Jon Laing has over eight years of art education and seven years of experience in the art industry. His expertise ranges from stylized portraiture and caricature to intelligent and sophisticated problem solving illustration.

Jon's work has been featured in newspapers, websites, and album covers. He is known for his truly unique stylization of the figure, and his ingenuity in realizing a conceptual illustration.

“I Have a Scheme”

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We are on the side of individual freedoms and liberties, and dammit, we will reclaim the civil rights movement. We will take that movement because we were the people that did it in the first place. Glenn Beck in reference to his “Restoring Honor” event at the Lincoln Memorial in 2010.

In case you don't remember shouting at the television in frustration, on August 28^th, 2010 Glenn Beck held an right-wing revival event at the Lincoln Memorial. He dubbed this event “Restoring Honor”. Does the date August 28^th ring a bell? Yeah, that's Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

So, to sum it all up: Glenn Beck gave a speech essentially calling for a right-wing revival on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Of course, in a vulgar display of pure unadulterated class, when he realised the correlation between dates and locations, instead of doing the sensible thing and moving the location or day of the event, he boasted that he and his far right-wing followers were taking back the Civil Rights Movement, because they “were the people that did it in the first place.”

A New American Family

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I suppose there's not much to say about this piece. The only thing I can say is that marriage and family aren't concepts owned by any particular religion, philosophy, or state. They are universally human, and to deny them to anyone is discrimination, and that has no place in the free world.

Spraying Cats and an Insomniac

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This was a fun piece to make. It was based off an excerpt from a column in Esquire called “Esquire Solves Your Problems”. If you haven't read this in Esquire, it is essentially a “Letters to the Editor” segment. In this particular issue, a man listed three problems for the editors to solve:

1. The fact that the baby hasn't afforded my wife and me a single complete night's sleep since his birth.
2. My wife's weight.
3. We can't keep the *&^%ing cats from spraying inside the house, and I haven't yet forumlated a plausible explanation as to how several of them might mysteriously “disappear” if they keep it up.

That scenario was too good to pass up. I'll have to admit, my first instict was to have a poor exhasted woman engulfed in the spray of a million cats, but I eventually decided to go the more tasteful route.

Exceprt taken from the February 2011 issue of Esquire, page 24

An Argument

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Again, there's not much to say about this one. We've all been there, and nine times out ten, neither side is completely right. I intentionally tried to make the nature of the argument unclear. Fill in the spaces with your own experiences.

Men's Health

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Are you as healthy as you should be? There's a good chance that you have no idea.

… Esquire learned that overall, men should be healthier—but perhaps more important, that many men are ignorant about their health. A third haven't had a checkup in more than a year. Almost half don't even have a doctor. Three in four don't know their BMI, and 40 percent of men in their forties haven't had a simple cholesterol test. Men don't talk about health. We don't complain about it or ask for advice about it. But we do worry about it. Silently and insufficiently, but we worry…

Excerpt taken from the April 2011 issue of Esquire, page 92.

Rushin' Roulette

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[Obama] wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. … There's a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth … If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu. Rush Limbaugh

Sometimes I wonder if he even listens to himself…

‘Tweet’ Party

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I've never purposefully ‘favorited’ any tweet. I had to go back to my BlackBerry to even see if such a function was possible.

Philly Naked
Bike Ride

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World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international clothing-optional bike ride in which participants plan, meet and ride together en masse on human-powered transport (the vast majority on bicycles, but some on skateboards, rollerblades and roller skates), to “deliver a vision of a cleaner, safer, body-positive world.”

The dress code motto is “Bare as you dare”. Full and partial (especially topfree) nudity is encouraged, but not mandatory, on all rides. Any mandate to cover intimate parts is forbidden; this is a distinguishing feature of WNBR against other cycling events.

Creative expression is also encouraged to generate a fun and immersive atmosphere during the ride, capture the attention and imagination of the public and media, and make the experience more personalized and fulfilling for the riders. Body art, such as body painting, are common forms of creative expression, as well as costumes, art bikes, portable sound reinforcement systems … and musical instruments or other types of noisemaker.

Wikipedia contributors. "World Naked Bike Ride." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 26 Apr. 2011. Web. 27 Apr. 2011.

Triple Play

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Always imagined two girls would be better than one? So has She…

For guys a threesome may be the holy grail of sexual encounters, but you aren't the only ones dying to get another body in the bedroom. Maybe it's the increasing prevalence of girl-on-girl action in pop culture… Or maybe more women, like Anna, are starting to make sexual “bucket lists” full of superhot fantasies they plan to tick off one by one. Whatever the reason, girls are more open than ever to the erotic joys of threesomes. …

Excerpt taken from “Triple Play” written by Faye Robbins in Maxim February 2011, page 48.