When I started drawing my first DFR to submit to dinosaursfuckingrobots.com I thought I was just procrastinating and indulging my own ridiculous, nerdy sense of humor. Robots; Dinosaurs; sexy times; Yup, those are all my favorite things! Throw in seemingly random quotes that allow me to further indulge in my nerdiness and bibliophilia and I quickly became hooked!

Every once in a while I found myself sneaking away from other drawing projects to sketch out Stegosaurus, Iguanadon, Brachiosaurus and robots poised with oil canteens at the ready.

Here I am 2 years after discovering Dinosaurs Fucking Robots, and they’ve gone from amusing distraction to priority project.

After the amazing reception my DFRs received at this year’s Seattle Erotic Art Festival I realized that I need to step things up and seriously expand the series! DFRs have kinda become ‘my thing’ and I’m okay with that.

I’ll have several new paintings done in the next month, but for the moment I just wanted to post a few quick sketches.

Cards are available for $5.00 + tax each. Stop in to check out my cards and all the other great art and merchandise on display.

Yoga West (2662 West 4th Ave. Vancouver) will have tables set up on the sidewalk in front of the centre and will greet people with:

I’ll be helping out at the Yoga West tables from 10am till noon, and in the general area for the rest of the day. Stop on by and check out the festivities. My Yoga Animal greeting cards are currently available at Yoga West.

As you may be aware, I’ve taken inspiration from dinosaursfuckingrobots.com to create my own ongoing series of illustrations.

They’ve kinda become “my thing”; at least they’re the art that I enjoy working on most of all. And despite possible future repercussions for my plans to write and illustrate children’s stories, I don’t see myself getting bored or running out of ideas for this series anytime soon. I have 5 new pieces in the works which should all be online and available by October.

Anyway, this is more of a DFR tangent.

Back while my good friend Kristof was visiting from the exotic nation of Europe, he had the idea to visit DinoTown (North America’s only cartoon themed dinosaur park) dressed in robot costumes and go to town (DinoTown) on those unsuspecting dinosaur statues while photographing the whole shameful spectacle.

Unfortunately, Kristof’s trip was cut short and we never made it to DinoTown before he had to return home.

Shortly after Kristof left Vancouver, I learned that coming September, DinoTown would be closing its doors forever! Sadly this meant we couldn’t wait for Kristof’s next visit to Vancouver, we would have to go defile a children’s amusement park in his honor.

The day to smother DinoTown in robot love finally came. Jordan came to my place around noon and we constructed some amazing half-assed robot costumes. Then Jordan, Aman and I drove out to DinoTown to put the plan into action. After a long but luxurious drive out to Chilliwack in Aman’s Cadillac, all our hopes and dreams seemed crushed as we pulled into the DinoTown parking lot to see a “closed due to power outage” sign.

Few people can relate to the sense of crushing hopelessness that comes from driving for 90 minutes in a luxury sedan, only to turn around empty-handed.

We decided to take a walk around the outer grounds to clear our heads and figure out our next move. The park looked abandoned. We couldn’t find any staff or sign of guard dog, despite many warning signs. Through a chain link fence we spied a clearing of dinosaur statues. It was infuriating to have come so far for our objective and be denied. This situation was made particularly dire since Jordan was soon moving to Arizona.

With the park closing in a couple of weeks and little opportunity to make a return trip we debated the options of leaving in defeat or scaling a perimeter wall.

By an act of providence, just as we were mulling over our dilemma, we saw a truck drive up a side path and park at the caretaker’s home.

Over walks Gérard, the property caretaker, who explains the situation with the power outage. Gérard couldn’t have been a nicer guy. We told him about how we just wanted to get some photos with the dinosaur statues in our robot costumes before Jordan moved away and the park closed forever. Gérard let us into the park, explained how to follow the trail to find more dino-statues, and told us to take as much time as we need. Everything worked out as well as it possibly could have: The rain held off; we got into the park for free without any ethical compromise; we didn’t need to conceal what we were doing for fear of scarring children or offending parents; and we took all the time we needed to explore the park.

Yup, it was a great day! I know we made Kristof proud. It’s only a shame he couldn’t be there to live out this dream with us. But there’s plenty more dinosaur statues around the world that could use a little robot love. Gods willing, we’ll get to them.

Goodbye DinoTown! We miss you! But thankfully we were able to defile one more childhood memory before saying goodbye forever.

Thank you for taking the time to have a look at my site. Things are coming together splendidly, but there are some kinks to iron out. Nothing of much concern, except for a strange shift in the colour values of certain images in my gallery. If you look through the DFR or Yoga Animal galleries, everything looks fine. But for reasons beyond my (or my webmaster’s) understanding, all the images in the Cityscapes gallery and some in the Misc. gallery have a sickly bright, high contrast look to them. Apparently this has something to do with Firefox settings. It’s over my head. All I know is that it should be a simple fix, but so far, the simple fix hasn’t had any effect. So if you’re using Firefox as your web browser, things aren’t as they should be. Even curiouser, you can view all my images on my facebook page using Firefox and everything looks fine.

Anyway, more updates, new art and more entertaining posts are coming in the next few weeks, so check back.