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Michel Gondry @ The Apple Store – San Francisco

// January 8th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Film

Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Michel Gondry speak at the Apple Store about his new movie Be Kind Rewind as well as film in general and his creative process.

We received a nice surprise when Mos Def showed up walking through the audience to join Michel on stage. Apparently they were staying at the same hotel in San Francisco and didn’t know it. Once Mos found out he was in town he decided to show up and surprise him at the Apple Store event. Very cool.

Overall I left inspired to make a movie using whatever talent and tools I can find to make the story happen throwing my perfectionism aside. I hope to put together a “Sweeded” movie with the friends I went to event with soon.

Here are some pictures I took with my phone; and can I say that the camera on the iphone sucks.

 

Apple Christmas Claymation AD

// December 13th, 2007 // No Comments » // Art, Design, Motion Graphics

Great new ad from Apple… awwww claymation brings back memories.

The Darjeeling Limited

// October 10th, 2007 // No Comments » // Art, Film

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If you loved The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore you must see Wes Andersons new brilliantly hilarious film The Darjeeling Limited.

Before you see the film I recommend watching the short “Hotel Chevalier” which is available for free on iTunes. If you watch it before you will get jokes and a back story that you cannot get without it.

My Simpsons Character

// August 12th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Art, Personal, TV Show

Sketches of Frank Gehry

// February 1st, 2007 // No Comments » // Art, Design, Film, Personal

I recently watched a documentary by Sydney Pollack, “Sketches of Frank Gehry“.

Now I am no architectural buff, I knew his buildings and knew he was famous but I didn’t really ever give his art much thought. What struck me most about this film is the look inside the path of an artist and dealing with the creative process and making it work both for yourself and to make some kind of living.

I love that Frank goes outside of the normal bounding boxes of what architecture should be and function, and he creates what he sees as right, what he is passionate about in that moment of creation. This was very inspirational as an up and coming designer myself struggling to find my way in this American commercial world of now now and cheaper.
The path of human beings is most often twisted in many ways but I think the path of an artist is almost staggered and at times it seems as the path is off the mark but then you find yourself a famous architect. Frank Gehry at one point in the movie said he could of been a pilot if someone had shown interest in him. That really our career paths are often quite fragile. I started out wanting to be a musician, then an Audio Engineer, then fell into working with computers, IT, then found the web, and now here in San Francisco I find an old love of movies but still in love with web design. Some how all fitting together into the same path, the same design sense even before I knew what that was.

Needless to say the movie gave me hope in my creative endeavors and was entertaining as well. A must see if you are an aspiring artist in any medium.