light, sound, water, hands. everything is blanket? no–everything is waves.
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we sat and chatted at Helios. waves were mentioned. you laughed.
candy rain
i'm trying to complete all the drawings begun and thought of in greenville. i don't want the greenville ideas to travel with me. i need to purge.
between the bars
home from busch gardens. the griffon is amazingly fun in the front row. the coaster has a 205ft vertical drop, 90 degrees straight down. they stop the coaster right over the lip of the edge so that the front row is facing straight down and just stuck there, legs dangling in the wind. then they release and you are floating in between your harness and chair until you hit the loop. from there on its crazy fun on one of the smoothest coasters i've ever ridden.
also apollo's chariot was awesome.
how can catbeard escape this acid trap? lucky for him, the whole nine lives deal.
also apollo's chariot was awesome.
how can catbeard escape this acid trap? lucky for him, the whole nine lives deal.
if you knew what i knew
i'm thinking that when wburkert.com/test goes live it will be under a new url. wburkert works and all, but the trouble with burkert is that no one knows the arrangement of the letters when it is spelled correctly. sure, i could be helping educate them about the name...but i could also not. have some idears, will think about them.
here be dead ideas; this was a t-shirt for a life insurance company. it is dead because we are no longer using the circular logo this idea was based on. if the print was thin enough, i would probably like this t.
here be dead ideas; this was a t-shirt for a life insurance company. it is dead because we are no longer using the circular logo this idea was based on. if the print was thin enough, i would probably like this t.
A Love Letter
My laptop lives a strange life. This evening I hooked it up in my kitchen so that I could surf and gather notes and things while I watched a pot of water. Maybe it was just the power in the other room, but it is actually staying powered this time. Altho, for whatever reason, it won't charge past 87% of its battery. That's OK.
I was cleaning out my bookmarks and RSS feeds that had died or were no longer of interest and I came across one called DVR DV5. I wasn't sure what it was, and so I clicked it. Turns out, that's my TiVo on my network. So I downloaded the Mac TiVo Desktop app and found that I could stream my iTunes library to my television. That is really really awesome to me, as my computer doesn't seem happy when iTunes and Photoshop are running together. And I really have to hear sounds while I work or else it goes slower.
So, I love TiVo. I loved it when it just taped shows. Then I loved it more when it let me download select music videos and reoccurring Adult Swim shorts (Professor Bros, mainly). Now I love it again for letting me listen to my dust-covered iTunes on my TV. If this laptop could accept and read CD/DVDs than I would be in a higher state of bliss – but this older music will do just fine.
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Been pretty slack on doing work lately. It is a problem I am trying to fix right this moment. I need to get that website up like crazy.
Back to drawing and listening to the Goatrider's Horde on my TV. Yay.
I was cleaning out my bookmarks and RSS feeds that had died or were no longer of interest and I came across one called DVR DV5. I wasn't sure what it was, and so I clicked it. Turns out, that's my TiVo on my network. So I downloaded the Mac TiVo Desktop app and found that I could stream my iTunes library to my television. That is really really awesome to me, as my computer doesn't seem happy when iTunes and Photoshop are running together. And I really have to hear sounds while I work or else it goes slower.
So, I love TiVo. I loved it when it just taped shows. Then I loved it more when it let me download select music videos and reoccurring Adult Swim shorts (Professor Bros, mainly). Now I love it again for letting me listen to my dust-covered iTunes on my TV. If this laptop could accept and read CD/DVDs than I would be in a higher state of bliss – but this older music will do just fine.
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Been pretty slack on doing work lately. It is a problem I am trying to fix right this moment. I need to get that website up like crazy.
Back to drawing and listening to the Goatrider's Horde on my TV. Yay.
slowly, but its happening
random scans and also some things from today.
we got these promo postcards in the mail for a photographer. i doodled all over the Moby one in the same way I would a People magazine. This is a worm fighting a blob guy.
Was looking at a site online today where a guy writes a 101 word short story each day. They were recently collected in a book, and this was the supposed definition of the title of the book/site. all of these things, it turns out, are links to specific stories, but the word choices and ideas and visuals were too much to not screencapture.
really really rough comp for the next in the 40 series. I'm thinking about buying a screen or two while I am still here in NC and screenprinting some stuff. I would want to print + overprint this. But if that never happens, than it will be digital for sure. The peeking fella is from the first (comic strip) piece in the series, of which there will be another. book ends of graphic narrative.
moleskin scan. still thinking about redesigned Invisibles covers. For what reason? None, but I like to imagine and what not. Also some studies of Elliott Smith. Been wanting to re-do this haggered Elliott piece I did in college for like, ever. Saw a really good book of photos of him (hard to find pics of him, I've found..) while in DC. So I bought it off Amazon because I hate full price. Been drawing a little from it. Not going so well so far, as you can see.
