top: Cordial 3-3-3 crew-cab 620, Western Bridge R.R. Second: Triple Steamer 3-2-6 Logger Trammel, Skinectity R.R. Third: Dunleavey Spool-Drive 5-2 Mast-Boiler, Minocqua and Merrimac R.R. Forth: Sutro-Shay direct drive 3-2, Cheyenne Middle Fork R.R.
Muy Loco.
June 30, 2009 by shublogarchitect, sure!
June 30, 2009 by shublogItalian Architect, Renzo Piano, planned the new Cal Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park. And I quote, “The roof design is like lifting up a piece of the park and putting a building under it.” I spent two hours dissecting its underside. It is, and I quote, “convoluted e Bella!”
chinatown kites
June 23, 2009 by shublogLast sketchcrawl..
falling behind
March 4, 2009 by shublogTuesday night long pose.
Spad
March 4, 2009 by shublogGood, clean lines of the Spad S.VII tail section. Stocked the Escadrille Lafayette squad as of May 1917.
home is where the half-track is.
March 4, 2009 by shublogNicely appointed RV half-track modeled after a 1972 GMC Motorhome. Based loosely on Pete, James and mine’s idea of securing a 2-decker London bus and stowing 3 marque 1 mini’s varyingly equipped for snow, high-speed flats and off-road rally. Insets of spacious cab, Toronado V-8 and spa. There is no explanation for the Russian flag.
Spoils of the Day
February 23, 2009 by shublog
The Visual Effects Society awards show was last night in LA. Wall-e was nominated for Best Animated Film, Animated Character and Effects; and brother, we snagged all three! Shown here is my weighty and wired-for-light reward for Best Animated Character. In the category I share the honor with Austin Lee, Victor Navone and Ben Burtt! (The judging is based on a single sequence from the film- in this case ‘Wall-e and Eve Truck Sequence’) (A title plate for the front of the base is forth-coming)
The VES award uses the Georges Méliès image of the man-in-the-moon from his turn of the century work Le Voyage dans La Lune. A light in the base illuminates the moon face! ..a detailed behind-the-scenes rear side of the moon.
The award is finished to an exacting degree; Access the internal battery and light through a threaded port/ switch in the bottom!
Weighing-in at 10 lbs., its girth was matched only by tonnage of peer recognition. It was a good night in Century City!
Complete list of VES award recipients:
http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/documents/2009WinnersListForPublicRelease.pdf
MLK CMYK
January 24, 2009 by shublogWater color from last weekend.
SketchFly
January 11, 2009 by shublogYesterday I mentioned to Enrico I’d be sketching at 30,000 feet as part of the world-wide sketchcrawl today..
It was a nice flight..
Martiana
October 11, 2008 by shublogA random visitor to shublog submitted an impassioned comment last weekend:
“Don’t tease us — the word “NASA” staplegunned my retina to your page. Have you any NASA-clobbering SPACE-THEMED concept work? For example, my dream of dreams — a Martian colony? OR, nearer your heart: a Martian car?”
.. a clarion call to martiana. I can’t say I have any ‘NASA-clobbering’ stuff lying around here. I have a bit of respect for the NASA folks- especially since our Wall-e research trip down to JPL all them years ago. But this piece might suffice. I was 13 and in 7th grade at Derby Middle School. It’s your basic human-invasion-of-space theme replete with things only a benign 13 year-old existence would bring to space: a canoe, various service sector jobs and, of course, anti-grav vehicles. Does our invasion of outer space qualify us as the martians? If my prized 24 Pentel marker set had anything to say about it: then, “yeah, sure.” why not. Besides the fact I was still drawing a bear character as human-proxy: not so much martian as just perplexing. The good man who left the comment can send me a self-addressed/ stamped envelope so I can get his retina back to him.
Just in case the people didn’t get it, I attached this card to the back of the piece:
These days I’m not so excited about living in space. I’d rather have a nice air-stream trailer.
