Here is my latest illustrated-photography piece, entitled RESET.  It’s more personal in theme than my usual work.  The last few years I’ve been having some problems with depression, and the way it tends to hold back my ambitions in life.  I’m hoping this year to change a lot of things about my life for the better, and sort of hit the “reset button”.  I am almost 30 years old, and want to start off the next decade of my life feeling good, like I did the first half of my 20’s.

Anyway, the model is yours-truly, and I am accompanied by a toy space gun and about 30-40 different flowers that I shot pictures of around California, Michigan, and Ohio.

Here are some details of RESET.

Well, my productivity got curtailed for a bit there, as I was in Michigan until yesterday, but the motherboard on my laptop decided to die a few days before my return to SF. I’ll have a new illustrated photo up within the next couple days, but in the meantime, a little catch-up. I just posted a photoshoot with Dawon, and a photoshoot with Raphye in the People Photography section. Go check them out!

*whew!*

I’m finally done with the revamp of evanhaydenart.com. As I mentioned, there may be some bugs here and there. If you spot anything, please let me know. Here’s what I’ve changed…

• Design and layout. Fancier looking now, more colorful, and with darker accents. If you get nostalgic for the old look, you can take a peek at it here.
• Added the Music page. Not much on it yet, as I’m just getting back into making music after a long hiatus.
• Simplified some of the pages.
• Moved the blog here, and replaced the main index page with a fancy landing page.
• Made things load better on mobile devices
• Fixed a lot of the problems with how things load on Safari & IE.

I also added several new (and a couple older) bits & pieces to the gallery pages… To the Illustration gallery, I added “Ting Terng” (something I did for the “covers” art jam on the Electric Ant blog), “Happy Birthday Will” (an illustration for a friend-of-a-friend’s birthday), and “Blind Beast” (NSFW! A piece I did for Electric Ant issue 2). To the Design gallery, I added some examples of my graphic design and layout for Electric Ant issue 2, and from the vaults, I added “The World of Same Hat!” (the cover to a sampler of Same Hat!, a blog I cofounded with my best friend Ryan.) Yay!

Known bugs:

• For some reason on all pages except the blog, if you hit ctrl+click (for example to open a link in a new tab), or hit right-click on the mouse, the page will redirect you to the index landing page. This is an annoying bug, and I’m hoping one of my more seasoned programmer friends can help me fix it. *hint hint*. For now, just hit back in the browser if it does that to you. I’m hoping to fix this asap.
• On a smaller note, I need to tweak the way the outline formatting is on the thumbnails on the gallery index pages. I’m very sleepy now, but I’ll try to get that cleaned up in the next couple days.

Special thanks to Ryan, Melinda, Dawon, and Jason for helping me to test the design on a variety of resolutions, operating systems, and browsers!

Anyway, enjoy the new site! I have a couple new illustrated-photo works coming in the next couple weeks, so look forward to that

Okay, I’ve uploaded the new site, and it’s functional, but there are some cranky bugs to zap. Most notably the links page, and little aesthetic bits on the gallery pages, bio, and blog. I should have as many of these bugs as I know how to fix (remember, I’m more of an art guy than a computer-science guy) taken care of within the next couple days, then I’ll announce an “all clear” when I feel confident with it. Hang in there!

Hey kids. I apologize for the grievous amount of time since my last post. My life ended up getting thrown into a tizzy in November when I found out my dad needed heart surgery, so I came back to Michigan to be there for that. Since he also has needed help around the house during recovery, I have been here in MI since then, and will be going back to San Francisco on January 19th. Dad’s doing great now, so that’s awesome, but I haven’t had much time for art-making lately.

In other news, what I have been working on in my free time is the revamped version of this site (version 2.0 if you will). I’ll be posting that online at some point this coming week, and since I don’t claim to be a master programmer, there will undoubtedly be some glitches here and there at first (ie: missing graphics, dead links, messed-up CSS). If you spot anything weird, please let me know. The good news is, once I get the new site finished and the bugs zapped, it should load better and look nicer than the current site. It will also be a little more streamlined in functionality (I think I bit off more than I could chew when I relaunched my art site in ‘08). There will also be a new section, and certain pages will run better on mobile devices.

