Last month, while we were over at his place… Justin, Anna, Liz and I got to glimpse some of his work, as he had a few sketches lying about. Very cool to see some copies online – they look so good!
Saturday evening, Liz and I headed over to Rob and Gretchen’s place to celebrate Rob’s birthday. On arriving, we found the place completely decked out – Valentine’s day decorations aplenty, with a lot of red lighting.
I got tip from Mike last week that Rob’s fantastic Rookery Building Print was featured in a shop somewhere, near Jackson and Clark. I arrived downtown a little earlier than normal one day, and decided to see if I could track it down.
After work yesterday, Justin and I went to go see Rob present at a Pecha Kucha event. Entitled Humanity and the Environment, this was a one-off event that took place at a new venue, and was held at the School of the Art Institute. Walking in, we found Gretchen in the audience and camped out near her. Rob was pacing…
Met up with Rob over the weekend, to kick around an idea I’ve had for a while. We went through a pot of coffee as we chatted, and what felt to me like 30 minutes ended up actually being more like 2.5 hours. Thinking about collaborating, and getting some prints made. Don’t have details to offer beyond that (mostly because…
After work on Friday, Liz and I headed over to the Chicago Urban Art Society, and attended Book Odds – a collaboration between Third Coast and The Books. Contributors to the short docs had to work within set paramters: 3 minutes in length, and each piece had to include 2 of 8 samples provided by The Books. There were a…
On Friday, October 1st, my friend Rob Funderburk will be at the 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge. He’ll be doing some “large scale doodling” during the event, which should be really cool to see. A little bit about this year’s challenge, entitled Book Odds: Produce a short audio story (up to three minutes) inspired by (and named after) song titles…
Last month, I posted about Rob’s Rookery Building print and how he was selling them via his online store. Liz and I ordered one up, and we had the fine experience of Rob hand delivering the print over to our apartment. We spent some time talking about his process, and talked a lot about the various details in the piece….