Juxtapoz Magazine Feature : David OReilly
When Jackson Pollock decided that day to drip paint all over a giant canvas, he let the medium speak for itself. David OReilly provides a similar outlet to the natural voice of the digital image through hastily rendered polygons, compressions artifacts, and trace elements of the interface.
He uses his digital tools to created animated short films, portraying stories that would work in any medium. A strained domestic relationship. A young man heading to the big city. An eight-legged red cat on a quest to find his parents. That character, known as Octocat, became an accidental viral hit. An Obama-like blank slate character on which to project your hopes and dreams.
Whether it’s these finely observed portrayals of relationship and emotion, or his more abstract endeavors like the hauntingly peaceful looped animation “Black Lake” (a collaboration with Jon Klassen) and the open source head of Walt Disney, I can’t wait to see what else comes out of this low risk, high reward, one man animation studio in the top floor of this crapped on, tagged over, unlocked apartment building in Berlin.
Read more in the April issue of Juxtapoz Magazine.
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BlinkyBugs! Make Your Own Electronic Insect
I Illustrated this DIY Electronics book for kids, for my friend Ken Murphy (the author). Published by Chronicle Books.
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Juxtapoz Magazine Feature : Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin conceives of and programs art collection systems, creating cohesive works from large groups of unknowing collaborators. He uses their hands to draw and their voices to sing, and pays them pennies for it. The result is a fascinating composite image of who we are, how we interact with each other anonymously, and where the future of labor and collaboration may be headed.
In “The Sheep Market”, he used Amazon Turk (an online distributed labor system for small tasks which require human intelligence), and a custom built drawing tool to create a herd of 10,000 unique sheep. He later used a similar system to forge a $100 Bill.
As a technologist, he collaborated with Director James Frost to shoot a video for Radiohead’s single “House of Cards” – without using cameras. The video was captured using depth finding lasers and the plotted points were released online as a free-to-use data set.
Read more in the March issue of Juxtapoz Magazine.
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Juxtapoz Magazine Feature : Jeben Berg
A few weeks ago I snuck into YouTube headquarters near San Francisco to scam an amazing free lunch of roasted squash, goat cheese salad, and an epic peach pudding concoction. I happened to pull my tray up next to Jeben Berg, who holds the title of “Storyteller” at YouTube / Google. He makes sure that interesting things are happening at the world’s largest and most important video site. If Jeben holds true to the Google 80/20 rule, where 20% of your time is reserved for personal projects, his must be interior decorating; putting on office art shows and collaborating on murals with the likes of Alex Pardee and Skinner.
Read more in the February issue of Juxtapoz Magazine.
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Juxtapoz Magazine Feature : Joshua Davis
Artists are always manipulating their tools to modify their function and output, or introduce elements of randomness into their work. Freezing spraycans to lower the pressure, flicking the bristles of a paintbrush, jamming the tip of a pen to get a drip.
As a young painter, Joshua Davis used to rub toilet paper into his gesso and bake his paintings in the oven. Now he just changes a few lines of code.
Channeling his manic energy into a unique combination of illustration and generative art, he runs hand-drawn elements through coded algorithms to create abstract compositions. Any convenience he gains with this technique is more than erased as he then goes over each shape, color, angle, and line with a keen eye for flow and harmony, arranging each of the thousands of elements into just the right place.
I first saw Josh speak at an event in 2001. Prowling the stage with his hair dyed like a cheetah, he was one of the first to tap into the creative power of Flash Actionscript, and was always more than happy to show everyone how he did it.
Eight years later I am in suburban New York, walking through his meticulously landscaped backyard, re-creating his 20 second commute from brick patio to air conditioned man-shack. “I can’t say the traffic sucked,” he says as we walk past his daughter’s tiny bicycle.
Josh tells me he has cleared his 2010 calendar of all speaking engagements, because he “needs to vomit a little bit harder.” Someone get this man a bucket.
Read the rest in the January issue of Juxtapoz Magazine.
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Fillmore Slim : “Bring Back the Old Days”
It was a real treat to have a tour of my neighborhood rolling around with Fillmore Slim in his Cadillac. People everywhere still recognized him.
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David Choong Lee
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Felt “Chewed Up” Music Video
Big wheel + Run DMC + Bay Area Derby Girls + Carl Sagan + Falconry + Hot Tub + Juice Box + Slug + Murs + Aes = Music Video for Felt 3 : A Tribute to Rosie Perez.
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John Dwyer
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Method Animation : Presentation @ Adobe HQ
Made a presentation tonight at Adobe Headquarters for SFMOGRAPH.
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