I've been sitting on this for over 1.5 years - I can finally share that my Etch A Sketch art was in a movie π₯π Absolutely more posts to come about this one. Spiderhead is available on Netflix now!
I know I don't post here anymore, but I figured those of you who still follow me might appreciate knowing that a really nice article was written about me on People!
people.com/etch-a-sketch-artβ¦
I spent a decade trying to grow an audience here and I never figured it out. It's time for me to throw in the towel. Thank you to those of you who connected with me here. You can find me in all the other usual places. Especially Threads - it's everything I wanted Twitter to be.
As part of a now-annual Labor Day tradition, today I share a specially commissioned portrait of Eugene V. Debs, who dedicated his life to advocating for workers rights throughout the turn of the 20th century.
Debs was a leader in the Pullman strikes, where worker wages were cut while still required to pay full rent for company housing.
In the words of Debs himself, "Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation."
In 2017 4 of my Etch A Sketch renditions were on display at @ILStateMuseum when to my great surprise, my Seurat sold for $2,500 on Etsy. The museum was super cool about it. I had just enough time to snap a pic in front of the original before shipping it to its new home π β€
On August 23, 2011, my friend @SunnieDoesStuff tagged me in her miniature Etch A Sketch work of art. Knowing I had a giant quarter sitting around somewhere, exactly one decade later I paid homage to her original rendition