Explodingdog
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| explodingdog | |
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| Author(s) | Sam Brown |
| Website | www.explodingdog.com |
| Update schedule | Frequently |
| Launch date | January 9, 2000 |
explodingdog is the name of an internet website run by Sam Brown. Viewers of the site e-mail Brown short phrases for inspiration and he picks certain ones to illustrate. The drawings are usually drawn on computer and are known for their simplistic, yet engaging style, and their poignant and sometimes unexpected take on the phrases on which they are based. Brown has a talent for turning a normal phrase on its head and making a hyperbole or metaphor surprising literal, as well as doing neither.
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[edit] History
explodingdog was started in 2000.
Over the last few years, Sam Brown has published a few limited-run print books of his explodingdog illustrations. He also sells merchandise with explodingdog illustrations on them to help offset hosting costs.
[edit] Themes
Like many artists, Sam Brown uses many recurring themes and visual in his explodingdog work.
A short list of visual themes:
- Stick figures
- Red robots
- Fish (frequently yellow)
- Stars
- Clouds
- Monsters
- Menacing cityscapes
- Snakes
- Ducks
- Dogs
- Dictators
- Orange cones
A short list of recurring themes:
- Loss (never really got to hold on to you)
- Love (...and even you can find love...)
- Joy (i am making it happen)
- Loneliness (i am not really stuck here, i just dont realize it)
- Menace (i got to do it my own way)
- Confusion (they don't know)
- Freedom (it never was a prison)
[edit] Influence
Over the years there have been a number of different artistic projects inspired by explodingdog. These sites usually utilize the same "submitted by random people, and selected for inspiration" concept that explodingdog pioneered.
[edit] Webcomics
- Whispered Apologies — An inversion of the explodingdog format in which artists submit comics to the site, and writers give the submitted comics text.
- Boring3D
[edit] Music sites
- Request-A-Song.com — Viewers of this site submit song titles and ideas which are then turned into songs.
- Song Fight! — Originally started as a musical explodingdog spinoff, now a songwriting contest between multiple artists.
- Songs To Wear Pants To this site will take any user submission of text/genre and turn it into a 1:11 long song.
