Literal White Wedding

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Check out this literal interpretation of Billy Idol's "White Wedding" music video via Video Gum. Pretty awesome!

Photography in 10 easy steps

Just wanted to post a link to an article on smashing magazine.com on how to improve your photography skills.  It's a good reminder for some of us, and has some great HDR photographs (which serve as a good inspiration to upgrade your camera, if nothing else.  The article can be read here.

It even has a bit of speculation to the direction of art and photography in general, which is nice to ponder over.

Scintillation

I found this video on Cartoonbrew this afternoon from a Paris based artist named Xavier Chassaing, apparently it's "comprised of over 35,000 photographs and using a mix of stop-motion and live-action projection mapping techniques.". No one is quite sure exactly how it was all done.

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

mmmmm....pretty.

Croquet Society!

Check out my first animation in Adobe After Effects.

a salute to Terry Gilliam!

Sita Sings the Blues

Check out this clip from Nina Paley's "Sita Sings the Blues" via cartoonbrew.com

It's won a ton (srsly) of festsival awards, but unfortunately, the bits of twenties jazz in the piece are under copyright lock and key, so the film can't be released. It's making the festival rounds right now, so if you get the chance, go see it in it's entirety. Maybe it will unlock the secrets for me of following Indian epic story lines and character dynamics (or confuse me even more). Anyway, it's beautiful, it features old jazz, hindi art, and lots of heartbreak. Sounds perfect.

Painting Show this First Thursday

So I'm putting the finishing touches on some paintings I'm hanging tomorrow at the Star Y Rose cafe on 24th and Alberta. There are four pretty large paintings in a series I've been working on called "The Carpet's Lava" about children and their imaginary friends. The size of the paintings is part of their overall appeal, so if you can make it out to Alberta sometime this February, you should stop by the cafe. My sister will also be showing 3 of her woodburns that are very much for sale. It's the blue building with the old pharmacy sign up above it. They serve up a mean cup of coffee and a cheerful slice of pie. They even have vegan voodoo donuts. Hooray for life (sorry, not enough ventilation in my work space).

Wolfman hat!

So I spent most of last week preparing to make a short monster movie in my video production/editing with a my group, group "buttons". I was in charge of special effects, hence the twenty hour wolfman costume making marathon. I particularly like the hat.





I should have the movie edited and up and running in a few weeks. Look for me as a sandwich eating zombie. mmmmmm....