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Collaborating with Brian Andreas

 

 

This year, I had the wonderful opportunity to collaborate with California-based artist Brian Andreas. Like me, Brian enjoys playing around with words and pictures. Whether it's his paintings or his sculptures or his unique combination of drawings and stories, Brian's work is eagerly sought after by collectors all over the world. Of course, I jumped at the chance to meet with Brian at his home in Santa Barbara and discuss ideas for a book. The result, Marching Bands Are Just Homeless Orchestras, is a collection of humorous quips and quirky illustrations with a somewhat twisted view on life. It's available now.

Just a small sampling of Brian's drawings from the book:

A PDF sample of the book is available here. You can purchase the book through Amazon and at storypeople.com. International shipping is available. (Be sure to check out Brian's many other books, too.) 

 

11/30/10 UPDATE: Just found out Marching Bands Are Just Homeless Orchestras has been named a 2010 Top Twitter Book, winning the Best Writer/Humor category. Thanks, TweetSmarter.

 

In Honor

And don't even think about dishonoring our fallen heroes by using more than one coupon per person.

Via Scary Ideas.

Making Fiends

What a great way to count down the Halloween season. Making Fiends is a series of twenty animated shorts created by Amy Winfrey. Charlotte (voiced by Winfrey) is the new kid at a school terrorized by Vendetta, a strange little girl with the unique ability to create nasty little fiends. Students, teachers, and lunchroom ladies alike are paralyzed by Vendetta's reign of terror. Yet Vendetta's cruel plans never seem to work around the kind-hearted and naive Charlotte. I love the stark look (and creepy sound) of this odd little series, which is being picked up by Nickelodeon for the 2008 season. You can also find podcast episodes on iTunes.

Unpopular Reality Show Spinoffs

The Amazing Racist

Big Baldwin Brother

Appalachian Idol

The Bachelor's Apprentice

America's Next Top Model Plane Maker

Top Five American States...

...that, when spelled backwards, most resemble an ultra-spicy Indian food entree:

Aksala

Nogero

Sasnakra

Ohadi

Hatu

Here's the Creative Brief...

Ah, screw it. Just hire David Lynch and let him do whatever.

Via JJProjects

The Ruby on Rails Martini

Recipe:

Make a martini.

Instead of gin, use Absolut Ruby Red vodka.

Never make it again.

Here's the Creative Brief...

Everyone's talking about our competitor's rope swing ad. The client wants to respond with a radio spot, and fast! Research tells us that our cigarette has 0.07% more charcoal than the other leading filtered cigarette. It's all we've got, so let's run with it. Jingle, perhaps? Script on my desk in an hour.

Tempo_Cigarettes_Radio

Sitdown Restaurant Chains in Hell

Cheeseburger in Paradise Lost

International House of Paincakes

Crackwhore Barrel

TGI Fuehrer's

Rubella Tuesday's

Here's the Creative Brief...

Convince our target market that when you inhale our cigarette, you're actually increasing the amount of fresh air entering your lungs. Be sure to use the new tag line developed by those four focus groups. Also, the client likes rope swings. Script on my desk by 5:00.