I’ve had this blog for 5 years… now I’m tossing it out like last year’s bubblegum.
Starting Monday, I’m switching over to inconsistently posting in this Tumblr blog until I get bored with it:
http://dynamoe.tumblr.com/
I admit the only reason I watched Carnivale was a morbid curiosity to see a Toby Huss sex scene.
requested indirectly by swilkes who would have preferred Phil Hickle, which I didn’t deliver (x-posted to my half-assed Tumblr and my flickr set)
"Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not ‘Every man for himself.’ And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up. "
I’m disappointed there isn’t a bigger cult around this movie, which I really like.
This and Soapdish should have way bigger followings. Why does the cult-film-community-groupmind hate Kevin Kline? (I don’t like Soapdish that much really, it just seems to be "cult-y")
I never liked the weird fish-furry of "Wanda" on the poster. She doesn’t look like that in the movie (she’s white with black stripes… and not 6 feet tall with arms). Looks like a character from Fish Police.
I had the date wrong on the earlier post (or it changed since I wrote that). It’s out now.
Ninety-six pages of full-color illustrated laughs and semi-true information written and drawn by me (and some other people: Dan Telfer, Sarah Wilkes, Silvija Ozols, Will Hines + more, but mostly me). This, inexplicably, is the first “official” Mad Men publication ever. It’s also the first Mad Men book that doesn’t have a red/black/white cover.
This is not a collection of web illustrations (I wish it was, that would have been so easy for me!)... it’s mostly new material. With words. I can make up a percentage right now. 85% new, I’ll say. It contains NO SPOILERS for Season 4, if you’re waiting for the DVD.
Amazon:
www.amazon.com/Mad-Men-Illustrated-Dyna-Moe/dp/0399536574…
1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282851340&sr=8-1
Barnes & Noble:
search.barnesandnoble.com/Mad-Men/Dyna-Moe/e/978039953657…
&USRI=mad+men+the+illustrated+world
Borders: www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=0399536574
Indiebound: www.indiebound.org/ (you’ll have to search for it)
Powells: www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780399536571-0
It’s coming out in Australia and the UK under the “Orion” imprint. Don’t have dates for that yet.
as observed at Los Angeles’ Museum of Jurassic Technology
a folk remedy for bed-wetting and incontinence – eat two whole mice on toast three days in a row.
So, QI’s over. Have I Got News for You is on hiatus.
So, to fill the gap I’ve found Would I Lie to You, which actually may be almost as good as QI in terms of being funny as you’re guaranteed David Mitchell every episode and guaranteed Rob Brydon for every episode after the first 2 seasons. (And Lee Mack is pretty good, too)
There also are no British politicians taking up guest spots, instead it is frequently cast members of Eastenders which is as inscrutable as British politics.
Episode picked at random, as I watched all of the episodes one after another and they all kind of flow together making it hard for me to pick out a “best” episode to post here. It has Richard E. Grant in it because… why not?
Check this uploader’s account for other episodes.
Brandon Bird’s Law & Order art show was a huge success! Law & Order showrunner/L&O:CI co-creator/”brains of the operation” René Balcer even bought one of my prints. He bought every artpiece with Goren in it in the gallery.
Here’s the whole show: http://www.brandonbird.com/stories.html
Here’s a place to order prints of some of the pieces, including my Detectives Look for a Racist and Two Teens Disappear in a Museum, both printed on very nice watercolor paper & signed in an edition of 50 each.
I was in LA the last 10 days, so this is “old news.” If you didn’t see the 12 billion other blogs that wrote about it…
Ninety-six pages of full-color illustrated laffs and semi-true information written and drawn by me (and some other people, but mostly me).
This, inexplicably, is the first "official" Mad Men publication ever. It’s also the first Mad Men book that doesn’t have a red/black/white cover.
To be released on October 6, 2010.
You can pre-order now at Amazon...but in the unlikely even your town’s independent bookstore is carrying it, support your local and get it there. (I doubt they will, but Urban Outfitters will have it.)
*This is also coming out in Australia, UK, and Canada under different imprints. There may be some variation in the release date for those countries.
