Sketchbook Tour

A video expo of my scketchbook-

Images derived from my sketchbook drawings-

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Cosmic Flower Unfolding

Cosmic Flower Unfolding is a constant flow of emerging and dissolving oceanic, futuristic, and mandala forms. It is a tribute to abstraction, its connection to the inner space we inhabit and how it can be externalized.

PRESENTING – SIGGRAPH 2013 Anaheim, CA | Info TBA

TRAILER-

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Gallery Work Promo


I just made a gallery works promo-

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ZBrush experiments

ZBrush – “Flower”

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Cellular Circuitry – full version online

I just uploaded the full version of my film “Cellular Circuitry” to Vimeo. Please watch, enjoy, and share :)

“Cellular Circuitry” is a stream of digital sculptures and soundscapes that dynamically transmute between organic and circuit-like motifs. It is a reflection of artificial versus natural systems animated in such a way to show that they are intimately connected to one another. My goal was to closely link the visual changes on screen with a mix of natural and digitally sourced sounds. Some sounds are meditative and inviting while others are edgy and alien. They are an audial parallel of what the viewer is seeing and changes in sync with the morphing visual forms they represent.

CELLULAR CIRCUITRY AWARDS
EXCELLENCE IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION – ASIFA-San Francisco Inaugural Spring Festival
DIRECTOR’S CHOICE – 32nd Annual Black Maria Film Festival | USA tour, Rome, Italy | 2013

INTERNATIONAL SCREENINGS
Anima Mundi 2012 | Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo | South America | 2012
Animasyros 5.0 | Hermoupolis, Syros | Greece | 2012
Selected screening/Presentation – Cine Toro 2012 | Toro, Colombia, South America | 2012

NATIONAL SCREENINGS
Savannah International Film Festival | Savannah, GA | 2013 | INFO TBA
San Jose Short Film Festival | San Jose, CA | 2012
screening/Installation – Currents 2012 | Santa Fe, NM | 2012
Northwest Animation Festival | Portland, OR | 2012
SoCal Film Festival | Huntington Beach, CA | 2012
Athens Animation Festival | Athens, NY | 2012
Wheaton Beard and Weil Galleries | Wheaton College, MA | 2012
Detroit Windsor International Film Festival | Detroit, MI | 2012
screening/Installation – Visionfest | Brooklyn, NY | 2012
ASIFA San Francisco Spring Show | San Francisco, CA | 2012
Woods Hole Film Festival | Woods Hole, MA | 2012
SoDak Animation Festival | Brookings, SD | 2012
Fresh Off The Grill Fest | Detroit, MI | 2012

 

Cellular Circuitry – Black Maria Director’s Choice

Cellular Circuitry has been selected as a Director’s Choice for the 32nd Annual Black Maria Film Festival tour.

The Film Festival Premiere Tour Kickoff will begin on February 1, 2013 @ New Jersey City University
and then continue on it’s extended tour to various host venues across the USA and even Rome from
February to October 2013.

Since 1981, the annual Black Maria Film + Video Festival has taken its (no hyphen) name from that of the world?s first motion picture studio built by Thomas Edison in 1893. The Festival and its tour operate as an independent non-profit organization and is the primary endeavor of Thomas Edison Media Arts. For over 30 years the Festival has been acclaimed for advocating, supporting and widely exhibiting fresh short works up to an hour in length by emerging as well as by veteran independent film and videomakers. The festival’s annual competition is juried by noted exponents of independent work and results in 40 to 60 works chosen for the festival’s annual tour. The tour visits 65 or more diverse institutions in 20 or more states starting with the premiere each season at New Jersey City University, in Jersey City, NJ. 20 or more states starting with the premiere each season at New Jersey City University, in Jersey City, NJ. 

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