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Streetcars 1011 (@cripsahoy) and 1040 (yours truly) on the Embarcadero and at the Market Street Railway (@sfmsr) museum.
(Source: seismogenic)
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After about a dozen people recommended it to me, I finally watched Portlandia.
Given my tendency to personify inanimate objects (and given that I’d already drawn Portland’s bridges as if they were people), I think this drawing was a fairly inevitable result.
So, here we have Burnside Bridge putting a bird on Morrison Bridge. That is all.
As his reward for pledging a bunch to my personified San Francisco landmarks calendar Kickstarter, Burrito Justice asked me to draw Sutro Tower beating the crap out of evil Oakland cranes that are trying to kidnap the Golden Gate Bridge. What is not to love about that? I had such a blast drawing this!
The Filbert Steps, Coit Tower, and the wild parrots, enjoying a sunny afternoon on the hill that they share.
This is a Kickstarter reward for my dear friends Erica and Sam!
This is a Kickstarter pledge reward image for looseferrets!
I own a t-shirt that depicts a happy t-rex standing on the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s one of my favorite shirts. I happened to be wearing it the last time I hung out with Geo, while he happened to be wearing his Villainous Velociraptor on a Velocipede shirt. Aaanyway, I guess he agreed my shirt was awesome, so he asked me to draw that very t-rex expressing its love to Golden Gate as a jealous Bay Bridge looked on.
I actually suspect that Bay Bridge is not sure how jealous he really is, because he knows, deep down, that he’d probably be terrified if a dinosaur that close to his own height decided to lean on him.
I know this is not even close to being a paleontologically-correct t-rex, but I was going more for a cuter version of what was on the shirt. I think this dinosaur may rank among the most ridiculously cute things I’ve ever drawn.
I hope you like it, Geo!
Now here’s someone I haven’t drawn since 2008! (Fittingly enough.)
February 29th loves the idea that the world is supposed to end during a year in which he is on the calendar. If he can’t be on there every year, no Day can, as far as he’s concerned. Having everything go boom in a spectacular way is the second best option.
Needless to say, everyone’s favorite megalomaniacal quarter day will be displeased when the world fails to actually end this December, thus forcing him to continue his futile quest for yearly recognition.
Like San Francisco? Like its various landmarks? Agree that the city just wouldn’t have the same character without them?
And have you ever thought of the landmarks themselves as characters?
Even if the last one isn’t true (or, heck, even if the others aren’t true either, and you enjoy personifications of things in general), I can presume you might just be interested in the San Franthropomorphism 2012 Calendar!
It includes one strange artist’s (read: my) interpretations of what the Painted Ladies, Alcatraz, the F-Market streetcars, the Ferry Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, City Hall, Sutro Tower, the cable cars, Coit Tower, the Palace of Fine Arts, the Bay Bridge, and the Transamerica Pyramid might look like if they were humans instead of structures.
Want one? Think someone else you know might want one? Want to see more example images? Clicky here!
San Francisco Calendar of landmarks as characters, pretty neat
Why yes, I’m reblogging myself via someone else, just to say that I still have these, and now that it’s 2012, they’re only $10!
Even if you don’t care much for actual calendar grid stuff (though this one includes a bunch of significant dates in San Francisco history), it’s still twelve pages of drawings of personified landmarks, printed on good quality paper. I have not uploaded most of the pages anywhere online!
Like San Francisco? Like its various landmarks? Agree that the city just wouldn’t have the same character without them?
And have you ever thought of the landmarks themselves as characters?
Even if the last one isn’t true (or, heck, even if the others aren’t true either, and you enjoy personifications of things in general), I can presume you might just be interested in the San Franthropomorphism 2012 Calendar!
It includes one strange artist’s (read: my) interpretations of what the Painted Ladies, Alcatraz, the F-Market streetcars, the Ferry Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, City Hall, Sutro Tower, the cable cars, Coit Tower, the Palace of Fine Arts, the Bay Bridge, and the Transamerica Pyramid might look like if they were humans instead of structures.
