Gary made some weeks ago a web app named TwitLinks that gathers links from top tech writers on Twitter as a kind of live zeitgeist. As soon as I found out about it I couldn't help making some graphics for it. I've been using Twitter for a while and all the bird-related aesthetics are very pleasing to work with:


_{So I had the idea of keeping the sky-blue and bird aspects of Twitter and add a geeky touch with the laptop and glasses. Am I original or what?}

What wasn't easy at first but now I'm pretty setisfied with is that I used Illustrator to get the thing done. As some of you may know, I'm not a vector guy. I'm a photoshop guy. A sketchy guy. I think those looks suit this kind of apps better, so I give it a try.
Of couse, after that I got all excited about making things and changing bit and reusing parts, so I made a few more posses for our feathered fellow, then I made the obvious 404 error page that cannot be missing:


_{I like the 50's-ish flat tubes and the yellow helmet I gave him.}

After all this, I was ready to make myself a stripped down background for my own Twitter account featuring our little fellow and clouds, thought to be tiled and lightweight. You can see it in use here.

Labels: illustrator, linkage, work

I've been preetty busy. I'll tell you:

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First I got a very nice work to do, for Houghton Mifflin Co. from the US. They were 80+ illustrations for a textbook¹, similar to last year, but this time mostly on greyscale. It's not only rewarding but also a very nice work to do, and the people is excellent. The goddess of freelancers touch me there, so I had work for three months, great.

But then I got another call, roughly one month after that, from a local animation production house here called Encuadre, to work as a 2d animator² using Toon Boom Harmony. This was no freelance from home job. This was a full time, wake up at 7am, 20 mins walk + 1 hour bus, work lunch, back after sunset at 6:30 monday to friday kind of job. I took it.



Well, I will spare you the details of my endeavors, but let's say I slept little, I use the mouse a lot, and I ate on very different places, oh and met quite some great fellows.

The last month I had to quit this ars-paid job to keep my deadlines with the usd-paid job, but it was a nice experience. Now I have my last deadline the first day of spring, isn't it great? Looks on purpose. Expect many submissions after that, looking forward to try some new stuff on my own stuff, so to speak.

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On another topic, I realized another of my long thought ideas. Since June I've been making (together with a good friend of mine) a podcast in spanish called Etcétera. It's a fun chat about lots of topics, everyday musings, movie commentaries, critiques of the people, odd news, random thoughts, and bizarre bits of general knowledge scattered between serious sentences and funny quotes. I'm really sorry I don't speak english that well so as to make it understandable for all of you, but if you are one of the spanish speaking deviants who also happen to read this, please check it out, subscribe, whatever³, and tell me what you think of it. It's a very important project for me and I'll be delighted to read your feedback.

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Long journal indeed, thanks for caring and reading.


1. It's a college spanish learning textbook called Anímate. It's related to Claro que Sí and Imágenes, the ones I worked on before.
2. They were producing the first season for Nada Que Ver, a kind of latin South Park for the Sony LA cable network.
3. Again, you can find the podcast at etceterapodcast.com
4. The photos at Flickr have several notes explaining contents.

Labels: podcast, update, work

I've been working for the past week on graphics for a great theater play it's going to premiere next tuesday night here in Buenos Aires. It's called Lisístrata Unplugged as it's based on classical Aristophanes' comic play Lysistrata, but with a musical touch to it (and some hilarious bits). It's presented by the group Los Valijeros, and I I previously known some of them, they did the right thing and hired me to illustrate stuff. Here's some other material, a promotional light animated GIF for mailing:

It's in spanish, but the basic idea is that to stop the war, greek women decided to shelter on the parthenon and refuse to have sex with their husbands until they stop fighting. Needless to say the whole thing is very funny. So if you happen to be around Buenos Aires for some teather night, check it out.

Labels: illustrations, work