Enrico's blog

You know, thursday mornings are hard sometime. It’s hard to get up, the weight of the rest of the week starts really getting to you, sleep hours have slowly been whittled away since monday and they certainly don’t have the nice promise of a friday morning. No light at the end of the tunnel, yet. [...]

This fully handmade cushion is one of the birthday presents I got last month, pretty neat uh? Comfy too … one of a kind.

Wow, what an amazing resource. “1000 Frames of Hitchcock“: an attempt to reduce every major Hitchcock film down to just 1000 frames. Can you guess which movie this frame is taken from?

Fresh out of a few prismacolor pencils. Not so happy with this page, but for some reason I like this unfinished little scribble.

I discovered this amazing french artist through the blog another amazing european artist I am big fan of: Gipi. Bastien Vive’s work is fantastic and heartfelt, his pen and colored pencil drawings have a wonderful warmth. Here you can see work from his book La boucherie (which I am gonna have to order on amazon [...]

Ok, since posting about Sir Ken Robbison’s wonderful Ted Talk on education and creativy a couple of weeks ago (I’ve watched it half a dozen times now and I am more and more impressed by the subtle, funny and effective way he presents his message) I have become a fullfledge TedTalk junkie … they’re as [...]

Gake no eu no Ponyo (崖の上のポニョ, Ponyo on a Cliff) the upcoming (summer 08 in Japan) Miyazaki Hayao movie now has a webpage on the Studio Ghibli site. They just released a song from the movie soundtrack but not a whole lot of content on the site for now, here’s a nice image from it [...]

Our good friend Yoko Tanji is featured at startdrawing.org. Her website, if you haven’t checked it lately is a treasure chest filled with unique and fantastic illustrations.

My good friend and talented animator Carlos Baena just posted photos from sunday night’s art benefit at Maverix. More details on the evening to follow but let me say that by the end of the night I was the happy owner of 3 pieces. update- here are Bosco‘s awesome photos from the evening. 2nd update- [...]

These long exposure shots taken around Tokyo suburbs at night look so surreal and even fake, they feel like a stop motion set.