william wegman

Saw I purchased the William Wegman DVD on the internet last and week and just got it in the mail yesterday. The collection is just wonderful, some of the movies feel hit and miss, but they all seem to work as a whole.

He's so creative and his movies are so thoughtful yet he works with practically nothing. His props are nothing more than things he could just find laying around.

I'm still watching it and I'd recommend to anybody. I have the DVDs so if anyone would like to borrow them sometime after the break, just let me know.

William Wegman Pugs!

The Pug Head Tilt - The funniest bloopers are right here

Recovery

I'm still recovering from the stress and lack of sleep but am recuperating just fine. Today I finally picked up a copy of McCloud's 'Understanding Comics' at the library, I've been reading it so much, I had to stop myself from reading it all in one day. I don't think having the copy is going to be enough, I"m pretty sure I'll have to buy my won copy eventually. I've also taken the time to catch up and finish reading Print's special award edition, some really interesting stuff out there. It's a bit of a change from the design that we've been seeing in place but it's cool to see how the trends are right now and how some are changing. I'm also reading the Epic of America. The origin of the term 'the American Dream.' It's good to have a break but it's not a bad time to do some loose research. I've been loving it so far.

Have to be sure to remember to drop my key off by this monday...

News update: BFA, FAm-fam, new movie

Well I'm working on the templates for my coloring book. I've been thinking about printing them out on color book paper, like really light cheap paper. The cover will most likely be glossy paper.



Aside from my design work I've been helping my family decorate the whole house, we just finished the tree today. That's one of the drawbacks of living with your family, all the responsibilities you attain. I feel very confined in this house, in my little room. I've always been less productive here and it's depressing at times. I love my family but It's just too much at times.



NEW MOVIE THIS WINTER BREAK. It's about time i made a new film. I'm collaborating with my best friends and a few others. It's going to be a series of films based on exaggerated version of ourselves, our theme is going to be a couple of struggling filmmakers try to make it big while dealing with personal issues, in a hilarious way of course. I think I have 3 weeks to do it...

week 1: Writing, planning, and storyboarding
week 2: Filming
week 3: Post production, editing, writing music, etc

It's very exciting. I think originally we were inspired by it's always sunny in Philadelphia(their pilot episode specifically because their budget was 100 dollars), Seinfeld, curb your enthusiasm, and flight of the conchords.

We're going to be basically playing exaggerated, and much more shallow, version of ourselves. It should be funny how this plays out, it's so exciting!

William Wegman - funny man

I love his videos, I actually remember seeing some of his sesame street material on television. I recall watching the videos when I was younger and I remember being deeply confused and confounded as to why dog heads were attached to human bodies.

I had no idea that the man behind that idea was such a brilliant artist/filmmaker. I instantly fell in love with his vibrating chair, and who knows, maybe it'll inspire me to do some more video work int he future.

Artist Statement

Artist Statement

The Social Coloring Book

A book with multiple illustrations show different people of different socio-economical backgrounds. Their distinction in wealth is made obviously clear by their attire and positions. Some are positioned to show power and some show weakness and vulnerability. The illustrations are outlines of people, simplistic face-less representations of people as symbols. The pages have text explaining to the viewer what they are seeing, although there is more to the eye than just the description.

This all started with illustrations I made intended as stickers and magnets. The idea was similar, to show wealth inequality in America. The inspiration came when doing research on sociology and politics for a paper in Latin America. After reading about the social inequalities from afar I had wondered what it was in the home front and I realized it was very similar. The outcome came to be almost the same, with a small number of people owning the majority of wealth in the nation. I always pondered as why so many suffer while a few live in absolute luxury.

The work will have individual booklets with crayons for people to take. There will also be larger print outs for people to draw on collectively.