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A Story of Sizzlepissmas
There are many stories of Sizzlepiss, the great albino opossum of long nights, cold blood, and false death. Sizzlepiss, all-mother, all-eater, blessed are thy teensy feet! Ea! Ea!
Here come this tale.
Did this portrait for friend and colleague Jiz Lee, genuinely one of the nicest people I am aware of. It benefits from a closer look — click to enlarge.
Jiz does a project called Karma Pervs, which is brilliant: You get amazing erotic art, and the money goes to non-profits like Sex Worker Outreach Project. It’s a win-win.
Forgive me another “response to a Facebook hoax” post, but the recent “protect your profile by posting a copyright notice” nonsense gave me a reminder of just how poorly most Americans understand their own copyright laws.
It’s often assumed that, because I’m an artist that creates intellectual property, I support strict copyright enforcement. I certainly wouldn’t like it if someone claimed my work as their own and profited from it, and it would be great to have accessible legal recourse in a situation like that. I do not. Most artists — be they writers, musicians, performers, or visual artists — do not.
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The Painted Lady Project was started to answer a simple question: Can art benefit both the artist and the community? I believe it’s possible through small actions that add up.
It works like this: PLP creates a limited run of an art object (prints, jewelery, anything!). 50% of profits from each run is donated to a specific cause, as stated in the description of that object. The rest goes to the artist.
Is it a lot? No. But it’s something. It’s a difference, no [...]
READ MORE - Leave a commentAsk you can see below, I have a design up for voting on Threadless. It’s the graphic from a recent poster for Greensboro Roller Derby (I’ll post the full thing later).
The process is simple: If it gets rated high enough, they print it and pay me a decent wad of bills. I’m thrilled it even made it to the voting stage: Please give it a vote?
Within the past few weeks, I’ve developed an odd quirk. Every time I’m alone, and especially when I’m facing a mirror, I begin moving… carefully. One smooth motion at a time, perhaps ending with a stutter as if gears are locking into place. Mostly I look like an idiot, but every once in a while I think I nail it and–for a brief moment–I unsettle myself. I pass into the Uncanny Valley.
Ever since we first began trying to make lifeless things look human, we’ve been trying to do the opposite–to climb out the other side of that hole wherein [...]
READ MORE - Leave a commentWould you pay to hang an image of rotten garbage and a rotten garbage-eating marsupial from your ear-lobes, shoelaces, labia, kidneys, or whatever you happen to have two sets of?
Would you pay to wear an image of said marsupial on your torso, perhaps with a comment concerning the marsupial’s unseemly nature?
Would knowing that [...]
READ MORE - 2 CommentsA couple weeks ago, my friend Charla emailed asking if I could step in at the last minute to do some art for Greensboro Roller Derby’s “Flat Track Alleycat,” an annual bike race for charity. “Alleycats” are a style of bike race originated by bike messengers that involve stuff like checkpoints, treasure hunts, and other complications. GSORD is one of the best things to happen to my home town* in years and I was thrilled to help out. The process of getting Charla’s idea out of her skull and into something we could send a printer (I’ve yet to find [...]
READ MORE - Leave a commentHuman-I-Strongly-Approve-Of John Leavitt’s got a very entertaining Tumblr going at TIME 2 TRAVEL. “A Crowd-sourced UnTourist Guide For the fashionably broke Time Traveler.” They take submissions, so, you know. Naturally.
I’m hoping to do a few more from the point of view of this character, if they’ll have me. He’s kind of like John Preston with a Time Machine… but more on that later.
As a professional graphic artist, I get a lot of well-meaning emails from friends and family alerting me to poster, logo and other design-related “contest.” You know, “crowd-sourcing.” These usually sound like great opportunities – a good chance for “exposure,” something to put on the resume, and at the very least a nice portfolio piece.
Actually, crowd-sourcing contests are predatory, offensive gestures that save the company doing them a little money while taking a huge amount away from [...]
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