Friday 23 May 2008

Video Profile 3


Another entry in the Køge Handellskole video profile series. Annette Finnsdottir, visual artist with work presented at the Copenhagen Museum of Modern Art. I was impressed at the interactivity of her work, particularly her mixed media approach with a very strong Web 2.0 influence. We've all seen films shot on Second Life, but I don't think there are many artists out there who get the interactivity that Second Life and the Web 2.0 in general offers and its implications to art. Cutting edge stuff, indeed.

As always, I directed, scored, edited, lit, filmed and did sound production on the piece. Enjoy

Logos



Hi. I have been working on a logo for my new website. Made in photoshop with some metal textures for the tentacles. I think it gets my style across well.

Saturday 10 May 2008

Heavenly Spheres 2




Hey.

I've mentioned my love for space-based illustrations on an earlier post. So, surprise-surprise, here is another piece. Most of the Photoshop techniques I used are similar to the last piece, but I used some new ones regarding the planets' texture, which involved extensive use of the liquify, smudge, burn, and dodge tools, as well as liberal doses of hue layers to create the colors.

I'll start doing some more traditional modern graphic design pieces, starting tomorrow. While I enjoy my more personal work, popular graphic design is moving towards a specific direction and I definitely don't want my work to feel outdated or lacking freshness. So, check this space out.

Thursday 8 May 2008

Say hello to my little friend!



Hello world.

So, I've been playing around with the actions function on Photoshop. It's got its uses, but the best thing about it by far is that it gives you the ability to create abstract art using fractals. A fractal is basically a complicated shape that is created by the repetition of a really simple shape and with some slight distortion at every iteration. A perfect example of how fractals work in nature is the humble snowflake and literally every crystal in existence (like diamonds).

There is some really interesting theory behind fractals and how life evolved, in that multicellular creatures are basically colonies of of like cells that started cooperating. Without getting into details, I thought it might be cool to replicate this process using Photoshop and try to see what creatures I could come up with.

Say hello to Ben, a biomechanical worm, courtesy of Photoshop, created by repetition and manipulation of a steam iron.

Wednesday 7 May 2008

Video Profile 2

Hello world. This is one of the videos in the series I shot for Køge Handelsskole. As you might remember from an earlier post, its purpose was to showcase the students and teachers of the particular institution. I tried some grungy editing on this, not too OTT, just enough to make it a bit more snappy and take it away from the typical talking-heads style of documentary.

My subject was Sanne Snejbjerg, history teacher and probably the sweetest person I dealt with during the project. As always, part of my filming technique was to take the camera somewhere out of sight and distract the subject with some chit-chat. What I am interested in is the personality of whoever it is I'm filming. Make them laugh, make them think, make them wonder, that's how you let the person inside shine.

As always, I did the directing, editing, scoring, sound and hauling around of equipment on this one.

Enjoy.