SKETCHBOOK : JULY 2009 – MAY 2010
MUSIC BY THE CREEK
My friend Jason Molin and his band played the coolest little lunchtime show on the UT campus this afternoon. They played from 12:15-12:45 so everybody could get there and back on their lunch break. Really cool idea. Great tunes, and great weather. (See my sketch.)
POETRY, OR, HOW MUCH IS YOUR LIFE WORTH?
True story, as told to me by John T. Unger during our Art Heroes interview, except I think it was $5.
“You wanna buy a book? It’s ten bucks.”
ALWAYS KEEP A LEGAL PAD HANDY
I try to keep a legal pad at my work desk at all times, so that whenever I get stuck or bored, I can just move over to the legal pad to keep my hand in motion, making marks until my brain gets back on track. (I learned this technique from Lynda Barry.) I use a legal pad and not a nice sketchbook because it’s cheap and I don’t feel like I’m wasting good paper on my crummy scratches.
Every once in a while I’ll come up with a doodle I really like:
And sometimes a podcast or a video will compel me to start taking notes, like with this excellent speech by Richard Nash on the future of publishing:
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