Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Vern Troyer
Google-y Eyes is being retired due to leakage. So I'm taking the opportunity to go back to my roots and rocking the Travel Etch. I thought I'd celebrate the shrinkage by rocking everybody's favorite little person. I hear he did some revolting new movie recently. Gross.
Let's remember him when he was "creepy-cute", instead of just creepy.
ms pac
Chris sends in this lovely sketch of Ms. Pac Man. I love how Ms. Pac Man was never Mrs. Pac Man. Or Pac Woman. You can see more of Chris's etches here.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Google-y Eyes Goes Down
So I've been rocking this stickered-up Etch for a while now. It burst on to the scene in October and instantly kicked my game up a notch with "Don't Tase Me Bro":
While it may seem like those are just random stickers that someone gave me, they're actually extremely symbollical. Being the mysterious artist type that I am, I've never revealed their hidden meaning until now. For the record: the zebra is on the left-right knob and it represents the flat, endless plains of Africa upon which civilization and human culture was born. The cat-piloted lightning bolt rocket ship on the up-down knob represents civilization's future and highest aspirations, the ultimate promise of technology and science; i.e. sending kittens into space.
Some time around the Super Bowl I added the all-seeing Google-y Eyes in honor of Google Image search, which is sort of my neo-Platonic paradise of visual reference material. The smiley mouth represents "get it? get it? It's a joke, see what I did there?"
The Google-y Eyed Etch-A-Sketch has served me well these past months. It has reliably produced some of my favorite pieces.
Sadly, however, it has recently started to leak:
The grey dust around the knobs is the first sign that this art-toy's days are numbered. Soon that dust will start getting on my fingers and then it'll spread to everything I touch. After that, it will start to slowly eat my brain. The aluminum powder in an Etch-a-Sketch is the same kind of dust that almost killed Buddy Epson when he tried to play the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.
And so I must sadly announce that Google-y Eyes is being retired. Rather than just throw it in the trash, I thought a better way to honor Goog's contribution to the History of Etch-a-Sketch Art would be to sell it for far much more money than it's worth and donate all the proceeds to myself. If you've got $200 + shipping and handling, and an awesome picture you'd like me to sketch, hit me up at etchasketchist(at)gmail(dot)com and you could be the proud owner of this one-of-a-kind piece. I will draw your image with love and painstaking care. And when I'm done I will ritualistically stab the Etch-a-Sketch in the back and pour its guts out to preserve your picture for eternity. Then I will ship it off to you so you can do whatever you like with it. Hang it on a wall and look at it a lot or just leave it strewn casually on a coffee table and pretend you drew it when people ask about it. Really, I don't mind.
While it may seem like those are just random stickers that someone gave me, they're actually extremely symbollical. Being the mysterious artist type that I am, I've never revealed their hidden meaning until now. For the record: the zebra is on the left-right knob and it represents the flat, endless plains of Africa upon which civilization and human culture was born. The cat-piloted lightning bolt rocket ship on the up-down knob represents civilization's future and highest aspirations, the ultimate promise of technology and science; i.e. sending kittens into space.
Some time around the Super Bowl I added the all-seeing Google-y Eyes in honor of Google Image search, which is sort of my neo-Platonic paradise of visual reference material. The smiley mouth represents "get it? get it? It's a joke, see what I did there?"
The Google-y Eyed Etch-A-Sketch has served me well these past months. It has reliably produced some of my favorite pieces.
Sadly, however, it has recently started to leak:
The grey dust around the knobs is the first sign that this art-toy's days are numbered. Soon that dust will start getting on my fingers and then it'll spread to everything I touch. After that, it will start to slowly eat my brain. The aluminum powder in an Etch-a-Sketch is the same kind of dust that almost killed Buddy Epson when he tried to play the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.
And so I must sadly announce that Google-y Eyes is being retired. Rather than just throw it in the trash, I thought a better way to honor Goog's contribution to the History of Etch-a-Sketch Art would be to sell it for far much more money than it's worth and donate all the proceeds to myself. If you've got $200 + shipping and handling, and an awesome picture you'd like me to sketch, hit me up at etchasketchist(at)gmail(dot)com and you could be the proud owner of this one-of-a-kind piece. I will draw your image with love and painstaking care. And when I'm done I will ritualistically stab the Etch-a-Sketch in the back and pour its guts out to preserve your picture for eternity. Then I will ship it off to you so you can do whatever you like with it. Hang it on a wall and look at it a lot or just leave it strewn casually on a coffee table and pretend you drew it when people ask about it. Really, I don't mind.
Monday, June 9, 2008
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