The Woodring Monitor

Your Uncle Jim's bofferoo solo show at Seattle's beloved Frye Museum of Art closes April 17. Have you heard? Legendary art-world authority Ken Allan, PhD, will give an "informal" talk on the exhi...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2017/04/lecture-signing-last-two-weeks-of-pig.html

POOCHYTOWN MILESTONE:  THE  BED OF UNREASON The frightening story-in-progress POOCHYTOWN recently attained an apogee of sorts. Unfortunately, since the contents of the story are unknown and...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2017/01/poochytown-milestone-bed-of-unreason.html

Just so you know, Weathercraft  won The Stranger's 2010 Genius Award for Literature, even though the story contains not a single sentence. This beautiful new edition is larger, sweeter and more...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2017/01/blog-post.html

Every so often it is nourishing to revisit those early,  earnest attempts at capturing on paper the incontinent emanations of youth- I am not referring to anything organic- that so enthralled th...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2015/09/thunder-below-horizon.html

Yes, children, FRANK in the 3rd DIMENSION is finally at the printer! It should be in stores in early January, so if you want that holiday gift-giving frisson, pre-ordering it will have to d...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2015/09/at-printer.html

The image below was painted and abandoned because, like a dead horse at a clambake,  it just wasn't assertive enough. Know what I mean? It isn't sufficiently awful. It needs to be really, really...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2015/08/men.html

At this point in its development the drawing lost all meaning for me and I could not remember what the point was that I was trying to convey. The girl on the tip of the tongue, the first of her c...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2015/08/i-had-dream-of-perfidy.html

Your Uncle Jim has a pal who went to Cal Arts in the 70's and, after receiving his education, went around telling everyone there was no such thing as "genius". I don't know where he is today, but...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2015/08/love-that-word.html

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http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2015/02/ultra-pos-ny-times-review-of-you-drive.html

Here is a drawing for a painting of an army of frogs convening in the woods on a moonless night. Viewers will have to peer deeply into the varnish to see the details. Because frogs lend thems...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2014/09/frogs-at-night-drawing.html

Crikey! I can't believe how much spacetime has elapsed since the last post here! The sad truth is that I became absorbed by my Facebook artist page . Also I began a semi-clandestine diary blog t...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2014/09/back-again-for-first-time.html

According to the Big Bang theory, the universe originated in a cosmic seed much smaller than an electron: effectively nothing. What could this cosmic seed be but Brahman? Brahman has unlimited po...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2013/07/between-us-we-can-do-great-things.html

That crickety sound you hear is courage being reborn as sheer terror!

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2013/07/show-some-backbone.html

And it looked like a horrible place.

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2013/06/i-saw-world-without-its-shimmering.html

Slowly, slowly the elements accumulate. We will build a better garden. Warning signs yet to come.

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2013/06/silent-but-pensive-witness.html

After literally years of psychological preparation I am able to begin work on a new project which bid fair to rip the lid off the "tyranny of belief" scandal. Watch this space for incremental ste...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2013/06/after-literally-years-of-psychological.html

A glimpse of OAK , my son Maxfield's first graphic novel, nearly finished.

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/11/oak.html

A narrated video glimpse of Uncle Jim's collection of sketchbook drawings due out this December HERE .

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/11/problematic_12.html

Your Uncle Jim will be at the Alternative Comics Expo in San Francisco this weekend (Oct 13-14). So will the Hernandez Brothers, all 3! Me, I'm looking forward to it. See you there? Eh?

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/10/ape.html

Eyvind Kang, Bill Frisell and your Uncle Jim performing at Invisible Dog in Brooklyn Sept 15. This was Bill's idea. He wanted me to draw as if I were part of the band, interactively. Naturall...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/09/close-your-eyes.html

The ever-perfect Bill Frisell is playing a number of venues at Brooklyn's Crossing The Line festival in Brooklyn this week and weekend, only one of which, Close Your Eyes, will be marred by liv...

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/09/bill-frisell-eyvind-kang-jw-in-brooklyn.html

Mark Frauenfelder posted on BOING BOING about the FRAN project... you can read about it HERE

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/04/mark-frauenfelder-on-fran-project.html

My! Aren't they FANCY! Rich, beautiful color; soft technology. In short, trmdus. Go directly to Americaware. Pictured above: Frank Tours the Planets, available on black or white shirts.

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-frank-themed-t-shirts-for-spring.html

Just look at this! Can you beat it? Do you feel "esprit" respiring in its depths? Don't you wish you had been present at the creation?

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2011/12/intense-sullivant-original.html

Don't like the booze reference, however true. REJECTED!

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2011/12/old-time-warm-home-rug-party.html