the sketchbooks, I felt more comfortable doing whatever they did. It was a little strange being amongst such drawing company... I can't say I've ever really had that experience before, which was very, very odd for me to realize. If grad school (and, well, just say "general future" most likely) will be anything like how it was in Russia, people are going to be fuckin' moody. And that's cool... i guess... but it definitely gave a... competitive? tense kind of atmosphere that I have never before associated with drawing. Long ways from Mrs. Manno's class (shudder)...

Oh, and another thing about drawing in Russia, it was COLD. So, by the time I got to the major tower in St. Basil's, my fingers refused to move. But I had a ballet to attend to at the Bolshoi anyway (hwya hwya). Oh yeah, in all my complaining about the Red Country, I often forget to mention my highlight of it: the ballets and the operas. Saw Mazeppa by Tchaikovsky, Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet) directed by John Neiumeier, and a bunch of experimental modern dance shorts, in the Bolshoi in Moscow and the Kirov (sp?) in St. Petersburg... they were, in a word, amazing. And I do, uh, have sketches of those world famous theaters, but I'm lazy.









I drew considerably less in Capri, but I guess that makes sense. Whereas Russia became mindnumbing in the cold, the unrelentless schedules, and the dead air during tours, drawing was much more needed. But in Capri, I at least managed to get a detailed sketch with, like, shadows and stuff!

Ok, and here are just some random scans of doodling in class.











Our good ol' friend, Professor Warmind. Sometimes irrelevant, tedious, but always entertaining and big as a giant.









Aaand I'm tired of linking. Saw Kingdom of Heaven today with some friends and it was deliciously nice watching a film again in a theater! Especially since we were all basically closet movie geeks. Geek as in, I'd be like talking about how cool a movie is going to be, then Jordan goes all "Yeah I read the script when I was photocopying copies for the office. It was pretty good." Brought back warm fuzzy film school memories... though those may be made up. Oh, and too bad the movie sucked too. Just okay.

Schedule's looking real nice for the fall too: Computer Animation, Advanced Drawing, Film Noir, and an interesting communication in relationships comm course (bullshit distro), or maybe a printmaking class. Whoooo knows. Oh, and, after this morning, ham and artichokes will never be the same. You don't want to know.

I'm FAMOUS! Haha, well, no, not really, not at all, but check it out anyway: got me a drawing featured on Moleskinerie.com that you can check right here. Didnt' have the time to write up a paragraph or two about it as Armand requested, but it's up there anyway. I'll post some other sketches soon here but a rendevous in DIS awaits me.