Falling Asleep in Public

I adore watching people falling asleep in public. People wrestling between states of consciousness. Body consciousness drifting away. Unhinged vulnerability. Here are some videos of folks falling asleep in public. It starts off with the wonderfully observed bit by Mr. Bean in church. then on to real-life examples; politicians, businessmen, bus patrons, and a ubiquitous cute baby animal thrown in.



As a follow-up, the beautiful work of a friend of mine, Brian Scott who has a whole corner of photographic work dedicated to the subject: look at the awesome here

MoustacheMay Love

So, last year i got the chance to make a design for the very first official Moustache May t-shirt.

I got to see various folks popping up wearing it.
It was totally outta sight.

THEN, i was browsing around this year's Moustache Mayor page, where all the best photos are posted and what to my bugging-out eyes should appear? a beautiful tribute to the design by the tireless Tashy O'Toole.

I was knocked out.

Now I share:

Sketchbook: may begins

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Stop the Gene Wilder Remakes Tshirts

TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY! {approximately}


It has been two years since the cry went out in the shadow of the movie remakes of Willy Wonka and the Producers, the new Broadway production of Young Frankenstein and rumors of Blazing Saddles' movements toward the stage. Gene Wilder's genius is not replaceable and needs to be preserved for future generations. So i got out my Sharpie and made some calls to screenprinting friends of mine.









The first generation of guerilla t-shirts grew from worrying if I would make the 12 shirt minimum to my inbox filling with impassioned pleas for shirts from around the world. News spread by word of mouth and internet posts until I was stuffing envelopes destined to New York, LA, and Tokyo. A second run (with maroon ink) was demanded after the first sold out.



The wonderful folks at wireandtwine.com caught wind of the design and asked to carry it and hand-print each one for eager customers across the land. i was delighted. I held an informal poll on new color schemes. (the colors of this first run needed to be kept sacred to those lucky enough to join early)

Even picking the perfect chocolate-y brown proved tricky.









Today the shirts are still available for purchase online.

In this time of when remakes seem to outweigh new original work {Clash of the Titans, anyone?} Let's make sure art history is not recorded over and let's make room for more new original view points, how bout.
LONG LIVE THE ORIGINAL CINEMATIC WORK OF GENE WILDER!


Much thanks to Shannon at Commonwealth Press, Michael at yewknee.com and Tom at wireandtwine.com and all the folks who told their friends for helping an idea become reality. xx