His blog makes for a very cool read. Love how he references and links material. To say the least he mentions the works of Brian Eno; software reviews and intallation/execution of his works.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
The Sketch Book Project
March 13, 2009. Randomness: Stumbled upon this blog link to the Sketch Book Project . Some very nice sketches. He has links to other artists. You'll notice this particular one almost has a sense of doodling, but with his shading and modeling delivers his own style and conveys atmosphere, character and attitude to the musician.
You can find more sketch book artist in the links column,
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Martial Arts
I came across this You Tube video... this guy's skills are simple and effective. Great to study again and again.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Illustrator - Douglas Smith
Douglas Smith illustrator for Gregory Maguire books (Wicked) represented by Richard Solomon . He represents some pretty nice artist.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
wine and wine labels
Wine is good to drink... my latest favorite at the moment isMenage a Trois.
Very mild and I love the red. Today, being the type of day it is, makes it perfect for wine. To be frank I have not even had a sip, but I do feel like it is a spendid day to sip.
Meanwhile, I forgot to say that I am back from Florida. Another business trip for the company I work for; rather uneventful. I had the afternoon and evening to myself and did not do a thing except browse the internet and watch a movie. (more on the trip and the movie later)
Below is the home page image of Folie a Deux Winery, makers of Menage a Trois red.
The web site was designed by 4C. They do very nice work and tag themselves as an interactive design and development company. Here's the plug from their website:4C is a multi-disciplinary interactive design firm that specializes in creating brand centric, cross medium integrated sales & marketing campaigns that combine interactive, email, and print platforms.
I've run across another link in the ArtDepartment blog. It is the February 14 post in which Irene Gallo , owner of the ArtDepartment blog, makes a very short tag on the wine label designs of James Jean. Excellent illiustrator.
His work is highlighted in the website Dieline, a site pretty much dedicated to packaging design.
I could pretty much get lost just looking up wine label designs (Wescott Design is pretty good).
His wine labels are below and his blog is addicting. He gives a decent explanation of the the wine label design. From brainstorming to sketch to final label; read the entry to get his take on the process. 
The type of work he does inspires me to continue with my sketch book. He shows a lot of samples of his work and links to his sketch books as well as the art he sales. Again James Jean painter, illustrator.
The type of work he does inspires me to continue with my sketch book. He shows a lot of samples of his work and links to his sketch books as well as the art he sales. Again James Jean painter, illustrator.
His styles goes from very polished, classsical portraits
... and illustration.
to his sketches, whimsical fantasy and figure studies. 
Obviously I am more interested in his drawings and sketch books, but he seems to do quite a bit of illustation for magazines like Wired; Rolling Stone and so on.I drew while I traveled, bought a magazine on Laptops - a sort of PCmag just for laptops users. There were quite a bit of reviews and also some tech talk and gadgetry. Small camera with superior lens first > then a laptop.
I also bought the book Wicked by Gregory Maguire. I'm going to make another attempt at a screenplay. This may involve a young man that gets involved in theater production. Possibly a "coming unto oneself" story.
Lion or Lamb
'Tis March.
I feel like I should be poetic about March.
It has come in rather neutrally, neither lion or lamb.
I woke and felt mildly optimistic it was not freezing cold
At the same time a rather uneventful unveiling of the day.
Sunlight without any particular flair.
Overcast without dread
A glass of tepid wine
Feeling neither young or old
I feel like I should be poetic about March.
It has come in rather neutrally, neither lion or lamb.
I woke and felt mildly optimistic it was not freezing cold
At the same time a rather uneventful unveiling of the day.
Sunlight without any particular flair.
Overcast without dread
A glass of tepid wine
Feeling neither young or old
Saturday, February 14, 2009
February 14, 2009
I have been traveling quite a bit since I started this blog. Still trying to be inspired. Using facebook to keep in touch with the kids. Posting images of my travels. I'll post some of the travel shots here soon.
Came across some pretty cool stuff, the two videos I posted below are one example. The first post today is the something called "Fifty people, One Question: New York". The second post is also a short film called "blue and yellow". I got curious about the guy that filmed it and did the post production work, who is Mike Landry. He produced another short film for a contest sponsored by Adobe's: "See What's Possible" campaign. I really like his submission, "The Experiment" ; very fluid. Done in black and white and a great soundtrack. Unfortunately he only got Honorable Mention, which ain't bad considering the number entries.
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The Experiment .................... Explore ;Grand Prize winnerAnimators: Chris Kelly,.......... Animator: 3 Wagons Deep
Mike Landry, Colin Trenter
I think the home page for the campaign is well done. love the quick Flash banner, very creative and colorful, using simple geometric shapes. There are a number of entries to the contest, the home pages leads you to the winners with specific links to each and a gallery of submissions page so you can watch all of them.
blue and yellow
Very cool video. Some brief explanatation on how it was done. The original music composition impresses me and most of all the production is simple, yet very effective execution.
Click the portrait on the left to link directly to his site on Vimeo
After you watch the video there's a link to other edison videos. Nice stuff. I added a direct link on his portrait, which is below.
blue and yellow from edison on Vimeo.
Words by EDISON
musical short....this is the roof of my house, and just what i always needed........clones
all video shot, composited and edited by mike landry....Shot with a canon HF10, edited in after effects, colored with Magic Bullet Looks iheart2d.com
all music performed and written by edison...myspace.com/bearless
Click the portrait on the left to link directly to his site on Vimeo
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