i like how the air smells different now, much colder and clearer and of dried leaves and rain.

Imagine the Sun watching Ikarus and his dad prepare the wings..

Some girls for the Mail Me More Art Project. It says on the project site, that artists should write on the envelope “empty” or “open me”, depending on if there is something inside..i’m definitely putting something in my envelope. Not as a bribe (cute typo: “not as a bride” ha!), but because it must suck to receive so much cool mail and never a letter.

edit: then again, i don’t know about that..maybe other artists are stuffing their envelopes with naked pictures and money or cheesecake or kittens..i really wouldn’t know. huh.. what do you think i should mail? I just feel that if a student pays 6 € for a package to be sent to Britain, then it should contain something…

thanks to twitter and michael nobbs this project caught my attention: Mail Me Art 2
Since i already had lots of fun with the concept while drawing for Minisprech and was looking for an excuse to get out my  Acryl colours..i made several mail-able pieces. This is one of them. Not knowing where to start i cut a square out of the cardboard and started from there. I guess because i had just seen several videos of Blu and the stopmotion magic, i drew some teeth. And the cardboard became a hungry lady. But the really interesting thing happened after that..i played..boy did i have fun

so there is that. please comment if you have experienced joy over stupid small things too and of course i want to see you and your square-hole-lady-card, too !

What if..there was this boy..and he was very ugly. His skin was spotted and pale. He wore the clothes that everybody else wore. And he never said anything interesting..BUT: What nobody would ever see was that his germs were pretty. So  unbelievably pretty that all the other germs came to the boys body to meet the pretty germs.

Right now, i’m sharing my bed with Bill Brysons “A short history of nearly everything”, hoping i get to dream of stars and solar systems. no luck yet..  i did enjoy his musings on aliens abducting humans (he comes to the conclusion that while aliens would probably not abduct humans,  teenagers aliens would)

While Michael Nobbs is pondering the analogue world, i thought about a scene from last years christmas special of Dr Who. “What is that?” -”why, this is my sonic screwdriver.” “how is is sonic? it’s a regular screwdriver!” -”*tock-tock* it makes a sound. that’s sonic, isn’t it?”

The reason that i always smile wednesday evening is not a secret rendezvous but a course i’m taking at community college: theatre! In december, we’ll be playing the Hypochondriac by Molière for your entertainment. It’ll be a modern interpretation of the play. And i’m making the poster. Which one do you like the best ??

I was re-reading “Blankets” by the amazing Craig Thompson when i drew these little fellas. (check page 44 of your copy)

Last weekend i met someone who is not familiar with the comic/graphic novel-scene. So i am including instructions, just in case you are too. I seem to be forgetting that there are normal people, too.

Get “Blankets” ! Find out, if your library has it. It really is very very good. Check out Craig Thompsons other work, too (Carnet de voyage and Chunky Rice!) and while you are at it, get Art Spiegelmanns “Maus” and Marjane Satrapis “Persepolis” and “American Elf” by James Kochalka. And “Bone” by Jeff Smith (if you are into great drawing and/or fantasy). Hmm..yes, i think those are the highlights. Do you agree?