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Cirque Du SoGay

So that’s almost 2 weeks right? So here is a poster I illustrated a couple weeks back for the Cirque Du SoGay bike race. You can get the info here. Type design by Elliot Jobe.

AAAAAAND WE'RE BACK!!!

Hip Hop Against Homophobia
Originally uploaded by destructogasm

Alright, I don’t really have any good excuse for not updating my blog here. I suppose the fact that I’ve been buried in my own life is about the best I can come up with. It’s been a long long summer. I broke up with my girlfriend. I started payments on my student loans. I moved and I finally found a job after my seemingly endless search. Hopefully getting over the hump of most of this massive life changes I can finally get back to some kind of regularity. I’m hoping that might include semi regular posts (about every 2 weeks) but generally I don’t like to put up posts without some new work to show with it.
Well this is sort of new (as in from July). It’s a poster I designed for Camp Trans benefit Hip-Hop Against Homophobia. Today I’m working on another poster for the queer Minneapolis bike race, Cirque du SoGay. I should be posting that one soon as well.

Gully Foyle is my Name and Terra is my Nation

Here’s something in the way of a confidence boost. I just finished this book cover for “The Stars My Destination” by Alfred Bester and for once, I’m actually proud of something I did. SHOCKER! That might have something to do with the fact that I’ve have the idea for this illustration in my head for 2 years ever since I finished “The Stars My Destination” and never had the time (ok I’ve had tons of free time. I mean the confidence) to actually just whip it out. Also MCAD is having me show at the annual portfolio day tomorrow so what the hell. It’s a good excuse to make some new work.
Speaking of new work, I’m STILL LOOKING FOR A FUCKING JOB! It’s almost been 6 months since graduation, meaning my student loans are about to go into repayment. I’m not even being picky anymore, I’m seriously at the end of my rope and just need a regular pay check. Outside of that, as far as updates go I am now living with my wonderful girlfriend Jacquie and have been for about 2 months now. She’s in the midst of finals and stressing the fuck out. She needs a break. I guess it’ll be Friday when I post this so my oldest friend Danielle will be graduating today which is exciting cause it means she’ll be moving back to Minneapolis in a few months.
Oh, and one more thing, me and my friends at the Twin Cities Avengers want you to come to Dyke March on June 26th at 7PM that congregates on the steps of the Walker Art Center. It’s a fun and fabulous demonstration against the over commercialized aspects of PRIDE. This years theme is “Consent is Sexy” teaching us all that we should ask before we grab some tail. Hope to see you there. (By the way you don't need to be a Dyke to march. Everyone's invited)

What the hell happened?

I know. I know. I know. I suck at maintaining a blog (by the way my spell check says that isn’t a word. interesting). Well here’s my life in a nut shell for that past four months.
I graduated from MCAD and because the job I had was pretty much based on the pretense that I’m a student, I am now a bum. Stupidly I took a month to sit on my ass instead of looking for work and now I share my time between looking for work and mopping around my apartment depressed because work cannot be found. My girlfriend (and her cat) moved in with me so I guess I’m livin’ in sin (at least as far as my parents are concerned). Now we start the rigorous task of unpacking. I’ve been working mostly in my sketch book but am hoping to actually put out a decent portfolio piece at some point (yeeeeeeah). Here’s a little doodle I just pulled out of my ass of Adam West. Don’t ask me why I did a doodle of Adam West. I also realized that virtually none of the work I’ve put up in my last several posts have been in color. I hope to remedy that soon.
For now the job hunt continues and I continue to look for good excuses to leave the apartment once in a while. Hopefully I’ll get back on the whole one-post-a-week wagon but who knows.