The Revolution Gets Industrial

Dream in the Dark: Page 4

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Dream in the Dark: Page 3

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Dream in the Dark: Page 2

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Episode I: Dream in the Dark

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Summer in Brazil

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South Sea Island Magic: Episode I

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My band, South Sea Island Magic, released our debut album on November 1st. I'm in the process of creating a series of comics, in six episodes, that illustrate the six songs on the album. The first comic, to the tune of Dream in the Dark, is getting closer to completion. Here are a few images of the comic under development, before color. Think of it as a movie trailer, but in ink on bristol rather than on film. You can listen to and purchase the album at southseaislandmagic.com.

Death to Winter

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Ancestral Skull of the Elema People

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Pattern Language

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Seashells from Sanibel Island

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Portugal. The Man & The Only Children

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A Tattoo for a Friend

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Lars Spuybroek Lecture

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Howeler Yoon Lecture

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KU School of Architecture 2011 Fall Lecture Series

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KU School of Architecture 2011 Spring Lecture Series

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KU School of Architecture 2010 Spring Lecture Series

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Because we wanted our lives to be more cinematic...

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For an upcoming show at the Jackpot in Lawrence, I tried to incorporate imagery for each band into one awesome movie poster. Karma Vision once played a show under the name Actor John Goodman. The rest are a bit easier to interpret.

Architect Music

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One night, three bands featuring alumni, dropouts, and current students of the University of Kansas School of Architecture.

Dressed Right for a Beach Fight

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After a line by The Who.

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Another poster for South Sea Island Magic, featuring an assortment of seashells found on a trip to Sanibel Island. We'd wake up at four in the morning to catch the low tide, search for shells with flashlights, then sit and watch the sun rise.

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A wedding gift for two good friends, two years in the making. The band onstage is Horse Feathers, a band from Portland that plays quiet, beautiful folk music. The setting is the Bottleneck in Lawrence, although it's not always this picturesque.

Cowboy Indian Bear at the Bottleneck

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Inspired by two summer afternoons drawing at Liberty Memorial in Kansas City.

Waves Will Crash

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The fifty foot tall woman makes an amphibious attack.

KJHK Grand Opening Week

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The final poster for the semester for KJHK, commemorating an epic week of events in celebration of the station move. I used the concrete structure from the t-shirt and the programming poster one last time. This one will be screenprinted by Blue Collar Press.

It's True! Album Artwork

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It's True! is a remarkable band from Omaha, Nebraska. For the artwork on their debut album, I started with a lyric from my favorite It's True! song:

I'm not asking you for a miracle.
I'm not asking you to part the sea.
I'm not asking you to move the sun or the stars.
They can all stay as they are.

The animal skeletons on the cover are a hesperornis (a large aquatic bird that could only swim, not fly or walk) and a mosasaur. Both lived in the shallow inland sea that covered what is now Nebraska and Kansas, and their fossils can be found here today. The map on the inside of the album shows the geography of North America during the Late Cretaceous, including the location of that inland sea.

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An anatomically correct Hesperornis Regalis.

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The It's True! album cover before Photoshop. Ink and prismacolor pencil on chipboard.

90.7 KJHK Logo

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This spring, 90.7 KJHK is moving from its longtime home, known lovingly as "the shack," to a brand new studio in the Kansas Union, which, unlike the shack, is neither slowly crumbling or gradually sliding down a hill. They wanted a new visual identity to go along with the station move. I was a DJ at KJHK for almost four years, and thought the turntable was the best solution, as KJ is a radio station where the dedicated DJs still spin actual vinyl, and do a damn good job of it.

KJHK T-shirt

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The wonderful folks at KJHK, KU's student-run radio station, asked me to adapt my spring programming poster for a t-shirt, printed by Blue Collar Press in Lawrence.

Monster Drawing Rally

2010-04-26T19:22:00.000-07:00

Been really busy lately. Back in March I had the chance to participate in the Monster Drawing Rally to benefit the New House Women's Shelter in Kansas City. This involved twenty artists drawing frantically while hundreds of people filed by at the Arts Incubator in the Crossroads. My contribution was an ink on chipboard drawing of my favorite view of the Kansas City skyline, coming west on 670. When my friend Sean stopped by my table and asked where one of my trademark monsters was, I realized that the only thing the drawing was missing was the octopus emerging from the West Bottoms. The event, put on by Women In Design, made $7,000 dollars and was a huge success.

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Midnight Vinyl @ the Replay Lounge

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Fresh Sounds Poster

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KJHK's Farm Fresh Sounds

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KJHK Farmer's Ball

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The Eighth Street Taproom

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oh! mr.

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Midnight Vinyl @ the Gaslight Tavern

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Mr. West.

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Midnight Vinyl @ The Gaslight Tavern

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Midnight Vinyl @ Midnight

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Midnight Vinyl @ the Riot Room

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(seen in a dream)

Science of Silence

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Midnight Vinyl @ the Bottleneck

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Wildcat Hoops

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an illustration for mulvane high school's basketball website