House of Many Colors

Workin on pitches...

2009-12-08T20:59:00.000-08:00

Like this one. My buddy Michael is on point but there's still alot to do... Back to the table.

Good Thoughts & Great Tunes

2009-10-15T09:49:00.000-07:00

My good bud Colin Miller has been stirring your senses for years with a number of talents. Now, there's a fine hub for the creative activities of KALI, his sound collective of sharp minds and funky ideations.

I love it. Hope you will too! Go check out Kali and get lifted.

Their audio feed is podcast. Nice.

Latest Project: My own Calender!

2009-09-29T12:38:00.000-07:00

Meet Gaia. Aka, Mother Earth. She's one in a new series of folk art figures that I'm printing as full-color calender -- producing for sale in October. GAIA appears in the calender as the month of"January".

This calender will be full of the gods, demons, orisas, and ancestral spirits that rattle around in my head all day - singing their songs...

It's been a busy month, but I'll return with a heap of artwork and ideas very soon.

2009-08-07T09:43:00.000-07:00

Gratitude

2009-07-08T11:52:00.000-07:00

"Into the Blank Where Life is Hurled,"

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cover for Starship Sofa. July Issue.

Mamase Mama mamakusa, mamase mamasa mamakusa...

2009-06-27T18:46:00.000-07:00

The great entertainer is gone. From earliest memories, he made me walk and think and dream, and sing and make images differently, and everyone around me. All of us together were imprinted with the most profound pride in our potentially endless creative energy, in a time when we had good reason to doubt ourselves.

In my tapestry of memory I cannot find a single lawyer or zoo animal or shadow or trace of the tragic anywhere near that shy young handsome entirely marvelous dude.

Time will flatten his narrative, and judge his walk in the world as a success.

I don't think this thread of thought is finished. The well runs deeper than I expected. We get older, find darker Princes to worship, in my musical landscape. But MJ is always a pulse you can hear in your chest wherever you go on the planet. MJ made me connect with strangers in foreign places, just by being there, on some shop speakers, bass heavy cinematic grooves calling down some gospel interconnectedness. I have no memory any longer of a glove, though. I grew up wanting to make Michael's feet become my feet. Studying the sharp determination on his face. Riding the boogie with that invisible girl he sang to. Love was still a honey sweet flavor in my future body. Romance's soundtrack has changed a lot since he and Quincy laid down the bedrock layer.

..."It's this magic in your eyes, and in my heart... Break of dawn..."

..."Lay back with me..."

..."There'll be no darkness tonight," Cuzz my love will light it right, right?

But it was more important for us first hip hop generation boys to romance his massive ambition. Our aspiration starts here with Ali Cosby and MJ. His swagger and focus onstage.Some kind of ethic of surpassing expectations. Wowing your audience. All the world is your stage, young man.

With that kind of love of self one could get oneself out of one's small town existence, one's perceived poverty of the good life. Just imagine yourself doing your thing the way Michael did his... And nothing could stop us

Everybody get up and moonwalk. Make the panels on your kitchen floor light up again. You know what what I'm talking about.

More to come. Love to hear your thoughts, impressions.

Starship Sofa Cover

2009-04-26T21:11:00.001-07:00

I love the Starship Sofa podcast, as I've said, so I did a cover for one of their stories that will be out in May. "Vinegar Peace" is the chilling story of a new kind of orphanage constructed by a State at war: An orphans' home for the PARENTS of soldiers lost in the ongoing hostilities "over there". The story makes the READER the protagonist, makes us gape in wonder at the way a society might compartmentalize it's widowed-- those beyond age of conception that is, into some kind of internment camp full of modern conveniences, and a clear message about how much meaning your life has to the State when young bodies have to renew the theater of battle year after year. I know, mad dark, right? But it's so full of emotional truths, absurd humor and awesome scifi inventiveness. The world the writer created here is so rich, inside the walls of Vinegar Peace. Please pop over and listen in a week or so if you like dreamlike, intelligent scifi, as I do.

2009-04-23T16:58:00.000-07:00

I want to recommend

Beautiful Muzik. Go See for yourself. Magic. Try a listen. Then, go to a show here in soulful SF.

The Starship Sofa.