Some more Elliott. Also: Tonight, the Gnome and this bearded cat I randomly drew on our whiteboard here at work and have been drawing quite a bit since. I call him Cat Beard, but he is going to have to get a better name than that. At first he was just a head, but when I hit the sketchbook he gained scale mail armor and a cat of nine tails/sword/shield. I like fantasy because I have glasses. Also, Elliott with a city head. I dunno. I think thats from the Hellboy 2 trailer or something.
This is an older Elliott from a rolling stone magazine. I dunno if I threw it out or not. Crap, I hope not. Anyways, this is from like the 2nd page of this sketchbook. So it's probably from the middle of last year. Also with Elliott are a mountain range and a hyperbolic shape. Back then I was really obsessed with doing a pop-up book of these mountain range drawings, and I still think it would be cool. I also liked hyperbolic shapes but its really hard to get reference for things that are impossible to see in three dimensions. Plus a line from a Joanna Newsom song, "These lives do never end" which played over the ipod while drawing this and I thought it fit with Elliott and these mountains of ghosted memories/dashed dreams.
we got these promo postcards in the mail for a photographer. i doodled all over the Moby one in the same way I would a People magazine. This is a worm fighting a blob guy.
Was looking at a site online today where a guy writes a 101 word short story each day. They were recently collected in a book, and this was the supposed definition of the title of the book/site. all of these things, it turns out, are links to specific stories, but the word choices and ideas and visuals were too much to not screencapture.
really really rough comp for the next in the 40 series. I'm thinking about buying a screen or two while I am still here in NC and screenprinting some stuff. I would want to print + overprint this. But if that never happens, than it will be digital for sure. The peeking fella is from the first (comic strip) piece in the series, of which there will be another. book ends of graphic narrative.
moleskin scan. still thinking about redesigned Invisibles covers. For what reason? None, but I like to imagine and what not. Also some studies of Elliott Smith. Been wanting to re-do this haggered Elliott piece I did in college for like, ever. Saw a really good book of photos of him (hard to find pics of him, I've found..) while in DC. So I bought it off Amazon because I hate full price. Been drawing a little from it. Not going so well so far, as you can see.
Some more Elliott. Also: Tonight, the Gnome and this bearded cat I randomly drew on our whiteboard here at work and have been drawing quite a bit since. I call him Cat Beard, but he is going to have to get a better name than that. At first he was just a head, but when I hit the sketchbook he gained scale mail armor and a cat of nine tails/sword/shield. I like fantasy because I have glasses. Also, Elliott with a city head. I dunno. I think thats from the Hellboy 2 trailer or something.
This is an older Elliott from a rolling stone magazine. I dunno if I threw it out or not. Crap, I hope not. Anyways, this is from like the 2nd page of this sketchbook. So it's probably from the middle of last year. Also with Elliott are a mountain range and a hyperbolic shape. Back then I was really obsessed with doing a pop-up book of these mountain range drawings, and I still think it would be cool. I also liked hyperbolic shapes but its really hard to get reference for things that are impossible to see in three dimensions. Plus a line from a Joanna Newsom song, "These lives do never end" which played over the ipod while drawing this and I thought it fit with Elliott and these mountains of ghosted memories/dashed dreams.
less defined
I just ate a cupcake and it was a totally sugar filled bad idea. Something about sugar really doesn't sit well with my stomach.
Drawing dolphins and lightbulbs for two separate projects which I hope come to fruition. They could both be cool things to show in NYC.
Anyways, while sitting here, I thought I'd like to listen to the newest Official Lost Podcast if it was online. Hoped on iTunes and found a much better surprise.
remix.nin.com is a cool site, but what if you forget to check it on the regular? Well..
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=280145429
the remix.nin.com best of the day podcast. This is one of the greatest things I've come upon in recent memory. Remixes of old favorites fit better into my heart than newer songs that I don't know just yet. Besides, I'm home on my PC and don't have the newer albums downloaded here.
turns out I heard from a source that I should no longer trust -- The Fall isn't actually playing in Greenville this weekend. Next weekend, maybe.
Happy Mother's day, all you mommas out there.
Drawing dolphins and lightbulbs for two separate projects which I hope come to fruition. They could both be cool things to show in NYC.
Anyways, while sitting here, I thought I'd like to listen to the newest Official Lost Podcast if it was online. Hoped on iTunes and found a much better surprise.
remix.nin.com is a cool site, but what if you forget to check it on the regular? Well..
