Tokyo City, USA

on an index card

societies mashup cultures crashup

a billion million ways things could be

nothing’s ever what it seems

no time to wonder

take a ride under

come on up title sequence – rough cut

This is a rough cut of the title sequence for a live music web show to air this june.

I am just getting a sense of sound and timing on this cut. The animation still needs a few passes for smoothing out.  There is some full color animation completed and the beginning for palette experimentation.  The tentative track being used in the score: “Sparrow” by San Francisco locals, Social Studies.

(Checkout / purchase “Sparrow” from another source of SF Indie Music purveyors, The Bay Bridged)

Stay tuned!

making of the brat-saus-ner

The best way I believe this thing was described  is that you would gladly live 5 minutes less to eat it now.

It is the turducken-inspired Brat-Saus-Ner. It’s concern is with getting a weiner inside a bratwurst inside a sausage.

One fact that most people don’t know about the Brat-Saus-Ner is that although there are only 3 meats on the bill, there is actually a fourth meat. That is bacon, for structural integrity. There is also, in this second version of the brat-saus-ner, cream cheese used as a caulking agent, or mortar.

Here are the ingredients laid out for commencement of construction:

You can see here that we weren’t actually able to make a russian nesting doll style setup of meats, and had to use more of a meat-canoe method. Just for the record,  I believe Meat-Canoe is a terrible band name or porn star name. So we lost design points for that, and proceeded by changing the goal to be getting a bite of each meat per chomp without resorting to grinding all the meats into an entirely new sausage.

Here they are hogtied.  … pun intended i suppose. Ready for the fryer.

Here’s me, presenting to the operating room audience. Voila!

Into the deep-fryer and presto-change-o!

Congratulations, you’ve just given birth to a food-baby.

Chop it up, yo!

Here is an example of the prime cut of the brat-saus-ner. Every meat. It’s the level of meat construction that makes people shank each other, you know, like some dispute over prison currency.

Yum.

This post wouldn’t be complete with some proof of enjoyment. Just tell me Jeremy’s is not the face of ecstasy.

cream cheese shrapnel on muh face, nom nom nom

Well, I hope that that was educational, I’m going to go puke.

If you want to see more engineering photos you can head over to flickr >>

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2440/3562712315_5b044d897b.jpg?v=0

dethbird and katbot

Dethbird and Katbot are like a twist on the Sylvester/Tweety dynamic. Dethbird is a little bit in charge, and officially is an angel of death. He pretty much has Katbot under his immediate command to wreak the chaotic havoc that needs to be raised. … professionally. I hope to make a series about them.

The dark dove kontrols the kat.

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this was fun to make!

chocolate goddess

This was inspired by a “chocolate ceremony” that I attended in truth or consequences, nm, usa. It was led by a guy that was versed in the history that south america has with chocolate. Some people it didn’t do anything for. Personally, I went into a psychedelic chocolate universe. Granted, I had just eaten some peyote.

glitchwerks.com/art.php?art_id=60

quit clownin around

 

quit clownin around

This was a 20 min pose from my clothed figure drawing class, & luckily my friend Rachel had a red colored pencil that day

http://www.flickr.com/photos/teafordinner/3097320090/

half asleep with the soundz of the TV

So like, I’m not trying to toot my own horn, but this drawing was done in a bit of a stupor at 3 in the morning. I think the only way it worked is because of the way of drawing I learned in clothed figure drawing class. It’s about the overhanded method of holding your drawing tool, which in this case was woodless pencil sharpened like charcoal and conte. It allows you to apply soft lines and broad areas of value and then hold it in the classic “writing” style for details like the eyes and the hand and subtleties of the mouth. 

This is all learned from one of my favorite instructors at the Academy of Art and a total master of illustration, Thomas Gronbukt.

Please leave any comments on the flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/teafordinner/3123721014/

if i land i’ll never leave

This thing was really fun to make. Everyone should open up photoshop and do image mashups. It’s a good excersize in composition plus it’s hilarious what comes out sometimes. This was a collab with me and metagasm

I seriously need help naming this planet. If you have a good one, please comment on the flickr page so the list stays in one place: http://www.flickr.com/photos/teafordinner/3120321789/

brain slither

This stop-motion thing was made by curlz

It hurt to make

Especially the stairs

But look how awesome it came out!

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You’re lucky I like you, curlz!