(A Tragedy in the Key of Bourbon Minor) There are bureaucratic errors that get corrected, and then there are people like Eliphas Plunk — clerical oddities of existence on which somebody, somewhere, stamped approved out of blind fatigue. He was the human equivalent of a form filed in triplicate and lost in the mail; a man who arrived at life without a manual and kept insisting the missing pages were art. He looked like a person who had once been […]
In the annals of television history there are names that echo through the corridors of time, their contributions immortalized in the chronicles of pop culture. Then, there are names like Sylvia Shichman — a footnote, a whisper, a fleeting moment in the grand tapestry of entertainment. Yet, within that fleeting moment lies a story of absurdity, influence, and the kind of offbeat brilliance that only the truly unconventional can appreciate. Eight years ago I wrote a short blog post here […]
I have no new artwork to post this week. So, I thought I’d post a picture of myself that was taken recently. Aren’t I a pretty man? (…and, by “pretty man”, I actually mean “giant, shaggy ogre”.)
Some of my graphic design work was used on last night’s episode of SyFy channel’s show Face Off. The imagery that the show’s prop creators used to create the spell books are my designs. They appeared on episode 10 of season 11, entitled “Cursed Covens“.
I know practically nothing about the woman, but I’m intrigued. The internet seems to contain precious little information about her. I know that she passed away on February 22nd of 2002, at the age of 70, of a stroke. I know she collected old greeting cards, eyeglasses and cell phones, which she would then pass on to the Hollywood Lions’ Club — who would, in turn, use them in some way to generate funds for charity. I know she was […]