A Quiet Moment Amongst Friends

Crizal It!

Found advertisement, 10 x 12 inches, 2010

 

Dr. Lee: So, I think I'm going to take out a full page ad in the San Francisco Weekly. 

Dr. Woo: Why? Isn't that going to cost thousands of dollars? What are we going to do with all that space?

Dr. Lee: Well, do you remember last year at the trading card convention when I got my photo taken with WWE wrestler, "The Game"? He's the one who says "Game Over"?

Dr. Woo: Um... I barely remember that. 

Dr. Lee: I think that photo would send a powerful message to all the other optometrists in town: IT'S GAME OVER!

[Long pause]

Dr. Woo: Alright, let's do it. 

THE END
 

UPDATE: Crizal® is a special anti-smudge lens coating "using technologies from the micro-electronics, flat screen and fiber optics industries".

Nightmare Dog

Animated GIF, adapted from ink on paper, 250 x 250 pixels, 2010

 

 
I'm back in the GIF game! 

Last week I spent a few moments every night making sketches of a Rottweiler photo that I saw in the New Yorker. On their own, each of the sketches were terrible, but I was able to salvage them as an animation.

If you stare at it long enough, it becomes three dimensional and you'll feel very relaxed. Try it. Your coworkers might be curious and ask why you haven't been talking all day. Don't worry. Let them look at it, too. You are feeling sleepy now. Don't fight it. There is nothing to worry about. You will do as I say.

An Exquisite Drawing Amongst Siblings: Part II

Two exquisite corpse drawings, 10 x 15 inches, ink on paper, 2010

 

 

My sister, Anna U, and I completed these exquisite corpse drawings during my recent visit to Portland. Similar to our previous endeavor, we worked on the drawings at our parent's house while we watched a random movie on cable ("Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" on AMC).   

If you aren't familiar with the exquisite corpse process, it involves dividing a piece of paper into four sections, making a drawing on one section, folding over the drawing to hide it, and then passing it to your partner with the very bottom of the initial drawing exposed. 

While the process was haphazard, strange synchronicities occurred and both drawings ended up telling interesting stories. In the first drawing, a lizard contemplates how it evolved from ants. In the second drawing (which is best understood by starting at the bottom and reading up), a rodent embarks on a perilous journey through a snake's digestive system. Along the way, the rodent meets a human who shares a similar tale about being eaten by a city.