Allen Toussaint at Joe’s Pub on Flickr.
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This is what The End looks like…
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Rehearsal Drawings from Bill Condon’s revival of Sideshow at La Jolla Playhouse last year. I’m currently in a taxi, winding my way through traffic en route to The Kennedy Center for opening night of the DC production….I couldn’t be more excited to revisit this talented company and see this production again—for the first time….Showbiz!
In other news, I may be under-dressed for an opening night…
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Old Cartoons….
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The Reasonable Hulk.
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Simple animation drawings—pre-color— for Margo, the video I made for Jon Lindsay.
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The difference between musicians and theater people. I was told in the call-email that this concert rehearsal begins “promptly” at 11:00. Heh. It’s 11:05.
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Tokyo Sketchbook (from a few years ago) …
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Happy Father’s Day.
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180 small drawings.
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The Super Idea on Flickr.
Saturday Morning Cartoon
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Well, I reckon this won’t mean anything to practically anyone, but i found this while going through some files on my computer today. I had completely forgotten about it. it was filmed during my buddy Pascal’s set at the Fall Cafe in its final hours. I met most of my best friends at The Fall Cafe, so I’m sharing this here …
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Sketchbook Page on Flickr.
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Ben Watt (Everything But The Girl) made his solo debut last night at Joe’s Pub, but he brought along a guitar legend for the assist. Bernard Butler accompanied Watt throughout the night and it was one of those breathtaking Joe’s Pub shows where you know you’re seeing something special …
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A Short Film In Which An Abstract Dog Licks An Abstract Face.
(Music: Apple Tart Cake by The Alexander All Stars)
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Behind the Scenes: My Stop Motion Breakdown.
These are a bunch of pictures I took while making the stop motion video for Ed Romanoff’s song I Must Have Done Something Right. You can see it here. The song is about a wedding toast made by a lifelong friend who is less than savory. When Ed asked me to make a video I listened to the song and thought it would be fun to make it about a guy and his dog—Ed had just adopted a sweet puppy around the time—but put a twist on it in that the dog was kind of a dawg.
Anyways, I spent a few weeks drawing while listening to the song with this idea in mind and then I sort of free form improvised during the shooting process. It would be nice to say that I had a plan, but the truth is, I just started playing with the drawings—turning them in to set pieces and puppets—and experimented with the camera angles and I let the ideas take me where they would. The video is sort of a performance in a way—I shot the scenes in order and went with it …
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Britt Daniel of Spoon at Le Poisson Rouge on Flickr.
Drawn yesterday lprnyc at a show presented by the fine folks at nprmusic.
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Here’s to your best friend, whether he deserves it or not.
I made this stop motion video a while back, but it only just got released yesterday, in honor of National Best Friends Day. It’s a story of a young man and his dawg. Sort of.
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Original Peanuts Sunday strip by Charles Schulz, originally published by United Features Syndicate, July 26, 1959.