Live Long & Prosper

I consider myself a Star Trek fan. I'm an original series fan. Spock's my favorite, because of the inner turmoil he has with being half Vulcan and half Human. He constantly struggles with how to purge himself of all emotion and think and act with only logic. Just talking about him makes me want to watch the original series again. I'm a nerd. I know.

Daddy, Why Did You Eat My Fries

I watch Adventure Time with my roommates a lot. I was bored today, so I thought why not give them a painting of Marceline singing our favorite song?

Chillin'

I believe that this is a sketch of a close up of a character in Do the Right Thing (Dir. by Spike Lee). I absolutely adore that film. Spike Lee is a genius. The character is Pino, played by John Turturro. I think I sketched this back in my freshman year of college, when I was taking an Intro to Film class and was required to write a paper on Do the Right Thing, so I ended up sketching while I was rewatching it. I traced over it over the summer because I was worried about the pencil fading, so now there's a bit too much boldness around the edges.

Dear Hater

My school recently had a chain of hate crimes on campus. As an African-American, I guess I was affected more than the majority of my friends. Mostly this was to collect my thoughts and say what I wanted to say to the person/people involved in these crimes.

Searching for the Real

This sketch is more about my look on the world and people. I'm of the opinion that there are few real things in this world. People come and go out of people's lives, and some are genuine and some aren't. Some people become life long friends, some people don't. Some people are truly beautiful, regardless of their physical appearance. My goal in life is to reach that kind of inner beauty. I want to be a genuine person in that sense.

Welcome to the Dollhouse

I made this over the summer. It's another film scene, this time from the movie Welcome to the Dollhouse (Dir. by Todd Solondz). The film is considered a cult classic, about a 7th grade girl who is mostly ignored by people and treated like crap. It's definitely a dark comedy, but has both funny and sad moments. This scene is when this boy that mostly bullies her actually shares a moment with her because they are both in the same place, and realize they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Achieving Singuarity

This is a journal entry from October 8, 2010. It was written last year during my sophomore year at MSU. I was feeling pretty isocolated, and very lost. I didn't feel like anyone really knew me and that I was just playing roles in other people's lives. I took the journal entry and picked some of the parts that hit with me most, and added a recent picture of me that I messed with in Photoshop. I painted the background.