About an hour and a half. Giant man-eating birds fly below.


Good thing for the leaf brushes.



It's like......Land of the Lost without Chaka and Sleestacks.

I've been so involved in my own freelance business for the past 4 years that I've hardly watched any films and most of them were documentaries. I'm really glad that I was able to finally watch God Grew Tired of Us as it is an excellent documentary about the Lost Boys of the Sudan.

I highly recommend it if you're into documentaries as I am.



Some other interesting documentaries that I've recently watched were:

War Dance(excellent)
Cocaine Cowboys
March of the Penguins(excellent)
Cracking the Maya Code(no, not Maya the software, you nerds...)
The Business of Being Born(excellent)
Woodie Guthrie:Ain't Got No Home
American Masters:Andy Warhol
Encounters At the End of the World
Man on a Wire(excellent)
and of course, a bunch of BBC documentaries.


and a few others that I can't remember right now.

My first painting of the new year. I started another quick painting today and it eventually turned into something longer-about an hour. I kept changing a lot of things throughout.

So, here's something I've forgotten to show. I did a bunch of design work for Paul Oakenfold's show at Rain(inside of the Palms hotel and casino in Vegas)earlier this year. I didn't get a chance to see it in person when I was there a few months ago, so I'm not sure how different it looks from my concept illustrations. What I had to do was design the stage so that it could be assembled and taken apart very quickly before and after the show.



The entire sequence basically went like this:

1-Preparing to blast off, on the launching pad.
2-Flight through space. Several images would be projected or shown on very thin LCD screens on the stage and the floor. I can't remember the exact name for the technology since it's been at least 7-8 months since I've worked on it.
3-Landing on Planet Perfecto. Apparently, Oakenfold only comes out around 2am, balloons fall, all kinds of stuff pops up/out and black light comes on.



-Oh, and Happy New Year!

Quick paintings today. Around 40 minutes each. PS CS4