Receipt (brunch)

A puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters; for instance, apex might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by the letter X.




ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from French rébus, from Latin rebus, ablative plural of res, 'thing.'

Kyaraben

So this happened back in December, but I found the pictures and I was like, "yeahhhh!" There was a book signing at Giant Robot and you got a cookie† if you brought a bento box, so I made one. Except I don't have a bento box, or tupperware, or anything like that really, so I made a sea-diorama in a jar. There's an inside-jar with lunch, and an outside-jar with desert. See –

octo-sausages, sandy-rice, sea star-carrots, a pickle-sea cucumber

carrot crabs! it's hard to see the dill-seaweed

then the jell-o cooled around the inside jar, with big apricot-tunas attacking Swedish fish; next time i'll subtly sweeten a clear gelatin, cause it was like, three servings of absurdly saccharin, almost opaque gloop.

Giant Robot has a slideshow with pictures of the whole event.

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†cookie = book, in this case

Shark!

These are some detailed images from a project I did on continuous narrative, with an accordion book. I was trying to scan it again the other day, but in the end it'd pretty hard to give a sense of the thing to someone without presenting them the actual physical object. These pictures, for example, are just the bottom third of three consecutive pages. I had the full pages up earlier, (with some burn and dodge), but I like the way these crops came out.

Some Trajectories

I was involved with an excellent culture site until very recently, when it was taken down for reasons of artistic objective. I just made that up, I don't exactly know why it's down. I suspect it may be for good, though, so I'm going to repost a few things that left with the site.

I actually had a link up to the last one before – clearly recognizable if you've already checked out my other beast prints. I wrote a sweet blurb about it for So:

I want to read little-known secrets penned by well-known scholars of some forgotten caliphate; elaborated from a Pharaohnic death manual, a bound vellum volume captured during Alexandrine campaigns into The East, or both. The text in question will show certain influences, peculiar in their combination – Vedism, Kabbalah, the Island of Mu, and traces here and there recognizable only to those versed in the ways of the Incan khipu kamayuq. Impartial records will indicate the grimoire's passing inexplicably from Turkish petty-khans to the well-to-do of the Low Country; optimally, it will have been procured from the Nazis before the fall of Berlin.

To fulfill this desire, I must know a minimum of eight dead languages – no less than two of which I am to have invented myself.

Editor went with something else. Oh well – I'm like, halfway on the dead languages thing.


I go nuts for manticores. They're rockin'.

Cyclopes, too. What's up, in-the-plura~l?

This language has already been displaced by a successive script.

Pen & Ink

This is for a project I have no affiliation with whatsoever. That said, it inaugurates an exciting return to pen & ink for not-me, and the equally exciting advent of scanned images that look better and don't require massive level adjustments in Photoshop just to be visible.

Album Covers

Part of a series for a collaboration about biomes with Clifton Ingram.


Another project in a similar vein, about predators and prey.


Knight School's The Poor and Needy Need to Party.


Beau Alessi's upcoming Monster Island EP2.

Accordion Book

These are some early shots of a project that was meant to explore continuous narrative in the form of an accordion book. I want to do another draft, and optimally make the book itself.

My Turn Has Come Full Circle

This is part of an ongoing, internally circulated project that involves a lot of inside jokes; consequently, in terms of textual content I imagine a lot of it doesn't come across, or the picture (as it were) ends up being somewhat incomplete. However, I'm pretty into the chop. Originals included for comparison.