The show is up at Negativland.com – go to the link below and listen!

http://www.negativland.com/ote/?p=1837

It’s a three-hour “talk show” about the non-existance of God. I play Dr. Otto Prieswell, a supposed neuroscientist. There are some gags, but I pretty much played it straight, and about 90% of what I refer to is actually true. The God Helmet is a real thing, as are most of the observations about science and religion. The God Helmet has never made anyone retarded, though, so I made that part up. When people want to goof off, we’re goofing, but a lot of people called in with some serious issues, so we ended up mixing in a lot of very real opinions. This ended up a lot more Andy Kaufmanesque than perhaps we intended!

The callers went nuts and kept us going the whole time which, for a show that happens from midnight-3AM, is pretty darn good.

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I will be on Don Joyce’s “Over the Edge” radio show THIS WEEK, that is the evening of 12 January (Thursday). The show is on KPFA(www.kpfa.org) and it begins at midnight PST. I’ll be a neurosurgeon that night, so I may not have my own name. Tune in and, as usual, CALL IN the show! It’s “Receptacle Programming,” which means that when the phone stops ringing, YOU ARE IN THE MIX! Call me and stump me with neuroscience questions.

For those who miss it, it will be posted soon after at www.negativland.com/ote, as it usually is.

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“Jetsam” comes from “jettison,” meaning that which is cast off, no longer needed, dragging you down, no longer of any use.

My apologies for dredging up old work like this again. As I go through the archives the occasional gem peeks out, and these were irresistible. A mere two minutes of animation exercises, strung together to a contemporary track I made for completely different purposes.

These were mostly made by hand, under the Oxberry Animation Camera at USC. There are some optical printer bits thrown in here and there as well. I could never use the optical printer as well as Karen Kennedy, but then again, who could? These pieces show some kind of mania on my part to animate everything I could think of – toothpaste, offal, milk, toys, fabric, zip-a-tone, bleach, rubber stamps, and even pieces of “Star Wars.”

It gets gory in the middle there. I’ve been told that part of this is upsetting. So there is your warning.

If you like this, please pass it around, copy it, reblog it, “like” it, and whatever else may work.

A much bigger project is coming this month, more details about which will appear in this space later.

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Here’s an illustration I did for a TV pilot. They’re not going to use it, though, so I think it’s safe to post it here. When the show goes to series and becomes terribly expensive and famous we can all remember that I am in no way a part of it.

The original is about 16″ x 24″ or so, and drawn with ink on textured paper. All those stains and variations in color are part of the actual paper itself, making the drawing a bit hard to accomplish. This is because there was a possibility that the drawing would appear on camera, and would have to appear to be a historical prop. Which, as I’ve mentioned, it was not.

Later, there was discussion about adding color to the piece, which I was fairly against doing. The piece had to look as though it was contemporary for about the 14th century. Options in those days would have been pen and ink, oil painting, or some tinted, watercolored print. So I went with the hues you see here. I totally cheated on the green – that would have been terribly expensive in those days. The rest of the colors would probably have been easy enough to come across.

Even so, the piece you see here is computer colored. The original is just pen and ink, and is now in the hands of my friend the producer, who lobbied long and hard to have it included! She will take MUCH better care of it than I would have.

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Cover for a best-to-be-forgotten zine I made in the 90s. Scanned, recolored. Original is maybe 4″ square, ink on vellum.

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