Monday Artday: heaven

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 The Monday Artday challenge this week is “heaven”……

Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth?

The concept of heaven means different things to different people. I really never gave much thought to it, as I always found it very strange. I guess it is supposed to be the place you hope to go, after you die, to spend all eternity…. if you were a good person during your time on earth.  I see that as philosophical baloney. However, if such a place exists, and we are presented with an individually-tailored scenario, I would spend my afterlife surrounded by pizza, ice cream, Oreos and a TV showing an endless “Andy Griffith Show” marathon (minus the Warren Ferguson episodes and the ones with Ken Berry).

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IF: twist

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This week’s word on illustrationfriday.com is “twist“.

It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!

The quintessential twist-ending Twilight Zone is “To Serve Man“. This episode has been parodied and referenced in countless movies and TV shows. It is so typical of Twilight Zone, that I thought it fitting to honor it as the subject of this week’s drawing for Illustration Friday.

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Monday Artday: artist

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The challenge word on Monday Artday this week is “artist“. That certainly is a challenge……
it was either this or retail

“Art is a lie that helps us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” – Claude Debussy
“An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks would be a good idea to give them.” -Andy Warhol
“Believe it or not, I can actually draw.” – Jean Michel Basquiat

“It’s all bullshit, kid.” – Marlon Brando, to a 17-year old Laurence Fishburne, on the set of “Apocalypse Now”

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IF: camouflage

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This week’s word at illustrationfriday.com is “camouflage“.

he was an awfully BIG marine

I love Stan Ridgway! He is one of the most talented and underrated singer-songwriters in modern music. One-time leader of L.A. new-wave band Wall of Voodoo, Stan’s solo career has spanned twenty years and still continues. In 1986, he released his first solo album, The Big Heat. This album featured the song “Camouflage“, a story of a soldier stuck, alone, in a Vietnamese jungle. When the situation looks hopeless, a mysterious marine enters the scene and the fights off Charlie with ease. The story is a re-telling of the urban legend, “The Vanishing Hitchiker“. “Camouflage” went to the top 5 on the British charts, but went relatively unnoticed here in the US. Stan continues to release great albums as a solo artist and with his side project, Drywall. His music is worth seeking out.

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SFG: summer vacation

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see you on Sunday

In 1999, a group of friends from the southern California goth community gathered at Disneyland on the third Sunday in August, for an unofficial Disney event called “Bats Day in the Fun Park“. The next year, more people got wind of the gathering. Year after year, the attendees grew, until 2006, when Bats Day 8 drew approximately 3000! For the past three years, my family and I have been part of this annual event at Disneyland, travelling all the way from Philadelphia.

I still can’t decide which is cooler…. Seeing all the goths at Disneyland or seeing all of the “regular” guests seeing all the goths at Disneyland. Bats Day in the Fun Park 2007 is August 17-19. Hope to see you there!

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Monday Artday: mystical

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This week’s challenge at Monday Artday is “mystical“.

fangs for the memories

Max Schreck, as movie legend tells it, was mystical. He was a German actor. He supposedly kept to himself and not much was known about his life outside of acting. His most famous role was Count Orlock in the 1922 silent film “Nosferatu“, notoriously based on (although unauthorized) the novel Dracula. The story is, that during the filming of “Nosferatu“, Max stayed in character, would only shoot his scenes at night and came to the set in full theatrical make-up. There were rumors that Max was actually a vampire. In the movie Shadow of the Vampire, that is exactly how Willem Dafoe played him.

However, these stories are total fabrication. Max was just an actor on stage and screen, appearing in 51 movies in sixteen years. He died in 1936 of a heart attack. No wooden stakes were involved.

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IF: suit

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The weekly challenge at illustrationfriday.com is “suit”

Grab can, lift arm, stack can, turn around

I have been working as a professional artist, in one capacity or another, for almost 25 years. In that time, at every job I have ever had, there are guys in suits. They are very far removed from the end result of what the business produces. Yet, as far as they are from the day-to-day work process, they always have the perfect solution for making things work better. Mostly, their suggestions (or demands) are so insignificant, that it seems they are merely justifing their presence. It is the employees doing the actual work that keep a business running. It is the job of the “suits” to fuck things up.

This is dedicated to the people who actually work. You know who you are. Um…. no…. not you.

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