The other big change – and this might sound counter-intuitive – is that the blog is going to move from the index page to a dedicated blog page. I know it’s more the standard now to have a blog be the landing page for one’s art gallery site, but I sort of miss having the old splash page fanciness I used to have. Plus, frankly  it’s embarrassing to have a three month old blog post at the front of my site in busy, chaotic times like this. So… what does this mean to you if you subscribe to my blog? It should mean nothing really. It looks like Wordpress is pretty good about moving the address of a blog without cancelling out people’s RSS subscriptions. That said, I’ve never done it before, so if it doesn’t work, you might have to manually change your subscription address. I’m going to tentatively have the blog at www.evanhaydenart.com/blog (but I’ll keep you posted)

Anyway, new site coming very soon, as well as two new illustrations this coming month (one’s almost done)! Happy 2010!

Hey kiddos, it’s that time again! Alternative Press Expo is almost upon us, and you should come and visit my table! I will be there with my buddies Ryan Sands, Hellen Jo, Derek Yu, Calvin Wong, Anthony Wu, and Ryan Germick, and we will be selling all kinds of comics, zines, prints, and other goodies. Keep reading for info…

INFO…
Saturday October 17th, 11am-7pm
Sunday October 18th, 11am-6pm

The Concourse
620 7th Street, San Francisco CA
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Here’s a map of where we’re gonna be in the building (we’re called “Bang Gang”, and are at table #418)

This will be the debut of issue 2 of “Electric Ant” – the comics & literary anthology zine that I do with Ryan Sands. Several of the contributors in the book will be at the show, so be sure to come.

Come on by, say hi, and buy some shit!!!

Getting to posting this a little late, but I was in LA for a week. Anyway, I wanted to share some pics from the “Off the Wall” art show. It went well. I met some really awesome people and got a much bigger display area at this show (4×8ft). I spraypainted a neon pink, yellow, green & silver background of “asa no ha” pattern, over which resided eight large prints. (click the pics to go to their respective Flickr pages with bigger views):

my setup

wall in progress

my best pal Ryan and me. protip: don’t wear a rubber jacket to an art opening. So sweaty!

L to R: Christina, Melania, Max, Kaoru, Andy

Patricia & Oliver

Sarah and Jay222

L to R: Piper Robbins, nice guy whose name I forgot!, & Alisha Fumiko Harada

In other news, while at the show, I met Charlie Jane Anders from io9.com while at the show, and she featured my work on the site the following week. That was pretty rad! (I was also in the week recap)

Let’s see what else is new… I’m tabling for my fourth year in a row at APE this coming week, but more on that in my next post…

I want to take a moment and say hello to all the new folks coming to my site!  Many thanks to Chris at Space Gallery and Charlie Jane at io9.com for spreading the word.

Take a look around, and I hope you enjoy what you see.

If you are interested in buying prints of any of the pieces you see here, please send me an email at skeletron (at) gmail (dot) com.  Prints are in various sizes from $30 – $100, and I’d be happy to discuss specifics over email!

- Evan Hayden

Howdy kids! “Off the Wall” went well. I met a lot of rad people and there was a great turnout. I had a pretty deluxe setup for my art at this show. I’ll post pics soon. In the meantime, here’s that new mystery artwork I did a couple days ago:

Click the image for a larger view.

It’s the second in my new, second Robot Army series. The model is my good buddy Raphye. She was a good friend of mine back in high school, and I hadn’t seen her for ten years, until we reconnected on my recent three week trip back to Michigan. I think she makes a good model. I did another shoot with her, which I’ll post soon.

Hey kids, just wanted to let you know that I’m going to be in another art show, this coming Friday at Space Gallery in San Francisco

“Off the Wall”
Friday, September 25th, 8pm-late
admission $5
Space Gallery (1141 Polk St, btwn Sutter & Post)

I’ll have a bigger presence at this one than I did at Beyond Recognition. I;ll have about eight prints in the show, all pretty big size. One of the pieces is a brand new one that I just finished about 20 minutes ago. I’m not going to post it on this site until after the show, so it’ll be a surprise if you make in in person!