http://www.frogisis.com The Art and Illustrations of Jon Lyons Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:41:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Made a cute little painting the other day, just for some practice and to change gears a bit. Check it out in the "Paintings" section. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StudioFrogisis/~3/Vo102bnmTuM/ http://www.frogisis.com/823/yellow/ Just got back from seeing a talk by Jules Pfeiffer, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, and Chris Ware at a school here in Chicago. Fantastically interesting, especially in their encouragement of pursuing ones' own artistic sensibilities in order to keep things genuine. I've got to get more portfolios out ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StudioFrogisis/~3/0T3Bc5jMEgE/ http://www.frogisis.com/817/good-paneling/ I survived Halloween, which was a lot of fun. I really could not have wished for it to go better. Waiting to get pictures, though. Today is my birthday, but first, a little inking, and then off to see some friends and a comedy show. There will be ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StudioFrogisis/~3/qXqvinwfRgU/ http://www.frogisis.com/815/row-row-fight-the-powah/ Got around to putting the 'Ex Occultus" promo images into the "Digital" section. Go Czech them out. And have a happy Halloween weekend, everyone! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StudioFrogisis/~3/DshQ9LAcyj8/ http://www.frogisis.com/807/victorian-adventure-wot-wot/ For some reason I'm really excited for Halloween this year. Perhaps it's because Madison's famously over-the-top celebration, which I'm most familiar with, was starting to crumble under the weight of concerns such as "safety" and "preventing property damage" (Truly, once tear gas is taken out of the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StudioFrogisis/~3/lU6TQk2kToY/ http://www.frogisis.com/795/the-two-hour-witching-hour/ I just finished my Halloween costume while watching the very seasonally-appropriate "Brazil," which is still as amazing and disturbing as I remember it. Liberal Democracy always bills itself as rule by laws instead of men, but it's nice to have a little piece of art like that to remind ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StudioFrogisis/~3/su3DvSyGnzk/ http://www.frogisis.com/790/duct-tape-and-ducts-lots-of-ducts/ If anyone ever tells you that you can't painfully injure yourself while pooping, they're mistaken. Sorely mistaken. (Wordplay!) I brought up Elvis, however, to also serve as a segue into another, very different blast from the past: I was organizing my art files earlier, and found this old, old, old ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StudioFrogisis/~3/H75xXvxBU3I/ http://www.frogisis.com/781/the-lesson-of-elvis/ Dookie was the first album anyone my age ever bought. Anyway, this is a fascinating read: NewScientist on how the brain "does" time. Got some stuff for my Halloween costume yesterday at a thrift place close to the grocery store: 1 flannel shirt, 1 orange hunter vest, 1 tennis racket, ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StudioFrogisis/~3/BIQYXbxZQZg/ http://www.frogisis.com/778/dooooo-you-have-the-time-to-read-about-my-mind/ Comedy went well last night - Nothing special, but the new material seemed to go over well enough. I should get a video or something up at some point; there was a guy there with a camera, and I'll have to make friends with him somehow... Today was mostly boring ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StudioFrogisis/~3/yg5nA2mnG2w/ http://www.frogisis.com/776/gotta-say-it-was-a-good-day/ Feeling a lot better today. I'd been taking over the counter sleeping pills to help normalize my schedule, but they just made me feel like a complete slug the next day so I quit, and now I have the energy to face whatever I need to do without making ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StudioFrogisis/~3/iCXkw7YgE5s/ http://www.frogisis.com/770/we-can-be-heroes/