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=280145429
the remix.nin.com best of the day podcast. This is one of the greatest things I've come upon in recent memory. Remixes of old favorites fit better into my heart than newer songs that I don't know just yet. Besides, I'm home on my PC and don't have the newer albums downloaded here.
turns out I heard from a source that I should no longer trust -- The Fall isn't actually playing in Greenville this weekend. Next weekend, maybe.
Happy Mother's day, all you mommas out there.
Surfwise
The current HD movement in both TV and Movies is something I care nothing about. It doesn't bother me to see Ben Linus slightly pixelated or not crisp or anything like this. But tonight, an HD only channel finally made an appealing claim. The channel was HD Movies, which I don't have as I don't have cable or an HD TV -- but Hani does. Tonight they were doing a "Sneak Peek" of the documentary "Surfwise" which I have been very interested in seeing. As far as I know it hasn't even come out in theaters, let alone DVD or premium cable channels. So, this was a plus.
I should just look it up real fast on Amazon or something to see when it drops, but my kettle is whistling. Anyways, however you can see this movie, you really should. The idea and premise are both very interesting and I think that Doc Paskowitz has the perfect mindset on his life. Maybe not so much on his children in the current world, but still.
Anyways.
I should just look it up real fast on Amazon or something to see when it drops, but my kettle is whistling. Anyways, however you can see this movie, you really should. The idea and premise are both very interesting and I think that Doc Paskowitz has the perfect mindset on his life. Maybe not so much on his children in the current world, but still.
Anyways.
Barton
I've been on something of a movie kick lately. For a person that enjoys movies and likes the idea of a movie, I really find it hard to sit through a movie. In the past couple of weeks I have watched a couple. I watched Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. It was alright. I'll never watch it again, but alright. Then I watched The Savages. Not bad. Kind of slow. Won't ever watch again. Watched Fur, the Imaginary Bio of Diane Arbus. I enjoyed that. Strange and seemingly taking place in a day dream. Then, Iron Man. This was fun. I didn't stay til' the bonus scene after the credits, but I caught it online. Interesting to see where that goes. Theres a trend here I just noticed. The first two movies star Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and the later two star Robert Downey Jr. Those two guys need shorter names. Phil Hoffman and Robbie Jr. Today I finished up Barton Fink, and early Coen Bros movie. It was enjoyable, as their pictures normally are.
Theres a scene in Barton Fink where John Goodman's character feels saddened by the fact that (paraphrased) a man can work his whole life and fit all the things he owns and cares about in one small box. While un-pack-ratting my house, I feel a similar way. Except, I'm fairly excited to live out of a small box. I have three piles growing: Things I want to take with me, Things I want to have once my life settles down there and Things I don't really care if I ever see again. The things in the third pile will either end up in the dump or on a yard sale blanket/ebay auction block. Lots of just...accumulated stuff. Also some comic books that I've read and either don't care about or would rather have in a collected format. Theres really no need for almost every issue of Fables or 100 bullets or Preacher or anything. The collections are easier to store, read, handle, etc. If only they would collect Flex Mentallo I would be able to start to trim down the Grant Morrison stuff.
Threadless finally accepted/put up my 1st Submission today. You can see it by following the link below. If you aren't a member and want to vote on it, you'll have to sign up. But I plan on having a few more up there soon, so go ahead and join. Quite a few people have already voted, and I hope they are all positive. Can't find out for a week.
Tomorrow I pick up a new book from the post office that I hopefully will gush about tomorrow or the next. Good bye.
Theres a scene in Barton Fink where John Goodman's character feels saddened by the fact that (paraphrased) a man can work his whole life and fit all the things he owns and cares about in one small box. While un-pack-ratting my house, I feel a similar way. Except, I'm fairly excited to live out of a small box. I have three piles growing: Things I want to take with me, Things I want to have once my life settles down there and Things I don't really care if I ever see again. The things in the third pile will either end up in the dump or on a yard sale blanket/ebay auction block. Lots of just...accumulated stuff. Also some comic books that I've read and either don't care about or would rather have in a collected format. Theres really no need for almost every issue of Fables or 100 bullets or Preacher or anything. The collections are easier to store, read, handle, etc. If only they would collect Flex Mentallo I would be able to start to trim down the Grant Morrison stuff.
Threadless finally accepted/put up my 1st Submission today. You can see it by following the link below. If you aren't a member and want to vote on it, you'll have to sign up. But I plan on having a few more up there soon, so go ahead and join. Quite a few people have already voted, and I hope they are all positive. Can't find out for a week.
Tomorrow I pick up a new book from the post office that I hopefully will gush about tomorrow or the next. Good bye.