regular meditations on art, on-line communities, progressive politics, environmental issues, and popular culture.

Bungy Notes Has Moved

2012-11-19 17:03

If you are stopping by, I thought I would state the obvious: I've kind of moved away from this blog. It happens. I was always a bit of an indifferent blogger. My posts skew… Read More

On Media, New And "Old"

2012-02-14 00:16

I made this as a part of a the "United By Edit" logo competition on Instagram. No photos were used (or harmed) in the making of this image.Ever feel like you are a social movement of o… Read More

Last week I posted about my recent discovery of the folks making and sharing horror-themed pictures on Instagram. That group is still on my mind, apparently haunting the corners of my daily… Read More

Of Monsters, Copyright, And Control

2012-01-27 17:28

Even as the semester gets off to a more hectic than usual start, I still find time to maintain a presence on Instagram. The iPad has truly become my portable electronic "sketchbook," w… Read More

Variations On A Starbucks Coffee Cup

2012-01-20 04:38

I've been playing around on Instagram, where a new friend (@ashcroft54 who blogs at http://ashcroft54.com) posted a picture of a Starbuck's coffee cup and invited edits of the image. We cal… Read More

New Year, New Possibilities

2012-01-02 18:48

No question, 2011 was a bear of a year! It was a year of overcommitment for me, and I let too many things fall by the wayside as I struggled and failed to meet too many of those commit… Read More

Been A While

2011-10-23 04:03

There's a total meltdown at school. We're days away from a potential strike. And yet somewhere in there I find the time not only to do the usual semester overload of work but to… Read More

Things Are Cookin' In Fairbanks

2011-07-25 07:26

The Summer Arts Festival is half over and even though we've only been at it a week, I feel like I've done enough work for several months. I'm not burning-out yet; this exhaustion is a… Read More

At The Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival

2011-07-18 06:12

I found my way to Alaska again. This time I am working with the creative writing faculty for the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. Curious turn of events (networking and chance) ho… Read More

Self-Pic And Primates

2011-07-14 03:00

So, I've been fascinated for the last week or so by this picture. It's a self-portrait. The macaque took this smiling picture of herself. Sure, one could use this to start a conversation a… Read More

A Resurrection With Toons

2011-07-13 13:57

Page from "Vacation on the Moon"A little over a year after I made it, "Vacation on the Moon" appears this week in print in Palooka 2. That's actually amazing turnaround. For a sh… Read More

IPad Comics

2011-05-24 14:24

It happens. My work with an academic schedule inevitably reaches a point where I don't have the time or energy to do the sorts of things I would like to be doing. Then, finally, the semest… Read More

1000 Hours: He Is Still Not Alone

2011-05-14 23:06

The above gifs are compilations of a "project" I've been participating in over the last month-plus. Around the world, folks are keeping vigil for the "detained" Chinese artist, Ai Weiw… Read More

Will IPad Make A Difference?

2011-03-29 06:38

So I got the new iPad. You think it will make a difference? Will I get back to posting more regularly? Let's hope.As usual, the academic year ratcheted up its obligations. Add to that my… Read More

Sketchbook Scans: Origins Of Klexmur

2011-02-12 18:46

First sketch of "Alien Reporter." Does not have name yet.I am about twelve strips into a weekly comic I publish over at Black Magpie Theory called, "Klexmur, Alien Reporter." It'… Read More

Evolution: Biological And Political

2011-02-06 19:01

Digital Art Piece I made for SIUC's Darwin Week art competition.What a curious week this is, beginning with the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan (today) and ending with the 202nd birthday of… Read More

Make Art Anywhere And Any Way

2011-01-23 00:00

It's been a week since the conclusion of @Platea's Tree-Blog project. The final map of the project turned out quite nice. I also made an animated GIF of the project map which dem… Read More

On Stillness And Motion

2011-01-14 18:48

Scurry from Jonny Gray on Vimeo.[Elements of this video come from here and here.]A tree has movement. It grows. But it does so slowly, in ways that are almost impossible to see w… Read More

No Argument

2011-01-11 23:13

I must not argue with her,I tell myself.Just listen,Be present,Tell the truth.She is losing so much:Not just the carAnd the independence it represents,But the ability to read,To connec… Read More

Tree-Mixing And Tree-Blogging

2011-01-10 22:58

What I Saw from Jonny Gray on Vimeo.Our little tree is off to a slow but steady start today. I am most consumed by the opportunity to use this project to learn some new skills. T… Read More

Getting Ready To "Treeblog"

2011-01-08 22:27

Okay, so I've been away from the blog. I don't think I am alone in taking a holiday hiatus from blogging, but this time the cause was even more pernicious. Let's just say m… Read More

The Number Thirty-Two

2010-12-12 00:30

Occasionally someone asks me, "What's your favorite number?"You know, like we are supposed to be partial to an amount. I favor a quantity. I heart a point in an order. I ha… Read More

San Francisco Bound

2010-11-12 12:41

Well, children, it's happened again. November rolls around and it is time to head off to the National Communication Association annual conference. This year, it's in San Franci… Read More

We've Been Down This Road Before...

2010-11-04 23:20

...but maybe the familiarity offers more dread than consolation. Will we ever get off this cycle? Off the pendulum swing between the Parties? Out of the continual blame gam… Read More

Happy Halloween!

2010-10-30 17:17

Greetings, friends. 'Tis the season of the ghoulish and macabre. Which is to say, for most of us, our favorite holiday. The veil between worlds is at its thinnest in the ti… Read More

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