Thanks for the awesome music. I mostly used the sweatshop as a radio last night but did stop at the monitor every now and then to watch. I love watching people draw, it makes my brain feel like it's being licked by an orgasm.
I missed this until now. I'd like to join in for one of them. Eliza, I love your art, and not being a (visual) artist myself, that process is kind of a mystery to me. Do you usually do them at night?
Well, there is no solid "process", really...the ones above are pencilled, inked, and then painted with thin oil. Lately they have been mostly at night, PST, sometimes in the afternoon. I'll make sure to announce on Twitter when they are happening, and will try also to post here.
Edited to add: Those of you who want to chat but don't want a Ustream account, we've got a solution. We hacked the Ustream chat backend on IRC. Join server chat04.ustream.tv, channel #Sweatshop during a Sweatshop and private message Smushy, who will set you +v.
I'd absolutely (want to, but probably not have enough money to) buy a Haters Gon Hate shirt. Right now, it's my desktop background. My computer is fairly crap, and last time I tried to check out a Ustream event, it lagged the entire time. Is there any workarounds to get it to work better?
I'm going to make my own screen to cut down on cost. I'll see how cheap I can make it.
It seems like the lag is mostly on the user end, unfortunately. All that Flash stuff tends to be memory-heavy. I'm not sure what would help, except maybe to make sure all your Flash drivers are updated, extra programs are closed, etc.
I'm having some travel days, and will be running Sweatshop again once I get back to Oakland.
Planning for a Sweatshop tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon, PST. I'll make sure to announce on Twitter when it's happening. Further updates as events warrant.
Wednesday SWEATSHOP has moved to Cthursday due to travel fuckups. We''ll be going for a dual episode, co-starring my friend Bree Johnson, who went to a lot more art school than I did.
Nobody is stopping you from owning that robot, son. Live your dreams!
Clockwork Couture Episode of SWEATSHOP is starting soon. I just got home to Oakland from Seattle, and found my subletters have not cleaned once in their entire time here. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF