ok duders - I am doing my best here, but I am not knowledgable about filmstocks and filmstuffs

My boy is big into film. He would probably know the answers to my questions but this is for him for christmas so... i kinna ask him.

See he has been wanting to get into 16mm and I scored a Bolex Rex setup from an old alaskan film maker - AWESOME right
its got all the old faders and motors and lenses and stop motion controls - i totally scored.

well - I have everything except film for him - I don't have the first clue except i know I need single perf 16mm on 100'

He does stop motion (on 8mm and digital and old cassette recording) so Is there a special film for that? I just don't get the specs - i am out of my element here

so - I figured the applications:
- medium light color full motion
- medium light, full motion black and white
- controlled light stop motion full color
- controlled light stop motion black and white

Also I want to make sure and get film with processing included so probably direct from kodak or fuji

i have been enjoying this great blog with even greater images from old photos and pulp mags - link text

I am gonna post my favorites for you all to ignore and make fun of

sounds like a plan!



i think this might be my favorite photo ever

I got a sub up



it is about beambots

I figure chances are that folks don't know too much about them so I would make this blog

see it is creative analog circuitry. like hacking the thermodynamic properties of components meant for something entirely different. The whole thing is inspired by real life simple organisms and shuns the modern digital age.

Sure digital is neat and stuff, but also obvious.

wiki article

WOW - that was what I thought when I got the print email. I know it seems really cliche' but this illustration was one of those drawings that I did exclusively for the good times of drawing it. And then to get a congratulatory email from Mimi was insane. I really can't say how awesome it is to get another print I think i will write a quick haiku

getting a print
It's really really awesome
awesome

sure, I am the kinda guy who does not even know if that is a haiku - but you get the spirit of it right?

I think I will wrap up this "about this design" blog with a little story about the title. See I did not know what to name this guy. Then I thought, hell i bet that beard has a cool name. SO I did some serious research (google) and found out there was this guy named Franz Joseph - he was some kind of emperor of austria or something. killer beard, and all beards like his since were named the franz joseph.


that guy

But it was not EXACTLY like the beard in my drawing so I did some more intense research (google) and found the Hulihee.


this is a phoutouhause interpretation of Abraham Lincoln with a hulihee... close

Which was not exact but almost, kinda like the franz joseph - so I gave up and mashed the two together and named him Franz Joseph Hulihee - I pretend he is an austrian emperor with deep southern US practicalities


Thanks again everybody - voters - staff - muh family - you all rock.

subbed




i am working on an innovation loves sub - yay for procrastination

i am going with a BEAM bot theme,

I love the current innovations in using old analog components and freeform circuitry like solar engines and such. Really brilliant intriguing stuff, the kinda stuff that is unpredictable and fun, the kinda project that could inspire a kid to a life of engineering and making.

SO i drew up a tabletop scene of a beambot getting made, when it first lights up and works, and all the pieces and parts and tools used to make one.

pencils



starting in on the inks



more inks



almost done



scanned!


(click for ZOOM)

on the shirt!

for y'all my threadless pals

well kinda,

i threw a bunch of my current favorite drawing albums into a playlist. and then i plucked some tracks from it for this mix. a bit random sure.

it is like a sampler of what i am drawing too. I always was bad about doing mix tapes cause i could have like only 2 albums mixed so really it was not a true "mix" you can see that with the thick vein of leon redbone shining in the middle of this sucker like GOLD.

DISCLAIMER - I am completely unapologetic about the tunes i listen too - maybe you just turn it on and get a nice big blank sheet of paper and a sharp #2

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1 - mornin lovin - g love
2 - sweet sunny south - garcia grishman
3 - tell it to me - old crow medicine show
4 - lonesome city - barefoot
5 - hard to love - old crow medicine show
6 - voice of the pork chop - jimbo mathus
7 - aint misbehavin - leon redbone
8 - my walkin stick - leon redbone
9 - lazybones - leon redbone
10 - marie - leon redbone
11 - lost cause - beck
12 - spoonful - howlin wolf
13 - girl from north country - bob dylan
14 - bullfrog blues - jimbo mathus
15 - i got my mojo - muddy waters

BONUS TRACK!!!

SO,

this is the blog where I talk about how JoeVW is from the future. I have had this theory that joe is a time traveling spaceman bringing us just a taste of the awesome future we have in store.

See for a real time-traveling wizard, you would have to be conscious of the continuum. Wary of effecting the future. UNLESS you realized in the future that you had an impact on the present and it's past. See I think future Joe saw in his historical document his own hand in the aesthetic evolution of awesome in our era. THUS allowing him to fullfill his destiny - travel to our time - and spark the imaginations of a thousand ships.

Oh i can hear you now, NO JOE NO! that's Impossible, your FOOLISH. And I say to you, IS IT FOOLISH TO KNOW THE TRUTH?! Of course not, it is foolish to DENY it.

With my analysis I have actually predicted some near future events... DBH will mimic Joe's genius (AGAIN) with a shirt called Faultline Nebula. And it will of course be a pale comparison of the original. Next years TEE in REview Mag will feature JOEVW in his spacepants and wind boots flying across the chicago skyline.

Heed my words, on the horizon.. the spaceman has cometh and he is a vanwetering.

so for my latest submission, I decided to take photos during the illustration for one of those neato process blogs.

as far as process goes, I started by penciling roughly on a 14X17 bristol, i forgot to take pictures till i started inking. but you get the idea.



I inked with pretty small pens cause I wanted it to look like an aerial shot .. not sure how successful I was doing that



more inking



more inking



more inking - its a rhino



and thats almost done there



and here it is all scanned and stuff (you can click for a larger detail view)


final submission colors and placement



some shot on the shirt with color options









so yep, a buncha pictures...
Huge thanks to matt (ninth wheel ) for the sweet templates and shimala, annie and priscilla for the great model shots

UPDATE:

threadless bloggers lemonalle and Neuroplastcicty came to the rescue!

his name is Mark Kistler and he has a website here





there was a tv show and I am pretty sure it was PBS

well it was a drawing show for kids - and the guy dressed in like a red military shirt kinda think and had a mustache

anyhow - he would always draw these elaborate space scenes and underground city scenes with little aliens and spaceships and stalagmites and monsters and it was my favorite show

I remember it so clearly - except for the name

can anyone help?