{"id":11612,"date":"2018-07-23T19:46:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T23:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11612"},"modified":"2018-07-24T14:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T18:13:23","slug":"episode-279-hal-mayforth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-279-hal-mayforth","title":{"rendered":"Episode 279 – Hal Mayforth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 279:
\nHal Mayforth<\/a><\/p>\n

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“As a kid, I was scared of Superman comics. Robots, too.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Illustrator-painter-cartoonist-musician Hal Mayforth<\/a> joins the show to talk about making art out of the everyday and stretching beyond that into new terrain. We get into his daily sketchbook practice (along with transcendental meditation), the shelf-life of illustrators’ styles, the music he makes<\/a> out of found vocals, and how he balances personal art alongside his professional work. We also talk about his explorations into AbEx and how he made the shift from illustration<\/a> to fine art, how he built his portfolio by doctoring alt-weekly articles with his own illustrations, why playing in a band offsets the solitary aspects of making art, his\u00a0Screaming Yellow Zonkers animation<\/a>\u00a0that never aired, whether living in New England (Burlington, VT especially) helped or hurt his illustration career, the inspiration of EO Wilson on his Biophilia<\/a> paintings, teaching himself portraiture<\/a> by working his way through an old World Book<\/em> encyclopedia,\u00a0his campaign to get May 4th declared a national holiday and why he feels upstaged by Star Wars<\/em> fans, and why he chooses soul over technical perfection (and Lightnin’ Hopkins over Steve Vai). Give it a listen!<\/a> And go\u00a0check out Hal’s art<\/a>\u00a0and listen to his music<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“I wanted to be a rock star; the arts thing came later.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n