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A Collaborative Skyline

2011-07-29T22:23:00.001-04:00

On one of many trips to nyc, I stayed up late with my best friend isobel and her boyfriend to draw a multi-layed skyline with ridiculous detail.

All-Staff Meeting: My Phone Hates Me

2011-03-31T18:00:00.002-04:00

It was giving me the side-eye, the shank-eye, the "BISH PLEASE!" look. I completely understood.

Heads In A Line: My Specialty

2011-03-31T17:59:00.000-04:00

If I have a specialty, a "thing" if you will, it's drawing ambiguous amorphous people heads. Maybe it's because that how I feel internally brain-wise. Ever morphing, changing my mind, figuring shit out. There is no fixed point. The same up and down. Different up and down.

Gator say HEEEEY!!

2011-03-31T17:56:00.000-04:00

I'd just come back from Florida when I drew this during a small meeting. I guess the reason I drew a gator and friends is because I really like gators? and friends?

Save Me Monkey!!

2011-02-16T15:17:00.000-05:00

From a lengthy meeting! Where things are discussed at length!
I'm dangling from a monkey from a limb...Also, apparently, ink pads are needed.

Bone Fish

2011-02-11T15:53:00.000-05:00

Just some doodles on yet another strategic plan grid. I guess It's my way of inserting my own random goals of having fish that are made of bones and breath underwater as part of a larger plan somehow. Does that make sense? No it does not.

Sci-Fly

2011-02-09T08:38:00.001-05:00

For some weird reason my mom had us watch the original Fly movie from 1958 when we were young (I saw the 1986 remake of it not too long after that, which was more gross than disturbing, but still pretty good). It really freaked me out and I probably gave a suspicious side-eye to any houseflies I saw directly after watching the movie. Knowing me, I probably tried to save various flies too (they might have little man heads on them!!) as I used to save hornets and wasps from the chlorine-filled pool they always seemed to fly into.
In any case, I was doodling during a meeting or a phone call at work and up popped the fly in my mind. I made him in my usual freaky side-portrait view style.

Strategic Plan Squares

2011-01-28T15:39:00.000-05:00

During multiple meetings and endless droning on about goals and objectives and etc. etc. etc. I drew in the lines/squares what I could while we were all meeting. I have the cheerful finger gun guy, the lil stick guy holding up the sides of the square, the launching robot, and of course, who could forget that short-lived 80s video game spin off pac-snake?

Memo/Agenda Skyline

2011-01-13T12:30:00.000-05:00

This is from last week, but I've actually been busy at work/unable to sneakily scan things until now.
I'm working on conceptualizing an infographic for a project and have been obsessed with skylines (I'll post up an insanely detailed skyline I did with some friends later on). So I draw them everywhere on everything and I really love them. This one I was just trying to amuse myself during a meeting, so the buildings are all cute. The middle guy with the really big smile is the one who started it all off. He seems pretty happy, maybe that's how I would be if I got to be outside all day and be part of the city.

Pre-Thanksgiving Meeting-Part 2

2010-11-24T14:21:00.000-05:00

Punctuation was all on my mind today, started off drawing the two most exciting punctuation marks (the question mark and the exclamation point) and then moved on to the useful but less exciting combos of dots and commas.
I found out later that someone else in the meeting was also drawing question marks. A general feeling of questioning the universe or easy doodlin'?

Pre-Thanksgiving Meeting-Part 1

2010-11-24T14:18:00.000-05:00

I haven't drawn on my hands in so long in a meeting, I almost forgot I could do it. My canvas that is always with me as long as I have a ballpoint pen (other stuff just doesn't work as well).
I scanned my wrist and felt like a drunk person at an office party doing it. As if anyone here gets drunk and parties. So this is my sober, non party wrist doodle. I colored it in and then threw a quick watercolor filter over it because close ups of scanned body parts really aren't all that attractive.

Making Bad Things Cute

2010-11-19T09:50:00.001-05:00

There's probably a good government job in that. Making really scary things cute so that people are a little less on edge. Well, I do that in my head all of the time, like a skin I put over the world so that things have giant eyes and big smiles and would never hurt you. At work, in our famous all-staff meetings in the basement we learned that someone had found a couple of bed bugs in the building. After wanting to hurl, I quickly sketched out the bed bugs I could mentally handle co-existing with.

