susan bradley on thunderchunky

my good buddy susan bradley and her title and graphic design work on the film ratatouille is featured on thunderchunky, as well as drawn! the thunderchunky interview features a photograph i took of susan in my studio with her sweet dog emily.

xm

Chinese New Year Dragon Puppet

Here’s a Do-it-Yourself Dragon Puppet based on the model on this page. This was done for Matt Petty at the SF Chronicle and will appear in Thursday’s 96 Hours section. Download and print the large version of this guy, mount the head and tail on cardboard, accordion-fold the midsection, attach the midsection to the head and tail, then attach a chopstick to the head and a chopstick to the tail, and march down your street! GUNG HAY FAT CHOY!

xm

the (self) portrait party!

head on over to rama’s portrait party – there’s a certain someone you know featured there, and rama was even kind enough to indulge your host’s somewhat finicky eye by kindly re-posting an image. rama is a mensch.

xm

dog diplomacy

hi everyone – i just finished this, but but i’ve got time to tweak it if you guys have any good suggestions…. anyone? bueller?

what do you think? it’s a monoprint on paper.

oh, the story is about dogs who act as diplomats for their humans at the dog park.

xm

today is miss olive’s 7th birthday

so i took her for a little adventure in the trees. she found a little jack russell mix boy dog to play with. they scampered. cuteness.

happy vd, everyone!

xm

art into dust

good morning ladies,

i got a nice mention over at the art into dust blog – a kind fellow named jay strange from london uk has a blog dedicated to all sorts of great musicians and artists including:

brad mossman
camper
me (heh)

thanks jay!

~m

persepolis

Dear Ladies,

We went to go see ‘Persepolis‘ last night and it was just stunning. I had read the first part of the graphic novel and was blown away by it, but they’ve done a bang-up job of animating and bringing to life this rich and amazing life’s journey of the the author, Marjane Satrapi. They managed to make an animated film that is visually arresting – all the while keeping true to Ms. Satrapi’s simple comic line and language. Here’s a cool look at the artwork of the movie featuring the voices of the creators. The movie is entrancing. Go see it if you get the chance.

xm

the return of the argyll adventure tree!

andy and i just did our first radio show in a long time, and it was so, so fun. you can listen by going here and downloading the mp3. we used to do the show (with holly) on kzsc, and now we’re doing the show on 9th floor radio at lovely laney college in oakland.

the next show is february 29, from 7-9 pm. give us a listen by going to ninth floor radio and clicking on “listen with iTunes” in the left-hand side nav bar.

whee!

here’s what we played on our first show:

peace war – spot 1019
the punch line – minutemen
war – edwin star
eve of destruction – the dickies
might makes right – camper van beethoven
the cannon song – stan ridgeway
generals & majors – xtc
war hero – antibalas
(we don’t need this) fascist groove thing – heaven 17
tank – stranglers
time zones – negativland
wartime – lynda barry
forecast fascist future – of montreal
boredoms – track two (from seadrum/house of sun)
how many miles – ben harper
harvey fierstein – take the flag back
will jesus wash the bloodstains from your hands – exene
peace in the valley – wink martindale
we’re glad it’s all over – capt’n sensible
a beautiful war – robert wyatt
what’s so funny (about peace love and understanding) – elvis costello
peace bone – animal collective
i’m sorry – inflatable boy clams
positive vibrations – soft boys
impeach my bush – peaches
calling occupants of interplanetary craft – the langley school project
i love you – jonathan segel
party up – prince

HEY! Marcos just sent me a bunch of screen grabs from the show…

xm