As I was packing to leave for India last Thusday the little bobble-head of 3D illustrator Joe Zeff called to me from on top of the dresser in my son's room.
"Honey, did you hear that?" I asked my wife?
"What? No."
Hmmmm.
Why I have Joe's bobble-head in my house is another story, as is the story of why a Joe Zeff bobble-head exists at all, but when someone sends you something that weird, it's kind of hard to just throw it away, even years later.
I heard it again...
"I wanna go! Take me with you!"
Damn. More weight. But, I could use a travelling companion...and, him being an amputee and all, I felt for him.
So, as you can see from the video, I introduced him to just EVERYONE. If YOU don't know Joe, you can see his work, and Ed Gabel's too (both of them are former Time magazine graphics guys who were a pain in my butt over at Newsweek because they did, on rare occassions, of course, some awesome work), at Joezeff.com.
I could talk about my workshop. It's going well. I'm being treated well, like royalty, really. I mean, the hotel steward practically took my coat off to press it and my shoes off to them shine while I was WEARING them. GREAT Indian food in this country, too. Honest. Better than in even Lansing, Michigan. Here's a photo of me working with the group poolside.
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I was up until 3 am this morning and did day-one of the workshop on three hour's sleep. Now it's almost 1:30 am and I'm STILL up. I WAS asleep, but a guy was banging on a pipe outside of my hotel, the kind of clanging that seeps through expanding foam earplugs and two pillows over your head. So, here I am, looking for stuff to do until he stops. I instant-messaged with my wife for awhile (it was 2:30 pm her time, 11:30 pm mine). Late-night Indian TV is really cool, but kind of wierd with lots of high-pitched singing, group dancing in saris and overacting on EVERY channel. So, after awhile, I put on my iPod to drown out the noise (yes, Neil Young...some bluegrass) and ... give a bored guy a Shuffle, a cheap camera, appreciation for Warhol and Photoshop...
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Video interview with Karl.
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