I signed up for the service awhile ago but never used it. Now I’ve figured it out. Can’t believe it I’m actually doing it. When I first heard about twitter I scoffed, but it looks like this thing is picking up huge momentum. And besides, I’m kind of warming up to the idea of twittering probably because of facebook statuses. Now I’m getting texts like mad from friends and Mary Louise Shumacher. I feel connected. I’m not sure how often I will be using this thing, hopefully I’ll limit to just event announcements as opposed to “I’m eating rice” or “Its time to go to bed” every 5 minutes. My twitter profile is here.
Khoda
Posted: February 26th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists | Tags: animation, dedication, inspiration | No Comments »Words won’t do this justice. Watch.
Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.
People who take the time and energy to one project inspire me. This is something I should work towards.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists, Projects, Thoughts | Tags: clark stamm, collaboration | No Comments »
1. A collaborative venture with an amazing young creator: Clark Stamm
2. Metal.
3. A vision by Nathaniel Haack.
4. A long history of battle drawings and badass warriors with guns and armor.
1* Clark and I are doing a collaborative homework assignment (the theme is palimpsests so this collaboration supports the theme literally and hopefully visually). He did a bunch of drawings, I did a bunch of drawings, we trade, he draws on my drawings, and I draw on his. The finished work I will show later, but for now I’m just showing the cropped down and slightly altered version.br
2* As an avid metal fan I automatically feel inclined to explain my love for this music. This is not because I love it THAT MUCH, but it seems that the majority of folks dismiss it as the toxic ear vomit heard on the radio. As with any genre, it should not be generalized. To me, metal represents the epitome of epicness. This epic quality I try to replicate in my drawings like this one (as you can see it is still a work in progress).
3* As I was working on this drawing (using PS and a drawing tablet) my roommate watch and offered his opinion as to the direction of this drawing. Having not studied art intensively his opinion is always fresh and from angles I have a hard time reaching. Inspired by Dethklok, Yngwie Malmsteen, and King Crimson Nathaniel was able to envision a truly metal topic – slaughter. For the record I am anti-war and anti-violence, but one might not read that from some of the drawings I do.
4* The complete drawing, which I’ll show later, has opened a door. Upon entering art school I felt very discouraged to draw what I had been drawing from the first day I picked up a pencil: war. Its a dark subject, and most people mistake my work for visual fan fiction of sorts. In the drawing I was able able to combine my other visual interests (portraiture, physical environments, etc) with my battle drawings. Call it a personal renaissance if you’d like, but I think that returning to my old style and revamping major themes in my work (battles, cities, space vehicles, architecture, warriors, etc) would make my work better. I should embrace my artistic past, not reject it.
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