I made this
Mar 1, 2013
Feb 28, 2013
Mar 1, 2012
the secret club of the internet wiz kid
I miss a time when the internet was only accessible by the few who understood how it functioned. A time when I felt like the only one in my family or group of friends that could easily navigate, create and manipulate. My peers would come and ask me for help to troubleshoot their SEO or build them a website or look up something on the search engines. I felt so empowered. Now everyone has a blog, there own website, and can google it. I feel like I was stripped of my title as technological prodigy and no longer apart of the secret club of the internet wiz kids.
Oct 31, 2011
Aug 12, 2011
Barcelona Honeymoon
The trip was long. Separated seating charts. Broken entertainment system. Only our imaginations and elusive 10 min naps. 22 hours. 3 flights. Lay over in Heathrow... 5 hours in a luxury consumerist prison. My eyes burning in protest. Lots of turbulence.
Despite the travel trials and tribulations we made it here to Barcelona in one peice. Our flat is everything the pictures boasted. A 2 bedroom penthouse apartment along the El Born districts side streets. Our host has vacated for the week on a motorcycle trip across France. His french roommate comes and goes and is as illusive as are the locals. Their conversations brief, light and fragile as if any moment it were to fall apart into pieces.
We sleep a lot. The hours melt away in the hot muggy evening as we listen to the echoing chatter from the paseo...of dogs barking, streets washed clean, scooters, glass bottles rolling along the stone curbs, the young people laughing and singing unfamiliar tunes that pour out of the bars and overflowing into the night sky.
We take breaks from the apartment and walk down the allies they call streets looking for nowhere to go in particular. Trying to avoid the traps set for tourists and stumbling upon bits of ancient history. Our favourite haunt is the church of Santa Maria del Mar. Its impressive construction swallowed by the apartments that surround it. Its cool inside and relatively accessible with looming columns supporting a canopy of stone. The cavernous temple creates a chamber of sound that can move the most hardened cynics.
Despite the travel trials and tribulations we made it here to Barcelona in one peice. Our flat is everything the pictures boasted. A 2 bedroom penthouse apartment along the El Born districts side streets. Our host has vacated for the week on a motorcycle trip across France. His french roommate comes and goes and is as illusive as are the locals. Their conversations brief, light and fragile as if any moment it were to fall apart into pieces.
We sleep a lot. The hours melt away in the hot muggy evening as we listen to the echoing chatter from the paseo...of dogs barking, streets washed clean, scooters, glass bottles rolling along the stone curbs, the young people laughing and singing unfamiliar tunes that pour out of the bars and overflowing into the night sky.
We take breaks from the apartment and walk down the allies they call streets looking for nowhere to go in particular. Trying to avoid the traps set for tourists and stumbling upon bits of ancient history. Our favourite haunt is the church of Santa Maria del Mar. Its impressive construction swallowed by the apartments that surround it. Its cool inside and relatively accessible with looming columns supporting a canopy of stone. The cavernous temple creates a chamber of sound that can move the most hardened cynics.
Jul 5, 2011
Jun 16, 2011
The Jealous Designer
I look at a many things and keep an insatiable design appetite for well considered works. Motion graphics, print, branding, typography, you name it.
Jealousy. It begins in the reservoir of my soul and wells up till its in the back of my throat like taunting nausea. Not for love nor for the conventional materialistic kind.... but pure envy. Envy that wells up from the least likly of sources. I have had this uncontrollable urge to consume visual content and especially feed my addiction for design. The only problem is that this over exposure of visual nourishment results in a form of dissatisfaction in my own work. Perhaps this is what keeps me going and motivated to grow. But I feel like its a race to nowhere and that these hopeless emotions will devour me. Thats when I have to shut it off. Recharge. Because the fear of failure is always on my back and If I let it...it will swallow me whole.
Jealousy. It begins in the reservoir of my soul and wells up till its in the back of my throat like taunting nausea. Not for love nor for the conventional materialistic kind.... but pure envy. Envy that wells up from the least likly of sources. I have had this uncontrollable urge to consume visual content and especially feed my addiction for design. The only problem is that this over exposure of visual nourishment results in a form of dissatisfaction in my own work. Perhaps this is what keeps me going and motivated to grow. But I feel like its a race to nowhere and that these hopeless emotions will devour me. Thats when I have to shut it off. Recharge. Because the fear of failure is always on my back and If I let it...it will swallow me whole.
