Comments on: mad meg

mad meg

crunchland — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:50:40 -0800

Mad Meg does all of her work with a black ball point pen on notebook paper.

By: Nugget

Nugget — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:00:37 -0800

Some of her work's quite dark and a little disturbing, but hey, guess she's called Mad Meg for a reason! 'Slightly Irrational Meg' just isn't as catchy.. Great find.

By: nervousfritz

nervousfritz — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:01:25 -0800

bzzt. Il est trops tard.

By: biscotti

biscotti — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:02:01 -0800

Wow, that is impressive. Great sense of light in some of them, and a really interesting variety of styles. Great post, thanks.

By: fluffycreature

fluffycreature — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:02:25 -0800

I am aching for higher resolution to look these over. I would buy the book if she (?) had one. Thanks for the bright spot in the day!

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:03:22 -0800

Great find.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:04:12 -0800

Some people are much, much more talented than I am.

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:06:31 -0800

I would buy the book if she (?) had one. Hell, I'd buy prints and frame them. Definitely Escher-esque, but taking it one step further...

By: splatta

splatta — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:08:33 -0800

Some people are much, much more talented than I am. much, much more obsessive. But really, look at the planning that would have had to go into some of these, it's not like you can erase a line, it's all pre-meditated, and so intricate. Amazing.

By: prostyle

prostyle — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:11:55 -0800

Neat! Some of that work looks painstakingly detailed, I certainly don't envy her workflow. The use of text can be very interesting, in certain sections where it's small type she groups it as visual containers and other times it's just drawings paired with what seems to be lengthy ramblings. That's one thing I could never do in my sketchbook, melt random stream of conciousness text in conjunction with the art itself. I see it alot, and am always puzzled by it. I really love typographical experimentation, but some of this seems like a lot of work for relatively confusing results. This specific image really reminded me of this project. Lot of variety here!

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:12:41 -0800

Wow. 'Mad' is right. But some great gems in there. Thanks, crunchland.

By: Elpoca

Elpoca — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:16:10 -0800

Technique: wow! Subject matter: yikes...

By: jonson

jonson — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:24:29 -0800

Great post, crunchland!

By: whatnot

whatnot — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:50:52 -0800

I would buy the book if she (?) had one. Hell, I'd buy prints and frame them. I'd like both of these for my living room, actually.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:54:15 -0800

Great link. It's been posted before, but she changed her server. I can't remember the name of the other one to search, though.

By: papakwanz

papakwanz — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:54:27 -0800

Killer stuff.

By: sciurus

sciurus — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:57:16 -0800

You consistently post excellent things, crunchland. My sincere thanks.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:59:29 -0800

Thanks, crunchland.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:00:33 -0800

Omiewise, peacay and I both posted it at MetaChat, maybe you're thinking of that? Great site - I love the desktop images.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:06:49 -0800

I thought it was here also, but maybe that was it. I get so confused sometimes...

By: funambulist

funambulist — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:12:24 -0800

The previous URL was www.cannibalologue.net and it's not in the Metafilter archives. The origins of the Mad Meg moniker are very very charming: 'Dulle Griet' (Mad Meg). Griet was a disapproving name given to any bad-tempered, shrewish woman, about which there are many Flemish proverbs: 'She could plunder in front of hell and return unscathed', 'One woman makes a din, two women a lot of trouble, three an annual market, four a quarrel, five an army, and against six the Devil himself has no weapon'. Bruegel's Griet and her companions are preparing to storm the mouth of Hell itself. The painter is thus making fun of noising, aggressive women.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:16:14 -0800

Wow.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:28:46 -0800

Ah, sorry, my mistake, carry on, as I said before, great link.

By: geeky

geeky — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:30:01 -0800

really great work

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:30:52 -0800

Ok -- can anyone find any place to buy prints? My 5 years of French from High School are failing me, and the forums appear less than helpful on this front (at least translated through Google).

By: jfwlucy

jfwlucy — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:45:38 -0800

I adore this set called Les Patriarches.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:47:49 -0800

Wonderful, wonderful link, crunchland. Thank you!

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:00:27 -0800

Nice. Thanks Crunchy.

By: nTeleKy

nTeleKy — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:27:49 -0800

Wow, this is amzing stuff; I wish I could read it. There's a cool embedded qt here as well.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:31:02 -0800

Wow. I love people working with these kinds of constraints.

By: verisimilitude

verisimilitude — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:16:26 -0800

These are great, thanks.

By: blendor

blendor — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:25:47 -0800

Awesome stuff, thanks.

By: brautigan

brautigan — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:40:27 -0800

biro is an underated artist's utensil. pity all these pics are crap.

By: Specklet

Specklet — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:32:16 -0800

Yeah, I'm wishing for higher resolution pics.

By: blastrid

blastrid — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:48:07 -0800

wow... very talented. she's definitely Escher's succescher... abwaha! I wish I had the patience to create such detailed visual art. oh right, and the talent.

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:37:20 -0800

mad cool. ballpoint can be very subtle, and this work proves it. p.s. without the sickness it'd be total shite, just like "your" art.

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:30:05 -0800

This is terrific stuff. Thanks, crunchland.

By: indigoskynet

indigoskynet — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:51:17 -0800

What I love most about fine-point-penmanship is the compositional growth fills out and back in with cascading attention...kind of like talking to yourself, trying to keep the conversation interesting. I really wish I knew what she was saying. Wow!

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:31:03 -0800

This is amazingly amazing.