Monday, January 28, 2008

2 To 3_D


 How can i switch off my left brain and kick flip to my right? I think if i think of the signature as like layers there is a way to brake down the different values of color. I found some mesh type material and started draping and layering the fabric at different lengths and depths to create  value. I don't think the type or icon are very important to literally represent, just the shape and texture and the content.I felt this  signature had some sort of cross combination of industry and femme fatal. I think fabric and some industrial bit's I scrounged up should do the trick. Wow its fun to experiment with space and the mores patterns this fabric makes.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

webtastic

I was experimenting with new ways to show work online. Next time your making a portfolio website consider these new options. 

"I pitty the fool"

My Pops: Black belt, Ninja, Mr. T's Uncel
I was organising the old studio and came across some stuff the I deem web worthy. It got me sifting through my collection of artist book/indie mags. Ive been brainstorming some new ways to approach a book/mag idea .been tinkering with a few concepts. One idea is a collaborative effort in which web people such as "yall" submit a picture of your dad (or a dad looking dude) and tell your best my dad can beat up your dad story. You know the legend of the old man battling the elements, wind, snow, rain, in a suit, to show up exactly on time to put a Chuck Norris style smack down on some one who totally deserved it,(like Dain Cook.) But didn't get there because he saw your mom who loved him, and they hooked up to make you as to end his quest of supreme ass kickery,type of story.The other idea, well that is top secret so don't ask or I will be forced to kill you. Or possibly i will save it for another post.

Friday, January 18, 2008


Creativity is a state of mind.I find it so interesting that that ones creativity can be jogged by the weirdest things. For example  this week my grand father pasted away. I have gone through every emotion on the chart, sad, lonely, confused, humbled, honored. I could not find a outlet to express these feelings or work on any sort of projects. And almost as soon as i felt that desperation that longing to vent my frustration through the creative process, it came to like a beacon of creative expression. My idea meeter just kind of peaked and i feel that all of these emotions came together to give me a new out look on who i am as an artist. A fresh start on the limits of my expectations as an /designer/writer/person/communicator. I think the epiphany came when I recognized how closely related our emotional cycles are connected with our creativity. Its all a state of mind.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

wassup bloggers


After checking out the Aesthetic Apparatus website and your totally hilarious blog i think I've got a good idea of the genera of artists and music that inspire you to work. I  am totally stereotyping  the artist you might know/like by what's on your web shit. But who ever said a little research and an "I don't care what you think" attitude dint help. Even know you know Banskey real name and Shepard Fairy dose the Andre the giant wheat paste, there are still allot of street artist out there that don't get cred where cred's deserved.
The artist I choose that has recently inspired me to think of new ways to approach what I do is. Steve powers a.k.a. "espo". I ran across his work browsing over the Wooster collect(a totally sweet graff/art web site).He started as a gate painter(like the silver gates that business pull down after closing) in NYC. He began to add his own little flavor on to the gates by making them typographic or graffiti. Well to make a long story short the business owners didn't really give a shit and thus he was allowed to pretty much crush the entire city legally.
Creating controversy and the question of  is graffiti public space and its legality. After building a rep as a graff artist he started his own sign business and became more of a part of the landscape of NYC. He is still coming up with new inventive ways to challenge the medium and idea of public art/graffiti(check out the link ). I dig the notion of changing the process of srteet art and stick it to the man legally.how some times as an artist if we just shift the approach to a problem the new solution can breath life into a great idea. 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008