{"id":2477,"date":"2014-05-24T16:17:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T15:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2018-11-19T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:34:01","slug":"ships-scrawls-and-a-really-big-snail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2014\/05\/ships-scrawls-and-a-really-big-snail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ships, Scrawls And A Really Big Snail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Internets! Here’s a roundup of the past four weeks in Ricky Trickartt’s Sunshine World. Clearly, the big event this month was the big snail. He’s so jazzy, I’ve decided to name him Cosby. Oh yeah.<\/del> [Update, Nov. 2018: As I modify this post to fix some broken links, it seems now that using ‘Cosby’ in a positive light is no longer a very good idea at all]<\/em><\/p>\n

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The two biggest hits this month were the Pie Chart<\/a> and Meats by Dr. Dre<\/a>. The latter was an idea that has been rolling around my noggin since this fabled Apple acquisition arose in the news – my drawing turned out much better than I was expecting, and was immediately well received too. Wonderful.<\/p>\n

The biggest disappointment, on the other hand, is Xscape The Lampshade<\/a>. Every time I walk past a poster for Michael Jackson’s new album, I think it looks like he’s wearing an elizabethan collar (AKA lampshade), like a guilty dog, and that’s what this picture is about. Maybe my drawing was just so bad people thought it was Liza Minnelli, so they didn’t get the reference. It’s an easy mistake to make. I thought this would be a bit better digested than it was, but perhaps it’s just a quiet testament to how oddly my mind moves.<\/p>\n

My personal favourite is the Science Boat<\/a> this month. I loved the story in the news<\/a> that Britain is ordering a new boat for science – particularly how it simply says SCIENCE<\/span> on its flanks in big, bland, bold Helvetica in the renderings. It contrasts with the other recent news about Japan’s ‘science’ boats they’re using for whaling. Nasty business. Anyway, my drawing of the science boat seemed to somehow hit that sweet-spot of cuteness, and that makes me happy.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget that if you want to follow along with my daily postings but aren’t into the whole Instagram thing, then I am also keeping up with putting them on Flickr<\/a> (just like old times!) and Tumblr<\/a>. Alright!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Internets! Here’s a roundup of the past four weeks in Ricky Trickartt’s Sunshine World. Clearly, the big event this month was the big snail. He’s so jazzy, I’ve decided to name him Cosby. Oh yeah. [Update, Nov. 2018: As I modify this post to fix some broken links, it seems now that using ‘Cosby’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[342,344,106,343,341],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sced","tag-cosby","tag-michael-jackson","tag-post-it","tag-science-boat","tag-snail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pC5Eo-DX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}