Weird Grip on the Pen/Pencil

2010-10-25T16:56:00.000-04:00

It's kind of like a chopstick grip but with one chopstick. My finger over my thumb and the rest of the fingers tucked away, stabilizing the writing instrument behind the index and thumb. It sort of astonishes me that I am even able to write like this. When I write with my right hand it is more traditional of a tip-of-the-pen grip between fingers and thumb.
I'm not just doing extreme navel gazing here, I'm thumb gazing really.
Also, some random post-it doodles I did who knows when.

Totally Appropriate and Positive Cursing with Hearts

2010-10-25T16:51:00.000-04:00

Drag Me All Around Town

2010-10-12T15:28:00.000-04:00

So my amazing friend Jeffers and I went to a drag show at Jacques Cabaret in Boston.
It was nasty and awesome. Not sure I'll be running back, but I'm glad I went.
I did this little sketch of "Misery" at Fritz after the show.

Off-Duty Document Flags: Just a Lark

2010-10-08T14:51:00.000-04:00

A Small Bit of Advice

2010-10-08T08:59:00.000-04:00

I don't even know why this popped into my head during our Dept. meeting this week. Maybe because hand-puppets scare me.

Git Off Mah Lawn shakes fist

2010-09-30T08:21:00.000-04:00

Variation on a theme. Getting punny as I often do. Nothing too spectacular these past few meetings, I've been preoccupied and occupied and everything in-between.

Sad Bomb is Sad

2010-09-30T08:19:00.000-04:00

Well I hope it's not happy. Probably the people who sent him are, but he's the one who has to explode...and on a birthday party of all things. **shakes head**

Napkin Sketchin'

2010-09-29T20:52:00.001-04:00

This is my first mobile post so bear with me if it looks off. My good friend D is moving to Portland, ME this week and I'm really going to miss that girl. We've made Geoffrey's Cafe our bar of choice for the past year and so it's only fitting that I doodled on a napkin a scene called Geoffrey's Last Supper with K on one side and K on the other. D is illuminated by a decorative string of lights on the patio. And now off to bedzzzzz.

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In A World...

2010-09-22T16:25:00.000-04:00

Where meetings flow like water in underground caverns...

My Nightmare Come to Life-Compacting Shelving

2010-09-15T14:24:00.000-04:00

When I first worked at University of Florida (also was an undergrad) I was a file clerk laboring in hand-cranked compact shelving--No safety devices to prevent someone from not seeing me and cranking away. I had a dream about it back then where my eyes bulged out of my head as someone cranked away and I was between shelves.
At a meeting this a.m. there were multiple warnings about compact shelving shorting out and the safety measures not kicking in when someone is in the shelving. They kept mentioning even more precautions to take and it got ridiculous. Then a colleague mentioned roaming killer rats and I had to make that happen. Doodle isn't super great since the head boss was kind of watching.

Things That May or May Not Also Be Other Things

2010-09-14T11:59:00.000-04:00

Bear with me here as I take a journey down Gutter Lane with a slight right at Junior High Street. Heh heh.
Note: Some items are actually in existence (Grandma's Famous Cobbler).

Diagram of an Infinite Conversation Loop

2010-09-11T17:07:00.000-04:00

If a conversation never has an end, I can never listen to the whole thing. But I can diagram it out for you to enjoy forever in your mind.

Bad Day for Me, Good Day for a Doodle

2010-08-10T13:13:00.000-04:00

One of those days where I feel less than insignificant. I am an office drone, literally stamping pages of things after I process them into the office information system. I feel like I'm a sad character in a future dystopia who hasn't broken free yet, maybe I'll be the minor character who helps the hero get out, but I get disintegrated in the process, still freer than before in any case. This is all to say I didn't pay a lick of attention in the Dept. meeting we had today, but instead doodled and tried to escape a little. Yeah boy, I'm such a rebel.

Faces and Frogs In between the Lines

2010-07-28T10:47:00.000-04:00

Cycle of Low-Level Violence at Work

2010-07-21T12:59:00.001-04:00

Bullies don't just stop when you get out of the playground, school, high-school. They get older and meaner and bring that shit to work. Yay?
Here's a small illustration I did of how I see some of this stuff going down.

Awl Staff Meeting

2010-07-16T15:12:00.000-04:00

We had an all staff meeting yesterday, so I got punny and sketched up some alternative meetings that could happen IN MY MIND

Sketchy Meetings-OverFlow Chart

2010-07-15T12:09:00.000-04:00

Same meeting...She proceeds to write an almost completely unfollowable "flow chart" that runs horizontally the ENTIRE (yes ALL CAPS are needed here!!!) length of the room wall that is covered in white board...probably like 15 feet worth? I then of course imagined her to continue going onto the wall and around the room, this is just a quick sketch of that.

