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Urban Landscapes
One of the things I’ve learned to love while practicing photography in New York is the beauty of urban landscapes. Especially New York City, in areas like Lower East Side, Williamsburg, and the likes. Each place has its own distinct personality, it’s fascinating. Many times, I would walk around and take photos of seemingly random, everyday stuff around my neighborhood. I have hundreds, if not thousands, of them. There are times when I miss New York and it just so happens that I did when I drew these sketches. They’re based on my photography of the 11211 neighborhood. Eventually, I’ll start up a limited edition prints of that set of photos for sale here. title: Williamsburg, Brooklyn (North 6th Street) medium: Pencil on paper, framed. dimensions: ?? creation date: 2010 price: $35 This shot was taken on the street behind ...
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I’ve moved
allll the way out to www.justanothercrazyboy.com
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Plants vs. Zombies: iPhone App Review
So, it all started innocently enough. The kids would play this game relentlessly on the ipads and iPod touch and the truth be told, it’s probably the most accessed app outside the utilities (safari, mail, etc). Of course, after a while, I was drawn to it and started playing with it for a bit, I was hooked. I bought the app ($2.99) for my iPhone after all and it’s the best game purchase I’ve ever made. The concept of the game is quite simple: plant zombie-killing plants in either your front yard, backyard, or roof to keep the zombies from entering your house and eat your brains. The best part is the artwork. Each plant seems to dance to its own beat. Very Simpsons-like and très cute. At first, I didn’t think I would like it, largely due to the ...
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Old Posts Suspended…
Art Information: title: Beauty of Sonoma client: self creation date: 2010 location: Goat Head’s Beach, California. While i was out with Andrew, we decided that we would go and see the seals. Truthfully, i think i was more excited about seeing the seals more than he was. Both of us were armed with our canon cameras and took some pictures of the beach itself before finally finding some seals. Sadly, there were signs all over the place saying that it was illegal to be less than 500 feet away from them. That was a bit too far for me poor little camera… i think i managed to snag a few good shots of the seals before spooking them out!
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“What?”
I came across an article over at DeafNation and there was a part of it that hit me: ‘Schertz admits getting artists to showcase their work wasn’t easy. Many artists, she said, didn’t want to show their private pieces. Pressing that a good number of people wanted to see artwork of the Deaf experience, many artists confessed much of their private pieces was ‘angry art’. ‘Not angry art,’ Schertz insisted. ‘It’s real. Real art.’” (“Deaf History through Art: De’VIA Revisited after 15 Years!” DeafNation, 2008.) Interestingly enough, not too long ago, I had a conversation with a good friend of mine about precisely this. There are few pieces that I have–purely in the De’VIA vein–and feel very reluctant about putting them up for the world to see, let alone sell them. My basis for feeling this way isn’t reliant on ...
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Haring Marries De’Via
After doing a few quick sketching and practice works in Haring’s style for the past couple of days, I decided on delving a bit deeper into De’Via while sticking to his style. The thing with De’Via for me is that I’d like to go down the direction of recognizing and visualizing internal vs. internal conflicts as opposed to external vs. internal. I think this moves into a deeper understanding of what is Deaf culture. With that said, I give you, “l’Hantise des Sourds” (The Deaf’s Obsession). First of all, I really did not want to stray too far from Keith Haring’s style and make the image more complex than simple. This meant that I had to give thought to every element and try to see if, together, they would tell a story. So, here it is: in the center is ...