Category Archives: art

An Interview with John Lennon by a 14 Year-Old Kid

This is really charming, in part because of the fanboyish naïveté of the interviewer, and in part because it still applies so well. I’d be proud to have that kid around. It would be nice to still have John around, too, I think.

Lovely Woman Has An Awesome Time While Snowed In To Pittsburgh

There’s always time for art. Especially when you’re stuck somewhere.

New Island — A Tropical Paradise That Doesn’t Exist

Lee “Rusty” Mothes has been working on depicting New Island, a tiny fictional place in the Indian Ocean, for many years now. What he makes is quite lovely.

Am I Going To Have To Shiv A Bitch?

It looks like I’m not the only one vying for Neill Blomkamp’s attention. This is a blog filled with adoration of all the right stuff, by a artist who makes nice things. I’m gonna have to step up my game.

Old Sketch

I just found this while looking through old illustrations for materials for Human Contact. It’s not related, but I remember being really proud of this drawing. The original’s about 4″ tall.
If I recall, the deal is that these guys are herd animals, but their herds stretch really far apart. They stay in communication with natural [...]

Sculpture of a Humanoid

I’ve been back down in the basement, working with the Sculpey. It’s more fun than is really reasonable.
I decided to try something with anatomy that could be rationally interrogated this time. So I’m doing a dude. I don’t know what his story is yet. Sooner or later, he’s going to have clothes, jewelry, and that [...]

Ashlesan Warrior of the Southern Heart, complete

The little guy’s complete!

Ashlesan Warrior Sculpture, Painted

Painting is nearly done! You can see a spot I missed completely on the right knee, and there are a couple of spots that still need work, but the body’s just about done. Next come the banners, which will brighten the monochrome substantially. More pics under the cut!

Ashlesan Warrior sculpture

I’ve been working on this guy quite a bit. Materials have been about $25. No special tools, but I made some sculpting tools out of music wire and dowels. More pics below the cut!

Biosphere2 in the 21st century

In 1992, you may recall the bold experiment of Biosphere2 — to make an enclosed ecosystem like that we would require on interplanetary trips — that failed almost instantly among normal, predictable (but ignored) human sexual politics and demagoguery. There were engineering problems (who knew concrete absorbed the CO2 that the plants needed to breathe [...]