Hey, more virtual press!
Maura Cluthe, aka Fragmented on Flickr, has a blog on which she occasionally posts collections of robots she finds and likes. Some of mine were lucky enough to make it onto her site today.
Maura makes some coolio robots herself in her coolio studio in Kansas City. Check out her work here and here. Thanks Maura!
If you've explored my site at any length, you might have stumbled across my audio page, labeled "noise" on the menu up there. This is my little hobby area where I play out my secret life as a dj and electronic musician. I have a small room in my house with a red desk on which lives a pile of devices for making sounds. These include a turntable, a synthesizer, a MIDI keyboard, an old Casio thing, a touch-controller, and wads of cables.
Recently, I registered a domain name for the sole purpose of making an internet home for the things I make in this room. My plan is to move the noises away from MrBiggs dot com, and onto this new domain, which is DanceRobotDance dot com.
My friend Marc, who I know from back in the wild and wooly comics days, is also an electronic music guy. He's had a wbsite for as long as I can remember called Disquiet dot com on which he writes about music, and which is one of the few sites to which I have subscribed via RSS. I've discovered a lot of terrific music via Marc's site, and even when I don't love what he's got up there, I like reading what he has to say about it. When I got a few tunes up on Dance Robot Dance the other day, I sent him the link.
Today, Marc made Dance Robot Dance and my use of the web site Soundcloud.com for hosting my sound files the subject of a Disquiet post. Check it out.
I "appeared" a couple of places this last few days and I have some pictures to prove it. First, on Friday, I spent the day at Gladwyne Elementary near Philadelphia. I want to thank everyone there for such a great time and reception. Barbara Gross is an amazing librarian and had all the kids so ready to go. I'd been snowed out twice before finally making it there on Friday, so thanks for the patience as well. The photo is me with the Shredder Snowman.
On Sunday I was part of the children's book fair at the Main Line Art Center in Haverford, PA. It was packed and I got to meet a lot of great people. I gave a little presentation about my work and signed a lot of books. Thanks to the MLCA for putting it on, and to Children's Book World in Haverford for selling books. And thanks Sacha for taking the two pics.
Here are all six race cars. These will be for sale at the Main Line Art Center's children's book fair this Sunday, Feb 8. I'll be there with several other authors and illustrators. At 1:30 I'll be giving a 15-minute presentation talking about my illustrations and inspiration. Hope you can make it.
Whatever of these race cars that doesn't sell there will be going on my Etsy page on Monday. I plan to do a lot more of these, as well as some monsters, robots, aliens, trucks, etc.
I have a set on Flickr that shows these cars in the works.
I've completed the six collage race cars I've been working on for the last couple of weeks. These are all for The Main Line Art Center's Children's Book Fair this Sunday, February 8. I'll post a picture of all six in the next day or two, or you can see them all here.
These are collage/paintings, made with magazines, the yellow pages, various papers, and acrylic paint on 10 x 10 inch plywood. They'll be for sale at the show, but I've yet to settle on a price.
I've written this before, but I haven't enjoyed making stuff this much in a long time. I hope to make more of these, and I hope to find ways of incorporating this technique in my books and illustrations.
