Birds and Insects are Watching..

Very early drawings for the Wasp Project i'm starting.

crossroads

So Robby and T' won the music video at the Crossroads Film-festival here in town. Its pretty sweet. I also watched this Australian flick about Alexander Pearce. It was pretty cool, very well done, intense. One of the actors in the film was there and we hung out with him for a few nights. he was a funny guy, really cool. And this other french guy from Marseille who was an actor and seemed to be quite an accomplished dancer as well. nice guy. Making dose connects.

heres robs vid....its tho awesthom!! (and you gotta fullsreen dat sturfs)

After the Fall - Taylor Hildebrand from Robby Piantanida on Vimeo.

it already has almost a thousand views on vimeo. and its been up for three days. booyeah.

LawSchools Video by Robby

Law School - King of the Crops from Robby Piantanida on Vimeo.

Oh and I forgot I wanted to Share this.

". . . Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. you ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines. For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-- they are experiences. For the sake of a single poem, you must see many cities, many people and Things, you must understand animals, must feel how birds fly, and know the gesture which small flowers make when they open in the morning. You must be able to think back to streets in unknown neighborhoods, to unexpected encounters, and to partings you had long seen coming; to days of childhood whose mystery is still unexplained, to parents whom you had to hurt when they brought in a joy and you didn't pick it up (it was a joy meant for somebody else--); to childhood illnesses that began so strangely with so many profound and difficult transformations, to days in quiet, restrained rooms and to mornings by the sea, to the sea itself, to seas, to nights of travel that rushed along high overhead and went flying with all the stars,--and its is still not enough to be able to think of all that. You must have memories of many nights of love, each one different from all the others, memories of women screaming in labor, and of light, pale, sleeping girls, who have just given birth and are closing again. But you must also have been beside the dying, must have sat beside the dead in the room with the open window and the scattered noises. And it is not yet enough to have memories. You must be able to forget them when they are many, and you must have the immense patience to wait until they return. For the memories themselves are not important. Only when they have changed into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless, no longer to be distinguished from ourselves--only then can it happen that in some very rare hour the first word of a poem arises in the midst and goes forth from them. "

[For The Sake Of A Single Poem] from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Bridge, Rainer Rilke

And for fun.

"Some people say that the words 'scum' and 'rotten' are wrong for objective journalism, which is true; but they miss the point."

Hunter S. Thompson

more drawings and stuff.

Beard update for those that I do not see very often. Its after a day of work, but I thought that "fixing it up" would be sort of unbeard-like.

So I've been working. I've been enjoying it as well, which is good because for a while there I thought I was a class A bum that couldn't hold a job for more than a month or two if he tried. Turns out I only hate working cruddy jobs, which I'm ok with.

I really need a car. I believe that I will soon be able to acquire one but not yet. It causes me to be tired.

(also these images are in the reverse order I wanted them....but I don't feel like fixing it. also for some reason they are different sizes...?....but again don't care enough to know. you can zoom in or out on your browser by pressing ctrl. + or - ....if you weren't already aware)

A 25 minute pose at Belhaven's drawing session. I like certain things and lack others. One thing I did figure out is that I wanted to emphasize how skinny she was but was having trouble showing how little she was as well because of that (she is very small and skinny.) I didn't pay very much attention to the face here and consequently the head, which I was ok with; but when I went back and looked at it I realize that her head is too small. IF I had made her head larger or even oversized it would have made her appear smaller, solving the problem.

Joe...quickly

I like this one...it was a good exercise experience

Fairly pleased with this developing and the character of it.

quick landscape...(the camera on my comp flips the image.)

hand partial...

Tippy toes deciding what to order at broadstreet. this might actually be Peuderbaugh, or however you spell it.

"T" playing a solo set. In the left one the face has good likeness while I like the right one because it looks like he's playing.

These weren't supposed to be last...they are older and arn't as good. Sorry for no happy ending.

I love ya'll.

Work.

I have worked all week at 9 hrs a day, and I don't feel like a conscious something thats been discarded into the sewer to contemplate how much its life sucks.....I actually feel good, and tomorrow and the next day I have off which makes them that much better of an off day because I get to enjoy rest without dreading the work to follow.

Also, I have great friends. Because of them I spent money for the first time, yesterday, since the first week of February. Being broke sucks; and now it feels like there has been a huge weight lifted and I can see a little bit of light through which I can move on.

all my thanks is to the Father, some of which is getting their through my brothers and sisters.

more stuff.

here are some drawings over the past week or so. they are roughly in chronological order. I'm not feeling "very good" about my drawing right now, but I am doing some new things and that's good. I don't feel like im "stuck."

For instance, I've been drawing from imagination a bit. this first one is sort of from a guy I saw for like a split second and saw something I could do with his face so I made up the face making that pull. It sort of worked I think but not fully.

trying to get back into my continuous line:

this one should be down after the girls (I drew it right after messing around with those) on the bottom but oh well. Its without live reference, just kinda thinking about line:

trying to see/feel mass:

gesture then developed a bit:

I saw this girl in Broadstreet today and she was throwing down these awesome stances. some people just stand in interesting/cool/dynamic ways. anyway I gestured a few things and then just spontaneously started breaking it down into line and trying hard to make it "work."

standing:

walking (sort of discovered from messing around with the "standing")

Flippin', trippin', sippin' on that fluffy white breeze.

Some recent stuff

I don't really have a camera except for the one in my computer so the picture quality sucks but I wanted my mentors to see them.