Here’s a fun little trailer for League of Legends Season One: I don’t play WoW. Apparently, this is a spin-off from it, and the Trailer is marketing for the game. Which is cool. If one peruses the LoL website, you can check out the multiple characters, and it’s pretty staggering: artistically, it’s like you took [...]
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
League of Legends is What? Ok. Cool.
Posted in Art, awesome, Comics, Creativity, Design, Film, illustration, Video Games, tagged Alan Moore, BioShock, Jack Kirby, League of Legends, MMORPG, Neil Gaiman, Predators, superheroes, WoW on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Architect Gary Chang Transforms One Room Into 24
Posted in Architecture, Art, Creativity, Design, Music, Writing, tagged Cary Chang, Frank Black, Massiff Central, Ray Bradbury, Show Me Your Tears on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
…right before your eyes. Remarkable. Now, I’m not advocating living in boxes on top of each other- it’s my pig-headed belief that trees and restaurants make a city, not buildings (I’m from that Ray Bradbury school), but it really is an ingenious use of space, using every part of the architectural buffalo, if you will. [...]
Banky’s Exit Through the Gift Shop Film Trailer
Posted in Art, awesome, Bureaucratic Nightmare, Courage, Creativity, Design, Film, illustration, Innovation, Video Games, tagged Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Space Invader, tre´ Ninja on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I cannot wait to see this. The scene in the trailer where Banksy scales the wall effortlessly to escape the cops is tre´ Ninja. This, to me, is the purest example of art needing a valve. When people will risk criminal prosecution to exercise free speech, creativity, and really, hard-ass-work, I think there’s a pretty [...]
Illustrator Spotlight: Daniel m. Davis & His “Monster Commute”
Posted in Art, Comics, Creativity, Design, Innovation, tagged Daniel M. Davis, Monster Commute, Steamcrow on March 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Stumbled upon this the other day, whilst hunting for reference photos. Daniel m. Davis’ really beautiful web comic, Monster Commute. The man’s work with illustrator is sublime and his color sense is impeccable. I’ve only gone through a number of panels, but each page is just a joy to behold. His work is just remarkable- [...]
Reclining Girl Wit Beasties: New Illustration
Posted in Art, Design, illustration, tagged Beasties, illustration, Reclining Girl on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Illustration experiment, Reclining Girl Wit’ Beasties: From a sketchbook drawing, Illustrator, Photoshop. There’s some Paul Gauguin/Gustav Klimt influence somewhere in that brain-mire. Unfortunately, there may be some Patrick Nagel, as well. Original sketch after the jump:
Machinarium Looks Gorgeous
Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, illustration, Innovation, Video Games, tagged 9, BioShock, Boing Boing, Dave McKean, Donkey Kong, Machinarium, Mirrormask, Shane Acker, SSX, The Dark Eye, World of Goo on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m not a big video game player (at least not since my Donkey Kong days- the Glory!) but occasionally I fall into one like Alice down a rabbit hole. The SSX series completely had me for about 2 years, I enjoyed the hell out of the lo-fi World of Goo, loved the ambition and scope [...]
Giles Timms Video for Ceri Frost’s “Dead All Along”
Posted in Art, blog, Creativity, Design, Film, illustration, Innovation, Music, tagged Anything, Ceri Frost, Dead All Along, Edward Gorey, Giles Timms, The Damned on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This song almost sounds like an outtake from The Damned’s Anything album (not one of their critical faves, but I loved it). Huge reverbs, poppy and to the effin’ point, man. Nicely done. And the video is really beautiful: organic, lush, and the amount of depth is really staggering. It’s a nice Gorey homage without [...]
Eric Epstein is a Baddass
Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, illustration, tagged Eric Epstein, Hire this guy!, najork.net on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t know Eric; for some reason, I scribbled his website on a bar napkin. Maybe I met him in LA. But his reel is here, and it’s pretty stunning. Hire him and pay him lots of money. I know I will someday soon. Gotta project for him already. Wait ’til I get ludicrous amounts of [...]
How People Like Brian Eno Come Into Existence
Posted in Art, blog, Creativity, Design, Education, illustration, Innovation, Quotes, tagged art school, Brian Eno, Oblique Strategies, Oscar Wilde, Prince, Tom Waits, Wired on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wired has a great little article from March about Brian Eno’s art school days here. A couple of things struck me about the article: The deliberate introduction of randomness in Brian Eno’s life, and the idea of changing artistic and social roles to facilitate new and interesting art. Eno’s art professors would have the students [...]
Damn you, Spike Jonze. Damn you.
Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Music, tagged Arcade Fire, CGI, Dave Chappelle, James Gandolfini, Spike Jonze, Wake Up, Where the Wild Things Are on August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Damn you and your cinematic wizardry, you whimsical creative vagabond. Alright, I must concede this looks beautiful. I’m still not sure what the point is of making a 48 page piece-of-genius book into a hour and a half film (I’m assuming), but it looks just gorgeous. I was really on the Howard Berger side of [...]
Dan Clowes Interview on McSweeney’s
Posted in Art, Comics, Creativity, Design, Film, tagged Dan Clowes, Eightball, Ghost World, McSweeneys, Mike Sack on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Excerpt from Mike Sack’s interview with Eightball and Ghost World creator Dan Clowes: Do you think that the generation who grew up with the Internet will find this connection in other, less creative methods? You mean, to write a banjo blog instead of actually learning how to play a banjo? You would think that there [...]
It’s Not Texali
Posted in Art, Booze, Design, tagged Anchor tattoo, Mollydooker Shiraz on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But this is the only time I’ve ever really wanted to buy wine just because of the label.
