Ben Towle

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Portrait Night 9/13 (Gibby Haynes)

Continuing my current series of subjects from Our Band Could Be Your Life, here’s Gibby Haynes of The Butthole Surfers. I’ll have to double-check, but I think next week will be the last of these: Beat Happening. If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, …

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X is for Xoloitzcuintle

Well, I’m glad I held off on any dog breeds until now. I suspected I’d be glad to have the whole “arsenal” of breeds available for some difficult letter–and that for sure turned out to be the case.  You may know this dog by the name “Mexican Hairless,” but it’s also knows as the Xoloitzcuintle …

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What Are You Listening To?

I used to do these roundups of music I’ve been enjoying pretty regularly, but it seems like it’s been ages since I’ve done one… so, here goes. I’ll add a comment or two to each, but you can certainly find thorough reviews and/or streaming samples for most of these. I’ll add a streaming audio track …

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Portrait Night 9/6 (Kim Gordon)

I’m not 100% happy with this drawing, but it’s sure a heck of a lot better than the first pass I made at a Kim Gordon drawing. I think the root of the generally diminishing quality of my Our Band Could Be Your Life #PortraitNight is that I’ve run out of the “low-hanging fruit” in …

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W is for White Pelican

You can follow the other “W” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AnimalAlphabet hashtag. To see all the entries so far, check out the Animal Alphabet Tumblr: http://animalalphabet.tumblr.com. W is for White Pelican The original art for this is for sale here.