Monday, October 18, 2010

Fantastic

I remember seeing this movie on some public broadcasting channel when I was about 12 years old, I had no understanding of what it was about but I do remember being really interested and couldn't look away.

I'm gonna go back and rewatch this movie, apparently it won the Cannes Film Festival in 1973 among some other very prestigious awards.

"Fantastic Planet" - 1973

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Painting is Cool

I was poking around on youtube and saw this video of a time-lapsed painting an artist named Louis Smith. I thought it was really cool being able to see the blocks of different colors change into shaded areas and highlights and then into something almost photographic. It's insane, I need to learn to paint like this.

I think he has a new site or blog on wordpress, the link is www.paintaportrait.org

Here's the video :)
(the video may be cut off on one side, so it's probably better to watch it on youtube, or on his site along with a few other nifty things he has there)

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Yama-LOL

The past few days I've been doing art work and trying to branch out... I've done a few political sketches for painting and brainstormed a few ideas, I'm still working (or need to work) on the heart tattoo for my friend, CB Matt from Draft Cycle needs designs and stuff, trying to do linoleum prints, blah blah blah.

My Dad builds motorcycles in the garage at night, then we met Matt from Draft Cycle Works... now my Dad and Matt build motorcycles in the garage at night... Then I bought an old Yamahahaha early this year and decided that building motorcycles is easy and I can totally do it too! :)
HA!

Here's what the bike looked like originally (random google image pic)

So I guess I'm now branching out into the motorcycle thing as well :) lol

Me, my Dad, and Matt have all had our hands on this thing since I started taking it apart. Matt's been keeping me entertained and my Dad is walking me through how to do things. It's like a little tiny garage of manly love... for motorcycles... HA! Matt's gay, get it?

Here's me and Dad scratching our heads