Archive for the 'Arts' Category
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Really interesting video mixing modern dance, motion graphics and music. Maybe being married to a talented dancer has something to do with this, but I find this really inspiring, there’s an amazingly interesting junction between video and dance.
link via WarrenEllis
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Thought I’d show you the pencil drawing for the cover. Unfortunately I only have an iphone photo of it, should’ve scanned it really. Anyway, so there you have it! The piece is done and finished on the media side of things, but there’s plenty to do on the computer. It’s time to scan it and [...]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Bill Cone is da man! Not only the work he’s done through the years at Pixar as a Production Designer is fantastic, but his personal artwork is even more mind-blowing and inspirational. So let’s say you can’t make it to the Early Bird Painters show (going on right now on Polk street in SF) well [...]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
I am a total early bird wanna be, I’ve tried joining some of my friends and colleagues who go out in the very early hours of the morning to paint and draw. Alas I’ve never made it out of my bed, yet. But I sneaked in an artshow that features my Early Bird Painters friends. [...]
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
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?
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
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 [...]
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
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 [...]
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
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.
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
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- here’s [...]
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Yes, Kim Kogan has started a blog, he’s one of my favorite painters (this fantastic painting adorns my living room) and it’s great to see his latest work. Don’t miss it … one more feed for the growing “google-reader” list.
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