Yellow Submarine Mural

The Beatles' Yellow Submarine animation is one of my FAVORITE animations of all time!  I painted a mural of it in the bathroom of my co-op, with some help of my friend/housemate Laura Nichols, in fall 2007. This section of the mural was influenced by the "sea of science" part, when the sub diffuses into pieces like a checkerboard.

Laura drew most of this corner part and painted some.  I painted the rest and added stuff.

Go watch the animation NOW if you've never seen it!  My favorite part of the movie is when they meet the Nowhere Man - he's SO cute!!  (It's clip 6).  When they sing "Nowhere Man" I especially love the timing of movement, and how the images compliment the song and are downright SPIFFY - check out the perspective when they spin on the record.  And I wish a trail of plants grew wherever I walked!  

animatedly yours

mindy

The Beatles' Yellow Submarine © 1968 Subafilms Ltd.

Lollapalooza

Lollapalooza was an experience like no other.  (For those who don't know, it's a 3 day outdoor concert in Grant Park, Chicago).  I could go on forever about all the cool bands I saw/heard:  Radiohead, Rage, Kanye, The GO! Team, Gnarls Barkley, Jamie Lidell, Foals, The Octopus Project, Tally Hall, and many more.  

I drew this while taking a break from the heat with an ice cold coke (Ah!  So refreshing!  Especially after being so hot, sticky, and dirty all day.  But it was worth it).  Just people watching.  I've never seen so many hundreds of people in one place in my life.  The band line-up was so eclectic it drew all kinds of people.  That big flag-thing was a meeting place, because it was nearly impossible to find my buddy if we separated.

This was just before Jamie Lidell came on.  My friend Travis and I were dancing our booties off!  Jamie and his band dressed in these crazy outfits and were jumping all over the stage.  My favorite was the karate saxophone player - he played 2 saxophones at once!  This is the best part about seeing music LIVE:  The performance!  The action!!  The experience!!  You don't get no booty-shaking-karate-saxophonist from just listening to a CD, let me tell you.  

rock on

mindy  

The Sky-Puzzle Ceiling Mural

I painted this on the ceiling of my new room.  Just because I could.  Because I live in a co-op and can do such things.  Although my arms killed after 3 days of vertical painting!  How did Michelangelo do it???

It's kind of hard to get it all in one picture.  FYI, that light fixture is brand-spanking new.  They replaced it near the end of my painting, but I had to repaint some pink they plastered over.  Luckily, the guy was really nice and didn't touch the puzzle piece so precariously near it.
Close-up.  When I first painted the lines, the puzzle pieces fit together better, but after the 2nd and 3rd coats, they didn't really anymore.  It messes with your mind!  They're the pieces that YOU THINK will fit, BUT DON'T.

I like to look up at this from my bed.