Ed Emberley and Friends art show

click here to see the animated intro for the show.

Scion Presents: Ed Emberley and Friends from Scion ART on Vimeo.

it's fun and cute. i like it. this is one of my top favorite group shows. it's been so fun to meet and work alongside new artists and a childhood favorite, Ed Emberley. I'll post images of the opening later. here's the info so that you can come if you want!

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Scion presents: Ed Emberley & Friends

July 17 - August 7, 2010

Ed Emberley's legendary drawing books inspired a generation of kids to become artists. In this show, Ed Emberley displays his original 1970's mockups alongside five grown-up artists who were influenced by him.

Curated by Caleb Neelon, the exhibition features Ed Emberley as well as five artists who were inspired by him. The artists include Raul Gonzalez, Seonna Hong, Matt Leines, Christopher Kline and Saelee Oh.

For "Ed Emberley & Friends," each artist will create a six-foot-by-six-foot wood panel that is a mash-up of their own style and that of Ed Emberley's instructional drawing books. The tribute paintings will be exhibited alongside examples of each artist's individual work. After the show, each of the large painted panels will be donated for long-term display in children's hospitals around the United States.

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 17, 2010 | 7-10pm

Complimentary Valet & Bar

Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave (at National)
Culver City, CA. 90232
Gallery Phone: 310.815.8840

Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11 AM - 6 PM








seonna hong's piece on the left and mine on the right in progress. a snippet of chris kline's piece on the very left.


my finished piece. i hope it cheers up some sick kids and makes them feel a little better. hospitals can be depressing places.

i'll post more pics of everyone's work and the opening later!

what? i have a blog???

hi folks! so i think i definitely win the award of the year for world's worst blogger. what has been going on since the beginning of this year and winter's end?!!?? well..... too much it seems. time just whizzes by faster and faster it seems. and that's why i haven't blogged about it.

here's the brief summary just to do the official catch up. i think i'm missing some stuff, but oh well.

books, fresh stART, incognito benefit at Santa Monica Museum of Art, more books, palm springs, patchwork show at Giant Robot, pack, airports, Blik wall decals, upper playground t-shirts, uncommon cell phone cases, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Stanford University, websites, books, los angeles i'm yours show at space 15twenty with poketo and kisune noir, another post it note show at grny, botanical sister project, work, art, doctors, questions, grandpas, disneyland, san diego, new york, drinks and laughs, last stop of scion animation tour collaboration with eric nakamura, drawing, oaxaca, mexico, mendoncino, house on cliff with ocean and seals, wild turkeys and redwoods, healthy food, drawing, reading, prints, fresh new sketchbook, ticket for talking on cell phone while driving, new detox diet, hatching lots of new plans, tired of flying, blah, blah, blah.

ok. that was easy. i should have done that earlier.

anyways... and this is right now.


i'm here at a hotel by myself with asymmetrical beds. i'll get to that later. i'm excited to finally upload some pics from a recent trip to Oaxaca, Mexico and to share them with you. let me sort through 694 photos with tired eyes with dried contacts and get back to you in the next post...

thanks for reading, reader.

Infinite Roots - NY show

the installation shots are now online on the Jonathan Levine's website.

click here!!!!

thanks everybody for coming out. it was a good night. if you're in NY, the show is still up for a little bit longer.

here's a picture of the floating horse in progress... thanks dad.

below average whale photographer

i love all animals, cute ones and ugly ones (except for opossum), wild ones and domesticated ones, furry ones and scaly ones. if i had to pick my favorite though, it'd be a whale which represents a gentle, mysterious giant. i draw them all the time, but a few days ago was the first time i got to see them in real life!!! it's humpback whale breeding season in baja, mexico. fortunately for me, we saw about 15-20 and lots of dolphins too. unfortunately for you, i could win an award for world's worst whale photographer.

enjoy.


i'm very good at capturing the moment before they come up for air... still sapphire waters and unusual clouds.


my very first whale tale photo. look for the tiny black speck just left of center. squint harder. see it???!!!! it's real.


still trying...



the wide angle lens on my camera is good. so is the zoom. too good.


the money shot. best one from the bunch. tell national geographic that i'm available for assignments.


