[gallery link="file" columns="2"] So here are some recent Design projects I have been working on. Can't post a lot of the Photo Illustration work due to legal stuffs but this I can post.
Very happy with the retro feel of the Barrio Tiger artwork. It is going to be nice to see that as actual real deal album art work. Not a CD, not download, but a real record. The Ditchweed sticker was fun because it's such a strong bright typographic image that still feel a bit country.
Fun stuff.
Been working on a illustration for Allegra Gellar and their upcoming show. I thought a Guitar with a Keytar would be a pretty sweet visual. You can see the stand alone print I'll make, the band print and a detail at 100%. Lot's of funky half toning!
[gallery link="file" columns="2"] Was messing around with some of my old Paintings yesterday and ended up getting sucked back into that way of thinking. Here are two studies I have been working on most of the night and this morning. They are not fully there yet, but I am really enjoying this direction. I need to work on showing a bit more detail and getting the images to smear more at the same time. It does feel more like I am working with oil paint this time around.
Mark Khaisman: Tapeworks | Diskursdisko
My works are large archetypal representational images, made from layer upon layer of translucent packing tape, applied to clear Plexiglas and placed in front of a light box to give the image shadow and depth. I see my tape art as a form of painting. The 2-inch tape acts as a wide brush, and the light behind the panels as an alchemist’s luminous blending medium. In working with tape, like in painting, accident and control are always present.
Art is about life and the art world is about money although the buyers and sellers, the movers and shakers, the money men will tell you anything to not have you realise their real motive is cash, because if you realise – that they would sell your granny to Nigerian sex slave traders for 50 pence and a packet of woodbines – then you’re not going to believe the other shit coming out of their mouths that’s trying to get you to buy the garish shit they’ve got hanging on the wall in their posh shops … Most of the time they are all selling shit to fools, and it’s getting worse.
-Damien Hirst
Still life study with grapes shot yesterday in the studio. Went to a wine shop for a tasting last Friday and it got me to thinking. Looking to get a triptych out of this series. It's heavily influenced by Joel-Peter Witkin, Zeke Berman and Pieter Claesz.
Here is the lighting setup:
One of my college hero's seems to have finally got a good web presence and I am stoked to see that he is successfully playing with color. His 1985-94 series really made a impact on me as a young photographer. The tonal values on the glue gun strands in a real life black and white print is something to see. I remember spending hours in the studio / darkroom trying to get a tonal range close to his. The one time I got close and pulled the prints out of the fixer so happy only to have dry down kill it.
Major bummer......
Reason number 102937464538 why I hate the chem process. Dry motherfucking down.
Found this on the internets today and I like it. It got me thinking about being creative and how I have been bogged down with thought and concepts instead of just creating for the sheer joy of creating.
Tattoo in progress video that gives me painful ideas... hmm...
Modern fine art is a democratic milieu, offering a space and a semi-mystical aura to any loosely-defined perception presented by anyone anywhere who is interested in that place and that aura. And what medium to better occupy that space than photography, the most democratic and ubiquitous visual medium in the world, perhaps ever? Indeed, photographic prints, matted and framed, are quickly becoming a dominant sector of the art market, in both volume and gross sales, while on the Internet, every photographer has a direct and immediate international platform to display his or her creations. And yet why is it that such an egalitarian medium, and such an open discourse and market for fine art, have come together in such a way that fine art photography is so frequently dull and distasteful, so paralyzed by moribund subjects and forms?
I just spent almost en entire day discussion with my good friend why I hate Fine Art Photography so much. So it's nice to see someone a bit smarter then I write something on exactly this.
YouTube - Banksy versus Bristol Museum
Banksy versus Bristol Museum
Looks like he took over the entire museum with a game of "Spot the Banksy". Very good work.
YouTube - Harlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer
Oh man, thanks Nathan!
Why He Will Not Read Your Fucking Script – Deadline.com
You are not owed a read from a professional, even if you think you have an in, and even if you think it's not a huge imposition. It's not your choice to make. This needs to be clear--when you ask a professional for their take on your material, you're not just asking them to take an hour or two out of their life, you're asking them to give you--gratis--the acquired knowledge, insight, and skill of years of work. It is no different than asking your friend the house painter to paint your living room during his off hours.There's a great story about Pablo Picasso. Some guy told Picasso he'd pay him to draw a picture on a napkin. Picasso whipped out a pen and banged out a sketch, handed it to the guy, and said, "One million dollars, please."
"A million dollars?" the guy exclaimed. "That only took you thirty seconds!"
"Yes," said Picasso. "But it took me fifty years to learn how to draw that in thirty seconds."
yes, oh yes.
A client of mine got 6 Honorable mentions and a third place at The International Photography Awards for 2009. On a side note, why yes, we did do the retouching. Thanks for asking!
LOL!
I stenciled the door of an electrical block in south London and recently someone sawed it off and sold it at a famous auction house for £24,000, but in that same week Islington council power sprayed off eight of my new stencils on one road. What I’m finding is art is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it, or willing to pay to not have to look at it...The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little. Still, the plus side is it’s probably the easiest business in the world to walk into with no talent and make a few bucks.
I think this is the first interview I have read with him and he sounds quite down to earth thank god.
So this is what I am working like today. That's just a smart object too...
Picasso: Drawing With Light -LIFE
LIFE photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso in 1949. Mili showed the artist some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates jumping in the dark—and Picasso's mind began to race. The series of photographs that follows—Picasso’s light drawings—were made with a small flashlight in a dark room; the images vanished almost as soon as they were created.
This is just awesome and I have never seen these before. I think the fact that it's Picasso makes it much more interesting to me, but still enjoyable.
Theatres | Crips & Bloods: Made in America
Some more old skater done good footage. Looks like a pretty crazy movie as well.
YouTube - A Day in the Life of the 4 Star General : Mark Gonzlez
The mother freaking Gonz.