Sketchy Meetings-2 Hour Edition

2010-07-15T12:06:00.000-04:00

The good part about long meetings is that they can turn into figure drawing sessions. Sometimes people hold the same pose for a long time and I try to draw it as best I can. The second not-so-good figure in the sketch kept changing his position, that's my excuse for the less-than drawing...
As a bonus I added an uncomfortable quote from the person leading the meeting. She probably didn't think much of it, but when we were all gathering into the room she said, "I have this urge to arrange people by color..." since there is a distinct lack of diversity where I work, I looked up at her like WTF since my boss is one of 3 african americans where I work (out of a total of say 70ish employees). She then quickly qualified it with "...of what they are wearing" SMH...seriously

Tetris Pieces are People Too!

2010-07-15T12:01:00.000-04:00

Before I knew it was the anniversary of Tetris this year, I drew this on a napkin at a great bar I frequent. I have always felt that (through my rampant anthropomorphism skillz) each piece had its own attitude. In particular the piece that has the three blocks with the one in the middle always seemed very neurotic to me. It can't decide where to go EVER!!!

Shapes: Now in Living 3D!!!

2010-07-15T11:56:00.000-04:00

The usual 3D rectangle, the classic "my first doodle" of course I injected my gang of primary shapes with some sassitude, as is my wont.

It's Like Simon & Garfunkel met Barry White

2010-06-17T19:24:00.002-04:00

Gold for the Price of Silver

Teeny lil Kitteh Picture

2010-06-03T10:43:00.002-04:00

My friend at byhillary.com just had a kitten birthday (she is not a kitten, but has one...just in case there was any confusion...) and I was commissioned (haha, instant messaged) to draw up a wee icon/picture for her birthday.
After the deadline passed, I of course finally completed it. I took the original picture, outlined it heavily with a ballpoint pen, flipped the pic over and drew over the deep lines that appeared on the back of the picture, then I 'shopped it, filled it, drew a little and BAM!
Evil awesome black cat peeping behind curtain, and curious (actually more evil, but tiny kitten evil), adorable kitten out in front with the obligatory aren't-i-cute head cock to the side.
Here's the original photo: Waffle and Daisy Boo on the Window Sill, on a fake iPhone cover
Here's the one I made from that picture:

Sack Emptying

2010-05-30T00:38:00.000-04:00

My friend Hillary of byhillary asked what's in your bag. A lot of randomness. If it is interesting or not remains to be seen by the beholder.

One Ringtone to Rule Them All

2010-05-12T19:51:00.006-04:00

More accurately, one* outgoing cassette message to rule them all.

from the 80s

from RadioShack

titled "21st Century Funk"

behold the glory...
P L A Y it // S A V E it

via best week ever
via wfmu blog
via a dime

*There are more that I cut down from the longer cassette, I'm really not sure if I should post them due to their inferior composition.

hand/sun ray image from a blog on god's glory, where else?

Logo for a Petsitting service

2010-05-05T23:26:00.000-04:00

I sketched this out this morning and had the first version done by the end of the day. pretty quick turnaround for indecisive me. I'm still working on the business card and I might space these letters out more, but they are also kind of cute where they are now.
If they look familiar, they are based on a children's book hondo and fabian, and I love the fat chunky style of them, since they are sort of my style too (chunky cuteness) I pencil sketched them from looking at the drawings, then scanned, filtered, erased, painted, free transformed the living crap out of them.

Robot Boot Camp

2010-04-07T14:56:00.001-04:00

Animals that Float Away from Ants

2010-04-07T14:55:00.002-04:00

Behind the Scenes of a Web Re-Design: Hairballs

2010-03-17T15:59:00.003-04:00

So I'm helping to push along the redesign of the whole library website, along with a committee full of people, and after a while, you just start to get punchy and can't quibble over where to put the next long list of options for people to choose from anymore. Here we are debating how to list the different ways that a student or other "customer" can contact a librarian for research help. A noble endeavor.
I, of course, had to 'shop in a giant cat ball onto the homepage to lighten the mood. Had to be done.

Re-editing a mish-mash is still a mish-mash

2010-03-15T08:45:00.001-04:00

Cut Down Telephone
Note: The audio isn't mixed or anything, is kind of loud, am still working on that part, also i gotta shove the video over juuuuust a little at the beginning. Used my copy of the song with a video downloaded from youtube.

Evidence of Life

2010-02-14T11:30:00.002-05:00

My prints are everywhere...EVEN ON THIS BLOG!

That Old House-Not With Bob Vila

2010-02-13T10:30:00.004-05:00

It was a single family house close to the ocean in Salem, MA. It has my cat in it.

