I had a fun morning talking illustration with a 6th grade class in Rome! They are working on an art project; learning about different artists’ practices. So I got to tell them about what I do all day 🙂
Big thank you to Mr. Young & his class!
Category: Social Networks
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My Portlandia Bike
Here is my awesome bike the great people of Portlandia gave me for guest tweeting! I put a bird on it. It wasn’t Colin though.
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Portlandia Guest Tweets
I was picked to run the Twitter account for IFC’s hilarious sketch comedy show Portlandia, for a week! My guest tweets ran from Jan 11th – 17th. I got to run some arts & crafts contests and asked the natives about Portland. My wife helped me think up some of these fun projects and we got to give DVDs to the winners. It was a great opportunity to bond with the fans of such a creative show. IFC extended this Portlandia Co-op project to guest tweeters during the run of their third season.
My highlight of the week was when Carrie Brownstein responded to one of my questions. I also received word that Fred Armisen enjoyed the arts & crafts contests. Everyone behind Portlandia’s Twitter account was very supportive of this project, the people at IFC, Fred & Carrie, and the awesome Jenny McCoy, who usually runs the account. They even gave me a bike as a gift for tweeting!
As part of the Portlandia Twitter fun I posted sketches of my favorite characters all week. Here is my colored illustration of “We Can Pickle That”, one of their catchy skits in the vein of “Put A Bird On It”.You can read more about Portlandia’s Co-op project and my Q & A on their blog: www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia/
blog/2013/01/meet-the- portlandia-co-op You can catch me on my own Twitter for updates on my artwork: https://twitter.com/
mcillustrator
