The fine folks at the Klatch were kind enough to hang a few of my mixed media pieces for the month of Decemnber. The Klatch has pretty much the best coffee around, so if you are in the Rancho Cucamonga area, stop by and pick up some of the World’s Best Espresso, or have one of their award-winning baristas make you something special. If you are interested in any of the pieces, feel free to contact me.
Light is an oddly compelling short film directed by David Parker that began as a project intended to bring awareness and create a dialogue regarding energy waste.
Last week I got a very welcome and unexpected gift from a friend I’ve never met. It could not have come at a better time. You may recognize the Holstee Manifesto on the card, which I posted about a couple of months ago. Well, to make a long story short, a wonderful photographer from Australia called Kingsley Burton is a frequent reader (and soon to be contributor) to Faded & Blurred. We have emailed back and forth a couple of times and spoken via Skype once, but I can already tell that he and I will be friends (albeit 15,000 miles away from one another) for quite some time. During our Skype call, I expressed some of the frustrations and such that I have been going through lately and Kingsley sent me this wonderful little reminder that we never run out of choices. Well played, Mr. Burton…well played indeed.
One of my favorite designers, Chip Kidd, discusses designing the cover and interior for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84. If you are unfamiliar with Chip’s work, The Book Cover Archive has put up a wonderful collection, both as a designer and as an art director.
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I’ve started a new series of Photoshop composites inspired by reworking this image, which I created as part of a Photoshop class I was teaching at a photography school here in southern California. The original version, comprised entirely of random stock photographs, was color, but I think this toned version actually works much better.
