Amy Plays the Violin is Complete!

Type of Action

Type of Action

"Type of Action"
Pen and Ink

"We are attempting to nullify the mistakes, but I can't afford any white-out in office - and since we're typing up action all the time. We are proud to acknowledge that we're accomplishing goals with (more black ink) the best black ink."

End the war, end world hunger, bailouts, loans, debt, health-care. Where is the results?

Where Art Thou?

Where Art Thou?

"Where ART thou? Come again and wrap your hands around me. Feel me with thou radiant jubilation and thou caress me with ye herbal scented hair. I will create ye my love an art lullaby. For it is us, a tao, are thou?

Is a concept I thought of in the mid hours before midnight and I had this idea to create a scene of an artist finding his inspiration. I wanted to play with the concept of 'Where are thou?' in a word play of Where art tao? I felt that saying thou and depicting it in the image would relay to the observer that thou is tao and ART is are. To the point where the actual message means 'Where are you?'. There is more symbolical meaning within the title and illustration. Enjoy.

Sign

Sign

It started as a daydream and then a sketch. Then later words started to influence the direction of the composition. These words Reality, Morality, Hope, and Pride. I couldn't choose either, because the meaning in this peace is multiple. The title was originally Municipal Order of Morality, but I couldn't satisfy my conscience on just one concept. I felt sign was all I could say.

Sign n. 1. Something that indicates a fact, quality, etc.; token. 2. A gesture that conveys information, etc.

Illustration for Haiti tragedy

This Winter Help Came

This was entered in the "Winter is Magic" Contest and it was nominated in Third Place.

I chose this concept to show how winter is magic. I wanted something more realistic, because it did happen. We all choose to see magic differently and in this piece the boy being helped by the light reflecting on the broken snow globe is the perspective I chose. There is a lot of symbolism, starting with the dust particles falling, even between the broken wall which you're looking through is also in a shape of a star.

Last night Supper with Conan

This is green.

This is my side project I've been working on. It will be a comic strip for next year that will be featured on Blogspot as a daily comic with its own blog name and site. Stay tuned for more details, pictures, and possible character designs on Endless Green Tea.

My blogspot link has changed, it goes by my blog's title Endless Green Tea, which it will still represent creativity, fun, inspiration and originality for all and myself. Its a tea party of creative flavor! I decided to make the change, because when I was coined the name Urban-Ronin by my friend Nick. It was a metaphor for who I was, but not what I would become. I have since reasoned with my life and taken change for a different course. Which is why I firmly made the change to now dedicate this blog section to my interest, inspirations, life, and entertainments. Here you will receive updates on new art projects from me and others' gallery shows, and various art media related information. I want to promote friends and colleagues also with their news and links to booster networking and expand our knowledge of creativity. Come have a taste, I assure you. The green is good.

Did I mention I was holding a chicken?

Last week I went to Sarah's Farm in Jasper, Georgia. I had a great time despite the rain and cold windy day. I was a friendly admirer as I made new farm animal friends. Dolly and Molly the two horses ate from my hands, they were more benign than Gizmo, a bashful black goat I tried to entice into accepting feed from my hands. Gizmo was reluctant to accept and responded with nays. The chickens weren't friendly at first either. What was wrong with these farm animals? I waited for Jessica to coerces the chickens into a docile manner before I held them. Once, they were in my grasp they remained calm. Soon we were getting hit by droplets of rain and had to leave. It was fun.

The Fun Theory

Spark an idea and ignite a smile.




www.TheFunTheory.com

Amy Goes Print

Amy goes print! I'm exciting she's now in hardcover. Purchase your copies at www.Blurb.com immediately, before we pull it off the site. We will be making minor quick adjustments for the official publication for the next print. We are glad to present Amy in first print! Julie the author and I have edited the pages and sent them to Blurb for print in softcover and hardcover. I will admit offhand the first edition is what we called "The Green Copies". A small incidental fallacy we will proudly admit as a limited edition to our esteeming anticipatory fandom. So if you happen to purchase one of these limited green copies we have published, it's assured you will have a valuable book in your hands, once the proceeds of our book we have imagined springs to life. I'm very proud of this project! This was a wonderful idea to create in those two months and watch sprite from the depths, which it did, a two-print page with an outline for Amy's quest was all it had begun. I had a few doubts in the beginning, but after some sleepless nights with caffeinated teas I was hopeful for a completion. So order one! We will gladly sign it for you. In the meantime, we will have a colorful book ready and published that will be available to the public. We are in consideration in processing publications with an independent or corporate publisher. I'll keep you advised on the updates.

Misread

Kings Of Convenience - Misread from Kyuin Shim on Vimeo.

G-Dragon Heartbreaker

One of my favorite G-Dragon's music video. You're my heart, heart, heartbreaker...and then Korean lyrics ensue. My friend had me listen to it late of night while I pounded on the mac to finish the colors for the children book that's due this week. The ten minute detour was a relaxing break from the knuckle cringing photo-sweat-shop. I will have 10 fewer pages to go after I had made this post. I will admit G-dragon may have a girlish complexion, but it compliments his great ensemble of outfits overall.
I want the white outfit! (Excuse my outburst, it's late and I don't have coffee.)

