Monkey Mary
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
The opportunity will soon pass...
Old Caboose Graveyard, Cottage Grove, Oregon
Originally uploaded by Pixel Packing Mama.
As this list shows, we have just about hit the 200 hobo mark. Watch this space for Ginger, Trashy Trey, and more-- beginning tomorrow.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Tomorrow night I will have the updated (and possibly completed*) list, and Monday the hoboes will start rolling in. Thanks again everyone.
*This means the opportunity** to own an insanely inexpensive piece of hobo art on a postcard mailed to your door will be coming to an end very soon. Probably forever.
**The opportunity may be ending, but the fun is not.
Also please note: I am incredibly pleased with the awesomeness of that photograph.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Look out, here they come!
768 Manny Gills, The Underwater Breather
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Here is the list as of 10:30 EST on Thursday March 22, 2007.
They will be drawn in the order in which they were received and posted and mailed on the day they're done.
I plan on starting up, full force, on Monday and will try to complete them all over the course of a month. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or concerns.
Also, check in here often. I'll be posting a handful on youtube, so you can see them being drawn.
Once again, thank you.
That was the motto of the Century of Progress Exposition held in Chicago in 1933. The same exposition that my grandfather George Berger hopped a train in order to attend. No job, only the clothes on his back, and probably a few friends in tow, he briefly lived the life of a hobo. But he didn't succumb to the siren song of the open rail and soon after that summer settled down like most of us do. Which brings me to the reason for this post.
I'd like to make clear one minor differentiation that most people seem to have a pretty good handle on. Homeless vs Hobo. The hoboes I've depicted are informed by the history recorded in John Hodgman's aforementioned book, as well as the pioneering work of Sid Caesar, Emmett Kelly, and Spike (Snoopy's underappreciated and highly emaciated brother), to name a few. True hoboes are hard to find these days, and may in fact have vacated earth entirely, as Hodgman contends.
My illustrations are not in any way meant to disparage or belittle the modern homeless and downtrodden who, often through no fault of their own, are forced to live on the streets.
Thank you.
There is a list coming your way tonight.
Finally, click here to read more about the Century of Progress and it's incubator of real babies.
I'm up to my eyes in hobo names!
123 Cheesequake O'Lennox
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
That's okay though! I have a plan. I'll have more details tonight about how this will all work.
To all who have entered a crazy hobo name in that box there on the right, thank you very much. I shall do my best to represent your nomadic vagabond in a manner fitting their majestic ilk.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
INCOMING!
Galaxian
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Hey everybody! If you are just dropping in from the post on boingboing.net, welcome to the insanity, and thanks for visiting!
A few things I should make clear:
I originally only planned on doing 200 of these hoboes submitted by you, bringing the overall project to a nice even 1000 hoboes. So, if it takes a week or three months for 200 names to come in, time is limited.
Also, I'll do them in the order I've received them and post them here and on flickr as soon as they are off the drawing board.
They'll go in the mail on the same day they're posted.
Also, I'd love to be able to do more custom stuff (like from photos and such), but for the most part I'm asking you to trust my hobo judgment. If you're not familiar with my work or the preceding hobo art project that lead up to this click here to learn more about this silliness. Also, if you haven't read John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise, I highly recommend it.
There have been a lot of funny names ordered so far, so keep watching this space as they roll in. If you have ordered a hobo name and have any questions, feel free to contact me.
And once again, thank you!
Jackhammer Jill
Jackhammer Jill
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Ordered by E. of Riverside (my hometown!), who I will assume is a fan of boingboing.net since this was ordered shortly after they had a link to my blog yesterday. Thanks!!
Saturday, March 17, 2007
490,000 excuses to draw
700 Things
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
So things have started to snowball over in the ole' Flickr pools, and now there are several several several collaborative artistic projects lined up in which anyone with a flickr account may participate. The fun starts here. From there you can learn more about 700 Zombies, 700 Robots, 700 Underwear Clad Vigilante Mutants, 700 Bunnies, 700 Unicorns, and 700 things of which there could conceivably someday be 700 illustrations of. Whew!