The Interview

2010-01-29T15:25:00.002-05:00

I won't say who or when or for what, but there is always someone interviewing for something where i work. Also, for my unemployed (laid-off) friends, they have to sit there and just go through interview after interview. At some point THAT starts to feel like your new job. Just interviewing.

Pill Soup?

2010-01-27T11:22:00.003-05:00

Haha, so yeah, I'm one of the medicated many, a seratonin junkie if you will.

Office Katamari: Roll It Up!

2010-01-19T11:04:00.002-05:00

I sketched out what my office katamari game would look like. I would totally play this level.

A Tale of a Tail: or How That Adorable Puppy on the City Street Will Be Basement Fighting Within a Few Months

2010-01-07T16:55:00.004-05:00

Yes, I'm jumping to conclusions, but also, sadly, yes I know what I speak of when I see a months-old waggy-tailed pit bull in the hands of a rather sullen young man who has already outfitted it with a huge spikey collar and an actual chain for a leash. Back in the day I knew a rather unsavory fellow who bought a couple of pitbull puppies. As cute as they were, I knew they were headed for fighting, because with a wink and a nod he told me as much. But still, that puppy I saw this morning was adorable and I wanted to steal him away so he'd only be familiar with dogs fighting over a chew toy, not for their lives.

Tribute 4 Susan Woolf-Stick Bouquet in the Muddy Charles

2009-12-16T12:29:00.002-05:00

My Wee Holiday Spirit

2009-12-08T12:29:00.002-05:00

My Holiday spirit is actually kind of rude right now, it likes to say curse words and command me to do things. No I have not alerted my doctor about this spirit, it will leave as soon as the New Year comes

3 Hands Across the Post It

2009-12-08T12:27:00.002-05:00

Post It Reactions

2009-12-08T12:20:00.003-05:00

This is my reaction (internally) to stupidity. I still can't believe how people who make twice as much as me never understand anything ever in any meeting ever., but really I should be used to it by now with all of the years I spent making my corporate bosses look like they knew how to operate an expense report. The pic is a little big...but you couldn't see the pencil marks otherwise my darlings.

Beer Lunch Doodle

2009-11-03T13:35:00.001-05:00

I'm not saying which day, or where, but sometimes I have a beer for lunch and draw at the bar. One of those little personal pleasure things I get to do in the city.

Meeting Doodle-Space Invader in Shoes

2009-10-30T14:56:00.002-04:00

Meeting Doodle-Guy Swimming

2009-10-30T14:54:00.001-04:00

I call him David Schwimmer

Meeting Doodle-Pac Man Ghosts

2009-10-30T14:53:00.001-04:00

Incense in Chinatown

2009-10-23T10:58:00.002-04:00

Waiting for the FungWah to pull up to the temple in NYC, I saw 3 business-suited men walking. The first had a huge stick of incense burning and was walking in front while the other two men walked behind him while holding a picture of a man (I assumed he had passed on?). Anyway, I drew it.

Halloweenish Post

2009-10-23T10:54:00.001-04:00

I drew my hand and used markers in the dark. I love how the color came out, looks like a zombie hand.

Meeting Menagerie-Happy Juggler

2009-09-22T14:37:00.000-04:00

I guess human is an animal and belongs in a menagerie!

Meeting Menagerie-Goat

2009-09-22T14:36:00.003-04:00

Meeting Menagerie-Parrot

2009-09-22T14:36:00.002-04:00

Yes, I would like a cracker

Meeting Menagerie-Bunny Bust

2009-09-22T14:33:00.001-04:00

I drew/doodled a lot of animals during today's meeting. They all had different moods. The bunny here is all like "Wha? Is this some sort of bust?" (my apologies to Police Squad and Naked Gun for taking their joke)

Yelling at an Octopus? Screaming at a Moray Eel?

2009-09-15T16:11:00.001-04:00

Maybe I am, maybe I am...

No Meetings=Lack of Meeting Doodles

2009-09-09T08:32:00.003-04:00

Should I schedule a mind-blowingly boring and needless meeting to satisfy my drawing/doodling needs or revel in the non-bossness of the week?
I'll post something from a meeting that I never got up here before.
It is a sketch out of a flip book i never got done for Burning Man '09. The theme this year was evolution and for the love of all that is beautiful, I did evolve. I changed, mutated, split my fins into legs and walked for the first time.

