I am on the hunt for a new apartment, brooklyn here I come? This process is hard, and i’m sure it would be even harder if i didnt have my very own apartment hunter helpin me out. Thanks j.
Movies: Ironman, Indy, The Fall
First off I want to say, like everybody else I loved Ironman. It was my favorite comic turned movie to date. RoDo was awesome. He has always been one of my favorite actors, but this really put him in the drivers seat.
Indy… so apparently people are under the misconception that the original Indy movies were not campy. Come on, he’s a whip wielding archaeologist, really, you put the originals on that high of a pedestal. PS. If speilberg and lucas had all of this technology then they would have used it. My only real issue was the poorly conceived ending, I mean, it’s just insanity.
Tarsem, let me tell you, this was one of the most beautifully shot movies I have seen in a while. The crafting of the scenes was a work of art, very polished fantasy art, but striking, and the little girl in the movie plays quite possibly one of the cutest roles i’ve seen in a while, and i’m pretty sure thats just the way she is, adorable.
*As a side note I would like to mention how visually stunning some of the recent movies have been, while There Will be Blood took home the oscar for cinamatography and was beautiful in its own right, I really enjoyed the natural subtle use of imagery in The Assassination of Jesse James, and the frame by frame meticulousness of Wes Anderson’s Darjeeling Limited.
Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum.
Dude… loves bodily fluids. But on the reals, his use of color is amazing,
and even though i’m not a big fan of japanimation or japillustration, he really speaks well to the essence of the genre. Plus, dude is ridiculous at self-promotion, he even put a Louis V in the middle of his exhibit.
My dunks are here, and I’ve been wearin the hell out of them. Big fan of the color way, getting used to the high tops.
Ricky’s site is done, finally, check it out, he wanted to integrate his blog so I used an iFrame to pull everything together.. Also reprogrammed the gallery, added google map, and made the informational pages xhtml. Check it out.
Dinger’s Dog Treats is on the way, I have been trying to skin a godaddy cart which is a pain in the ass, but I created the homepage and am diggin the playful feel of it all. Logo was given to me, and I went in a different direction than last time I posted. Will post once it goes live.. here is a little sample of the header..
Allendale Lightning, so my little brother is 7 and lives in the burbs. And you know what parents in the burbs love… organized sports. Now i’m not saying i’m against them, I loved baseball, played it through highschool, but some of these stories… anyway, my dad asked me to throw together a logo for his traveling team, and while I love the more traditional or vintage logos for pro teams, I thought a little whimsy would be cute for a team of 7 year olds. Inspired by the encyclopedic visual resource by chris creamer, here is my final design.
This was going to be its own post, but I am going to use my recent sitings area to post all interesting web links… so from now on, look to the right for new content, or you can subscribe to my del.icio.us rss feed tagged JB, that’s whats driving the content.
Hello, I know its been a while, but I’ve been working.. what’s that you say, so have you. Well, as my friend brandon would say, “shove it.” Although I have been trying to post images more regularly on my tumblr so, if you like pictures check it out.
Anyway, this is what I have been up to since my last post.
1. My family got a new puppy named lucy, she’s adorable.
2. I have been working on finishing up ricky’s new site. The concept was to strip down the content, make it scalable, and simple within a nice easy to navigate wrapper. I will post once I push it live.
3. Made custom dunks at the Nike Store in midtown. (i will post pictures once they are made)
4. I shot a headshot for my friend andrew the other day and it came out pretty good. I set up on my roof with some seamless white paper, and it came out pretty good. good job me.
6. I am starting to work on a site for Dinger’s Dog Treats and have been throwing together some ideas for a logo and color palette for the site.. Im thinking electric baby blue and mocha. And this is something I’ve been kicking around logowise..
7. I bought chips ahoy chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, and they are… not that good.
I just started my new job today, and with this, I will officially stop trying to keep up with bloggers more organized and in the loop than I try to be. So this blog, is now going to officially become a place where I talk about random work I’ve done, and once in a while I will post a list of links of notice.
(I’m going to try for once a week. We will see how that goes)
The other day my sister asked me if I knew of a place where she could get a cool invitation for her best friend’s birthday party. Since she trusts my taste I started thinking of a bunch of letterpress companies I have stumbled upon over the years. I went to a few and looked around at some stock stuff, but since she was on a tight time frame we weren’t able to find the right thing, so with some downtime at my last week of work I decided to throw something together:
The Concept? Use the idea of tree rings, and turn it into an abstract pattern.
And since im all of a sudden mr. wordy, I’m going to let the following images show you the rest of the steps.
I just recently finished a new site for the band Zevious. The original concept was to create a visual score to accompany their song Coma Cluster. The idea was to take the song, and visually interpret the song with geometric shapes. This brought me to try and find a written piece of music that I could test my concept with since all I had was an mp3, and no score. While looking I tried to find a score by one of the guitar players favorite composers Ligeti, and thats when I found this…
almost exactly what I was trying to accomplish done and pieced together on youtube, gotta love the internet.
So, since mapping out an entire song visually for a background of a website was a bit excessive I decided to use the basic idea to create a similar idea. I used one of those itunes visualizers to map a split second of the song, and then redrew it in illustrator. Using a scrolling effect, when you navigate the site, it takes you down through the background image. Eventually, I will probably evolve the squares as the page scrolls down, but for now in case you have no idea what I am talking about, here is the final site. Enjoy.
Over the last few months I have been working on a new site for Heutchy, a new men’s shoe line, by Wells Stellberger. The shoes just debuted at New York Fashion Week in a collaboration with Shipley and Halmos. I have also been helping him with the photographs of the line. I just finished up the site to include the new photos check it out. Refinery29 just did a feature on him, where you can find out more about the shoes, (and also see my product shots.)
The Dark Knight (2008) Poster - MovieWeb great poster for the new batman movie.. gets me psyched for the movie.. although its gonna be hard to live up to ironman's greatness, and wall-e's beauty.
A little support for Super Tuesday. Here are various politics related/design related links.