Feb 16, 2011
Feb 1, 2011
Jan 3, 2011
Happy New Year!
NHope 2011 will bring you new beginnings and promising prospects.
Its going to be a busy year....planning a wedding, making new friends, keeping up with old ones, travels, graduations, and babies. So we keep on trucking ... looking over the next horizon to see what we can see.
much luck in the new year and cant wait for the projects that await.
<3 ash
Dec 1, 2010
The Borough of Trees
In a small studio in the New Jersey heartland she illuminates vignettes of the surreal and the banal, crossing over the two realities with such fluidity who is to think that these subjects are not members of your own family. Her aesthetic touches on the folk art traditions but with such sophistication it turns it on its head. A bright vernacular yet her melancholy subjects eyes see to feel like portals into another world.
Albert and Alexi
Acrylic
Danny the Canadian Postman
Acrylic
Acrylic
Hilcrest Cafe
Acrylic
Acrylic
Blue Box
Wooden 3d Diorama
Twinning
Acrylic on printed fabric
Acrylic on printed fabric
Oct 29, 2010
Lucid Living
Miwa Matreyek
http://www.semihemisphere.com
CalArts Experimental Animation Alumni 2007
Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and multi-media artist working in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as works that integrate animation and live performance/installation via projection. Matreyek is interested in how animation transforms when it is combined with body and space (and vice-versa) and takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality. On one hand, Matreyek's performance can be viewed as a cinematic experience taking place on a screen. On the other hand, what is seen on the screen is a collapsed product of multiple layers of animation, objects and body, rhythmically unfolding. Her work exists in a juxtaposition of illusion and non-illusion.
Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. With music from Anna Oxygen, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin and Mileece.
Oct 9, 2010
Sep 24, 2010
Exquisite Corpse
David A Smith - Sign Artist from Danny Cooke
more exquisitness found here:
http://www.workingformorework.com
more exquisitness found here:
http://www.workingformorework.com
Sep 23, 2010
Before and After: Outdoor Living
After
Before
When I moved up to the bay area I was looking to furnish my new place with items on the free section of craigslist. I came across the following items:Steamer Trunk found in work colleagues garage (not vintage...but after a few damp days it began to create its own patina.)
Hide-Away couch- found on the curb and after reupholstering with fabric almost donated by an Ikea sale ..it became a perfect out door seating arrangement.
Eucalyptus Logs - found in friends backyard and are now perfect end tables / cat scratching post.
Special Thanks to Lauren Henley for her help and design skills..including her awesome help with the upholstery!
Sep 15, 2010
Aug 12, 2010
robots dont have mothers
Pen and Ink abstract illustration created for a
series on artificial life circa 2005
series on artificial life circa 2005
my reel
My reel from 2009 which needs to be updated but ill go
ahead and feature since I dont know when the 2010 version will be compleated.
check back soon.
Aug 11, 2010
beard band
Pen and Ink illustration for the band "the Union Line" a visiting artist series poster for iTunes at Apple in Cupertino, CA 2010
by
me.
Aug 4, 2010
Aug 2, 2010
Faile
Keywords: Pulp, vernacular, wood work, collage, pop art, sexy, funky, urban, pattern, textural, contemporary, vintage, typographic, illustrative, comic, advertising, experimental, humorous.
Jul 21, 2010
The Crown Center
Our new album is out. Hand made screen printed just for u:
Topaz Rags
The Crown Center
NNF198—7" ($5)
West Coast ghost squad Topaz Rags stalk back into the deadlights with a fresh vinyl single, their first new material since the Capricorn Born Again LP. Recorded in the heart of winter in a room with one blue light bulb, “The Crown Center” is pure nightprowler music: quaking bass, grime-jazz keys, dusty drums, witch choirs floating through the smog and into sleeping homes with the power lines cut. The sound of crime to come. The flip (“You Go On”) slips deeper into the psych-psycho psyche, a bleached-brain riff-rhythm grinding away endlessly while voices and electric piano stabs arc across the stereo field, raining ash. A grimmer twist on the Topaz formula, the dreamer’s dream turned dark. 33 RPM 7 inches of variously colored vinyl in hand-silkscreened cardstock sleeves. Edition of 345.
Jul 19, 2010
The Sketchbook Project
Jun 23, 2010
Jun 17, 2010
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