Want one? Think someone else you know might want one? Want to see more example images? Clicky here!
Personifications of several of the many historic streetcars that make up San Francisco’s Market Street Railway’s fleet. If you’ve ever been a tourist in San Francisco and have ridden along the Embarcadero to Fisherman’s Wharf, you’ve ridden in one of these mobile museums.
From left to right, a car sporting original 1910s San Francisco livery, one of the many orange Milan cars, a car with 1960s San Francisco colors, the Blackpool open-top boat tram, and a car with 1940s San Francisco livery.
This image is the March page for my 2012 San Franthropomorphism Calendar. I am using Kickstarter to try and raise money to get this calendar printed. If I get $3000 worth of pledges by 5:04 PM Pacific time on Monday 17 October, I’ll be able to get these printed, but if not, no dice.
If you like this page, want to see more (I haven’t posted them all publicly), and might like to have a copy of the calendar (or other goodies), please consider pledging a little bit! Even a little helps! Spreading the word also helps a lot!
Thank you!
San Franthropomorphism calendar on Kickstarter
(Source: seismogenic)
// My personified San Francisco landmarks calendar Kickstarter hit the halfway mark today!//
In terms of elapsed time and in terms of amount pledged! YAY!
(I promise I’ll shut up about this once it’s all finished…)
I’m trying to raise $3000 for printing costs, shipping, and Kickstarter fees by 5:04 PM on Monday, 17 October. If you pledge now, you won’t be charged until that time, and you won’t be charged at all if the project isn’t funded.
If you like San Francisco, please take a look, and please help spread the word!
San Franthropomorphism calendar Kickstarter is LIVE!
I’ve decided I want to try and get this thing professionally printed, rather than going with the print-on-demand “template calendar of home photos” look. I can’t afford this on my own, which is why asking for your help via Kickstarter!
Pledging will, at the very least, let you see the pages in progress. Starting at $15, you get a copy of the calendar (if the project is funded), and it goes from there! If the project isn’t fully funded by 17 October at 5:04 PM, nobody has to pay a cent.
If you like those personified San Francisco landmarks I draw, please think about chipping in a little? I will be ever grateful! I’ll also be extremely grateful to anyone who passes the word about this on. Thank you!
// San Franthropomorphism calendar update!//
Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions for places to ask about selling the calendar! I’m going to start looking into them!
I’m also working on the drawings, and on figuring out how feasible a hard copy run is, or whether to just go print-on-demand.
But there’s another detail you, San Francisco, can help with! Since this is a calendar focused on the landmarks of this fair city, I figure it should also include some key dates in San Francisco history. If I’m customizing this already, why not?
So, what I’d like to know is the dates you think I absolutely must include! I’m going to be doing my own research here, to be sure, but I know I’m going to be biased (if unintentionally) to dates relating to earthquakes and fires, or to the histories of the landmarks themselves.
So, suggestions please! What are your most important dates in San Francisco history?
// Hey, San Francisco!//
Do any of you know of places around the city that might be interested in selling hard copies of a calendar featuring personified landmarks?
I’m trying to gauge whether or not to even try and raise money for an initial hard copy run, rather than simply making the whole thing online orders/print on demand.
Thanks!
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I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Portland, Oregon this year.
Portland has a whole lot of bridges.
You all know I have this tendency to personify bridges and other structures.
Therefore: this outcome was obvious.
Portland’s eleven Willamette River bridges, from left to right: St. John’s, Burlington Northern Railroad 5.1, Fremont, Broadway, Steel, Burnside, Morrison, Hawthorne, Marquam, Ross Island, and Sellwood.
(Larger version here.)
Julian. 28. Riverside. Seismology PhD student. Player of many musical instruments. Occasional camera wielder. Personifies places and things and draws comics about them. My heart is in San Francisco.
