My grad speech + ghastly screenprint + NOLA sketch + oops hourly comics + kooky doodles

My commencement speech at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, May '09

MCAD Commencement Speech '09 from Ed Choy Moorman on Vimeo.

I posted this before, but this version is higher quality and complete. The youtube version cut off the end.

Little heavy on the Woody Allen. Tinge of Shatner.
But it was my first shot at doing something like this and I'm happy with how it went.
Immediate regret hit me upon leaving the stage that I hadn't thanked more, more enthusiastically, or more specifically. People there had been good to me. Leo, Sally, McGee, Schulz, Akagawa, Beatty, Garrett. Serious props to Margie McGee for the direction on this speech.

Submission for Test Everything: "It is a Pleasure to Meet You"
My submission to the screenprinted zine Test Everything (still open til 2/22). Restrictions: 2 layers, one black, one teal; including the phrase "It is a pleasure to meet you."

New Orleans' 7th Ward
I recently went on a whirlwind road trip to New Orleans with one old friend and two new ones, stopping in Memphis (just in time for Elvis's 75th), Leland (birthplace of Jim Henson), Jackson (for a Jim Henson exhibit at the Missippi Museum of Art), Vicksburg, Natchez, and one night in Rantoul, IL due to a blizzard. (We remade part of The Shining in a Days Inn.) I now love the South. This is one drawing from the trip, from the house our friend generously let us stay at.

Just in time for that uh, game that, uh, I guess was important.
Who dat?

Pictures from to probably follow.


Hourly Comics '10: A Failed Experiment
The "fuggit" in the title refers not to quitting, but why not, I'll do it.
I did this wrong. I spent almost all of every hour thinking up and drawing the panels. I made the same mistake that I did my first time doing the 24-hr comic challenge: not thinking about the restrictions. Next year, if I'm around to do it, I will limit myself to 5-10 minutes per hour of drawing.
It started out being fun, but I ended up feeling like I was taking the SATs all day... I'm pretty sure I made myself sick by tiring myself out. As enormously wussy as that sounds.


Stumptown + kooky drawerings
Looks like I will be attending Stumptown '10 with Mr. Sean Lynch. Fingers crossed. I miss that tall guy. Here's a picture that my pal/his gal pal Mako drew in my sketchbook when I stopped in MPLS 'round Christmas:
Isn't that great? The curly haired profile near the bottom left may look familiar. Her bear inspired this:
Which Brad thought looked like "a real-life Domo-Kun."


Next:
Many doodles from the past few months. I got a scanner, so I've rejoined the world of the living.