The view from our hotel balcony looks out over a big open field, adjacent to which sits this church. Â Not a fancy or ornate building, but when the sun hits it in the morning, it’s blindingly bright. Â It also rings bells throughout the day and plays “Ave Maria” every day at 6 p.m. Â Nice if you like that sort of thing, but I imagine if you lived there, the novelty would soon fade.
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So my friend and former workmate Stephenie was kind enough to leave behind a box of Duplo at work. Â I figured it was time to build something and do a quick sketch of it. Â So what to build with a limited amount of Duplo? Â Well, this is what you get when you let the wordplay dictate the design process: a pretty ugly “Duplo duplex” (complete with cubist palm tree in the front yard)!
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Today at work, I spent a few minutes in the TV studio making some HD dubs. Â Not far from those machines is this almost-forgotten beast from back before I was born. (Sorry, Jon Hicks, if you’re reading this!)
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…but this is what stores my LEGO. Â Growing up, we had a couple of tackle boxes like these packed with bricks. Â My brother hung onto those, so I finally got around to buying a couple myself for the LEGO I have. Â And yes, I know it’s a little reminiscent of “Gene, The Anal Retentive Carpenter” — but hey, it beats shoving it all in a giant trashbag (ahem, childhood Kelly).
What’s that? Â You don’t remember that classic Phil Hartman bit? Â Well, here for a limited time is one of the related sketches. Enjoy.
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Kinda surprised it took this long for this to show up in a sketch. Â It’s a bargain basement cheapie, but it does the job. Â Maybe if I played it more though, I could “outgrow” it and upgrade. Â Okay, so nobody tell my wife about this little scheme…
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Fifty days ago, I launched an ingenious plan to encourage increased local baked goods production. Â I’m pleased to report that it’s been immensely successful. Â So today, I enacted phase two: Operation Transcendently Fluffy Sifted Ingredients. Â Yes, I’m working on a less cumbersome name.
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Ah, yachting — a pastime that combines three of my very favorite things: pretension, motion sickness and Sperry Topsiders.
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This is a follow-on from yesterday’s drawings. Â I’m currently working on an idea to develop a series of kid-friendly characters around this and future Mars rovers. Â So where yesterday’s sketches were basically a simplified version of the real thing, this is the next step — finding ways to integrate basic expressions and characteristics within/around the established structure. Â We’ll see how this develops…
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Another few sketches for a project I’m working on. Â This is the NASA’s next Mars rover, currently under construction at JPL. Â Through a nationwide naming contest won by a Kansas sixth-grader, this rover has been dubbed “Curiosity.” Â And with a head-mounted laser, it ought to make short work of any extraterrestrial felines.
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July 16: the long-awaiting opening day of “Inception.” Â After seeing the 10 a.m. showing, my wife and I were talking about it all day. Â I suppose it’s not surprising then, that at the end of the day, this is the sketch that came out of my brain.
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