Even if you can barely draw, join in the fun. Users are currently building master lists for each pool and it's only a matter of time before the drawings, photos, sculptures, etc start pouring in.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Thanks T!
Smiley Tate
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Smiley Tate, made to order. A happier hobo you'll never meet.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Dirty Decker
Dirty Decker
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Named by D. of Santa Barbara, CA. Thank you.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Let's make it 1000, shall we?
I'm finding it difficult to simply stop drawing hoboes after a year and a half, so I'd like to enlist your help. Here's the deal: you come up with the hobo name and I'll draw it for you on a postcard for the low low price of $10.00. In color even! and I'll throw in the 24 cent stamp. What do you think? I've added a paypal shopping cart link if you are interested in this hobo art offer. I'll be sure to post any and all takers here and on flickr (though not in the official 700 Hoboes Project pool).
Thursday, March 08, 2007
It is finished.
767 Dr. Know
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Thank you all for your cooperation, support, and friendly dispositions.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
This is not a hobo.
In theaters now.
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
I only have a few hoboes left and I'm taking my time on them. Plus, I'm kinda busy.
This is a new idea I'm working on--illustrating movie titles and then having you all guess what the movie is. This one has already been answered over on flickr.
I'm not sure how many of these I will end up doing. Likely not 800.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
That's some fine oboein'
706 Pauly Twin-Oboes, the Double-Reed Man
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
15 to go.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
If my count is correct...
653 Simon Squirrelskin
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
I'm on the back 50 of 800 hoboes...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Gravity
725 Dickie On-Star, the Satellite Man
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Another meeting of Illustration Friday and the 700 Hoboes Project.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Hirschfeld on Disney
Hirschfeld on Disney
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Click on the image, then on all sizes to read Al Hirschfeld's assessment of the animation in Walt Disney's Snow White.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
t is for shirt
Y is for Yeti
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
My illustrations from the Alphabet of Monsters are still available in t-shirt form, here.
Monday, February 12, 2007
meep meep
215 Roadrunner "Meep Meep" Fabong
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
...with apologies to Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
100,000
736 They Call Me MISTER Dumps
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
At some point over the past few days I surpassed 100k views on flickr. Thanks for dropping by, you nameless, faceless, writhing mass of humanity, you!
more ape than lad?
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Someday my hand will be the same size as that of a 6 year old gorilla. Till then a lad can only dream. *sigh*
Friday, February 09, 2007
100 to go!
557 Unconditional Gavin
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Unless I've skipped a couple somewhere somehow.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
sketchbook
I've done about 4 of these sketchbooks so far, but not all of my hoboes are drawn this small.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
HoboTube
I've uploaded another video of myself drawing yet another hobo. Again. When will I ever learn?
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
505 William Carlos Williams
505 William Carlos Williams
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
...and his trusty red wheelbarrow.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Hobostration Friday
306 Red Ball Pnutz
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
This is my entry in today's Illustration Friday thing. The theme is "red".
Thursday, January 25, 2007
These are not hoboes.
color version
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
On the right we have Iron Man punching the shield of Captain America. This is based on a comic book cover illustrated by Jack Kirby. The king.
For more information, visit your local comics shop. At your peril.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Hobo 652
Another video of me drawing a hobo. This time it's Luke "the Lifestyle" Dammers (hobo 652).
Friday, January 19, 2007
Woodsy Phoenix
Woodsy Phoenix
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
USDA Forest Service officers have been instructed to burn their old Woodsy Owl costumes. (Read more about it on boingboing.)
I hope they appreciate the fact that he's an owl and not a phoenix.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
When will it end?
716 Stalling Pete Puts-You-Off
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
In about 186 hoboes, that's when.
More soon.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Fast approaching 600
250 Ma Churchill
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
I'll try to have something special planned for my 600th of the 700 hoboes. Does anyone know a good sky-writer?
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Merry Christmas
Monday, December 18, 2006
Bob the Cat
Bob the cat
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
Another threadless submission, up for voting here:
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