2009-04-06T12:29:00.000-07:00

Hi all. Haven't updated in a while, and it's all good why. I'll be posting roughs for a piece I am finishing now, to accompany an amazing short sci-fi story on the great Starship Sofa and it's "Aural Delights" podcast.

More details to follow, as I want to post my thumbnails and rough stages along with the finished joint.

For now go check out my friend Tony C Smith's site, and download great audio fiction by the top Sci Fi writers out there currently. What a pleasure to create art for fiction like this.

2009-03-23T16:21:00.000-07:00

The Revenant Road (Paperback)

Pushing hard on freelance, but here's some of what I'm up to:

2009-03-23T16:06:00.000-07:00

My buddy and fantastic writer Michael Boatman and I are in the midst of doing a graphic novel

for his book "The Revenant Road", which was released a short while ago as a novel. We've been looking for a property that was right for us to team up on and his uproarious horror thriller awash in gore and big laughs on every page is going to be the one. I'll be posting updates and skribbles here soon!

The Bakshi Summers...

2009-03-16T13:10:00.000-07:00

Hey, want to understand what I'm on about? Go here:

The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse on TV.com - Free Full Episodes ...

Cuz, you may as well see what we hath wrought. Ed, you have to look back and wonder how you ever got there...

We love Cartoon Brew!

2009-03-16T12:27:00.000-07:00

Recently, I was invited to join my old animation buds, Jeff Pigeon, and Jim Reardon at Pixar for a sit down interview. The interview is for the DVD release of a show we all worked on before we'd reached 20! The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse was probably my first professional art job experience, and meant so much to me in ways I've never talked about before in a forum such as this. Details to follow in other posts. The session at Pixar was a blast. I just hope they got something usable out of my rantings.

Big-Up, Large-Ups in fact, to Mr. Jerry Beck, an historian of animation I really admire. It's due to his and the Brew's support of that show, that has kept it in the cultural digestive system all these years. I consider his analysis of the industry, since the years I worked with John Krisfaluci, to be right on point with what I believe about the beloved art form. If you have any interest in this aspect of our popular art culture, but want commentary that's coming from the creative's POV, the advocates' POV, then Cartoon Brew is for you.

I don't have any stills or pics of the Emeryville interviews, but here's some pics of the LA meet-up where all my cohorts in the show got interviewed last Wednesday. This included Vicki Jenson and Tom Minton, Mike Kazelah, Kent Butterworth, John Krisfaluci, and Libby Simon, who also produced MY first stint as a TV director, on "Happily Ever After, Fairy Tales For Every Child." Salad days to be sure.

Links to a Mystic Poet and Ancient Bard

2009-03-13T12:57:00.000-07:00

A great inspiration for me is RUMI

Mevlana Jelal al-Din Rumi, who is known as “Mevlana” in Turkey and as “Ru

mi” in the western world, can be called a mystic poet, a thinker, a theosophist or a Sufi; but if you could a

sk him, “What are you?” He could say, “I am nothing but a simple lover of God..."

Mi Familia.

2009-03-13T12:45:00.000-07:00

Words of Jelluddin Rumi, persian poet:

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

After a hectic week...

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Catching Up with Sketches

2009-02-02T14:56:00.000-08:00

2009-02-02T14:53:00.000-08:00

Archived Oasis art in case you miss the old "OASIS" blog.

Oasis Graphic Nov...

Oasis Images

2008-12-01T16:49:00.000-08:00

Our Maverix Site for OASIS -- a Future/Primitive science fantasy project we just finished a board-o-matic for -- went down a couple weeks ago. Which does suck, I admit.

While we work on a rebuild of that blog, here's a sample of just the pics I had posted there. It'll take time to get the text, but I aim to get all the goods back up and running.

Thanks for you patience and support as that project gains it's footing.

Please send feedback or questions, I'd love to hear from you. Peace

Chi Town

2008-10-21T17:22:00.001-07:00

Sometime ago now I worked on a pitch for the Chicago 10 project. It didn't end up in my hands, but I liked the idea and now you can see the final piece (by the other guys) airing on PBS on Oct 22. These are a couple of stills from my pitch.

october on our doorsteps

2008-09-29T19:24:00.000-07:00

Not sure how it can be almost October. Time for darker days, harvest time, sweet golden light in the garden time with my family.