General

Big thanks to DOZE Magazine, based out of Madrid, Spain for the great interview and photo spread.  Also features The art of Christian Rex van Minneninnen. See it here. Extra bonus points if you read Spanish.

The fine folks over at Borderstan stopped by a few weeks ago. Big thanks to Eliza and Luis.

 

Scott G. Brooks has been living and working in the DC area since moving here from Flint, Michigan in 1990. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at University of Michigan in 1983, and considers himself “lucky” to know he wanted to be an artist from an early age. Although he has primarily worked in the world of painting and fine art over the past ten years, he also works as a children’s book illustrator and works in animation, graphic design and drawing. (read more here)

Big thanks to Wednesday and Pugsley (Kate and Jared) for another amazing Spooktakular, and my entire “family” including the talented Lurch (aka Andrew Wodzianski), Morticia, and of course Gomez (Jen and Mike)

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A few weeks ago we all got together and put  together a music video for the talented Tom Goss. The video is now finished and up on YouTube! It was great fun to be a part of the amazing team that put this together. Enjoy and please share!

from Tom’s website

“No man is an island. Unless he’s Tom Goss.

In a new music video released today for Goss’s song “Make Believe,” the DC-based singer-songwriter’s body is transformed into an island paradise on which an animated duo have an imagination-filled adventure amidst monsters, a dragon, a volcano and a bear-piloted airplane.

The human time-lapse video features a (discreetly) naked Goss lying perfectly still on his back while nationally renowned painter Scott G. Brooks transforms his body into a tropical landscape lush with vines and flowers. All the while, a shipwrecked character and his local guide invent a series of playful games while escaping the dangers lurking around this most unusual Isle of Man.

The video, Goss’s fifth, was shot in one 80-minute take, with help from ten off-camera puppeteers. Each second of video time took 28 seconds to film; a clock over Goss’s naughty bits tracks the real time.

In addition to painting Goss, Brooks also drew 159 different versions of the main characters, a clumsy circle and a trickster triangle, which come to life via time-lapse. Another nationally known DC artist, Dave Peterson, created the dragon, sea monsters, and flying bear.

The video was directed by Aram Vartian and Michael Key.”