James Jean Updates

James Jean

James Jean is one of the most prolific artists ever, if you look at the drawings, sketches, paintings, illustrations, comics covers, etc., and he’s also super nice and very calm. Lucky for us, the plethora of work that he produces also means that he has to update his website fairly often to stay current. Just such a thing has happened, and you should take some time out of your busy schedule of masturbating and eating nachos to go check out the slew of new work he’s dropped on the unsuspecting internets. His sketchbooks alone should keep you occupied until sometime around dawn.

James Jean

Art
Drawing
Illustration
Painting

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Videos

I second that emotion.

Babe Rainbow - Shaved

Astra: Satellites

Creature Cast: Siphonophores

Kameraet

Michael Sieben’s Internet Shack

Vortex Ring Collision

Tron: Legacy

The Maccabees feat. Roots Manuva - Empty Vessels

Hell of a Year: David Gravette

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Chatroulette: The Drinkening

Chatroulette

Completely unrelated to the usual Secret Still fodder, and possibly the best idea I have ever come up with while taking a middle of the night, half asleep piss, is today’s only post: The Chatroulette Drinking Game. It’s easy to play, fun for the whole family, if your family likes random dongs, and it’ll get ya drunk.

Let’s start by clarifying some basic points:

  • The game is played with both beer and shots, where “a drink” refers to a big ol’ mouthful of beer, and “a shot” refers to a shot of whatever liquor you have laying around.
  • A roll is deemed as actual, visual contact with another person (or possibly cat/monster), not a blank screen, a covered cam, or an empty room.
  • Try not to force your friends to look at wangs for longer than necessary, unless that’s just how you roll, you sadistic bastard.
  • It’s probably better not to waste time actually interacting with people during game play. That’s only going to slow down the drunkmaking.

Now the rules:

  • Every player gets 10 rolls (not necessarily ten clicks of “next”, see above).
  • Random guys are neutral and count for nothing
  • Random boners mean you (the roller) take a drink, but no one else has to.
  • Random girls mean everyone else has to take a drink, but you don’t
  • Random naughty girl parts mean everyone, even you, takes a shot.
  • Random cats/monsters mean everyone else, not you, takes a shot.

Note that these rules aren’t based on any merit system derived from favoring girl parts over boy parts, but rather from the average rarity of each item in the Chatroulette community. Chances are good that you could go an entire round (everyone has their 10 rolls) without taking a single drink, but chances are equally good that you could all be shitfaced before the third person can remember where the F9 key is.

Good luck out there, and I’m sorry you’re going to have to see so much unadulterated dudecrotch, but at least the alcohol will numb the pain.

http://www.chatroulette.com/

Games
Web
Weird

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Videos

Why have I been sitting on these for weeks?

Adobe and Wired Transform the Magazine Experience

JESS3

Gorillaz - Stylo

Asics Running

The Head

I’m Board 4

Nokta

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Marks: New Works by Aaron Nagel @ The Shooting Gallery

Aaron Nagel

If that title didn’t tip you off, Aaron Nagel (previously mentioned) is opening a show of new works at the Shooting Gallery in SF. You’ve seen a couple of them from his website, but for the most part these are all glimpsing the light of day for the first time on Saturday. That’s this Saturday, March 6th, from 7-11pm, when the show opens to what I’m assuming will be the usual attractive 20-30’s crowd of SF art lovers, and one guy from Oakland, carrying a skateboard and drinking homebrews out of his backpack. Yeah, I’ll be there. I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to glimpse Nagel’s masterpieces in person, even if glimpsing is all I can afford. If, unlike me, you can’t get to San Francisco with a simple train ride under several millions tons of salt water, there are plenty of images of the new show for your eyes to lust over, and even a visual visit to Nagel’s studio in Oakland (why didn’t I know that was only a few blocks from me?). Be there in person or be there in spirit, but there’s no excuse for you to not see these fine works.

Aaron Nagel: Marks
Aaron Nagel Studio Visit

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Shows

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Iain Macarthur

Iain Macarthur

A little illustrator-y goodness for you this morning, in the form of Iain Macarthur. Combining photorealistic drawings with doodles and squiggles, Iain manages to make two styles of illustration into a seamlessly connected new one. What I like even more, is that he gives depth and dimension to the doodle portions of his illustrations, not a difficult extra step, but something I don’t see often that gives the drawing so much more. Take note, doodlers, if you shade some shit, you can make things more interesting to look at. You’ll still be miles away from Macarthur’s glory, but you’ll be one step closer to your own.

Iain Macarthur

Art
Drawing
Illustration

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Ptarmak

Ptarmak

I’ve been needing to look for more design inspiration lately, so that pays off for you in the form of more links to designers. Things were getting a little art heavy around here anyway. I know you were thinking it, sitting over there, silently judging in your big chair by the fire, slowly petting your Dieter Rams designed Braun radio. Cool your seething, designers, with the refreshing flavors of Ptarmak. Smooth, stylish, and low-calorie identity work/package design/print design to quench your thirst. Goes down smooth.

Ptarmak

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Identity

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NIARk1

NIARk1

For the most part, and speaking only for myself here, dreams are strange, but not overly so. Generally I dream about the kinds of things I see or encounter, or could encounter in the world. My dreams aren’t peopled with fantastic and terrible monsters or surrealist images of the world come apart. I don’t think the same can be said for Paris-based artist Sebastien Faraut, aka NIARk1. His jagged, colorful, kinetic style makes me think that his dreams take place in a dimension otherwise undiscovered by dreamers like me, where monsters consume the world in day-glo hues like a Barbarella acid trip through the South American jungle. Maybe it’s because his painting style reminds me of Jeff Soto, but Faraut has inspired me to pick up a brush for the first time in a long time, which is the only compliment ever worth giving. Now I just need to come up with the dreams to back up my paintbrush. Let’s hope some late night Thai food does the trick.

NIARk1

Art
Illustration
Painting
Street Art

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Kyle Jorgensen

Kyle Jorgensen

Two words: Fuck Yes.

Kyle Jorgensen

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Painting

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Videos

Exhausted.

Woodward West Winter Skate Camp

The PUMA Hardchorus

Out of a Forest

Tens

Vegeterrible

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