The MONSTER COLORING BOOK is only the raddest, baddest, coolest coloring book ever! It’s 32 pages of creatures, haunts and spooks for you to color and enjoy. Only $8 on Kickstarter until December 3—just in time for Christmas! Here is a really crummy video of me drawing my newest monster:
This is easily one of the most amazing videos I have ever seen. I can’t help but think of the passage from Jonathan Safran-Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,ย where Mr. Black tells Oskar what happened when Stalin invaded an artist community: “Stalin found out about the community and sent his thugs in, just a few…
About two months ago I formed the mobile game companyย Toyceratopsย with programmerย Paul Hummer. We just released our first game,ย Skeleton Jump, where the player helps a friendly skeleton leap over pumpkins and dodge swooping bats, and it’s been getting some good attention. While we’re still a couple of weeks away from releasing our first update (with music…
[youtube=http://youtu.be/B4cC3Q4dhNM] The trailer forย ParaNormanย is out and it looksย good. “Made in Oregon, frame by frame” byย Laika, the animation company who made the acclaimedย Coralineย in 2009,ParaNormanย is about “A misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead takes on ghosts, zombies and, worst of all, grown-ups, in order to save his town from a centuries-old curse.” (Coming August 2012)…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3LOKfQ3y2Q] This is a man from the future. I imagine his insides are made of glitter. (My favorite move is atย 1:15.)
If this Masterpiece Pattern Sheet from Mo Man Tai doesn’t excite you in some way, I don’t know what I can share with you any more. It’s a dot-to-dot that you complete on your wall, with nails/pins and string. Amazing! I’m seriously thinking about what I can do in my rental condo. Hmm… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=osjcm1cuxkg]
Which quadrant are you in? Sharon Ann Lee delivered an incredibly informative and motivational presentation as part of the September 2011 Los Angeles Creative Mornings, and I’m left to ponder even more about my place in the world. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/30717796]
Creativity is something I think about a lot. I used to despise the word and avoided using it altogether because it seemed so pretentious. Mothers and friends hide their scrapbooks and journals using the word against themselves—“It’s not that good. I’m not creative like you.” People seem more willing to accept mistakes in life from…