What if Beyoncé was a regular woman? A woman without personal trainers and dietitians? A woman susceptible to advertising of beloved pop icons?

What would Beyoncé look like if she drank all the Pepsi she sold?

-Tonky

ps: Here are two other formats. Banner for blog posts and a square for your Facebook. Feel free to share at your discretion.

pps: Fat Beyoncé

I created this Ad for RydeSafe Reflective Bike Decals after I heard that Americans use their cell phones while driving. Big surprise right? But did you know just how often this occurs? NPR just broadcast a story of a recent D.O.T. study that found we are 3X more likely to drive distracted than Europeans. The result is more deaths on the road. It’s a shitty ugly American practice and you should help spread the word to stop it.

STOP DISTRACTED DRIVING.

-Tonky 

Check out my recently completed Ink Splatter mural for a private residence in Brooklyn, NY. The grid scheme features 18 unique ink splatter compositions. Using a 3 color scheme (gold, black, red) I created 6 rows of every permutation of the colors. IE:

I like the free form chaos of the ink splatters laid out in a controlled and orderly grid. Who says good art can’t match your couch?

-Tonky

The 2X2 Project is a public health advocacy group based out of Columbia University in NYC. I created these visuals to accompany their Open Letter to LeBron James. The letter calls for LeBron to fight childhood obesity by taking the bold step of dropping Sprite as his corporate sponsor. They estimated that his $15 Million Dollar sponsorship would buy a billion spoons of sugar, assuming Sprite at least broke even on the deal.

We combined existing imagery in the spirit of fair use to create Fat Lebron so that people could imagine the outcome “if LeBron James drank all of the Sprite he wants our kids to drink.”

-Tonky

Click to view Fat Lebron:

Check out Portland OR based artist Brooke Weston’s amazing miniatures built inside the heads of taxidermied mammals. When I first saw her work I didn’t think something like this existed and my second thought was that I’m glad it does. This work makes me think about how dioramas at natural history museum tell us as much about ourselves as they do the creatures they document.

Elisabeth Sussman take note, does the Whitney Biennial feature any Portland artists?

-Tonky

Below are a few images, discarded along the way, that I found too pretty to let go. One Surrealist Game is called Coulage where the player pours liquid wax into water so fantastic shapes result. Below are some of the fantastic results which I photographed with a prime macro lens.

This one looks like a Samurai Warrior.

I call it:
The Google York Times

Blakely Dadson created a giant pixelated skull, Gabriela Baiter wrote a rap and made a video, and Boaz Frankel made his own form of currency.

My collage considers our culture of instant gratification and the depth of the thought that Twitter’s 144 characters allow. I cut apart, reassembled, redacted and highlighted, parts of the newspaper.

-Tonky

Click to enlarge full spread:

A gorgeous illustration by Leigh Guldig graced the New York Times today. Appeared in the letters to the editor section in response to a recent David Brooks Editorial called The Party of Work.

The early American colonialists “created an American creed, built — around liberty, individualism, equal opportunity, populism, and laissex-faire.”

What about witch burning Mr. Brooks? Can’t have a conversation about founding principles without a nod to America’s age-old tradition of burning witches at the stake!!

Here’s an excellent infographic website that looks beyond that standard state by state, country by county map. Click through to see more.

On the left, standard state by state breakdown. On the right, a cartogram correction that shows JUST how populated the east and west coasts are and JUST how desolate the plains and mountain states are.
Mark Newman is a professor in the Department of Physics and the Study of Complex Systems at University of Michigan.

-Tonky

This global epic, directed by Jeremy Grant, follows big mountain riders to Nepal, China, Argentina, and Alaska as they search for tougher terrain than what they’re familier with in Utah. Riders including Darren Berrecloth, James Doerfling, and Andreu Lacondeguy were filmed on location with high speed cameras, GoPros, and quadcopter drone-mounted rigs. Truly sublime.

Just watch the trailer. Skip to 1:56 for the goods.

-Tonky