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About Me

www.motenai.com

My Interests

art, drawing, comics, listening to music, movies, animation, all things 80's, wing chun, sleight of hand (just learning)

I'd like to meet:

Homer Simpson. Other creative, right-brained, artistic types with overactive imaginations. Anyone who can remember such notable 80's TV shows like Manimal , The Master , Misfits of Science , Return to Eden , Learning the Ropes , or Werewolf (that's right Werewolf, not Airwolf). Anyone who remembers these Hostess ads .

Music:

Pixies, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Violent Femmes, Jesus and Mary Chain, Beastie Boys, local/indie bands (Explosions in the Sky, Silversun Pickups, Pidgeon, Paz Lechantin, Antennas to Heaven, Sputterdoll, Odessa Chen, Notorious MSG, Low Flying Owls)

Movies:

American Movie, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Being John Malkovich, A Clockwork Orange, The Fly (1986), Gattaca, Falling Down, Fist of Legend, Ong Bak, Heroes of the East, Laputa, Porco Rosso, Triplets of Belleville, School of Rock, Before Sunset, 40-year Old Virgin, King of Kong, B-movies, and many more

Television:

Don't watch too much TV, but The Simpsons are a must. Three's Company, Iron Chef. Action movies that are dubbed in Spanish on Telemundo.

Books:

Flowers for Algernon, Poor Bastard, Grickle, Animal Farm, Catcher in the Rye, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Understanding Comics, screenplays

Heroes:

Joe Matt, Jaime Hernandez, Art Adams, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Fumito Ueda, Paul Heyman, James Randi

My Blog

Post Coitus for Vinyl Apocalypse Show

Here's a piece that I did for the upcoming Vinyl Apocalypse Show at Lower Hater. I put a coat of gloss medium over the drawing, but that turned out to be a big mistake because it smeared the ink and ...
Posted by Hon Solo on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:44:00 PST

Barry the Benevolent Ninja, Part VI

Posted by Hon Solo on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:18:00 PST

Remembering Barabara Bradley

I found out this weekend that Barbara Bradley, former figure drawing teacher at the Academy of Art, passed away. For years, she was the cornerstone of the illustration department, and she taught, ins...
Posted by Hon Solo on Mon, 05 May 2008 11:47:00 PST

Barry the Benevolent Ninja, Part V

Posted by Hon Solo on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:11:00 PST

Another MFA poster

I hate perspective, and I hate drawing vehicles. I don't know how to draw smoke, trees, or animals. So what do I do to torture myself? I put ALL of those things into this poster. The funny thing i...
Posted by Hon Solo on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:47:00 PST

Barry the Benevolent Ninja, Part IV

Posted by Hon Solo on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:38:00 PST

Barry the Benevolent Ninja, Part III

Posted by Hon Solo on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:11:00 PST

Barry the Benevolent Ninja, Part II

Barry the Benevolent Ninja was originally a one-shot strip, but after some brainstorming, I decided to continue this story for fun.
Posted by Hon Solo on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:03:00 PST

Photos from Germany

This is perhaps my new favorite dish, currywurst, juicy slices of pork sausage bathed in a thick, sweet, mildy spicy curry sauce.Schnitzel with a side of potatoes! In the background, from left to rig...
Posted by Hon Solo on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:16:00 PST

Barry the Benevolent Ninja

Here's a goofy comic that I did to get my creative juices flowing again. The ninja dude is based off of a crochet figure that Jelifur made.
Posted by Hon Solo on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:15:00 PST