I haven’t been this crazy about a band since I was a Cobain-obsessed teenager. During the last month, my casual interest in early-80’s punk band The Misfits has mutated into a devilish craving. I’m a fiend.
At first, I had written The Misfits off as just another low-fi thrashing experience, but then a series of thrilling [...]
I Fell in Love with a Ghoul
March 5th, 2010
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New Smashing Article
February 22nd, 2010
I have written a new article titled Art Manifestos and Their Applications in Contemporary Design which has been published by my friends at Smashing Magazine. Please take a look and leave a comment! Thanks.
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The Many Temptations of St. Anthony
December 11th, 2009
This article is a compilation of artworks on a single theme: ‘The Temptation of St. Anthony,’ a narrative that has been imaginatively rendered by visual artists – from Bosch to Dalí – for centuries.
According to Time, “In the 3rd Century, Saint Anthony the Egyptian renounced all worldly joys, went off into the Arabian Desert to [...]
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The VHS as Monolith
December 10th, 2009
This artwork, entitled VHS, stands over eight feet tall. It’s an enormous representation of a VHS copy of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. This sculpture was made by David Herbert in 2005. I felt gleeful when I saw first saw it.
Like all teens of my generation, my friends and I would often pop [...]
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The Scream of Nature
November 10th, 2009
Everyone knows Edvard Munch’s 1893 work The Scream (there are actually several versions of the piece), but did you know that an earlier title for it was The Scream of Nature? The image becomes twice as disturbing when you hear the artist’s inspiration.
Here is Munch’s description of the moment that inspired him: “I was walking [...]
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‘The Beauty of London in Design’
November 8th, 2009
Exciting news! My article ‘The Beauty of London in Design’ was published at Smashing Magazine on Friday. This article is what I spent the majority of my time working on during my September trip to London, so I’m very happy to be able to share it. I hope you find the piece informative and inspiring! [...]
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George Seurat: Harmonious Discord
October 22nd, 2009
On my first day in London last month, I spent an hour or two drawing George Seurat’s enormous oil painting Bathers in Asnières, which is housed in the National Gallery. I’ve included my sketch below Seurat’s masterpiece.
Seurat (1859-1891) used an analytical, painstaking approach to color that made his canvases sing. He studied the physical [...]
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Most Badass
September 4th, 2009
Is that the most badass thing you’ve ever laid your pair of peepers on or what? Skulls are the most overused symbol in rock and roll imagery, so I am always on the lookout for skull designs that are legit. This one is from a book called Uniforms and Accoutrements of the Imperial German Hussars [...]
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