I’ve updated the shop with a few new prints!
Also I’ve put a few prints ON SALE to make room for new stuff! So get those while they’re still around.
Okay. Happy Thursday (or whatever day you’re reading this…likely in the future)!
So I’m not sure what happened, but my bacteriophage piece for Light Grey Art Lab seems to have acquired a wonderfully large amount of likes and reblogs and so on. Thanks!
However this super rad attention has garnered a few messages discussing its wild inaccuracies. As an artist who is aware of the basic (and I mean BASIC) science behind the piece I feel I have a responsibility to address these concerns.
I shall now do so as best I can because I love this sort of discussion AND because it’s giving me an excuse to brush up on the research in general!
First, I am to understand it is terribly unlikely that a bacteriophage would even be found in a human body let alone be an aggressor. Phage treatment would negate the concern over its presence in the body but I recognise this doesn’t resolve the issue of the attack.
Second, the scale is thoroughly off and I am fully aware of this. I opted to take creative liberty with the scale to create a more dramatic scene. This one is all on me and my use of composition as justification.
Those two points came up the most and to the other smaller queries I figure I’ll offer the basic concept behind the piece. Hopefully this will help clear it all up:
So while I admit I knew that it wasn’t the most accurate depiction of microscopic warfare, I am sorry to be misrepresentative.
Oh another fun fact: I swapped the head and the butt of the bacteriophage.
And lastly if I continued to muck something up, feel free to send me some hate mail kind words clearing the air!
I’ve been so distracted with Cornettos and language requests that I forgot to upload the second half of my work for Canadian Family’s May issue!
These 4/7 (the first three can be viewed here) deal with everything from nagging to that age old question of where DO babies come from?
These were heaps of fun to do plus drawing the toonie was weirdly enjoyable.
Regarding the request I made before the weekend, I can’t properly express my appreciation! I’ve already been in touch with so many awesome people from so many wonderful locales that I’m honoured to have made these connections. For real: super honoured. The most honoured!
I hope my little project lives up to the time and energy all you awesome cats have already put in and again, thank you for the help!
If you’d still like to assist me, I’m looking for a bit of aid translating very simple text. I already have a heap of super cool languages so if you have a working knowledge of something not listed here, please feel free to email me [andrew (at) kolbisneat (dot) com]!
Here are some of the awesome languages I’ve already amassed:
• Acadian
• Arabic
• Bahasa Malaysian
• Catalan
• Czech
• Dutch
• Filipino
• French
• Galician
• German
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Mandarin
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish (Chilean)
• Spanish (European)
• Swedish
• Turkish
I mean look at that list! How cool is that!
Well that title looks like spam but I proooooooomise it’s not!
Do you speak a language aside from English? You do? AWESOME!
I’m working on a personal project with a bit of VERY SIMPLE text and would like to be able to offer it in other languages. While the internet can provide basic translations, they’re likely not the most colloquial. This is where you come in.
I have English and French on lockdown (Oh, Canada), but if you would like to help then please email me: andrew (at) kolbisneat (dot) com!!! There’s a digital copy of the finished project in it for you if you’d like!
Okay thanks!
I was a huge fan of Iron Man 3 (no spoilers, but I respect the risks they took), and am enthused to see the Star Trek sequel, but I’d be a liar if I didn’t say this is the film I’m most excited for this summer!
The third and final entry in the Blood + Ice Cream Trilogy! Maaaaaaaaaaaan I can’t wait! Plus we North Americans have to wait an eternity after its initial release!
And I have a confession, I looked at waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many stills for this as I was crazy nervous I’d miss a crucial detail. May the cast and crew forgive me should I have gotten something entirely wrong.
Anyways, there are still a few individuals and sets left at Bottleneck Gallery. Find them here!
And if you’re as excited for the…conclusion(?)…as I am, tweet at me, bro.
Nothing like the original Cornetto to start off your Monday.
This is the second in the series of my Bromance trilogy for Bottleneck Gallery’s I Love You Man show!
Now it’s time for a lot of links…
Purchased (individually or as a set): here!
Strawberry Flavour: double here!
A very kind blog post about the set: triple here!
I woke up to this lovely one-two twitter punch this morning.
First of three!
Bottleneck Gallery’s I LOVE YOU MAN show opens tonight and this is the first of my series based on the wonderfully bloody trilogy.
If you want to see all three, head down to 60 Broadway in Brooklyn for the opening at 7pm and let me know what you think!
Edit:
Please note that any spelling errors are intentional…*wink*
I’m sorry that I spammed your feed today; I had a slew of bookmarks to clear up and now that it’s done it’ll subside for a while.
To those of you who don’t follow me there, consider checking it out:
http://pinterest.com/kolbisneat/
I do occasionally pin cupcake recipes, but for the most part I’m trying to organise some of my most favourite image-makes and pixel-shakers.
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