Ideas & Art from Rob Elliott and Christine Cosby

Tag: sparrow

Telephone Line

I drew these 31 bird groups for Pittsburgh’s Fun-A-Day project. The idea behind Fun-A-Day is for artists to do something creative (not work-related) every day for a month.

The self-imposed rules of my project, “Telephone Line” were that the wire had to run the entire length on the month, the background could not touch the side edges, the wire could only be used by city birds (sparrows and starlings), the birds could be in peril but not harmed, and the backgrounds should show a lot of variety. I started out with buildings I liked, but soon jokes and surrealism made its way into the project.

You can view the complete “Telephone Line” on Instagram (@swizzlestudio) or at the bottom of this post.

“Telephone Line” ran the length of the gallery at Fun-A-Day Pittsburgh’s show.
Toronto City Hall
Sonora Desert
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Trinity Square Car Park Gateshead
Zipper ride
Giraffes
Telephone line 2 point perspective
Vaudeville
Disneyland Skyway and Matterhorn
Gibbon
Submarine
Mothra Tokyo Tower
Moulin Rouge
Statue poop
Parachute
Venus fly trap
Disco
Tetris
Rooftops
Douglas Fir clearcut
PCC streetcar
tightrope
Viking ship
three cats
Vancouver Harbour Centre
Linesman
Sphinx Egypt
Snowman
Bass jumping
Zero gravity moon
Hello

Pigeon World Cup

I found some video of pigeons chasing a piece of bread (shot in Florence, Italy in 2009) and added some sound from a football match. One of those silly little projects I always meant to get around to.

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