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NEW MACRODON FOUND!

Tonight was VERY entertaining- @ The Public Trust, This American Life contributor, and founder of "Found" Magazine, Davy Rothbart and his brother, musician Peter Rothbart,of The Poem Adept, performed some music and read from the most recent and best found notes, love letters, signs, and other random found scribblings.

I wish I had some sort of found inspiration for today's MACRODON, yet I do not... I'll try to keep my eyes peeled, but I just don't really seem to happen upon these kinds of things... so here is the MACRODON I call Crystal Castles Creature #4.

Seek out any of these folks stuff (and buy it!), it is entertaining, funny, smart, and a bit voyeuristic (in a non-creepy way... most of the time).

Part of the performance included Peter Rothbart's cover of a song called "The Booty Don't Stop" from a found tape titled "Booty Tape", here is the same song, performed life elsewhere, and YES I have purchased the "Booty Tape" (available on the Found magazine website) and CAN NOT WAIT to hear it (!!!) alright, enough typing, as this was a bit much for my usual silence and lack of typed words on this blog... more later... for now, listen:

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William Lamson's "Work and Trade" collection of 285 trades at Pierogi Gallery (including a MACRODON! -seen third shelf from top, center-right; between two shelves with foliage; to the right of a green vigil praying candle, with what I am assuming to be an illustration of a MACRODON on it; and in front of what appears to be a surrealist painted backdrop of the MACRODON's natural habitat, and to the left of what I imagine to be a sci-fi anime VHS movie, a Christmas card, and a unicorn mug), see pixelated detail below:


again, below is Will's automatic drawing traded for a MACRODON:


and, here is another reimagination of Will Lamson's automatic drawing -in a way, coming full cirlce, back to my initial interpretation of the similarites between Will's drawing and the MACRODON figure traded- by referencing that original MACRODON figure in this recreation Will's drawing:


now, what is happening here, I am not so sure of...
a) MACRODON emitting a burst of smoke/fire
b) MACRODON fart (wow!)
c) whale like blow-gusher?
d) inhalation/absorption of another MACRODON

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another reinterpretation of Will Lamson's automatic drawing "trade 80" (for a MACRODON) from his "Work and Trade" exhibition at Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn.

William Lamson "Work and Trade" runs through June 21st, 2009 @ Pierogi 2000

PIEROGI Brooklyn
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Opening this Friday, May 29 at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn (MAP), William Lamson's solo exhibition "Work and Trade", features projects in which the artist creates a mark-making system through collaboration with forces outside of his control , including a device that consists of a ceiling fan, string, a balloon, and a marker, to create "automatic" drawings. As part of the "trade" component, visitors are invited to offer Lamson something in exchange for a drawing of their choice, at which point the traded item becomes part of a collection of unique objects on display in the gallery. Among those traded objects a MACRODON can be seen... and below, the MACRODON appears alongside it's trade:

just to elaborate a bit on William Lamson's automatic mark-making process, check out this rad video he shot at Pierogi gallery documenting a work in progress:



this is but a taste of this fascinatingly clever concept -allowing visitors the ability to make a trade for a drawing, and through a dialogue with the artist, also to determine the content of the exhibition as well as a system of value for the work offered and traded. check out William Lamson's "Work and Trade" blog, for such gems of trades, such as a cast of a dog skull, several apples, and what appears to be a Fabio CD (?!).

I'm not sure if Will selected the drawing he did for our trade because of a slight MACRODON resemblance in the scribbley-mess (it is not unlike many of my own scribbley-messes), or not, and it was rather subconscious, or simply a serendipitous occurrence... but I saw something there which prompted a theme in today's illustration, a sort of re-interpretation, or response to Will's drawing:






more links:

- williamlamson.com - Pierogi - macrodons.com - MACRODONS on Etsy -

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more: explosions !
(also, very gross and looking like a living puss-sack larvae)

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death

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...water tower that looks like a MACRODON that looks like a water tower that looks like a MACRODON that looks like a...

and/or

Star Trek inspired spaceship-macrodon #03

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the evolution of #104 (click link, scroll down), but also instead of seeing the upper tendrils as "necks/heads" they can also be like the appendages/arms of a squid/octopus, with a mouth/beak in the center...

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Star Trek inspired spaceship-macrodon #02

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Star Trek inspired spaceship-macrodon #01

...yeah, what a nerd!

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and here is another among my fascination with lumbering monsters reminiscent of billowing smoke-stack explosions: #013, 028, 074, 153, 096 (kind of upside-down), and more similar reoccurring shapes: "smoke monsters", and dinosaurs... eventually I will update this as I am sure I am missing something... of course there is also similarities with the design concepts for the sculpted figure of #159.

and, since I like posting links, and also, completely off-topic, the Star Trek movie was AWESOME! (this, coming from the opinion of someone who has seen maybe no more than 10 minutes combined of anything Star Trek related before tonight)

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edit: I just noticed the similarities with #058... more and more
certain MACRODONS are "reappearing" in new drawings...

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this one seems too elongated, or at least moreso than I wanted...

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and, another rough sketch I liked as-is, so here it is...

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again, three drawings coming up, similar ideas...

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it's not a great drawing, but I find it very pleasing...

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now the feet get a little chunky...

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the next few MACRODONS are loosely based off of the same shape/idea: chunky hands, rectangular, oafish body...

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although this MACRODON resembles a dinosaur in a way, I imagine it less organic or biological looking, although it may not appear so in this drawing, it is symetrical in a conical fashion, it's neck/head perfectly centered on it's stump of body.

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MACRODONS @ LIFT GALLERY DETROIT

MACRODONS @ LIFT GALLERY DETROIT!
MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES 2
MAY 9 - JUNE 3, 2009
OPENING MAY 9, 7-10 PM

New MACRODONS can be seen at LIFT Detroit's upcoming exhibition "Multiple Personalities 2" curated by custom toy artist D-Lux, featuring 40+ custom toys in a variety of formats. In addition to custom toys there will also be some awesome 2-D art, including some small gouache MACRODON paintings.

BILLY ZINSER MACRODON 1.2, 2007-2009

gouache, India ink, acrylic, graphite, on rag paper
7 x 7 inches (10 x 10 inches, framed)

LIFT on myspace - LIFT Footwear - LIFT Gallery
MACRODONS.COM - MACRODONS on myspace
D-Lux blog - Billy Zinser on facebook

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this MACRODON resembles the many past studies for a recent toy I made, but with a hole in his face... click to see previous drawings of design concept 159.

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THUMBCUT #2

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THUMBCUT #3

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THUMBCUT #1

another reason for the recent delays in my posts -I cut my thumb kinda deep, I was amazed how handicapping it was... thumbs are important. (all is well now!)

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