J Chris Campbell

Today I went to my son’s school and drew robots with his classmates!

Go here and check out what all the kids did and download the template for yourself.

Someone said when you hear a sudden tone in your ear that slowly fades it is the Swan Song of a certain note that you will never hear again. I’ve noticed this happens fairly often recently and every time it’s like a little sad goodbye from my eardrum. Regardless I’ve yet to research the truth in the saying or go get my ears checked. But I did manage to do this little illustration about it.

Last year I ran across this site that does graphical representations of any website. The graphing takes place live via a java application. You’ll see an explosion of dots that continues to grow while you watch with each dot representing a certain thing:
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

There’s a Flickr tag if you’d liked to see more. But I’d suggest going there and typing in one of your favorite websites. I went ahead and did your most favorites below. You can even compare them from 05/07 & 02/08.

jchriscampbell.com

wideawakepress.com

as a nice contrast here is adhousebooks.com

As an interesting side note, the program was created by artist Fernando Luis Lara who is a part of the internet based art projects. His is 365 special days, where he paints a painting by request for commision for people who want a special day remembered. Everyday is for sale and he is only doing the day once. www.365specialdays.com

For more of this kind of thing be sure to check out these sites:

1000 Paintings
Wants for sale
Needs for sale
Salathe & White
I’d lump the million dollar homepage in with this whole set even though it’s not really art, but the idea is the same.

I should have broken this up into another post, but that would have required me doing more research and eventually coming up with some silly idea where I draw 500 robots or something.

I like having something brand new at every show I go to. It doesn’t always happen but I try. For ACE I continued my theme of Flowers and Robots. Ending up with 3 out of 5 being on topic. Not so shabby I guess.

What is shabby is the scan job I did on these suckers. The colors either get completely washed out or really saturated. Now I don’t have the originals to adjust them like. But hey, I was walking out the door so I’m glad I even took the time to capture them in the first place.

Can you guess the 3 that sold at the show?

This year at ACE a bunch of artists were given Munnys to customize at the show. Andy Runton and I teamed up on a Munny and Munny Mobile based on this guy with flowers in his mouth. This little guy along with the mobile and tons of other Munnys will be actioned off sometime soon with the real money going to RIF.

Looking for these guys?

Many years ago my friend gave me a box set of the first season to The Office. A British television show that he swore was amazingly awesome. So we watched an episode. It was painful. We watched more episodes and they were equally if not more painful. It was funny stuff, but painfully funny stuff. For some odd reason I couldn’t get into it.
When the American version came on I was front and center. I loved it and came back week after week for more. It didn’t feel quite as real as the British version and maybe that’s what made it more accessible for me. It was funny but not in a painful way or maybe not as often as it’s father was.
But I’m wondering if now that there are no new episodes of The Office until April 10th if I shouldn’t call my friend up and tell him I’m ready for the original now.

I did this Jim Halpert illustration for Pat Lewis’ Sketch the Office

I’m working on some water color robots to have for ACE. I bought some ink and a brush to see if I liked the way it worked. I tested the it last night real quick on the water color paper I have. It was fun to do so I think I’ll use it on the final water colors and scan them for you when I finish. Or you could just come to ACE and take one home with you!