{"id":16677,"date":"2014-06-17T06:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T11:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=16677"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:58:30","slug":"the-7th-floor-on-an-evening-in-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/06\/17\/the-7th-floor-on-an-evening-in-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Up on the 7th Floor on an Evening in ’85"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"it-came-from-the-SB-banner\"<\/a>\"phong-det\"<\/a>One evening back in April of 1985 rather than do work that was due for one of our classes at the Philadelphia College of Art a group of guys up on the Illustration Floor decided to procrastinate by doing some real art.<\/em> That entailed grabbing somebody who didn’t feel like drawing; having that person pose in a somewhat comfortable position and drawing either he or she.<\/p>\n

Me?<\/strong><\/em> I decided to hunt the hunters by drawing the drawers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tim Brown was the model that evening.<\/p>\n

\"tim-brown\"<\/a>Note Roger Thompson in the background who had transferred to illustration from another department and was probably working on his senior project which was known as The<\/span> <\/em><\/strong>(fearsome)<\/em> Ely.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ted Whitehead looks angry, but he wasn’t. Just focused. And he was<\/em> pumped.<\/p>\n

\"ted-whitehead\"<\/a>Phong had joined the party as well.<\/p>\n

\"phong\"<\/a>Originally I was rooting through my sketchbooks looking for a drawing I half-remember drawing and came upon these little throw-away sketches. I often wish I had taken more photographs back then, but these scribbles will have to suffice as a window on another place and time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One evening back in April of 1985 rather than do work that was due for one of our classes at the Philadelphia College of Art a group of guys up on the Illustration Floor decided to procrastinate by doing some … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,49],"tags":[17,8,312,3203,43,3661,5,3669,137,3202,480],"class_list":["post-16677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-comic","tag-ely","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-uarts","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4kZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20447,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/above-broad-spruce-in-1983\/","url_meta":{"origin":16677,"position":0},"title":"Above Broad & Spruce in 1983","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a photograph I shot from what was once Anderson Hall on the Northwest corner of Broad and Spruce which once housed The Philadelphia College of Art. 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