Art

Here's some new work from my new art series, Corrida. This is a series that combines scanned elements from James Joyce's Ulysses with manipulated photographs. More on the workflow coming later...really not looking forward to painting all that text!

Explosions In The Sky is an instrumental "post-rock" band out of Austin, Texas, known for their completely insane guitar work, and "cathartic mini-symphonies", as they like to call them. Similar to bands such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor (another of my favorites), these guys build intricate cathedrals of sound, punctuated by a percussive backbeat that complements the etherial guitars amazingly well... I read somewhere that listening to Explosions could "make walking the dog a transcendent experience" -- and I agree totally.

The Birth and Death of the Day is perhaps my favorite track off their recent release, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone. It's one of those songs that I can listen to on infinite repeat, if it wasn't for the fact that Welcome, Ghosts comes up right after.

So after doing a routine search on YouTube for them, I happen upon this genius video, which is an amateur edit, a mashup of sorts of The Birth and Death of the Day, and Koyaanisqatsi, a cinematic tour de force from 1982. Koyaanisqatsi, directed by Godfrey Reggio, with a soundtrack by Phillip Glass, is kinda of like a giant montage of people, places, and things in the United States, all illustrating the subtitle of the film, Life Out Of Balance. Out of distribution for many years (due to IP issues, what else?) I clung to my ancient VHS tape of it for many years.

Some fun stuff... my daughter Isabel is a member of the youngest Shakespearean performance company in LA, the Los Angeles Drama Club. I designed these for their recent performance of The Scottish Play. Had a ton of fun with them, and I think it shows.

Even if it does seem a little odd for a children's theatre group to have black and blood red posters. But hey, MACBETH!