May 10, 2008
Drawing Every Person in NYC
Jason Polan has undertaken a project that seems nearly impossible; on his website he states:
I am trying to draw every person in New York. I will be drawing people everyday and posting as frequently as I can. It is possible that I will draw you without you knowing it. I draw in Subway stations and museums and restaurants and on street corners. I try not to be in the way when I am drawing or be too noticeable. Whenever I have a new batch of drawings I will post them on this blog.He'll even set up a 2-minute sitting with you, should you want to be sketched as a part of this elaborate project. Details are at his website.
Not quite as detailed as the pieces that the late Marvin Franklin would come home with at the end of the day, but ambitious nonetheless.
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I dig his pics. But his M.O. is so absurd and stupid. It's not even clever; it's absurd for the sake of absurdity. Make your great pictures, but don't predicate it on a stupid and impossible mission.
Jason is also a New Yorker cartoonist, did you know that?
(What I mean is that just being a New Yorker cartoonist and submitting every week and getting 99.99 percent of your work rejected is predicated on a stupid and impossible mission, but that doesn't stop any of us from continuing. To anyone who says there's something wrong with trying something, I ask: what are you doing with your life? Just dreaming about things and thinking how dumb it would be to try them? That's 99 per cent of the world's population. The rest of us are working and being published. Like Jason.)
"Jason Polan has undertaken a project that seems nearly impossible"
Umm, ya think?
I love his idea. It is a great idea.
But if people in NYC really look as non-descript as his drawings portray, then he might as well never leave his apartment and imagine them instead.
I hope he learns to draw before he starts.
I saw this guy once. He was drawing a pre-pubescent girl and I thought it was creepy. His fly was also open.
"Pre-pubescent girls' are just the first 8 years of his project. By the time he gets to "bitter, alcoholic old men", he'll be covered in sores, and be only able to scrawl out crude silhouettes.
I draw several people a day on the train:
http://amiunderground.blogspot.com
i've got a few hundred so far, so i think I'll get everyone on the train in another 200 years or so, look for the end story, spring 2208!