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April 11, 2007
Eric Bostrom Reflex+ And Hobo Nickels
Eric Bostrom (Flickr: Diversionmary) is a network administrator and marketing coordinator who feeds a serious pen and ink habit in his spare time. His flickr site screens 42 of his drawings and includes references to the REACH+ sticker show in Tokyo and the Munny Show in Petaluma, CA.
Some sketches:
Some of this reminds me of an edgier, darker Jim Woodring.
Reach+ also maintains a flickr page
From the profile: "Reach, Graf artist from Taiwan,is inviting 1000 artists / designers to participate to customize blank "FU" sticker." 200 submissions are posted at present. It reminds me a little bit of the 700 Hoboes project.
Eric's submission:
Also, an interesting page on Hobo nickles.
"But rather than come back around to his purist way of thinking, by the 1990s the hobby had changed. No longer were the best carvers imitating the works of Bo and Bert. They didn't need to. They were talented professional engravers who were using the Buffalo nickel — and other coins, but chiefly the Buffalo — as a blank canvas for their own original creations."
The hobo nickel, by George Washington "Bo" Hughes, who carved nickels from 1913 "until late 1981 or early 1982 when he disappeared from a hobo jungle in Florida, never to be seen again"
| By jb | 02:52 AM
Comments
This is amazing! I thought John Hodgeman was making Hobo nickles up! Now I wonder what else is true, are Hobos really planning to take over the U.S. government? And yes, "Hobo" must always be capitalized.
Posted by: linnea at April 12, 2007 06:38 PM