🌈the more you knoooooww✨ Let’s say a wild predator is devastating an environment. We might attempt to tame or control this oppressive, destructive beast. Or we might try to live in harmony, adapt to their oppression, learn and play by their rules, respect their space, maybe even imitate their behaviours, but it might be futile. Some beasts are hyper-consuming, unsharing, destructive aberrations that shouldn’t or can’t be tamed. This savage predator may threaten your survival, so the only rational action is to apply the knowledge you’ve gained from the creature to destroy the creature itself, for its own good, and for the good of everyone else.
In conclusion, it is my expert opinion that the hidden message of NOPE is: G.R.O.W. = Get Rid of Whitey
“They chose you” 🎨This little video might only make sense if you’ve seen NOPE. In any case I finally got a chance to play with Adobe Character Animator using a puppet from *Okay Samurai*
Years ago, my cousin and I were working on something serious (I think), and I wandered in my doodles, as per yoozh. A totally random phrase, “pygmies on pandas”, popped into my brains and I started doodling it on a post-it note pad. The original sketch was absurd and crude, had potentially offensive leanings, and made us laugh at the time, but nothing came of it.
Recently my cousin asked if I could come up with a new version of the silly doodle, but changing it to the less offensive “pixies on pandas“. Side note: I learned that pixies are not the same as fairies, and that Tinkerbell from Peter Pan was technically a fairy even though they’re all about snorting the pixie dust or whatever. Anyway, this panda-riding pixie was to be a kind of warrior. That’s where the doodle was supposed to stay.
I forgot to tell him that as I was updating it, I veered off track and word-associated my way into the phrase “pixie cholas eating Panda Express.” Thusly, you can see the end result of creative exploration and the evolution of a post-it note meandering 😂
I drew Maggie and Gabe, characters from the Angelus Temple’s “Christmas Dreamland” musical production, in poses reminiscent of Bill Watterson’s dancing Calvin & Hobbes.
Maggie & GabeMaggie & Gabe – Before I saw their full costumes
this dumb seagull paletero was supposed to be a fun quick drawing of a pigeon and ended up taking me a million years. added some fun hype stickers from “Fairfax” on Prime.
The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash I love how Johnny Cash could make even a haunting apocalyptic song sound cool 😎 I was playing around waiting for a video to render, then convinced the Wifey to procrastinate and add some accoutrements to this video😁 By the way, she’s not familiar with Johnny Cash and she’d never heard this song before. For a split second, I considered divorce.
messing with an old drawing idea. thoughts: burning bush / consuming fire / olive tree / tree of Life / wheat / chaff / noah’s dove / holy spirit / holy rest / shabbat shalom / peace
This digital painting timelapse of Anthony Ramos (In the Heights, Monsters in Men, She’s Gotta Have It, A Star is Born) was made in Procreate app on an iPad with an Apple Pencil.
