The Arty Blogness of Ansate Jones

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y halo thar

image from the cover of american way, an in-flight magazine. when we got back from england this handsome face was all over the airplane. i stole about six of them.

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thanksgiving with sara and karl, 2006

we usually spend our thanksgivings with sara and karl because they rock, and we don’t see them nearly enough. here’s our thanksgiving two years ago, with special guest stars irina (a fellow src alum) and her SO. Karl: A Study In Shadow and Light inadvertent advertisement for hanes inadvertent advertisement of ken’s crotch we gobble […]

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napa: a lush’s paradise (fall 2006)

ken’s parents took us wine tasting in napa when they came out to visit. it’s a pretty impressive area with some pretty impressive wine. although heck if i can back that up, i was drunk by noon. i think this batch of wine might have been bad. outside of v. sattui. inside of v. sattui. […]

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new fanvid: can we stop?

oh, here’s the x-men fanvid i’ve been working on For Over a Year. not sure why it took me so long.* it’s about jean grey and mental instability and succumbing to the shadow self etc etc, yeah, you all hated x3 but you should watch it because i put it to the nine inch nails […]

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a preponderance of trains: old sac 2006

a long, long time ago ken’s parents dragged us to the train museum in old sac. so i took a bunch of low quality pictures of things that amused me. bathroom mirror myspace picture– On A Train ken’s all “lol what’s for dinner” and the chef’s all “get out of my face, i can’t move” […]

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two i forgot to post

i’m not pleased with the way this one turned out. this is even the second attempt. it just comes out too graphic-novelly for my taste and you can’t easily tell it’s thom yorke. or at least i can’t. i liked her gnarly toe. my scanner wasn’t big enough to handle the whole picture so i […]

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just finished last night

i found a great technique that works for subtle gradations in soft textures, and that’s to take an HB pencil and lightly crosshatch over. it fills in the cracks left by darker pencils and fuzzes the transitions between light and dark a little. please do not comment in livejournal. follow this link to comment at […]

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i think i play the slowest version of “christmas time is here” in history

i took piano lessons from age 9-18, and while living at home my playing apparently became a great source of entertainment for my mother, because every year she without fail asks me to send her cds of this stuff. occasionally i even fulfill her requests. last, last christmas (2007, ok, how would you say it) […]

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laura’s birthday, 2006

yes, so here is laura’s birthday dinner and after-events, of which i took like twenty pictures and pared down to less than half. most of these are not particularly good, but at least this is photographic evidence that, yes, laura does have birthdays. speaking of laura, i really need to call her. the remains of […]

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cool hike fall 2006

current lag time of photographs= more than two years. this is no longer even edging on pathetic, it’s flung itself clear over the cliff. this is a hike we did in a little town called cool, near auburn, ca. we were promised a swimming hole at the end of this trail, and it did not […]

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