I'm a newish member of the society and figured I might as well start my contribution off with shameless self promotion.
If you'd like to get your digital hands on an illustrated (and entirely unsolicited) version of David Bowie's seminal space epic: Space Oddity, mosey on over to my site.
Should you dig it, please share it with others and maybe, just maybe, we can get this thing to become a reality!
As some of you know I'm a big advocate for space exploration, so when I realized that the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's journey into space was coming around, I had to do something.
Yuri was only 27 years old when he ventured into space on his Vostok 1 capsule. It is amazing how many exciting and impossible things human kind was trying to achieve during this time period. Just thinking about it today is still pretty darn inspiring! The passion and the spirit to do anything! I can only hope that another age of space exploration blossoms in years to come.
Recently I've been forcing myself to stay away from textures and focus on more simple, clean, and limited color designs. What you see above is an attempt at that, but overall am just happy to have done a little something to celebrate 50 years of the first human in space!
This week the paper is releasing its Science Issue, and to cover it all we have this sweet image of a friggin' robot. This thing looked pretty cool, but I thought its movement was a little limited. Apparently its a major deal, utilizing the energies of both American and Korean Robotics teams. I seem to remember having a dinosaur robot toy as a kid that did all the stuff this guy did (?) I dont know, thats why I make the pictures.
The photos were taken by our resident photographer Neal Santos (Check his site here for some really nice work), and the text done by a fellow designer. I added color and texture work in photoshop and illustrator, making a very subtle lunar landscape (seen below) and all the stars and space gasses. In the end the cropped shot was used to make room for ad space? I hate that.
I was gaffer on a movie that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. It'll be playing in Brooklyn on June 6, if anyone here likes heading to NY. It's a really great movie.
A dangerous mission reunites STINGRAY SAM with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for the rescue of a young girl who is being held captive by the genetically designed figurehead of a very wealthy planet. This musical space-western miniseries is designed for small screens and perfect for screens of all sizes.
And here's the teaser-trailer:
SHOWING: Brooklyn Technical High School 29 Fort Greene Place (Fort Greene, Brooklyn) June 6, 2009 8:00PM: Doors Open 8:30PM: Live Music 9:00PM: Screening Begins
It's really great and worth checking out, if you can. It's been getting great reviews.
A month or two ago I did a quick Illustration inspired by my feelings, or opinion I should say, about human kind's exploration of Mars. A lot of it came from reading many books by Robert Zubrin, specifically, The Case for Mars, which contains a beautiful quote by Italian Philosopher Giordano Bruno. And so inspired by these great ideas and dreams of someday terraforming Mars and making it our second home, I made a short video, using my Illustration and the beautiful track, "108 the boat", by the amazing Ambassador Etc. Our Space program has been on hold for almost 30 years. Our last steps on the moon were in 1972. As a generation I feel, we should aim for more and achieve almost anything as many aspired to do much strongly decades ago. Anyways I just wanted to share this with you, for I feel it is important for us, our future, and our survival. With our art and visions we could inspire ourselves & other future generations to go beyond anything we could imagine.
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