stop dragon ma heart around ooh ooh ooh.
This Dreamworks trailer for How To Train Your Dragon 2 is pretty sweet. You go Hiccup and Toothless!
art of 8 limbs…that I will soon be nursing.
Planning a trip to Thailand to get the snot beat out of me, err I mean, further my Muay Thai training. I’m excited to see the elephants there as well, so I did this watercolor.
tired of monkeys
A little hint of what’s comin’.
I’m kooking peesh
Taal Volcano sunrise
panels of aluminium and magnesium
This beautifully made short film directed by Marcus Söderlund highlights two things I cherish deeply. Motor racing and the story of Bruce McLaren. I grew up admiring his story as a kid because his life resembled much of the questions I sought out in why tragic things have to happen to people of courage. “To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better, can not be foolhardy” and “on that beautiful summer day, on that racetrack, I did more than leave a name and a memory, hopefully, I became an inspiration” narrates the monologue. Thank you, sir McLaren for the answers.
remember your friend, Mr. Thunder? How ’bout his buddy

Holga cross process print. Copyright © 2013 shutterswirl.com
be more like those tolerant
Nice hot day today in NYC, which made me want a big ol’ banana split. Like the kind you’d find on main street in Disney World when it’s like a hundred degrees out and you have melted ice cream all over and you’re trying to eat it and draw the marching band going by at the same time.
third arabesque en pointe
What twinkletoes said.

Pas de deux-gelatin silver print © 2013 www.shutterswirl.com
seeing is hearing
Looking into cymatics in relation to a project and having fun with Chladni patterns. Video shows a basic Chladni Plate and frequency generator, although I prefer the original violin bow method. Note the increased frequency changes the pattern to greater complexity.
sunnyvale
I never stopped playing with crayons.
fitzcardboardaldo
This is an amazing animation by Robin Frohardt. I mentioned this a while back as it was part of a Puppet Festival I made drawings of in Brooklyn. Robin’s animation is a three minute trailer for an imagined film inspired by the great stories and difficulties of the production of Werner Herzog’s original Fitzcarraldo. The video that follows is Robin’s spoof of Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams, which is a documentary of the making of Herzog’s film. Both animations are made entirely of cardboard.
aging storage of stories for ages
Enjoyed thumbing through an old picture book project. Good time to revisit them. Into the art file of memories I go.

Image © Ink & Sword 2013
let’s get ready to ramble
It’s practically a crime to saunter in NYC, but there are places to the contrary.

path to bridge – gelatin silver print © 2013 www.shutterswirl.com
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tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot
Opening title sequence for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. David Fincher, Director. Tim Miller, Creative Director, Blur Studio.