Pencil shaving can be fun too, likely some of my more conceptual work. My take on Pop Art its meant to make something that gets discarded seem interesting.
Set to quote:
“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
-Steve Jobs
I may not be an engineer but I think I got something here with the Ray gun *paten pending schematics powered by a powerpc chip.
set to: stun
Here are a few sketches I created while being slightly bored. And in light of matthew good’s upcoming album “Vancouver” I pay homage to the ‘ray gun’ one of my favourite tracks from when he was in a band.
set to music lyrics:
“Shoot me with your ray gun
Full of holes so the day light can get to what’s dark”
- Matthew Good Band
So upon buying my niece some ice cream I noticed the design on the King Kone truck, and thought about the treats I liked as a kid. I wanted to also create something that looks vintage and fun. At first I thought of making something witty, I think thats why I left the fangs on the bear, but then I just wanted to conjure nostalgic thoughts on these items not to reinvent them but to create them as if I were from that period.
set to a quote:
“You can only be young once but you can always be immature”
-Dave Barry
My intro into the photos I took while in the NE coast of china. With a potential trip to Hong Kong looming I feel I should start posting my last trip there. First off is a map of the places I visited. We start with Shanghai and some up close photos of interesting things there. Mind you the mountain photos might not be Shanghai but Fuji mountain in Japan but I feel its fitting seeing as it was on the way to Shanghai…
Set to lyrics:
“Oh, why did I tell you it was bye-bye for Shanghai
I’m even allergic to rice
Why don’t you stop me when I talk about Shanghai
It’s just a lover’s device”- Doris Day
So over the years I have become a ‘Mac’ head converting people to the Apple philosophy of great intuitive design.
Recently though I have been finding it hard to sell that idea even to myself and its not just Glossy screens, black bezels or missing ports, no, this one is about the packaging of the new OS 10.6…
While previous builds where glossy and metallic with a hint of their main feature, this recent package shows a clip art of an actual snow leopard…LOL (insert sad trumpet here)
here is an image I put together to illustrate my point:
and I thought the jaguar print was bad…
Simple concept “art for arts sake”, most definitely something that I will be looking into.
Here is an image I created in tribute to this concept. It is not so much for the sake of art but for the sake of exploring art.
I was reminded by the lyrics from “the sword song” by : clap your hands and say yeah, a band I feel uses this concept when putting out new music, if you haven’t heard them you should for the sake of listening to something new at least….
set to lyrics:
There’s a man at the home where we are
Just a man like I am
Human head, human heart, insane
Armageddon in the same small step to heavenHe’s gone too far, too far
Now can you remember the last day
When no one had nothing left to say?
And everything stayed just the same
Stayed just the sameYour little mission wasn’t helping nobody?
Uh, didn’t it help you?Well, now
Tell me father, don’t you bother now!
Here’s my head, here’s my sword!Don’t you bother, don’t you bother now!
Here’s my head, here’s my sword!- clap your hands and say yeah (the sword song)
More from the Vaults…This was my trip to Las Vegas. This is from me walking around the strip which is pretty much all that Las Vegas is and a photo of my hotel which was a Pirate Boat! LOL…Set up on the 3rd floor fire works were constantly going off out side my window… I am putting up my photos,
set to music lyrics:
“Viva las vegas with you neon flashin
And your one armbandits crashin
All those hopes down the drain
Viva las vegas turnin day into nighttime
Turnin night into daytime
If you see it once
Youll never be the same again”-Elvis Presley
“From the vaults” will become a regular theme, it will be me reaching deep into my archive and post photos that I have taken over the years. These where taken during Toronto Fire Night last year at city hall.
Set to a quote:
“All things, oh priests, are on fire…The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire.”
- Buddha
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This is a blog, I know, however I added the “w” to the word log because it will serve as my website as well. There are many creative thoughts and ideas that I have had over the years but the restrictions of the common website just didn’t provide the usability to allow me to just randomly throw something out there.
I created this blog in the hopes that I may now have an outlet to just be creative and have a reason to continue to grow my skills due to the fact that I intend on keeping this blog up to date or at least as much as possible. There is also a iPhone version of this blog so feel free to check back on me from time to time even while you are mobile.
