Joybubbles (May 25, 1949-August 8, 2007)

Digital portrait of a woman named Courtney I used to know, done in August 2005 with a smallish camera phone photo as reference.  Her hair was really those colors.

I didn't have a drawing tablet back then; all points and vectors were placed manually with a mouse.  That method, combined with the fact that I wasn't entirely comfortable doing vector-based art at that point, resulted in this being very slow work.

Also, OMG LENS FLARE!!!@#$%^&*

A pen-and-ink drawing of a candlestick phone.  My separate obsessions with telephones and the design sensibilities of the early 20th century work well together.

Felt pen on 2.5x3.5" bristol board.  Incidentally, this happens to be the first ACEO I ever made.

AISLE SIX - YOUR ONE-STOP SUPERMUSICAL by Nicola McEldowney

More info on the FREE April 11 reading of this show in New York City which you can FREELY attend for FREE can be found in this blog post.

More info on the show itself can be found on my site as well as the author's own page about the show.

If you're in the area, come see us!

Five-minute doodle of Woodstock, from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts.

I always loved that comic as a kid, I used to trace it out of the newspaper, and Woodstock was my favorite.

Stromberg-Carlson upright phone 1894

When Alexander Graham Bell’s patent on the telephone expired in 1894, American Bell Telephone Company employees Alfred Stromberg and Androv Carlson went into the telephone-manufacturing business for themselves.

The telephone shown here is Stromberg-Carlson’s first upright desk phone, nicknamed "the Coffee Grinder" by enthusiasts due to its unusual shape and side-mounted hand crank.  Few of these unique members of the "candlestick phone" family survive today.

Acrylic on canvas, 5x7″.  From my series of paintings of historical telephones.

This plant did not come out looking like the photo on the seed packet.

Sometimes upon encountering a captcha the obvious captchart gag comes immediately to mind, and won't leave one alone until one finds the right photos to 'shop.

Public domain sources: 1 2

Edward Barnett

In 1971, Purdue University undergraduate student Edward Barnett co-founded the Purdue University Black Society of Engineers to encourage his fellow black students to pursue engineering in a dedicated and supportive environment. The organization succeeded and grew, and continues its work today as the National Society of Black Engineers.

Acrylic on canvas, 5x7″.  From my September 2015 set Luminaries of the Hacker World.

My BFF Grey has a listing on the Internet Movie Database.

As you may know, if someone listed on IMDb wants to upload a photograph to their listing they need to buy a pro membership on the site.  While I couldn't do that for her, I did the next best thing: I redrew my Fairey-ish portrait of her in smileys, and posted it to her IMDb message board.

I can't help but think the potential of message board smileys as an artistic medium has barely been scratched.

I took some video of part of my rail commute and set it to the English-language cover of Yatta! I made recently; the result turned out surprisingly mellow.  More info and an MP3 download in the track's original post.

Captioned lyrics are included if you click through to YouTube.  Here's the direct YouTube link for embedophobes.

This goofy track has gotten a far kinder response here and elsewhere than I thought it would; thanks, Internet!  I shall have to do more musical things.