Check out this super-slick piece by Molho for Max Haus.

Via motionographer.

The Gnomon Workshop just announced their Spring 2008 Live! event, which will be an awesome weekend of insight into some of the most talented artists in film, video games, comics, and more. If you have any interest in concept art, 3D modeling, special effects, etc, and are in the general area of Hollywood, you will want to attend! Tickets are $125 for the two-day event. They’ll also have a recruiting room open for portfolio reviews and general Q&A. Past recruiters have included Nickelodeon, Blizzard, Naughty Dog, Top Cow, Insomniac Games, Activision and more. Plus free food! You can’t lose.

The Gnomon Workshop Live! Spring 2008

Saturday and Sunday, June 14th & 15th, 2008
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM

1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90038
Sound Stage 15 (Next door to the Gnomon School of Visual Effects)

Trent Kaniuga, creator of Creed and all around cool guy, has been posting one page a day from his most recent book, Creed: Imaginary on his blog since February. I’ve had the pleasure of having Trent as an acquaintance for a long time, and he’s always been extremely generous with his work. Definitely check out his pages!

It was at the Vinyl Toy Network show in Pasadena. He drew me, along with what seemed like any other person who chose to wait in line.

I think he captured a bit of the giddyness I had at the time. I got to shake his hand, told him I liked his blog, and the drawing commenced!

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You may have seen this already, but I just ran across a decent-quality Quicktime version and thought I’d throw it up.

The video is directed by Romain Gavras. There is probably a lot to say about it, but I’m not a particularly talented critiquer of film, so I’ll let you make up your own minds. There is however a nice deal of discussion going on here, if you, like me, had a thirst to read some debate after watching the video.

This Sunday, May 4th, is the Vinyl Toy Network event in Pasadena, CA, at the Pasadena Convention Center. You can check out the site for all the details. It looks like it should be a ton of fun, so I’ll defintely be attending! I will attempt to exercise self control and not blow all my money.

Here’s another good find I ran across while scrounging around the book store. The cover illustration is by Mike Hinge.

The New Zealand-born artist made Manhattan his home in 1966 and was a part of the science fiction and comics scene for the next few decades. He produced covers and interiors for numerous SF magazines and for mainstream venues, including several TIME covers. In the early 1970s, SUPERGRAPHICS published a collection of his techno-oriented work titled “The Mike Hinge Experience“.

Mr. Hinge’s super-detailed and elaborate art style predated the digital illustration revolution and many of the artist’s works foreshadowed the coming elegance and intricacy of computer art. In later years, PC technology caught up with him. According to friend Sanford Meschkow, “Sadly, the computer revolution in graphics in the 1990s was the effective cause of the early end of Mike’s professional career.”

Among Mr. Hinge’s last professional commissions was a cover for the large-format revival of AMAZING magazine in 1993. - Via Comicon

A nice introduction to an artist I wasn’t familiar with. Time to keep my eye out for more!

Nice, clever little video from Mato Atom.

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I ran across this book while perusing the massive sci-fi section of a local used book store (which I have to post about specifically later on) and was totally floored. Too awesome! The artist is Dean Ellis, who I managed to find a little bit of information on through some Googling:

Detroit-born artist Dean Ellis (b.1920) studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Boston Museum School of Fine Art and worked for art studios in Cleveland before moving east in 1958. In the 1960’s he produced much work for Bantam Books including covers for numerous Ray Bradbury titles. In the 1970’s his work was largely for Ballantine Books, and included covers for books by Larry Niven and Lester Del Rey, among others. His paintings frequently portrayed vistas of outer space or breathtaking alien landscapes realistically rendered in saturated colors (often blues or greens) and exhibiting a clean, simple style.

Is your time space limited? I also found a list of some other books that he’s illustrated covers for, though I don’t think its exhaustive as this book isn’t listed. Apart from Dean Ellis, I happened across another book with a cover by a different artist that I couldn’t pass up. I’ll post that one up later.

So ever since I posted the Vintage Logo Set to Flickr, I’ve found myself pretty addicted to the site. I had used it only briefly in the past for random personal photo storage, unaware of the massive collection of art, artists and communities that seem to call Flickr home. I guess I’m a little late on this one, but it’s hard to stop browsing. There is just too much great stuff to look at!

Here I’ll throw up some links to a few random items I’ve found of interest over there. Hooray!

“Moebius Druillet mashitup” from LarsPowderdry’s photostream, where you can find other totally sweet illustrations.

“Illustration_BB” from dmolin’s photostream, which contains various interesting images.

“modern publicity 42” from jeremyhead’s photostream, in the “MODERN PUBLICITY 42 1972/73” set.

Oh look, cool stuff at RBG6. I just love computer/video monitors, so this kind of stuff tickles me just right.

In this experiment, I connected an audio signal to the RGB lines via an inverter and a couple of other IC’s for some added fun, and using different combinations of connections, the audio is represented on the screen.

More fun stuff at Vidiotsquad, makes me want to play!

Mike Nguyen’s personal animation blog has been one of my favorite reads for a while. The art and animation on display is always a treat for the eyes, but what I enjoy the most is the insightful and very personal approach Mike has to his work. Admittedly I tend to skim through most of the RSS feeds I subscribe to, but Rainplace always reminds me that I should stop for a second and actually give the content the kind of attention it deserves.

Rainplace

A fun illustration/type experiment. Kind of tired of looking at it now, its time to put this one away! I originally planned to throw it on a shirt, so we’ll see what happens with that.

Hit up Flickr for the high-res version.

Pretty amazing work by Levi van Veluw. Check out his Behance gallery for more.

Levi van Veluw´s photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object of great visual impact.

Makeup? 3D? Photoshop? All of the above? Whatever the process, the results are great!

Levi van Veluw on Behance
Levi van Veluw 

Do people call these things desktops or wallpapers? I’ve always preferred the term “desktop” for some reason, not sure why. Regardless, this was a badge design I did a while ago, but I thought it deserved some cleaning up and alternative treatments.

Hit up the Flickr links for 1920×1200 sizes.