02 Jun 2010
Art that inspired
In this weeks installment of “Art I’m Digging,” I’d like to point out a few things that inspired my recent art and music series The Origin of Waking.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a beautiful often cheesey film by Terry Gilliam. It’s a great example of the magical and quirky visual style that can be achieved with miniatures and other practical effects.
A scene from "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" compared to my Origin of Waking photograph it inspired.
The stage play that takes place at the beginning of the film was a big influence on the visual style of my photographs. The use of flat planes create an illusion of depth in the sky and the hand cranked waves of water show how imperfect representations of reality can often times be more engaging than perfect ones.
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28 Apr 2010
Boilerplate & Teun Hocks
Boilerplate – History’s Mechanical Marvel
by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett
Boilerplate is the name of a life sized robot soldier built by Archibald Campion in the late 1800s. Throughout his known lifetime, Boilerplate fought in many wars and visited most of the world. The book recalls every known event in the Boilerplate saga. All this information is supplemented with archival photographs, period illustrations, maps and more.
It’s an amazing history and it’s all fiction.
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14 Apr 2010
The Devil’s Backbone & Songs From The Second Floor
El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil’s Backbone)
The Devil’s Backbone takes place during the Spanish Civil War as a comic book reading child name Carlos arrives at an orphanage. During Carlos’ time there, he comes across strange fetus-based elixirs, hidden gold, the ghost of a murdered child, and the centerpiece: a defused bomb in the courtyard.
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31 Aug 2009
Robert and Shana Parkeharrison & Gregory Crewdson
Da Vinci's Wings by the Parkeharrisons
Robert and Shana Parkeharrison
Several years ago, The Parkeharrison’s released an amazing book titled, The Architects Brother. The book is filled with images of the “everyman,” played by Robert. This character spends each frame exploring and inventing in a vast secluded monochrome world. The resulting images are bleak but hopeful.
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19 Aug 2009
Charlie White & Patricia Piccinini
The Persuaders by Charlie White
Charlie White has been a big influence on me these past few years. He creates strange narratives with his photographs. His work ranges from the science fiction film-like series In A Matter of Days in which an alien invasion threatens America to his strangley random series And Jeopardize the Integrity of the Hull which features a cute little injured lamb and a group of peer pressuring puppets.
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