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:: December 15, 2006 Inspiration: Squidbillies' Ben Prisk
First off, thank you all SO MUCH for all the kind baby wishes!
Have you ever seen Squidbillies on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim? If so you might not see past the trifecta of raunchiess, offensiveness, and hilarity to the gorgeous background art by Ben Prisk. Mr. Prisk has three blogs, one dedicated to his art in general, one to his photos, and one just to his Squidbillies work. The characters on the cartoon are ugly (yet irresistible) and an episode rarely goes by without some violent bloodshed, but there in the background you've got these beautiful hand-painted landscapes, crazy retro trees and flowers, and art brut buildings and contraptions. Mr. Prisk even makes foul truck-stop bathrooms pleasant to look at:
It somehow fits in with the characters too, rather than being some ironic juxtaposition. OK now I will stop trying to pretend I can talk about art and show you more images.
P.S. There are many episodes and clips of Squidbillies on Youtube, so no excuse if you don't have cable. posted by in Inspiration
Comments Hi Kim, Posted by ben on December 22, 2006 11:07 PM |
