Wreckage of The Emporium and James Flood Building on Market Street - 1906
This piece I discovered on The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco website, while looking for free pictures we don't have to pay royalties for or buy (because unfortunately, we are still holding up the "starving" end of the artists' bargain.) You can use pics from this site if you obtain permission and credit the museum in a link, so take a gander. This picture is from the earthquakes in San Fransisco in 1906. We loved the modern destruction and thought it represented us perfectly. Leigh added the lettering by ripping letters out of magazines by hand, not by using some cool font thing on her computer, then she scanned them and we both colored them. We could do this for days. In fact, we do.
Triple X
by Anthony Siraguse, age 12
(Judy's brilliant son.) He is embarrassed that we are posting it. Judy thinks it says everything about sex; how women feel, how men feel, the subliminal 'mountains' in the background next to the 3 x's, next to her tits. We love it because it says everything about what we love here... FUNK. When interviewed about this piece, Anthony said, "MOM! It's terrible! Why would you use that? I don't even remember making it." Then he went away from her. Then they looked like the two people in the picture.
Green Froggy
by Leigh Hughes
Not many people know this, but Leigh spent several years in the swamps of Florida studying amphibians, diagramming them and living amongst them. In case you all don't know this, she was the Jane Goodall of frogs. She received a grant from the University of Graphic Arts and Design in Your Own Living Room and from these years of study, she drew this frog. It will be on tour in art galleries and museums throughout all of North America this summer along with the other drawings of pencils, paraplegic pimps and edible underwear that we make in Paint and e-mail to each other so we can get through our day.
