3D Photos

I'm in a bit of a holding pattern today while I wait for some info on my next project, so I made this to pass some time.

My friend jokes that whenever I get a new gadget I have to push it to its limits and see what it's capable of, and I guess that's true. Once I had the idea to take pictures of red/blue 3D images with the 3DS' camera I had to try it out, and sure enough it worked. I wanted to make some sort of simple guide on how to do it, so here you go.

The ability to take 3D photos with this thing is amazing to me, I think there are tons of possibilities that have yet to be explored. Like maybe setting up dioramas or even figuring out a way to create and view artificially 3D images and artwork (something like a still frame from an animated 3D movie.) Here's hoping some websites crop up in the future dedicated to this purpose.

3B Poster

This was posted to the Autumn Society's site a while ago so I neglected to give it an official post here. I created one of three poster designs for the upcoming 3B show, and there are three variations of this one design: the informative version you see here, a postcard, and a poster with less text that will be for sale at the gallery when the show premiers. Right now word is that the ones you can purchase will be limited to an edition of 100.

The 3B show opens on May 5th at Gallery 1988's new Venice location, 214 Pier Avenue in Santa Monica, California.

Ready

Cool things ahead.

The 3B Show!

These are my pieces for the Autumn Society and Gallery 1988's 3B Show which features artwork based on Back to the Future, Bill and Ted, and Beetlejuice. The show opens next month and is something of a sequel to last year's 3G Show.

For whatever reason I hit a huge creative block when I was trying to come up with ideas for these. Most of the time I'm working on so many things at once that I've already started thinking about ideas for my next project before I finish my current one, but this time I was absolutely stumped. I think partially the problem was anticipating what other people would be doing and trying to do something different, while also feeling a lot of pressure to create a great piece for Back to the Future, my favorite movie of all time. In the end I tried to just have fun with it and not worry too much, but I can tend to stress about these things. I did decide early on that I wanted to reference Back to the Future 3 since I feel like it doesn't get much attention, and I didn't want to reference Death from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey despite him being one of my favorite parts (I figured a lot of people would probably want to use him in their pieces as well.)

The artwork I've seen for this show looks amazing. As always, I am honored to be in a show with so many great artists at Gallery1988.

Strange Kid Shorties #2

The second installment of my web comic for Strange Kids Club went up today, direct link here.

Also, my friend Carrie alerted me that my name was trending on Twitter today and I was able to track it back to an article on ComicsAlliance.com where they posted a ton of my work and had nothing but nice things to say. Really cool, thanks a lot CA!

Geek Art

The owner of Geek-Art.net contacted me to let me know that he had featured my two newest Bowser and Zelda inspired shirt designs on his site. It's a French site but written mostly in English, and there's a ton of great artwork on there so you should check it out. I'm sure I'll be visiting frequently.

Also, I was quite surprised to see an article on ToplessRobot.com that was titled "Worst Nerd Shirt Ever" and featured a picture of my George Lucas/Chewbacca shirt. Turns out the article was about a contest that Splitreason (the company that makes and sells my shirts) was sponsoring for ToplessRobot readers. The point of the contest was to see who could come up with the worst nerdy shirt idea ever, and the winner got some free Splitreason swag. The photo of my shirt was just used as an example of one of the cool designs you could pick from if you won (I hope.)

Rob, the guy that runs the site, also continued to recommend my "Winner's Don't Use Drugs" shirt in the article. I'm really happy that I made something that pleases him so much because he has a bit of a reputation among visitors of the site as being one of those nerds who seem to hate more things about nerdy culture than they like.

Front Issue 151

That's right, I have eight pages of illustrations in just one issue! I had no idea they were going to run two of my article illustration sets in a single issue, so for a while I thought I must have missed the "Build the Ultimate Gang" piece. I've posted the original illustrations before so there's not much new to add here. Oh, except that the title of the second article, "Live like you're minted when your totes f*cking skinted" means "how to live like you have a lot of money when you really don't." Slowly but surely as I work for Front I'm gaining a sense of British slang.





I apologize for the bad quality photos. If anyone has any pointers for taking good pictures of magazines I'm open to advice.