More than a year ago, I posted a collection of (mostly terrible) covers of “Concrete and Clay,” which is very high on my list of favorite songs despite a.) having the taint of Wes Anderson association b.) being covered terribly over and over again
I’ve just learned about this Swedish cover and I’m not sure if it’s a strike against or a ringing endorsement:
Guess what? I’m in a gallery-type art show!
These Are Their Stories
(A Law & Order Art Show)
curated by Brandon Bird
July 24 – 30 at with a reception Wednesday July 28 at 8:00 pm
Gallery Meltdown, 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046.
I’ll be there in person and you can buy signed prints of my 2 prints in the show. I did a Special Victims Unit one and a Criminal Intent one.
Featuring new outfits, new backgrounds, and more—
www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/madmenyourself/
I illustrated this CD a couple month’s back. It’s out now. There’s also illustrations on the inside and on the CD face not pictured here. Also, a standup act (which I did not illustrate, as it is audio)
We shot four episodes of “Welcome to My Study” to be shown on real TV. I was tired a lot.
Another thing to replace writing in this blog. I’m answering (after a fashion) questions here: http://www.formspring.me/dynamoe
For the very impatient, you can just jump right into it with this form—
I did an interview and a feature in Italian magazine “D.” Several illustrators redrew ads from clients. I don’t speak Italian the reasons why we did this were never all that clear to me. But, here it is (in Italian, natch).
http://dweb.repubblica.it/dettaglio/advertising-remake/68710?page=1
Here’s the magazine itself with my illustrated interpretations of the ads sprinkled throughout. (150, 174, 182, 186, 232, 236 & 242)
http://periodici.repubblica.it/d/%20%20
I also posted them on my flickr account
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nobodyssweetheart/sets/72157623561406185/
I didn’t even realize this was out yet, but here it is. My first book cover illustration, in stores May 4, attached to some guy’s memoir.
Here’s the not quite final cover:
Your version will have the proper sub-credit line in there. You could order on Amazon, but really, you should support your local bookseller if you can
I’ve never really had a need for business cards, because people who want to hire me usually find me through the internet. I made some anyway, displayed here with a wholly erroneous phone number to foil all of you who are stalking me.
I made this
A Geranium with Rubens Peale, 2010
(after "Rubens Peale with a Geranium" by Rembrandt Peale, 1801)
And then the next morning I found this while looking for an envelope
The tone of the text (and the exhibition title, really) is that Rembrandt Peale was a jerk who only cared about being famous, failed time and time again and blamed the audiences for being provincial. So judgmental, Smithsonian brochure writer!
He was just mad because his brother was sooooooo cute. With his pretty flowers and his two pair of glasses. XOXO!
This is most of what I do on Twitter.
Children of the Diebenkorn
Apocalypse Nauman
Good Morning VietNam June Paik
Chagall About Eve
The Thin Red Kline
Pollock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
A Barnett Newman for All Seasons
Passion of the Christo (& Jeanne-Claude)
How Clement Greenberg Was My Valley
That Thing You DuChamp!
Eadweard Muybridges of Madison County
Solaris LeWitt
Alex Katz Don’t Dance
The Discrete Charm of The Louise Bourgeoisie
Cassatturday Night Fever
Grosz Point Blank
Something’s Giotto Give
Crazy Reinhardt,
Easy Albert Pinkham Ryder
Old Masters of Disguise
(Judy) Chicago
Hail The Conquering Hiroshige
The Story of O’Keeffe
Bride of Lichtenstein
Stop or My MoMA Will Shoot
From my friend Sarah:
Klee Pigeons, The Treasure of the Serra Madre, What’s Eating Gilbert and George?, Chihuly & Julia, The Hudsucker Praxiteles
From my friend Eric:
Rothkocop, The Englishman who Went up a Hill and Came Down a Mantegna, Scheile’s Gotta Have It, Starship Hoppers, The First Wyeth’s Club, Hotel for Doigs, Harold and Komar and Melamed Go to White Castle, Watteauworld, J.M.W. Turner and Hooch, Beuys in the Hood, The Hirst Locker, Mondrian Vs. Predator, Never Been Klimt
