Pop, cult.

Used to be I’d spend much time and resource on my new year’s card. The trend will be reinvigorated for this model year. (I determined that just now) Here’s a look back at 2000’s card featuring Pop Culture and Dot Com vs. MilleniaMan and Miles 2000. Remote-brandishing Pop joined by then-cultural force, Dot Com, to swindle millions from millions in a race to reign the internet box. Vigilantes MilleniaMan and Miles 2000 stay wired to keep the forces at ebay. To be further expanded into Graphic Novelette, books, web-series, screenplay, toy line and off Broadway production. All rights reserved.

Muy Loco.

top: Cordial 6-6-6 crew-cab 620, Western Bridge R.R. Second: Triple Steamer 6-4-12 Logger Trammel, Skinectity R.R. Third: Dunleavey Spool-Drive 10-4 Mast-Boiler, Minocqua and Merrimac R.R. Forth: Sutro-Shay direct drive 6-4, Cheyenne Middle Fork R.R.

architect, sure!

Italian 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

Last sketchcrawl..

falling behind

Tuesday night long pose.

Spad

Good, 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.

Nicely 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

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

Water color from last weekend.

SketchFly

Yesterday 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..

http://sketchcrawl.com/