Paper Planes

Beyond Rainbows: Radiohead Portrait. Colored Pencil, Digital. 2011.

About two years ago, on a cold Minneapolis night, my friend Brandon asks me, “Hey Carl, do you like Radiohead?”

“What? No! What the the hell is a Radiohead? Is that like The Facebook?”

So Brandon goes over to his computer and starts playing In Rainbows, track seven.

“Wow,” I say. “This woman has a beautiful voice.”

“Uh, actually it’s Thom Yorke’s voice. He’s the lead singer and he’s a guy.”

“Oh.” I say. “Well he has a very beautiful voice. And yes: I guess I do like The Radiohead.”

Anyway, Radiohead released a new album today. As a strange coincidence, I finished this portrait of Radiohead earlier this week.