{"id":11560,"date":"2018-07-02T22:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T02:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11560"},"modified":"2018-07-03T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T19:05:51","slug":"episode-276-mark-ulriksen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-276-mark-ulriksen","title":{"rendered":"Episode 276 – Mark Ulriksen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 276:
\nMark Ulriksen<\/a><\/p>\n

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“When I went on my own, I gave myself two goals: I want to do work that I like and I’m proud of, and I want to earn the respect of my peers. I have control over the first and not the second, but I think I got ’em.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>His art has graced the cover of The New Yorker<\/a><\/em> 60 times (!), and now award-winning artist\/illustrator Mark Ulriksen<\/a> joins The Virtual Memories Show<\/strong><\/em>! We talk about how he got his start in illustration at 37 (and compare mid-life crises) and how his previous career as an art director affected him, get into why he likes painting dogs more than people, and issue our judgement on Barry Bonds’ MLB Hall of Fame chances. We also get into the ice-cream machine that changed his life, the good aspects of being typecast, the pros and cons of not going to art school, how he developed his “gracefully awkward” style, his love of sports (and the new gallery show of his sports-related work<\/a>!), his artistic epiphany inspired by The Third Man<\/em> (our mutual just-about-favorite movie), the graphic memoir he wants to make, why he loves drawing on an iPad, and how he’s managed to work around his idiopathic obliterative perifoveal retinal vasculopathy (it’s a bad eye disease). Give it a listen!<\/a> And go check out Mark’s gallery show<\/a>, and buy Mark’s great book, Dogs Rule Nonchalantly<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“I learned composition from graphic design. I’m always confident I can rearrange a rectangle in a way that’s interesting.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n