I am Gross

Why? Because I made a Prosciutto, butter, & Foie Gras pate sandwich for lunch today. If it were not for the wine, I'm pretty sure these arteries would be pumping Twinkies.

Anyway, here's a photo of it. It's a little blurry so I can imagine that it looks funny:

Puke Puppet Brainstorms

And now for puppet design drafts for a new show by the wonderful Neo-Futurists. This show is called Beer, and it will heavily feature animation & puppets by yours truly. Another joint venture with the wonderful Dan Kerr-Hobert! January is right around the corner. Below, you'll find some drawings for a hat-full of puke that comes alive to become a young boy's friend/guide. We wonder if he out-grows the hat as a chair, at some point wearing it on his head:

And sure enough I managed to make a phallic one before passing out. Why would I do this?

Idhi oka idi le

Thanks, Journalista! What a wild ride:

Nerd Over-Drive

~Either I am learning or having fun~Want to explore Poincaré Dodecahedral Space for yourself? This resource might be responsible for how I spend the next two hours:
Curved Spaces flight simulator

Prometheus Rubs the F Ring

Unbearable!

Mountains of Stars

Stars that fit into pentagons are a major part of the bloated graphic novel in progress, An Army of Lovers will be Beaten. So here I'm sharing some illustrations from Matila Ghyka's book The Geometry of Art and Life:

Plus one random Google Image search item that illustrates a fractal dodecahedron-sphere, much like how some theorize the universe is shaped. Enter one side and pop out the other. Well, if you were residual microwaves from the big bang at least.
Holy crap!

Dwelling on Today September 14, 2008

Old David Foster Wallace did himself in Friday at the not-old age of 46. It's brought a very real tear to my eye.But along that there have been dwellings on beautiful things like the Megamouth Shark. The first recorded finding of one happened in Hawaii 1976, future home of one blessed Patrick Tianen:

And there is this Incredible Scottish Cow, found while casually looking for references to draw beautiful cows:
The world is a cornucopia of reasons to weep, whether for being all bummed out, astounded, or warmed by something as cute as a super harry cow.

SCRAPPERS

A few things:

First, can you make it to the Scrappers' Benefit tonight?
I hope so! Info below:

Second, a super-sonically brief Life & Times update.
I socialized:

I traveled to a time where "we don't need roads:"

And I pulled a dying bee off my sweater while waiting for the train:

Fin!

Book 3 Excerpt plus More Army of Lovers Notes

Thinking of You, Wish You Were Here

Being in love really is the fuzzy, knot in the super-string of life.

BUH!

The success of last night's experiment helps us all sleep a little better & keeps my eye on the little miracles in life. Those Swiss geniuses & their Super Collider Beast justifiably leads Alexis Madrigal to call it the "new Chuck Norris, capable of, and culpable for, everything from creating Milk Duds to causing celibacy."

Scrappers Benefit!

It's 100% essential-fun that you attend this event coming up! I'll be helping to make it possible & would be ecstatic to see your beautiful face there!

This coming FRIDAY there will be a benefit party for SCRAPPERS, a documentary film by Brian Ashby, Ben Kolak, and Courtney Prokopas. It would be splendid if you could join us in all the festivities!

In the meantime, please check out our article in Time Out Chicago, as well as the forthcoming write-up on Gaper's Block.

*****

Benefit for Scrappers

Friday, September 12th, 2008
6-10pm
at The AV-aerie
2000 W. Fulton
Chicago

FEATURING:
-scenes from the film
-large triple-channel projection (one night only!)
-conversation with the filmmakers and subjects
-tickets available to a private screening of the finished film
-musical performances by:

Frank Rosaly
Jonathan Crawford/Frank Rosaly/Michael Zerang percussion trio
The Friction Brothers
DJ John Corbett

$10 suggested donation at the door
RSVP required, to scrapmovie@gmail.com

If you have any questions or require any special assistance please contact us at scrapmovie@gmail.com.

Raging Love for Chicago/ Humanity Today

Finally completely moved into the new apartment. If you had known where I lived before ~ just imagine about four blocks east. We are indescribably in love with the new setup. Above is one of many Catalpa trees that partially inspires all of "An Army of Lovers will be Beaten." See drawing below:

Doodle and Song that Inspired It

"Man In The Tree"

By Tom Rapp

The man in the tree is staring at me
All of the blood dripping down
He says: where are you bound?
Said: I'm going to town to pawn my crown
And never come back here again

My lady in waiting is weaving a robe
Of silk and moonlight and now
And she never asks how
So pleasant a task she never asks
And she only listens to friends

The man at the store he looks at my crown
Listens to my sad tale
He says it never fails
If the crown is for sale, I'll give you some nails
But you can only use them on friends

The man in the tree was staring at me
As I passed by again on that day
He said I'd got in his way
Said: nails aren't the way to be free to stay
So I traded them all for the end
Went back to my lady in waiting and all of her friends