Scorpion Daze

So I have a pet scorpion at home and he doesn't do a whole lot. I think I feed him too much and he's just fat and hangs out in his coconut house all day and night. Anyways, I named him John Rambo when I got him after the all American war hero who saved us all. Some days when he does come out I imagine him reciting one liners from the various Rambo films.

That ghostly green color is the color he turns when I turn his blacklight on. I think the real Rambo might turn that color under a blacklight too if he weren't covered with mud, guts and blood.

Adventures In Traffic

So this is what happened to me on the 5 freeway the other day, and I think it's a good real life example of why you don't flirt with girls in World of Warcraft (of which I'm happily clean and sober from for 3 years now). I mean really, why would you put "ELFMAGE" on your license plate? I didn't see any swords, wizard materials, or armor in his backseat, but maybe he was a big LARPer and just doesn't carry that stuff with him normally. That or he's a big dungeons and dragons nerd. I don't know ... all I know is it was a disappointment on my morning drive.

Labor Day Pinup

A little pretty pinup art for the laboring masses on Labor Day. Go out into the world and eat bbq and potato salad as your summer drifts away into a drab Tuesday. Happy Labor Day!

Little Eiffel

If you've never read about Gustave Alexandre Eiffel, he was the guy who built the Eiffel Tower and tons of other steel structures, including the frame inside the Statue of Liberty. The guy came from humble roots and ended up being a master builder, never stopped learning, and in the later years of his life he became a scientist, studying aerodynamics.

One of the best Pixies songs is all about him ... "Oh Alexander, I see you beneath the archway of aerodynamics."

Rock Band H8R

So I really don't care for Rockband all that much. I sorta got off the Guitar Hero / Rockband train awhile back, and no I'm not a hater, but I just don't have room in my room for a drumset and 2 more guitars (that and my dumb guitar hero 2 flying v guitar broke), so I just don't usually play unless I'm at someone's place (1) and I've had a few drinks (2) and I'm looking forward to annoying someone (3).

Cue this last weekend in Colorado (1), where my friends and I drank vodka (2), and made a new band for Rockband 2. We tried to make our characters as obnoxious as possible and then go play online to try and get people to exit the game as soon as they saw how stupid we looked (3). Unfortunately since we had 3 players (guitar, drums, and a mic), everyone who joined was just happy to play with a full band, so our plan didn't work at all and instead we just had ridiculous characters, in the end making us look stupid in the real world. Social experiment #486 ... failed.

So here's my rendition of my sweet bass guitarist, "Chata". Yes he's wearing tube socks.

More Mt. Whitney

Here's a partially complete comp of a retro travel poster for that dumb Mount Whitney. I'm still trying to figure out why I made a travel poster for a place that I cursed and can't stand hiking. Maybe I illustrated it because I'm still confused why I hiked it in the first place, but there was no enlightenment coming to me so I stopped.

Well I'm not hiking it again, and I'm not going to finish this piece or draw anymore sketches of that crap on crap cracker of a mountain.

Cheveaux Noir Mlle.

Playing with more brushes and what better way to play with brushes than to make a little pinup girl.

I was looking at Marc Davis paintings the other day and I was amazed how great his girls looked and he rarely put much detail in the eyes, it was almost all eyelash and makeup.