 Fourth of July Babushka!
posted: July 3, 2009
Happy Fourth Drawgers!! If you turn your attention to the New York Times
website, the latest installment in my Concrete Jumble animation series is there for your amusement.on Second Ave the immagrant experience is what comes to my mind. Babushka's for all the mom's, or at least for mine. Once again the music is by the fantastic Mike Hashim. Last month Mike recorded four great new compositions that I will be using this year as the Times has wisely decided to keep this going. The new music is not so swing based, using Sax, Tuba, Fender Rhodes and drums,even a touch of synth. I love the new tracks and Im already doodling on more cartoons. 
Bubby travels on her magical pan. 
The land-O plenty. 
I just can not forget the intro to
Bewitched. 
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Bowery Flowers
posted: January 22, 2009
 Happy New President, Drawgers! To celebrate this historic week I am presenting my history of the Bowery on the NY Times on-line. Back in the early eighties I spent lots of time visiting the Bowery. Thanks to the generosity of J and S, Bond street was my temporary home when visiting NYC. The wacky all night art/punk energy combined with danger, filth and human misery to make me fall in love with New York. The Bowery is much different today. Under the gloss, that old crust still festers and blooms. Audacious, isn't it? 
Wallstreet Animation at NYT
posted: September 16, 2008
Mr Peanopoly runs big business, so trust him. Music again by top Genius Mike Hashim,everything else by yours truly. Heres a link video.on.nytimes.com/ and I hope it works since I seem to be having trouble linking to these NYT pieces. If its bad just search it up n the site, maybe Zina will post one that works like she kindly did last time. I hope a little cartoon amusement will distract everyone the new economic climate. The seventies may be coming back for NYC, no CBGB's sadly but you cant have it all. Next installment in the series will be The Bowery, so get out your squeegee's seventies fans. 
New York Times Animation
posted: June 1, 2008
Cartoon Tranny Trolls Meet Packing District my newest animated series. I have been engaged to do original shorts about New York city neighborhoods to appear under the op-ed banner of the Times on-line. Three more will roll out this summer, and if the powers that be agree maybe more. David Shipley, the Op-Ed editor was familiar with my stuff and contacted me directly about doing some original animation for the Op-Ed section. I got very little art direction and no editorial restraint to speak of. It was my idea to do NY neighborhoods and the NYT staff was incredibly open to my ideas. The Chrysler building crapping out a neighborhood and cartoon tranny hookers did not get edited out! This is a real fun gig. The original music is by top jazz genius Mike Hashim. At my request Mike composed four new tunes guided by four moods I described to him. The tracks were recorded direct to digital disk with a three piece in Manhattan, each one about two minutes long. I wanted a very live feel to compliment the directness of the drawings. Jazz and cartoons always go together for me like the old Fleischer Studios stuff. I then cut and edited the music along with the drawings until I got what I wanted. I love this organic way of making animation and music work together. Almost all the animation was directly drawn on the computer w a Wacom and my beloved Plastic Animation Paper software that Ive posted about here before. I assembled and edited the music and SFX in Adobe After Effects and delivered the whole deal as a hi-res quicktime that the Times IT folk compressed for web delivery. Im hard at work on the second installment, Wall Street Gothic, and feeling emboldened by how much freedom they gave me on the first animation. |
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