Archive for February 2010

Brain One

BBC 4 Brian Eno documentary

“Instead of shooting arrows at someone else’s target, which I’ve never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed.” Brian Eno

EDIT: Looks like online vids have been taken down. Still highly encouraged viewing if you can get it. For now, the program archive page.

The Wonderful World of Ditches

The Wonderful World of Ditches

Editorial illustration for an article by Chet Raymo.
Muddy childhood discovery. The intimate prickly stick of insect feet.

Everything is now covered in a fine black dust. Clayboard lung.

Flying or falling

Composition and color test for two companion pieces.

Bird on Adriatic Cliff

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Noted: the third saturday in March.

Travel to wonderous and curious places on Obscura Day 2010

The Trouble With School Uniforms

The Trouble With School Uniforms

Editorial illustration for an article by Alfie Kohn.

The Three Worlds of Michelangelo

Michelangelo Palmistry

“Diabolical illusion or divine prediction…”
Michelangelo Buonarroti as quoted by James H. Beck in The Three Worlds of Michelangelo

Videodrome Discothèque meets flexible nib pen

Can you feel it?

The Condor’s Shadow

the condor's shadow

“‘I am told that about three miles from us a man may stand on a little hilly place and see diverse thousands of acres of ground as good as need to be, and not a Tree on the same.’” The Condor’s Shadow, David S. Wilcove, Edward O. Wilson

1907 Postcard Script

1907 postcard script

Found in the collection. Liking the casual stride and filled-in caps.

Tentacles vs. Blanket

Tentacles vs blanket