illustration | Isaac and the Awkward Situations

Feb 20 2016

Reveca Torres, Backbones, reinventing the wheel

Backbones is a site with resources for people living with disabilities such as spinal chord injuries. These people appreciate being included, invite them to events, make sure your facilities and events are accessible to people with disabilities. Don’t leave anyone out! Don’t do it because if you don’t you could get sued, do it because you are human and they are human and everyone has something to contribute.
REINVENTING THE WHEEL is an art show featuring people who live in wheelchairs living their lives. Being athletes, poets, artists, lovers, humans! I know it’s cliche to call such art “inspirational,” but it was an honest, beautiful show. Reveca Torres told us her life story and how she’s been able to be a fashion designer despite her disability.

Tagged activism, americans with disabilities, backbones, reinventing the wheel, reveca torres

Feb 19 2016

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illustration, music

Jargon and Cambrian Explosion

Jargon is a garage rock band from Eugene. They mix it up by sampling familiar music sometimes but playing it live on their guitars and bass. They played a theremin without a volume antennae, just coming near it sometimes.
Didn’t I make their lettering look awesome? Cambrian explosion is a drone noise sorcerer music post rock band from Portland. They also play a theremin.

I recall some of their songs had oriental and Egyptian sounding scales, and others had a very heavy dub sound like Dub Trio. I apolgize that this drawing is not up to snuff. This really isn’t as good as my usual stuff. For one thing. There is just a red square shape where a guy’s torso should be, the words are illegible and so much of the image is just filled in black. I’m sorry guys, I let you down. I pledge to make the next 100 better.

Tagged cambrian explosion, eugene, garage, jargon, old nicks, post rock

Feb 10 2016

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Built to Spill

Boise, Idaho’s most famous band shared their epic rock jams with us in Eugene at the Wow Hall.

Doug Martsch played “The Plan,” “Carry the Zero” and a few other old songs. His solos are long and weird but sound really cool! “Strange” and “You were Right” were unfortunately not on the set list, but it was great.

I drew them several years ago in Austin Texas.

Tagged built to spill, doug march, wow hall

Feb 10 2016

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House of Tarab

This band plays music from old Egyptian films. They have belly dancers dance live while they perform! They are based in Seattle and their keyboard player plays a synth and makes it sound like a dozen middle eastern instruments.

Tagged bellydance, Cozmic Pizza, house of tarab

Feb 06 2016

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Art education, illustration

Human ottoman rotoscope project.

I’m working on animation for a music video for Human Ottoman. I am attempting a style known as “rotoscoping.” This was used by Disney artists, in the Beatles film, “Yellow Submarine” and Ralph Bashki in his film “American Pop.”

Click here to see it in action?

and Here!

Here are some pictures

Basicallly, I put a projector on a keyboard stand pointing down onto my desk.

From there, I bring up the movie I am tracing and go frame by frame. Then I will edit the drawings in Photoshop. The layers tool allows me to stack them by assigning different layers more transparency. Then I think I will use Apple iMovie to put them together and “print” as a moving image.

I can do wild weird effects to the drawings, color them, or cut them up and move them around stop motion stlyle. I will post more here when I finish.

Tagged animation, diy, homemade rotoscoping, Human Ottoman

Jan 25 2016

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Llorona

Llorona play haunting ballads: jazzy, touching, personal beautiful.

I’m embarrassed that I drew the violinist with such a prominent nose, so I redrew her as a full body pose.

Here is the black and white, if you are interested.

Tagged eugene, llorona, luckys

Jan 07 2016

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Malcolm Kuntz

Rockstar Malcolm Kuntz played a set at the hifi music hall lounge. With originals about death, vampires and crime he will make you laugh and think. When he plays Iggy Izaleas and Justin Timberlake covers, all the ladies strip their clothes and gyrate suggestively.

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Jan 07 2016

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Eleinvaders

Eleinvaders played Hi-Fi Lounge jan 8.they bring some swing and ska grooves into the jam band sound. There were some real cool ‘call and response’ riffs between the clarinet and the guitar. When they said, “this songs about paradise, that turns out to not be so great.” “I said, hey I saw that Star Trek…and that Twilight Zone!”