A drawing a did tonight. I think…. more birds are needed!

Happy Birthday Joel!

I’m working on an illustration and I really am in need of feedback. It doesn’t really seem to be working no matter what I do to it. It’s about music you can hear in the mountains. The noises from the wind and the mountains, and noises of a stream. And instruments you might hear, like flutes and bongos and shaking instruments. I kind of hate this. Does anyone have any ideas? Or should I just scrap it?

The one of the left has the view of the mountains, and the wind and rain streaming through. I need to add more to that left side obviously. The one on the right is cropped and the composition is a bit better. But you can’t see any mountains. Also, they both have digital elements, but in an obvious and bad way.

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yuck.

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this was what happened when i woke up on friday.

I updated my website, and I’m frickin’ proud of it: www.billferenc.com

Please pay special attention to the fav icon! I love it.

There’s a few more updates I need to make. Including some cool flash banners courtesy of Joel Gillman, and possibly an amazing secret that I am going to reveal later. Also, please check out www.sixfootfont.com. It’s a project that I’m really hoping to get off the ground and I want everyone to be a part of it. I’m still working out the details, but I have enough figured out that I’m going to get started on this soon (looking for sponsors, donations, etc.). Let me know if you’re interested.

I’ve got two things…

The first is this series of photos I found on reddit that is so goddamn cool that I want you all to see it. click on this.

The second thing is an iReport from our Los Angeles Bureau Chief, Bill! Rude.

I’ve been printing in Eric Recktenwald’s studio recently for an upcoming show at Intermedia Arts (I’ll save that for another post), and have become enraptured with this photographer’s work. Eric has a small print of a piece from Nina Berman’s series called “Marine Wedding” hanging in the studio. It is both the saddest and most fascinating new work I have seen in a long time.

And although you have all probably been inundated with war photography by the media by now, and may feel that there is a lot of this going on, and that it is in no way unique, I think you should take a look at this series. I felt that way too, but for some reason cannot help but feel absolutely moved by these when I have begun not to feel anything for war images anymore. Her new book will be coming out soon, and I think I will have to get it.

Go to Nina’s website here, and read a New York Times article about the image (and Nina’s work in general) here. And just in case, you can go to her gallery for more images here.

Still plenty to do, but for now…

If you don’t get cable (like me), you probably get the internet! And you can watch the whole thing live on MSNBC’s site!