.hello pity, i kitty the fool

.bill clinton as wolverine

newsweek article of Bill Clinton, which i drew oil pastels on. i think i made this in 1994

.digging through some old artwork

from an old illustration class, my own take on Grant Wood’s American Gothic

marker rendering class (do they still have those?). i actually made an oil pastel version of this exact image maybe 3 years prior in high school.

from design layout class. at that time i didnt know much about design or layouts, good thing we had to hand draw our ideas back then since illustrating was all i knew at that point.

.valentinesy kinda mix

A Change Of Hearts Mix : 57 minutes of a bit more chilled out drum n bass

tracklist:
Bachelors of Science - Tibet
Tayla - Resolution
Logistics - Last Years Loss
Fracture & Neptune - Sagrada Familia
Tali - Airport Lounge (Artificial Intelligence Remix)
Logistics - Haunted By Her Yesterdays
Logistics - Safe On My Side
Redeyes - Behind Closed Doors
Ben Sage - All About You (VIP Mix)
Blu Mar Ten - Starting Over
Zero Tolerance feat. Steo - Refusal
Omni Trio - Rollin Heights (More Strings Attached Mix)
Mistabishi - No Matter What
Omni Trio - Renegade Snares (Tob’s Reconstruction Mix)
Foul Play - Open Your Mind

in the M I X E S section

(last few songs in the mix dont flow in quite as well)

.preliminary sketches for web layout

this will tie-in with the resume section (and printed resume). i’m in the process of wittling down my portfolio into just a one-sheet/page format for easy distribution and review, while having it match the overall feel/look of the web section and resume. might also do a self-promo piece once i get this project out of the way. the promo piece would most likely be more graphic intensive compared to the minimalist look of the resume/prowebfolio.

.so, i went to a modeling/talent audition (scam?)

just for giggles. kinda sad really (not for me, for everybody else that went). this is what you get in the mail (the initial hook):

being a designer it’s not that hard to notice the worse-than-pennysaver-hack-flyer design. i guess they weren’t scouting design talent.

and it also came with this letter:

i’ve highlighted the “only being sent to select people” and “space is limited”…i’m guessing “select people” in that “limited space” was more than a hundred applicants (the other hundred or so were parents/family members).

what other fishy stuff alerted the spider senses? i had to wonder how i ended up on their mailing list and why they did not bother to ask about my age (who the hell scouts for old models?). i was actually expecting to be the oldest guy there, but this late-50’s scraggly looking man with a mullet beat me by 20 plus years. there was another guy that was possibly only a few years younger than me. majority of the auditioneers were girls mostly in their teens. the disclaimer on the application form also states something to the effect of “you promise not to be a member of the media of any kind”. this sounds like something Michael Turko would investigate.

now on to the actual audition part:
everybody lines up single file and hands in their application to this Mary Woronov / evil looking rejected Bond Girl / cougar…like an Ilsa the Wicked Warden vibe going for her. i swear, she was purposely highlighting her cleavage for everybody to see so they won’t notice how mean she looks.

then you walk the runway, by walk i mean 5 or 6 steps. then essentially answer 3 questions: what do you want to be, your interest on a scale of 1-10…i dont remember what the 3rd one was (for the younger peeps, the question was about school/grades). that’s it. that’s the audition. not more than 1 or 2 minutes TOTAL. makes you go hmmmmm….in case anybody’s wondering, i said i wanted to be an actor and my interest was a 2 (but i lied and said, “meh, 6″) but they actually wrote 10 plus! on my application. not joking. 10+ (well i was “acting” as if i wanted to be there).

i love the power of teh interwebs (google) when you feel something suspicious. you don’t even need to type the word “scam” as part of this search to get these results. for the other one, you do and the results are almost the same.

i actually did not show up for the “follow up”. would you?

.resume section added to main site

url only accesible for prospective employers. or whoever i sent my resume to.

.Kyle Cooper, motion picture title designer

was just reading an article on him in eye magazine (didnt buy it since the mag cost $28). it was about a decade ago when i first got interested in motion/film titles, and he just happened to be at the forefront of that design discipline that same time period. i actually sent a self-promo back in 1999 to imaginary forces (the firm he co-founded at that time). it wasnt til year 2000 (about 6 or 7 months after) that i recieved an email from them requesting an additional reel/promo. i didn’t respond. i didn’t have any additional promos (and i must’ve been burned out at that time since i never got around to making another promo). that was the closest i got to being an actual multimedia designer, sadly. that’s my al bundy “i scored 4 touchdowns in high school” moment. or in my case “almost sniffed the goal line”.

wired article on kyle cooper
his new studio, prologue films.

.1000 Type Treatments / 1000 Graphic Elements

there are other books in these series (1000 something else), but these were the ones i liked the best. they’re actually quite similar since the designs shown are all typographic in nature. can’t have good design without good typography.

.rik mayall, The Briefest Encounter

bloody english humor also starring Amanda Donohoe. they used to show this on Bravo back in the 90’s. not available on any region 1 dvds. it’s split up if you watch it on youtube.

i’m going to try and put it together as one video file using iMovie. cuz Justin Long says it’s quite easy to do: