Design-A-Day 4

pattern © 2007 Christina Conway
"Green Ones"

Design-A-Day 3

pattern © 2007 Christina Conway (click on image to see detail view)
"Lacette"

Ear Candy $0.00

Stereogum.com has pulled some strings and had R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People (originally released 10/5/92) remade into a tribute album by a great collection of musicians, including one of my favorites Sara Quin, from Tegan and Sara. Get the all 13 cover songs free, download it here.

Free I tell ya!!! Do it NOW.

Design-A-Day 2

design and patterns © 2007 Christina Conway
"Bow Bird"

Camille - "Au port"

Currently listening to:
French musician Camille, her creativity knows no bounds. Check out her other songs, I don't understand a word but I love them all.
FunFact: Ratatouille!
Camille is the french dub voice for Causette, the kitchen girl from the Ratatouille movie from the Pixar studios. She is also singing "Le Festin", included inside the french soundtrack disk, upcoming.

Design-A-Day 1

pattern ©2007 Christina Conway

I decided to create a new pattern, drawing, doodle, etc. a day for the month of October. Here's the first, "Pink Lotty".

** Spotlight Artist: Ken Garduno **

photo borrowed from Tom Haubrick, another talented artist from Comic Con (center).

I randomly stumbled upon Ken Garduno's work at San Diego Comic Con this year (he's the fella outlined on the far right of the photo above). It was towards the end of my day long trek through the convention center seeking vinyl toys and a table at the end of one of the rows caught my attention, I was immediately in awe.

Ken works mostly with pen and ink, flavoring his drawings with bits of color every so often. I love his style, rather reminiscent of Albert Hirschfeld, beautiful in its line simplicity and color. Ken and I have become friends so I can't say too many more kind words, I have to play it off that he's just "kinda talented" or I'll never hear the end of it. Yea, Ken's alright.


This is the lovely drawing I bought from Ken that fateful day at Comic Con. Now I need more and supposedly he's hard at work on a custom piece I hear will be AWESOME and his best drawing yet! You can enjoy his work at subtext come November 3rd for the Kokeshi show where Ken has created two custom dolls. Word is more of his drawings will be gracing their walls in-between shows too, congratulations Ken!