whale food. i think this is baby squid? looks like an ice cube.

on a related note, if you live in england, you might have been lucky enough to get a free Tree of Life poster thanks to the BBC.
Here is the online interactive version. you'll need flash to see.

http://www.open2.net/treeoflife/index.html

i love it!!!!

sprouts

so cute!. im so proud of my little green guys. they're going to be pine trees. see how the tips are already splitting into thing needles? they're like the wire frame of an umbrella right now.

aquarium animation project

eric nakamura and i worked on a stop motion animation project! he already blogged about it here and here so of course my blog is behind, but i wanted to post pics anyways.


it was over 3 long nights of back breaking, foot numbing, laborious work for one minute of lo-fi janky goodness. 6 frames = one second. sometimes it would take us a couple minutes just to shoot one frame. time goes by fast unless you're trying to make bits of paper move and come to life. we'll post the final animation later. eric has super hero powers and is good at noticing details and doing things meticulously and not settling for laziness so he was a good partner. it was fun.

here's eric's cousin, goh nakamura, who put the icing on the cake. somehow he whips up a custom soundtrack to our animation in practically no time and now the animation has a mood, a feeling and some heart and life to it. goh is like god.


yum. we ate at gochi. i survived eating beef tongue for the first time. it was really tasty although i did have the thought of french kissing a cow when i first put it in my mouth. the ambiance is cozy and made me nostalgic for japan because they have the rooms with sliding paper covered doors and the seats where it looks like you're sitting low to the ground, but there's a secret empty space sunken into the floor right under the table for you to hang your legs. everyone takes their shoes off before sitting down to eat. if you don't know what i'm talking about, you're probably really confused... i'll just also say that their black sesame ice cream is AMAZING. i'd french kiss that all day, everyday.

bazaar bizarre in san francisco

this past weekend was the bazaar bizarre craft fair in SF. It was a nice excuse to get out of the house and drive up north to get some fresh, rainy air. i had some custom fabric printed and made some pouches and brooches. they sold out during the show but we'll have more for renegade this upcoming weekend. i can't go out to that one, so say hello to my sister and doppelganger, saewon oh.


here's my table buddy, jenny of cut x paste.


my other unexpected table buddy, some kind of spider making a web on my print.


buddies everywhere. i have a talent for finding faces in food. (here and here) this is green pea udon man before i slurped him down.

post it's for the GR post it note show!

here are my post it's i made while doodling and cat sitting. try to find them amongst the huge mass of doodles and art at the annual post it note art show at GR2 this weekend. i'll try to make it out. i'm holed up working a lot lately and it feels great!

GR2
Dec. 5th - Jan. 13th
reception Dec. 5th 6:30 - 10 pm
cash and carry

work in progress

large cut outs. about 40" x 60". all one sheet of paper. made with an exacto blade. these are all in progress...i finished the last one but don't have images of it finished yet.

i learned that i'm not a great blogger

but, i already knew that. i recently went to see my friend gregory han of apartment therapy give a panel talk about blogging. it was hosted by blog out loud. I was just down the street eating thai food when I got the facebook update that he'd be talking one block over at DWR so it was totally meant to be. I got to test out my dream office chair for a couple hours to make sure that I like it (i do. i rolled around the whole store in it like it's my wheelchair) and listened to bloggers talk about blogging. it made me miss school. I learned that I do most things wrong. I don't open up my posts to comments, I don't blog regularly, and I blog late. like for example, this event was about 2 weeks ago and my last post of hawaii was a month ago and i'm behind on blogging photos of italy from 2 months ago. that's ancient history in blog world. oh well. it was inspiring and fun and for now i'm gonna keep doing things my own retarded way.

other news lately....

house/cat sitting again for the month. this place has a koi pond and lots of gorgeous wood and large glass windows with views of a tree in the courtyard. it's peaceful, i'm getting lots of work done and there's a house cleaner. i think these past 2 years i've slept in close to 100 different beds.

juxtapoz charity auction. http://www.juxtapoz.com/auction/
you can still bid for a few more days here:
http://www.charitybuzz.com/auctions/juxtapoz/catalog_items/1052080
http://www.charitybuzz.com/auctions/juxtapoz/catalog_items/1052079

anyways, that's it.