Creative Director
Seattle
Favorites
The work of James Benning, Pablo Ferro among others.
Flying Contraptions
Fatherhood
Hometown
Niceville, FL (yes, it was nice.)
Recent Posts
Airtime
I've been traveling a lot recently. So on a flight to LA, with all my reading options exhausted, I whipped out the iphone and started snapping. I think the older couple sitting next to me were a little concerned that I was pressing a button every 5 seconds.
Speaking At ArtFutura
Barcelona lived up to all the hype my friends gave me when Digital Kitchen was invited to present our work at ArtFutura 2009. Rama and I showed work from TrueBlood, Mindquest, and SIFF among others. We struggled to last through some marathon dinners but met some inspiring folks along the way. Charlie and team from Improv Everywhere and Magnus from Potemkin were a delight to hang out with and are doing some real interesting work–so check it out.
Thanks to all our hosts: Montxo, Irma, Judith, Lucia and Hector. Special thanks goes to Marta who bravely put up with our ignorance of Spanish to get us where we needed to go.
Il Pensare Lion
Traveling with Mark enlightened me to his powers of contemplation. Here's a modest visual record.
Look Familiar?
A postcard found on the streets of Parma, Italy last week.
If Thinking... Think Less.
A mentor once handed me a small piece of paper like you would find in a fortune cookie with this phrase typed on it.
The piece of paper is long gone, but the phrase continually pops in my head like a warning siren when things head toward the over-rationalized. There's definitely merit in researching your subject matter—any professional should. But only to a point I think. After some fuzzy line is crossed, I am usually most successful by "performing" a solution rather than parsing results in a mechanized endgame.
Somehow things work a little better when I can't explain everything and why. This is why I would make a terrible engineer.
Whoops!
I have a thing for glitches. I love finding them. Not because it makes me feel superior, but because, somehow, it makes a thing or an experience seem more real.
The word "authentic" is being thrown around a lot these days when talking about communication. And its true I think that we need more authentic communication for the same reason I like to find little glitches. We all want to have an honest dialogue. The second I feel something is scripted as a manipulation I try and tune it out. The car salesman's mouth is moving but all I hear is the adult voice from "Peanuts".
Now here's the rub. There are times when we love to be mislead or manipulated. Namely things we refer to as entertainment- from novels to movies—we'll happily sit for hours and soak it all in. It's an escape. So where do we find that magical, paper-thin membrane separating fact and fiction; authenticity and entertainment?