A Mundane Transcendental Object

Click on the image to zoom in. I go in deep with this one.

Owned by Linda Jankowska

New Pens!

Testing out some new pens!

 
The skull is owned by Lina Martinez…and no man or woman may yet possess Man Dantana!

The Shnth Comes to England – with Peter Blasser

I am extremely proud of this documentary that I made about instrument designer/luthier Peter Blasser, of Ciat-Lonbarde and Shbobo. I really wanted to depict the person I got to know over those few days–his sense of humor, his intelligence, and of course I wanted to showcase the new instrument he’d just developed. That’s why he was in England, in fact: to lead a workshop at the University of Huddersfield where the participants built and programmed their own Shnths. Rod organized bringing Peter over with his school (and P.A. Tremblay specifically), and the rest is history. Peter Blasser came to England. Enjoy the documentary. I really enjoyed making it.

Peter Blasser:
shbobo.net — Peter’s digital side, and where you can get your own Shnth instrument.
ciat-lonbarde.net — Peter’s analog side, and where you can get a multitude of his other instruments.

Sense/Sense Object Dissection

While drawing this one of the things I was thinking about was the relationship that sense and sense objects have–as it’s articulated in the Upanishads and specifically the Katha Upanishad……Good-bye horrrrrr-ses, I’m flying over youuuuuuuu…..  Also I allowed the two-dimensional figures to not be fully visible, and allowed objects on the surface (foreground) to sneak behind other figures. In other drawings (like this one) this was a limitation I set on myself: that every figure live on the surface, and not curl back into that fake implied space. So that’s why this one has more a three-dimensional quality to it. I allowed myself to push in and pull out. I believe that’s why it feels like a dissection. Going forward I don’t want to be too permissive with myself though, since I’m not trying to make a thing that mimics existing in the space we exist in. We’ll see how it goes on though. I don’t want to over-think this stuff and snuff out the novelty of spontaneous characters/characteristics.

Sam & Rod

It’s Sam Andreae’s birthday today so I made him THIS! Based on the battle pieces he and Rod have been working on.

As reference, this is what a battle piece is:

Strikethrough Me and You (part 1) in Sam’s Basement from Sam Andreae on Vimeo.