An Update On The Detroit Ice Potato
He’s baa-aack! UPDATE: with his own website at detroiticepotato.com.
picture from onemorespoke:
illustration by Connor Goodman:
Last week I had some fun making the Detroit Ice Potato. Basically, after seeing the creation of the Ice House I was inspired to point the concept in a different (and very Jerry) direction. I put a potato in a cup, froze it, and put it on the street corner.
An anonymous art blogger found it, took some photos, and wrote a very nice review. I knew I liked the ice potato, and it definitely made the house smile, but that review encouraged me to think that maybe, crazily, playfully, we may have something here.
Shortly after, my friend and artist Connor Goodman got in touch through Facebook. We’d been talking about collaborating on something, and I thought maybe we could do something for LOVELAND. Then, a lightbulb: something tangential to LOVELAND, an illustration of the Detroit Ice Potato. A creature from a parallel universe.
What follows is an animated gif of the brief lifespan of the first Detroit Ice Potato as it’s poured, frozen, placed on the street corner, melts a little, gets snowed and plowed over, becomes a t-shirt and pops to life as a character with eyes.
If you’re interested in a Detroit Ice Potato shirt with or without eyes let me know. Connor’s still tweaking the image a little bit, but they’ll be available through spreadshirt.com when he’s done, because as they say in the motherland: go ice potato, or go home.
PS the other day an anonymous suitor sent a Detroit Valentine Ice Potato. He’s very flexible, that ice potato. I wonder what he’ll get up to next…
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