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.

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.

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!”

Last sketchcrawl..

Tuesday night long pose.

Good, clean lines of the Spad S.VII tail section. Stocked the Escadrille Lafayette squad as of May 1917.

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.

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

Water color from last weekend.

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/