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alien attack !!!
in my regular friday meeting i'm fast becoming the pain-in-the-arse guy who asks questions that maybe others don't want to, or feel that they shouldn't have to.
in many ways it feels a little like i'm pointing out that the bloke on the throne up there is naked as the day he was born.
so i suppose that explains the lone schmuck in the doodle being set upon by a herd of marauding beak-mouthed aliens...
but today was a good day, today they listened to the schmuck
alien totem pole !
now this really did grow from nowhere, this grew from a relatively brief meeting about the department's office move about 1 mile down the road.
i guess the implied narrative is something along the lines of a charlton heston "god damn you all to hell!" moment - remnants of an old culture covered by the sands of time - viewed by a detached onlooker in this case...
it's not so divorced from the meeting in question after all !
a spacewalk; the first comment from s on this one was something along the lines of "you're colouring them in now ?"
...and she does have a point. to clarify - i don't take packs of highlighters into meetings; doodles like this will tend to be at my desk (phone calls, waiting for something to finish running on the pc, etc.)
i have a headache now from the fumes off the highlighters/whiteboard markers... i suffer for this blog !
some kind of dinosaur head, which amused me during a 90 minute friday afternoon meeting (and they expect me to pay attention !!!)
the coffee was rotten, and the biscuits were kept at the other end of the table (too conspicuous to get up and reach over for some during the various updates and discussion points)
still one of my favourite meetings because it's an ongoing exercise in arse-covering; these guys have messed-up good, and are desperately trying to save face by doing some serious last minute maneouvering.
disembodied head licked by flames from above and below.
i like this one, not sure why i like it so much... there was a point where the face was going to transform into one of the key figures from 'les demoiselles d'avignon'.
i'm glad it didn't.
a spikey abstract thingy
...which i'm really liking, actually.
reminds me, in many ways, of some of the very first pieces of work that i produced at art school
...although i guess that the success of those early pieces is made desperately clear by the fact that i'm stuck in tedious meetings every bloody day with an itchy biro hand.
a couple of rampaging robots this time.
we have a robot-as-king kong affair on the left; and above we have an odd looking guy pulling a boat from the treacherous sea.
both from the same meeting last week.
0 through 9 ?
oh yes.
we aren't afraid to allude to the greats of pop-art during our long, drawn-out (ho ho), pointless meetings.
i'm not sure about the giraffe, fairly positive that - if my memory serves - this wasn't part of johns' original vision...
a burning child ?
i'm not really sure about this one - again - maybe something to do with a planning meeting that takes four hours for all parties to admit to themselves that they have no idea what they're actually all hoping to work towards; in spite of the fact that team of people have been working on this project, and towards these goals, for about six weeks !
glad to say that i've not been involved much, up to this point. except to repeatedly point out that they have no clear aim, and no hope of doing anything useful until they resolve this issue.
a know, not exactly rocket science, eh ?
spacesquid - life imitates art
imagine my surprise, after doodling the picture on the right during a particularly directionless 4 hours, when i return home to find the opening scene of tonight's episode of Legion of Superheroes [1.08] portrays exactly such a confrontation. only with more capes !
maybe i have a Heroes-esque superpower of doodling the future, when it an altered state of mind (don't need heroin though, pointless meetings are my drug of choice!)
a frame of thorns, surrounding a zippy-esque (d-d-d-do you get milk from cows, geoffrey ?) figure in a tie.
not quite sure where this one leapt from today, it was actually an unusually brief meeting (the main focus of which, i can't help feeling, was to grill me about something that upset everyone when i pointed it out last week). so maybe this would've developed fully given another forty five minutes or so.
... but i like it for that. seems a little fresher than some other more 'complete' doodles.
a spacesquid, under attack from a somewhat over-equipped chap.
this is what's going on in my head when i'm called into an impromptu meeting immediately following another.
...and the cyclops robot looks on.
i quite like this pen, stolen from someone else's desk. but it's running out.
time to start the hunt again...
an alien abduction, and boy i was praying for something along these lines to save me from the meeting i was in today.
only 1 hr 20, though, so not so bad on that front.
little did i know, however, i'd be leaving this meeting to right into another one...(see next post)
a little blue robot, he looks a little angry i suppose.
maybe something to do with the minutes of my life that i will NEVER get back again.
could've been doing something useful, could've spent it with s & j; instead i sat in a stuffy. badly lit office and scrawled in the margins of my ring-bound A4 pad.
a shower of shooting stars, with some smiley little fellas.
there must be something residual from reading j one of his favourite bedtime books about stars falling from the sky.
another rocket, eh ?
well i did say that i liked drawing rockets.
and you probably tell that this doodle was an 'at the desk' one, as i had time to use my meagre supply of highlighters. think i need some new colours, maybe.
