Unicorn Tea Party

As defined in physics, a sphere is an object (usually idealized for the sake of simplicity) capable of colliding or stacking with other objects which occupy space.

I don’t know if it’s too late now to speak of such things, but I wanted you guys to know that I made a new year’s resolution:

 ”This year, I’m going to come back to life.”

It’s loosely defined -  It’s more of an urge than a sentence I guess. But it’s there now to be obeyed, so that, in the past when I might have chosen to shut off, now I’m going to choose to turn on. I used to think it was important to be careful,  now I understand that it is necessary to be reckless.

http://penciltool.tumblr.com  continues to exist

http://penciltool.tumblr.com/ask  also exists, in case you want to know something else.

The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

Or, a tiny housekeeping post. The long weekend was refreshing. I cleaned out the basement, went for a nice walk, cooked dinner, got quite a bit of knitting done, watched a tremendously girly movie about Beatrix Potter,  notable mainly for the small animations of her drawings they managed to shoehorn in in-between shots of Ewan McGregor’s ridiculous moustache. Finished the third Sookie book, and felt the general regeneration of spirit possible only on those singularly rare and wonderful rainy three day weekends.   In outward linking news, Dr. Kortbein was kind enough to forward me a link to this flickr photo stream which I thought I should keep here so it doesn’t get lost.  Glad to be back to the office and to have my tiny scraps of paper in front of me again, I will try to make something good for you today!

The goal was to gaze straight /up/ into heaven, and count the miles to the nearest stars

So  I have these two stacks of paper. I’m going to draw on them, then post what I draw on them here. Pencil/marker/photoshop.  Daily posts till the papers are gone, then we’ll see.

Hazards To Navigation

Still letting the world wash over me, thinking about breathing again someday, doesn’t seem too pressing though. Especial heart squeezing delights of the month include Batman Brave and The Bold (Aquaman) and season 3 of SNL. Dan Akroyd, Jane Curtain, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray, for the win. Lots of comics lately. Darwyn Cooke, Green Lantern, Paul Pope, Rice Boy Order of Tales, Naruto.  Slosh, slosh.  Greatly looking forward to King City.  My mom and sisters got me a Kindle for a bridal shower present, have been reading The Confusion on it. Thought at first I wasn’t going to like the Kindle, but it works good. Closest we are going to get to a Book Gun in this life – reading from the Kindle slams that shit dead center it seems like. Thought I would miss the “book” parts, you know pages, heft, scent… but it turns out when it’s not there you just imagine it, and it’s fine. It’s nice being able to read The Confusion without lugging around a huge brick, too. In general being able to discreetly read in public is nice,  just hide it inside your US Weekly and it’s instant blend.  I know there are political issues with digital media, but I can’t muster up much care juice over it. I’m going to be a customer for as long as it lasts, big brother comes around to burn all our libraries eventually anyway right?

And there were vessels that are wrought by magic of Mahound out of seasand and the air by a warlock with his breath that he blases in to them like to bubbles.

Happy Bloomsday folks. Keep it in your pants when you’re hanging out at the beach OK? In about fifteen minutes I’m cutting out of the office to go home and watch Jeff play Ghostbusters. Is this a fitting Bloomsday celebration? Yes.

The art show at Vox Sacramento went great, apparently I sold five things! You can see pictures of the event starting here on Jill’s flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jillallyn/3625650766/

I just got to look at the galleys from the children’s book I illustrated over this past winter, and I’m very happy with how it came out! It will be for sale here in a few months, I’ll be sure to let you all know when it goes up on amazon.

All this good art news is pretty rad, but the best thing is that I’m starting up a new webcomic soon and I’m not promising anything, but it just may have a space ship in it. Are you excited? I am!

time had a different meaning out here, you could expand or contract it at will

Norman Spinrad again. It is lucky I had this handy to soothe the pain of missing Anathem.  Plus it looks rad sitting on top of Jeff’s laptop. That’s what she said. Won’t someone please think of the children?

the chewy

This past weekend was lovely and quiet. I made chocolate peanut butter chip cookies and did laundry and read more of the saturday night live book.  The steelers played hard and won it & so did we.

moving forward in a positive direction

Success! Screens are on their way to Reading.

something new is going to happen

Things have been a tad in flux around the blog here lately. I tried to install some plugins and messed up the whole show, I’m bored of all my art and can’t decide what to make next, and I can never seem to write what I mean. Maybe someday I’ll get my act together.

Anyhow, in the mean time, I’m teaching myself how to silkscreen, making some screens for t-shirts for my friend’s Obama campain office. It’s super frustrating, and I’ve not gotten a true success yet, but I think I’ve got the kinks ironed out and the next run through should work. It has the potential to be a very fun activity, and hopefully will lead to some new art that is less boring.

I’m pretty sure she’s baked on a professional level

oh, The Office.  You’re the best.