Fluidesign Blog

Even if I’m a developer, I like art. Particularly Pop Art, Surrealism, and impossible structure from M. C. Escher.

These paintings are great. But for us, living behind a computer screen, we’d like to see animation and arts in many different ways.

This morning I discovered 3 videos that I’d like to share with you.

First, a 3D exploration of Guernica, Picasso’s painting:

Then, a short film animating a character from Guernica in other artists’ paintings:

Finally, maybe not the most artistic but the funniest:

I like to see these types of videos where old art takes life on screen.

Check this absolutely stunning live action animation from BLU.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

My good friend Kiel Johnson, who was just awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant, is showing at the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica May 17-June 21. It’s definitely worth checking out!

Exploring the middle ground between the the factual and the fictitious, he creates caricatures of reality, cartoon like systems that function yet seem as though they should not, and vice versa.

The relationship between Johnson and the crowded and impacted Port of Long Beach (where his studio is based) has influenced his 2D and 3D work as he addresses the nature of commerce and the individual. His interest in the dynamic between the alienation of the individual and the overabundance of things in the world fuels his curiosity about how things work and the physical mapping out and making of things (both real and imaginary).

Reception for the artists: May 17th, 5-7

Corey Helford Gallery proudly presents “Heroes & Villains” featuring portraits by Tatiana Wills and Roman Cho, of the most notable emerging and established artists in the Underground art scene, Graffiti and Alt-Comic Book worlds.

Check out our friends Travis and Mel:

LA vs WAR highlights the travesty of a senseless war now going into its 6th year, giving LA artists a platform to exercise their freedom of speech. Check it out April 10-13 2008 in Downtown LA.

Check out this amazing mural by Mear 1 on the side of the HVW8 store in LA. 5 days of sweat and over 80 cans of paint bring hopes of a free Tibet. Props to Theo for the fisheye magic.

My friend Mel just designed her first wine labels for Strong Arms Shiraz. These are the first two illustrations in a series of six labels. Good times.

My friend and frequent Fluid collaborator Theo just uploaded this tight lil time lapse documentary video of the Hit & Run Live T-Shirt Silk Screening Crew as they celebrated their 2 year anniversary at the Crash Mansion downtown Los Angeles. As always, all the footage was shot single frame stop motion and time lapse with still cameras.

Want to know how well are your ears? Take the test.

A very good example how to draw the user’s attention.

“Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand ‘association-chain-massacre’. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.”

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