Another Meeting Doodle Trio-Part 3 (Final)

2009-08-27T08:56:00.002-04:00

This is my final and most coherent doodle of the meeting where I drew a lil guy being blown by the wind, and then decided that he would be walking on human powered stilts but of course. It was a logical conclusion anyone would have come to.

Another Meeting Doodle Trio-Part 2

2009-08-27T08:54:00.001-04:00

I call this one Fun With One-Point Perspective, an obvious homage to my first doodle of the meeting, but here I added some lightbulbs. Soooo clever.

Another Meeting Doodle Trio-Part 1

2009-08-27T08:52:00.003-04:00

So I started drawing my usual lines of heads and then embellishing them and then started drawing one-point perspective boxes for fun. Of course they are smiling.

Burning Pixel Man

2009-08-20T11:41:00.002-04:00

Lil Title Card I Made For Craftiness

2009-08-19T09:43:00.002-04:00

Chattering Away In My Brain

2009-08-17T08:59:00.003-04:00

Lil Zombie Boy Dancin? I Don't Know What I Draw Sometimes

2009-08-13T15:45:00.000-04:00

Heads in Cell-Like Formation

2009-08-13T09:06:00.000-04:00

I love cell biology. Just sayin' The four head cluster there started out as me drawing plant cells (rigid cell walls and all)

Righting with My Write Hand

2009-08-13T09:05:00.000-04:00

Art Therapy

2009-08-11T09:35:00.004-04:00

I would really open up if I could just lay down in a museum and start therapizin' (new word)

Clothes Call Y'all

2009-08-11T09:35:00.001-04:00

I Love a Good Pair of Shoes...The Afterglow

2009-08-11T09:33:00.000-04:00

My New Card Image? Too Risque? Hee Hee :)

2009-08-06T11:49:00.000-04:00

Revised Little People

2009-08-04T09:51:00.000-04:00

Toys from my childhood that I revised.

The Messed Up Balloon

2009-08-04T09:49:00.002-04:00

The Carrot Eater

2009-08-04T09:48:00.001-04:00

Slimming Down for the Summer

2009-08-03T09:37:00.002-04:00

From car to bike with the help of a giant str8 razor

Night On Forest Hill

2009-08-03T09:33:00.003-04:00

A sketch I did during the winter at night at my last apt that looked into Forest Hills Cemetery.
It was all snow and limbs and a glimpse of the roof.

Up All Night!

2009-08-01T10:34:00.000-04:00

Bar Sketches-Karaoke on Saturday Nights

2009-07-31T10:39:00.002-04:00

Sketched these quickly as they sang-Love doing short sketches.
At the Jeannie Johnston in JP they have karaoke every Saturday. My friends and I went to sing and I found myself sketching out other singers. One sang "Mr. Brightside" by the Killers and the two kids sang "Take a Load Off" by The Band.

Double-header for Friday

2009-07-31T10:36:00.002-04:00

Meeting Doodles-Part ??

2009-07-31T10:35:00.002-04:00

Meeting Bear and Service Monkey should meet up at some point...

Why Do Barcodes Have to be Black and White?

2009-07-31T10:34:00.002-04:00

Bar Napkin

2009-07-31T09:57:00.001-04:00

I get by with a little (drawing) help from my friends...I drew something, then passed it around the table for everyone to add a little something.

A Morning Fill-Up

2009-07-28T06:57:00.002-04:00

Oh me, I can be so silly and gross sometimes. Inside of me is a pre-pubescent boy I think. Please don't call SVU, I don't mean that literally.

A Dog Story-Momo and The Symbol in the Snow

2009-07-27T10:13:00.000-04:00

T Sign With Vines-Morning Commute

2009-07-27T10:12:00.002-04:00

Me As A Journal? A Quarterly, If I'm Lucky...

2009-07-27T10:08:00.002-04:00

Snake in the Grass!!

2009-07-27T08:05:00.001-04:00

Reorganization Bear Sez

2009-07-23T16:29:00.002-04:00

How Do Birds Stretch It Out?

2009-07-23T10:59:00.002-04:00

There's a Slight Tick in the Software

2009-07-23T10:58:00.003-04:00

What if...

2009-07-23T10:55:00.001-04:00

There was a truck/trailer that brought birds to their destination.
Just a meeting doodle/thought

Workshop Doodle-Some Vendor Meeting

2009-07-22T11:57:00.003-04:00

Over 10 Years Old-A Sketch

2009-07-22T11:39:00.002-04:00

Dreamy Drawings I Did About Being A Kid

2009-07-22T11:24:00.002-04:00

Training, Meetings, Work, Seminars-Older Doodles Post2

2009-07-22T11:18:00.001-04:00