Office Christmas Party

Casey and me went to a Holiday Party at a hip hop studio last night. It is on the floor above Hungry Man and they had invited the other businesses in the building, that's just us, WNYC, and an architecture firm. I had to leave early to meet Dan Oh. Casey hung around and tried to meet people. Grandmaster Flash did the last DJ set, but we were going to bed as this was happening.

Portrait Update

Ann (art coordinator), Morgan (art PA), and I (intern) finished the childish portraits of children project yesterday. It's a grand total of 28 drawings of stupid stupid children. I drew about 12 of the drawings you can see in the picture. If you look closely you might see some people you know!

Politics

Illinoians are really bad at electing governors, we do OK otherwise, just really not good at all with governors

Revolutionary Road

A few weeks ago I was waiting in line at the post office to buy stamps for my stupid internship when I noticed lying face down on a counter a beat-to-hell paperback book. The spine read "Revolutionary Road Richard Yates" and the back cover brandished adoring quotes by two heavyweights of 20th century letters, Kurt Vonnegut and Tennessee Williams. The title I recognized, having of course seen the posters for the film adaptation. The movie looks kind of weird though, seeming to ask us to believe that instead of dying in the freezing waters of the Atlantic Jack Dawson moved to New York, eloped with Rose, got her pregnant and then asked his friend the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown to help them buy a house in Connecticut. It almost sounds like that movie The Fountain right? I don't know, I never saw it. Anyway, I slipped the novel into my pocket that afternoon at the post office and last night, sitting in the glow of Luke's painting, I finally finished reading it. It's first rate domestic drama. I shant forget it anytime soon and recommend it wholeheartedly to all of you. If you must see the film, then you must, just be forewarned that Jack and Rose have changed their names to Frank and April.

Chidish Drawings of Children

Yesterday I spent the day using crayons to draw childish portraits of children.

For the past month I've been interning in the art department for a feature film. Right now I can't say which one (even though most of you know the title) because my job of drawing childish portraits could have and is supposed have gone to someone in the "scenic union." Apparently the coordinator could get in big trouble if a union employee found out. Anyway, I know I'm probably being overly cautious but better safe that sorry. Right?

My task was, and still is, to draw upwards of 20 portraits of children for a scene that takes place in a 3rd or 4th grade classroom. It is supposed to seem as though once upon a time all the children in the class drew pictures of themselves and then put them on the wall, maybe with an "Our Class" heading.

I've mostly been drawing pictures of my friends but I also drew a picture of a kid who really likes soccer (Peter) and a kid who really likes PlayStation (Stuart). I'll upload one or two of these pictures later today.

D Vitamins in sharp focus

I was experimenting with the manual focus on my digital camera, I made this Nature Made ad.