Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Shlock


Just for fun.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Guardian of Order

 
 
I had a dream a while back where a knight made of Lego stood against the "forces of chaos" in an environment of planes and blocks.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Wastes


A quick doodle. Playing with shapes and color a la Maurice Noble, albeit more subdued.

Sunday, August 05, 2012

Best of All Time




I've had the flu for the last several days, and I spent a lot of time incapacitated in front of the tv. Every other night Phelps was on there making history at the London Olympics (as I'm sure everyone in the whole wild world knows!)

It's tough to ever be the best. It's even tougher to stay the best for any period of time. It's near impossible to be the best-of-all-time. Congratulations to Phelps and his epic Olympic run!

Saturday, August 04, 2012

Gaultier at the DeYoung










I recently attended the Jean Paul Gaultier show at the DeYoung museum in San Francisco. JPG has been an inspiration to me since I first noticed his outlandish work in the film The Fifth Element. Through the subsequent years I have followed his runway work. As a character designer/concept designer, and more broadly, as an artist, I found the Gaultier show to be a revelation. Instead of looking at his work as the taste of the season, I could look at his career and see where he took inspiration over the course of decades. I realized that his work is reflective of something I love about the French in general; their ability to mix the old and the new into something fresh and exciting while seeming somehow timeless.

To be sure, some of Gaultier's work has an "of its time" feeling, but a substantial amount still feels very exciting. His work seems to be about hard contrasts. Grotesque vs Elegance, proletariat utilitarianism vs upper-class debauchery, punk vs opulence, etc.

For my money, I think most of the designs I saw at the show were well beyond anything anyone in the concept/entertainment industry is doing in terms of "pushing" forward. There is an intellect and an irreverence to the designs that was simply inspiring. I would highly recommend anyone with any interest in fashion, costume/character design or just interesting art, go see the show!