Confession #28
“Yo guys I just rolled this what kind of funky-ass dice are you packin’.
Is this a crit or what is this.”
Someday I hope to have memories like these.
Like the time you rolled an 8 and fell into lava and died, and when the druid cast Reincarnate on you you came back as a badger….
I recently found my first character…he survived a tank battle against giant gargoyles only to be set on fire and crushed during a bar brawl.
Harma Heikens’ near-life sized sculptures are beautiful, difficult, and expertly crafted. Often times, they’re based on actual newspaper reports and headlines of atrocities in war torn countries.
Here’s an excerpt from the article we published: “I’m not into telling people that they see things the ‘wrong’ way,” says the Netherland artist. “When I make a sculpture of, say, a Latin-American or Asian looking child in horrible circumstances it is perceived as social criticism, but when I make a sculpture of a white child in a similar situation it is perceived as apocalyptic (except in Russia, where it’s social criticism). That doesn’t feel good and it is confrontational in itself (for whoever wants to see it), but there’s no way of avoiding it. The images I work with sort of pre-exist in people’s minds. It works the same way for me.”
And therein lies one of the most appealing aspects of Heikens’ work. Though her statements are well articulated, it’s not a soapbox stance, but neither does she resort to “leaving it all up to the viewer.” Rather what we make of it is an amalgamation of the artist intention and our built-in perceptions culled from our own reference banks. ” Get a look at the sculpture that Heikens’ created just for the Hi-Fructose exhibition at Roq La Rue gallery March 1th in Seattle.
(via hifructosemag)
Latest Doodle: ‘Falcon Girl’ (Tank Girl / Star Wars)
Prints available at http://www.jameshance.com/ (US / Canada)
and http://www.jameshance.co.uk/ (UK / Europe)
Tees available at http://www.redbubble.com/people/strangelydrawn/works/8381405-falcon-girl-tank-girl-star-wars
Thanks for the kind words, as always :D
This is so rad!
Marco Mazzoni graced the cover of Hi-Fructose Vol.20, here’s his latest piece.
(A version of the letter I sent out today:)
Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. My name is Will Hindmarch. I’m a Chicagoan, a writer, a designer, and a game developer. I have worked, both on salary and freelance, for companies that make their living on homemade and licensed IPs….
I am 100% opposed to SOPA and PIPA, even though I’m one of the artists they were allegedly written to protect. I’ve probably lost a few hundred dollars in my life to what the MPAA and RIAA define as piracy, and that sucks, but that doesn’t come close to how much money I’ve lost from a certain studio’s creative accounting.
The RIAA and MPAA are, again, on the wrong side of history. Attempting to tear apart one of the single greatest communications achievements in human history in a misguided attempt to cling to an outdated business model instead of adapting to the changing world is a fucking crime.
A free and open Internet is as important to me as the bill of rights. I don’t want the government of one country — especially the corporate-controlled United States government — to exert unilateral control over the Internet for any reason, especially not because media corporations want to buy legislation that won’t do anything to actually stop online piracy, but will expand the American police state, and destroy the Internet as we know it.
Please contact your Senators and US Representatives, and tell them to vote NO on SOPA and ProtectIP. The future of the Internet — and the present we take for granted — depend on it.
Also, some good news.
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You Got A Lifetime.
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