Thursday, July 3, 2008

Mandala-pattern 22 by Jason Arcand

Comedy Soda #2

Deep in the heart of the A To The Z industries, Arthur Zed sits down in his executive bean bag chair. A chair which sounds like it is farting.
"Too flatulent for how much it cost," he thinks to himself.
Pulling his chair up to his executive bean bag desk, he goes through the day's mail. Each envelope he opens with his fingers. Each time he fears this will be the envelope containing anthrax. He could use a letter opener. Well...he could if didn't have the soft flaccid bean bag drawer inside the equally soft and flaccid bean bag desk.
Wedged between the thick catalog detailing computer equipment he will never buy and pizzas he will never eat. Especially the Super Carnivore topped with only the finest Vegans and Vegetarians. You know like Moby and Jonathan Swift. Arthur Zed's face illuminates as he opens the envelope and retrieves the video cassette inside.
"Finally, my plans are coming twogether."

Comedy Soda is copyright 2008 Little'en and Big'en

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Mandalla-pattern 21 by Jason Arcand

Comedy Soda #1

"You're georgeous."

What is Comedy Soda?

Comedy Soda is a venue for my humorous prose. Suzanne and David Mattocks will be pitching in every now and then.

Now for the top secret origin of Comedy Soda...
We need to travel through the mists of time to a simpler more restless period...1998. Dave and I decide to take a road trip north.

Earlier that year, I was trying to return home after watching Fluffer play at the New World Music center in Tinley Park, Illinois. A blistering 100 degree day that was. So I'm driving, and I use the term loosely because I am bat-fuck lost, when I see a movie theatre in my rear view mirror. I filed the information for later, because I needed to get home.

Dave and I were looking for another journey of adventure to take and I suggested we go up to this movie theatre. He agreeded. An hour or so later we are preparing to enter Bremen Theatre. After walking the derelict brick hallway to the movie theater, we find we can only make The Big Liebowski. Yeah, I know...you could do a lot worse. We loved the movie. Driving home in great spirits, we are cracking jokes like mad. Goofing off at the Rte. 57 reststop, south of Monee, I said wouldn't be great if you could bottle this goofy buzz and sillyness we were feeling. And from there grew Comedy Soda. A story about a soda pop that played comedy skits in your mind when you drank it.

Jason

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Mandala-pattern 4


“As I was creating the various mandala-patterns, I found a lot of dead space in the corners of the canvas. A circular style design will not fill up a square canvas. I decided to create a background of horizontal lines. I placed them at decreasing intervals to give the impression of the lines fading into the distance.”
-Jason Arcand

Monday, January 28, 2008

The Rabbit and Hawk painting


“This painting was done to show the interconnectivity of predator and prey. I like how the Rabbit Spirit is trying to shield the rabbit.”
-Jason Arcand