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VJ Day in Kodachrome
posted: August 14, 2010
In the same spirit as my post from last year: Barcelona 1908 I share this film. A 16mm Kodachrome shot in Hawaii on VJ day. Enjoy!
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Because you can't have too many PacMan ghosts
posted: August 2, 2010
 
Completed this image last week for BusinessWeek. It's about Disney acquiring online game companies.
Seriously Dr. Grumpy I had no idea. 
I gotta get out more.
Kaboom
posted: July 8, 2010
This is my artwork for KABOOM, the Picture Mechanics group show at La Luz De Jesus gallery. I worked with the good old Mondrian grid - something I haven't done since first year design class at art school. What seemed very limited to me back then, now seems much less so. I look forward to using it more. Later this summer I'll print this image as a 5 color screenprint.
I'll be arriving in LA on Thursday, so unfortunately will not be able to attend the opening, but I hope you will and have a great time!
The details again:
July 14 from 6-11 PM.
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
A Fish
posted: August 22, 2009
Earlier this summer I took in an exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario here in Toronto entitled 'Surreal Things'. It looked at the connection between surrealist art and what followed in other disciplines such as industrial design, fashion & film.
For example, the influence of Dali's amorphous forms on the design of Ray & Charles Eames. Obvious once you think about it, but I'd never made that connection.
Included in the exhibit was a looping clip of this sequence from Hitchcock's 'Spellbound':






Anyways, the show renewed my interest in surrealist art. As a teenager I was very into Dali as well as surrealism's heirs in the world of album cover design, but the ambiguous dreamlike appeal of the likes of Dali and de Chirico was soon replaced by the bold simplicity of Warhol and Lichtenstein.
For the little spots above on education & the environment I tried to evoke the spirit of Magritte and Man Ray (with a dash of Lester Beall) and in the process test the waters of photo illustration.




This personal piece was also insipired in part by the exhibit.
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