Jazz Times
Monday, August 25, 2008
this was for jazz times magazine. it was for an article about how to prepare an admissions application (for jazz schools) and how not to make the admissions guys toss their audition cds out the window.
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Wall St. Journal
This was for Saturday's wall st. journal. it was for an article about two guys getting big bucks plugging products. Jerry Seinfeld for Microsoft and Micheal Phelps for Kellogg's.
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Ninjas and Tigers
This is a self promo piece. i intended it to be for the young readers book cover market. I have been tossing these characters around for a while and i finally got a chance to finish this.
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Sketches from China
Thursday, August 14, 2008
It's been a long while since I added any posts to my illustration blog because I've just been having too much fun here in Beijing. Here are some sketches from the other side of the world.
bob on our airchina flight to china. we sat on the runway sweating for over an hour with no air conditioning. This would just be a primer for the amount of sweating we would be doing all month in china.
girl DJ at the Black Sun Bar
Bob fiddling with his ipod mini
old chinese woman sitting by lake houhai
illustration/graphic design buddy QQ. also some old guy at a restaurant.
dumb looking japanese guy in the airport on our way to japan.
Carrey/Carrie...spelled differently than normal. She has a gallery in the 798 gallery district in Beijing
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Paper I bought in Japan
Sunday, August 03, 2008
More Paper I got in Japan. also detail shots of the large pieces i got. Inspiration a plenty here. The detail shots have patterns that are all taken from Kimonos from some era in the old days.
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Stuff I bought in Japan
I didnt' buy that much stuff in Japan because i'm not really a shopper and i'm to g-damn indecisive to ever buy anything and I'm really cheap too. I bought mostly art related stuff. And Beer. and Onigiri (riceballs) at the various convenience stores.
I finally found some sweet Japanese paper! Masako used to work at Sogo in Osaka and there is a paper store in there. the guy said that these were all taken from Kimonos from some era. there were $1.50-$2.50 per sheet. there were tons of other amazing papers that were on huge sheets that i couldnt buy because they were expensive and too huge. I need these for inspiration. I am in love with these, i want to rub them all over my body, but that would make them disintegrate when they come in contact with my grosso shweaty body.
got this little box at sogo also. I went to sogo in beijing yesterday and it is so suck. no japanese stuff, only chinese stuff.
got these in kyoto, not at good. if you want to see more paper i bought then you can check them out on my illustration blog.
jonny managed to get this weird job where he inspects pens. inspects pens! anyway i think that is where he got these and gave them to me.
i got two of these watercolor books in osaka
i got bob a pair of bunny rabbit ninja socks with 2 toes. Now i just remembered that I should have gotten him to different kinds because he wears only mismatching socks.
some ear spoons.
gonna try these japanese pencils. HB is how i roll. i'm guessing japan is like korea and there are big conglomerate corporations that make a wide range of stuff such as Mitsubishi, who knew they made pencils too?
here is a good example of the range of toys you can buy from vending machines here. on the left a kids toy from the anpanman show and on the right a bound up adult toy. have fun kiddies
Akari's mom used to work at this art store in tokyo in Ginza. i got a watercolor postcard set and finally found watercolor water brushes that unscrew into two parts and fit in my travel watercolor kit.
All i could get wat this little Ponyo poster. i can't wait to watch it with english subtitles. i will go cry myself to sleep now.
i got this sweet brush pen with a refill capsule. they had like 30 different kinds of brush pens at this store. it was beautiful. they also had the cadillac of pencil holders there that i should have purchased now after second though.
this is the piece of paper i pulled out of the fortune drawer at some temple in tokyo. apparently it is supposed to be the best one where all my wishes will come true.
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Last of Tokyo
So I had a debate with myself as to if I should put this on my illustration blog or not because lot of art directors look at this. But I figure if they are interested enough to look at my blog after seeing my website then why not give them their money's worth? besides blogs are supposed to be a little more fun and personal. If you are an art director and are disgusted by my ogre face and horrible taste I am sorry. At least you can be thankful we won't have to meet in person and my ogre-ness will confined to my home.
the other night i asked vivi's friends what I could be for holloween this year since i have to be a japanse cartoon character every year. they suggested gatchapin, some guy i've never heard of. so we were walking around this store and then bam I see this gatchapin costume. and it was only $40!!!!! of course i had to buy it!
this is more what he looks like. but on the real live aaction show he is as big as barney and he waterskiis, breakdances, skiis, scuba dives, and does all kinds of crazy stuff.
i said where can i wear this thing? of course shibuya!
i am so SUPER bummed that my camera ran out of batteries or else i would have some super crazy shots of me in this suit. I know all of you are bummed too. I am going to have to get some crazy shots in this thing. Only i don't know how i will fare in china. if you never hear from me again its because i am in a dungeon jail because of this suit or something related.
don't be sad Gatchapin. you will have a new home soon.
sake vending machine
this is the shower/bath area of the hotel. cheap hotels in china all have shared baths (there was just a toilet in the hotel room).
on the shinkansen. I fell asleep and missed Mt. Fuji the first time i rode the shinkansen so i had to stay awake to see it this time. I waited by the window around the time i calculated for 20 minutes and was like what's going on and went to the other window and there he was ! Fuji-san. I saw him for about 20 seconds before we went into a mountain tunnel and he was never to be seen again. It was MAGICAL. they say in the lonely planet book that Fuji-san is very elusive and it is hard to see it except for a few times a year because of haze and clouds and atmospheric crap. I feel like this is something that they could have based "big bird goes to japan" on
waiting for the train to the airport back in osaka. didnt ride this one though.
a cute train supervisors type girl.
sorry but i am just transformed into a 5 year old when i see clouds like this
i like how you can see the curve of the earth
when we were taxiing in taiping, China we went by a bunch of fighter jets. kind of scary that they are at a "civilian" airport. there were tons of guys covering them up with tarps.
on this flight back to bejing they treated us to a box with 2 bread rolls in it! and 2 heigene wet turban needless washes! WELCOME BACK TO CHINA JASON, no more quality for you, but that's ok because i'm broke now.
a bowing geisha thing in Kyoto in one of the shops around Kiyomizu Dera. I was mesmorized by this thing for some reason. maybe it was the heat. Maybe i wanted one of these at my door to bow unfailingly everytime I leave and come home. VIDEO
me going about 180mph on the shinkansen "bullet train" between osaka and tokyo. VIDEO
this is the speedboat stadium in osaka near jonny's house. this is where all those old guys were betting on races. its a panorama CLICK TO ENLARGE!
a panorama of the triangle shaped park in America Mura in Osaka. A very cool area for people watching. lots of young folks and crazy fashions CLICK TO ENLARGE!
If you're like me and your japanese beer knowledge was limited to Asahi, Sapporo, and Kirin then you would have been tickled pink when you walked into the grocery store. this is by jonnys house in osaka. There are about a million kinds of Japanese beer/Hoposhu/whatever the new stuff is. I think i managed to try most of them in 8 days, especially thanks to our beer sampling night that night where we got about 10 different kinds. Again with the Japanese it was all quality! i open up beers here in Beijing wether they be Tsingdao or Heieken and a lot of times they are flat and tasting oh so weird.
the beer cooler isle just keeps stretching onward.
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