G-Dragon-Heartbreaker HD from fan joon on Vimeo.

Here's the english cover founded recently after. Excellent!

I can't stop clicking!

www.Dropular.net
If I can just pry my eyes away from this site for one minute I might get more work accomplished. My latest inspirational site Dropular. I have a love/hate relationship for this site. Its an excellent source of inspiration, but it can be an arm and leg difference, for me it takes twice the enjoyment; love of the craft and the alluring creativity. But don't except there will be any resistance to the pile of kitsch provided, but fortunately it is all art related. This site is like a corner drugstore, I grabbed a good dose of visual narcotics wrapped in a nice sized cherry apple sundae wrap. I had to share just some of this flavor with my peeps. 'Know whatImean!' The links are provided from people's searches to fashion designers, photographers,designers,architects and artist. Drop in ( no pun intended) and check out this site, it's addictive, I can't stop clicking away, it's like a sensational gyroscope, there is photos after photos of great links and art dropped by people. You're not going to click just one picture!

I Want that Jacket!

Browsing through Lookbook, the latest hype fashion for males. I had came across this 16-year-old singer in Gothenburg. I love the outfit, I want the jacket so bad I think I have a fever just thinking of it. Everything fits from the scarf down to the shoes. Totally fabulous central.

In a barrel of a shotty lie wings.

I adore these videos. The music by Ramona Falls is really a compliment to the animation directed by Stefan Nadelman. I was absorbed by Stefan's film work after watching the music video. I had to post his other film which I wanted to see in full version. You can purchase it from www.cinema16.org. I'd drop some money for a DVD, no doubt.

Ramona Falls I Say Fever


Terminal Bar

Paper Alterations

Greg Lauren's third solo exhibition has swagger printed all over this instillation. The show is called Alterations. Who would've guessed, Lauren is the nephew of Ralph Lauren. These incredible jackets are not undeniably made to be worn, they were hand-sown with paper.

Pearl

Inspired short story by Mi Ju's painting. My attempt at creating a short story while perusing this painting.

Luna and Dawn had indiscriminately met on a beach. On their first date they discovered a tiny pearl resting on the shore. Luna kept the pearl in a box as a souvenir as a gift from Dawn. They had fallen madly in love since than, and their recrudescent behaviors sought pleasure for each other every day.
They lived on a small island. They both were city drifters on rebound from a big city. They were inseparable they had thought, they glided on their heels before their heads would catch up. Until a few months later, Dawn had restlessly become unhappy. He wanted to improve their livelihood elsewhere, but Luna wanted to stay on the island and start a studio. He believed that the pearl was worth enough to give them a better life if they sold it to a bank, but Luna didn't want to sell the pearl. They argued for weeks till they couldn't agree to disagree. 
To settle their differences they agreed to seal the pearl in a box and hide it on a beach. If their relationship were consummate, they would return to this spot where they hid the pearl. 

It was a full moon that night. Luna carried the box with the pearl to a beach with Dawn at her side. Luna had been sobbing since they left home, but Dawn was too proud to show his feelings. They walked away into the depths of the shore with the Moon's reflective light guiding their heartbroken vestige. They dove underneath where arrays of iridescent reefs and corals lay. Luna spotted a crevice large enough to hide the box so she signaled Dawn to wedge it between the openings. The box vanished immediately as Dawn had released it. They both were astonished. Something had swallowed the box. The crevice had closed up and then a luminous light ignited from the reef and they were dazed. They were still underneath the water when appeared an enormous amphibian chimera with a crowned headpiece of radiant fluorescent tendrils. Luna and Dawn were despondent as they watched its psychedelic body enlarge with creepy jubilation. Schools of fish swam toward it, frothy bubbles rose from its movements. Luna looked like she needed to go up for air, Dawn was dreadfully aghast. Luna fainted. Dawn shook off his fright and acted quickly as his heart had beaten in his chest, he grabbed her with both his hands under her shoulders and carried her to the surface for air. The beast did not follow. It stayed behind. Dawn had her laid flat in the beach sand as he cupped his mouth over her lips. He pressed her chest with his trembling hands and counted frenetically. He pushed air in her chest three times till she coughed out water. Dawn was glad and hugged her. He told her he was sorry as tears fell from his face. Luna looked him in the eyes as she gathered her conscience to tell him something, but all she could say were two mumbling words. Dawn couldn’t hear her, she grasped for her stomach but it didn't make sense to him. He felt sorry for her and he held her close and she wept on his shoulder.
Dawn moved to the city a day after and Luna stayed on the island. Several months later, Luna gave birth to a baby girl. She never told Dawn, because she remembered the pearl they had lost. She wondered if someday Dawn would come back, but she couldn't live on wishful thoughts, she had a daughter to raise and Pearl was her name.

Dione Tea set

Dione Tea sets designed by Vuk Dragovic.

Blu Animation

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Kings of Convenience

Kings of Convenience - Boat Behind from françois nemeta on Vimeo.