1.21 Gigawatts!
Posted by Troy | Filed under Humor
Illustration by Troy DeShano
After a marathon-style summer working hard at (far too many) projects, hosting company, keeping up with an art show and trying to make the most of the few short weeks of sunshine we’ve got I finally started to burn out just a bit.
So I ate a flux capacitor for breakfast and then got myself blasted with a bolt of lightning. a bolt of lightning!
Precisely as I hit 88 miles per hour.
Tags: back 2 the future, Humor, original illustration
Changel
Posted by Troy | Filed under Across the U.P., Humor
Illustration by Troy DeShano
I bring you good tidings of great cheese.
Tags: cheese, Humor, original illustration
Ninja-Warning-Five
Posted by Troy | Filed under Humor, Strong Odors
illustration by Troy DeShano
Today’s cyber-five goes to old friend Scott Fisk for being the first to recognize Pierce Hawthorne as the source of yesterday’s quote.
Aim for speed-bumps people. They just might take you to such great heights you never imagined existed.
Tags: cyber-five, Humor, original illustration
Aim for the Speed Bumps
Posted by Troy | Filed under Humor, TV
illustration by Troy DeShano
“When you improvise a plan… sometimes you hit a speed bump,
and sometimes you hit it so hard that you soar through the air, far beyond your initial expectations.”
First person to guess who said this gets a cyber-five!
They Fit!
Posted by Troy | Filed under Humor
illustration by Troy DeShano
What’s your New Year’s Resolution?
Tags: Humor, New Year, original illustration
Van Helen
Posted by Troy | Filed under Humor
I was at a seminar the other day.
The instructor was a nice lady. Very confident personality, which I generally appreciate in a woman. She did a good job in the presentation and you could tell she really believes in her material.
However…. her name was Helen.
Of course there is nothing at all wrong with the name Helen, other than the fact that when I jotted down her name in my notebook, it looked a lot like “Halen”
Which obviously brought Van Halen to mind.
Which obviously distracted me for the rest of the day.
Which obviously resulted in my picturing Helen in metallic tiger-striped stretch pants.
Which obviously did not quite work with the sensible shoes and maroon blouse.
Once I’ve crossed a certain point there’s no going back either… so not only was I obsessing about the stretch pants, but also had to jot down any remotely-hair-metal reference that came up during the seminar.
Like when she mentioned Lifehouse for example. (Come to find out Lifehouse isn’t really a hair metal band at all, but more of a Christian-crossover-adult-alternative deal… which makes them just slightly more ridiculous than hair metal as far as I’m concerned)
Or when quoting Genesis (as in The Bible, not Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins) she said “Bone of my Bone,” which I can’t say for sure is the name of a metal band, but most definitely should be.
What I imagined could be the “hit” single from Bone of my Bone came up later in the day when Helen (somehow?) uttered the phrase “When a Python Eats a Baby.”
Oh man… that’d make a heckuva 80s music video if there ever was one.
Tags: Humor, original illustration, Van Halen
Double Rainbows Blastin Me Across the Sky
Posted by Troy | Filed under Humor, Strong Odors
No-one will ever see a double-rainbow the same way again.
Of course in our house, a catchy tune almost always eventually becomes a song about farts.
Double double rainbow turns to “double double fart!”
I suppose it would be more appropriate if it were the kids coming up with such sophomoric improv.
(I’ll also take credit for Avatar: the Last Fartbender, thank you very much)
Tags: Humor, original illustration, strong odors
Growtivation
Posted by Troy | Filed under Humor
Funny how 10 years ago we were trying to recreate the “church” experience.
Now it’s become more formulaic than ever.
Odorifous: Charlyne Yi
Posted by Troy | Filed under Odorifous
I’d like to say that I first discovered Charlyne Yi performing at some underground club or something.
But I didn’t.
I (like most everyone else who’s been lucky enough) first saw her in her own movie Paper Heart
I remember looking forward to it for a while, and when we finally got to watch it we weren’t disappointed. I don’t know how many people I’ve recommended it to since, but probably to just about everyone I know (which is like 5 people).
I’m not exactly sure what to say about Charlyne.
She seems to represent a new generation of comics who blend art/music/comedy/film in a Andy Kaufman kind of way, but wheras his work seemed an attempt to keep the world out, hers has (at least from what I can tell) a transparency that allows the rest of us to know the real her (which takes a lot of guts).
While many of the best comics’ work is a defense reflex (developed in adolescence), Charlyne’s work seems to be a reflection/extension of herself.
And her artistic bent is apparent as it spills outside of traditional film into YouTube videos, visual art, poetry and music.
The stuff she’s recording with her band Old Lumps is reminiscent of early-nineties so-cal lo-fi geek rock and reminds me of when Napster first came out and I was finally able to hear Weezer’s pre-blue “Kitchen Tape” demos for the first time.
So needless to say, I’m trying to act all cool but actually super excited to share her Strong Odors interview today:
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Tags: art, Film, Humor, interview
79 Monte Carlo for the Lord
Posted by Troy | Filed under Humor
This is awesome for so many reasons.
I had a Monte Carlo just like this… it still lives quite close to my heart…
If I close my eyes I can still smell the green vinyl interior…
Good times…
