Our friend LJ’s spectacular artwork is in another gallery and the opening is this Thursday.

The gallery opening is also part of Dumbo’s 1st Thursday so you can visit a bunch of other galleries that evening. Should be a fun evening of art.

obviously I’ve been doing something other than updating this site…

1. www.lettersofnote.com

This is my #1 new favorite blog. Make me sad that written correspondence is dead.I especially like today’s post. A letter from Harvey Weinstein to Errol Morris.

2. xtrapulp - slurp
We’ve set up an illustration challenge website for our illustrationy friends. Each week there is a challenge.

3. Grain Edit
A constant source of illustration and design inspirtaion. Image below from a post about Esther Aarts’ work.

esther aarts

4. Awkward family portraits

If anyone is interested, I’ve posted my fav films of the decade.

Enjoy!

I had been posting a bunch of found images on my personal blog but decided to make my life easier by starting a tumblr site. If anyone is interested you can see some of the nifty photos (and whatnot) that I come across on the web.

We have two new characters in residence at the OYG studio:

the first is a true street find. Veronica and Deanna found this solid wood statue walking around the neighborhood. We are hoping he isn’t a bad luck omen as they found him on friday the 13th. We’ll see if there is some sort of brady bunch scenario that develops.  Veronica is affectionately referring to him as OYGbaby.

The second is a mouse. A real mouse. A rather ballsy mouse too. He’s been running around all morning and likely will get big and fat and be impossible to get rid of by humane measures. We’re thinking we might just get a habitrail for him and make it official.

photo of his likeness below.

One week later the pumpkins are starting to show decay.

I was wrong about the jack o’ lantern display in my neighborhood. They actually put the pumpkins out on Halloween and leave them up throughout November.

Check out the Kane Street Pumpkins for yourself.

Happy Day of the Dead! Now’s the time for you to go visit any family members buried in cemeteries. Clean up their gravesite and leave some pretty flowers or a little pumpkin.

Because this is mostly a dead blog, I’ll leave you with some lovely Day of the Dead skulls and skeletons. You can’t deny they are perfect Halloween decorations. Or in my case, year round decorations (in my world, everyday is Halloween) - here’s one I picked up one summer at the beach with friends.

Some fun skulls I found on the web:

And of course there are the sugar skulls:

Some Day of the Dead Photoshop brushes and pngs you can download for free:

You can purchase a lovely book of antique prints:

And to end the month of madness, the mother of all Halloween movies:

I hope everyone has a frighteningly wonderful Halloween!

Look what the UPS man just dropped off:

Yummy caramel apples from Sherm Edwards Candies. It’s probably too late to order some apples for yourself but they’ve got a ton of other tasty treats for you. We love everything they have to offer!

Thanks Dave!

Oh Tim Burton, why did you have to go and marry the beautiful Helena Bonham Carter when you were obviously meant for me? Hell, I’d marry Helena Bonham Carter too if I had the opportunity!

Starting November 22, 2009 and running until April 26, 2010, you can see Tim Burton’s artwork and films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

© Tim Burton. All rights reserved. Used without permission.

© Tim Burton. All rights reserved. Used without permission.

© Tim Burton. All rights reserved. Used without permission.

© Tim Burton. All rights reserved. Used without permission.

© Tim Burton. All rights reserved. Used without permission.

© Tim Burton. All rights reserved. Used without permission.

Well, Gorey-esque is more like it.

Two selections from Twentysix Tiny Tombstones, a tribute to Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies.

© Jordi Villaverdi All rights reserved. Used without permission.

© Carlos Braña All rights reserved. Used without permission.

Check out these wonderful illustrations from Jesse E. Larson:

© Jesse E. Larson. All rights reserved. Used without permission.

© Jesse E. Larson. All rights reserved. Used without permission.

© Jesse E. Larson. All rights reserved. Used without permission.

This one would make an excellent Christmas card:

© Jesse E. Larson. All rights reserved. Used without permission.

Here’s a fun Gorey-esque short:

Dead All Along || Ceri Frost from Giles Timms on Vimeo.

NB - check out Trixie’s Treats for more great Halloween art.

hahaha - this is cute.

Did you know that without bats there would be no tequila? Or that bananas, dates, figs, cashews, avocados and many other night-blooming tropical plants depend on bats for pollination? Or that a single little brown bat can catch more than 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour?

I guess you can tell I’m a big fan of bats - even my dog Ren looked like a flying fox. This is my computer wallpaper:

More bats

View a BBC One video of the biggest gathering of bats in the world.

Dawn Summers and I encountered some flying foxes while in Sydney Australia. Once again, she ran screaming like a little girl. I wanted to pet them. Aren’t they cute?