Portals Sneak Peek

Here's a small preview of new works featured in the show.  Be there or be stupid.  Come to the show.  Buy my art.  Drink some booze.  Tater nuts.

I've been hard at work in the studio for the past couple months preparing for the unveiling 

of my newest works.  My process is evolving and consequently my aesthetic.  

Here is a sneak peek at some of the work coming out of the insanity.  

Clear your schedule for February 28th 2014.  

Event announcement to come!

Indobox drum head

A short while ago my friend Forrest Chess asked me to paint a drum head for the band The Indobox which he manages. "I'll do it!" I said. And then, I did it. You should check them out cause they're pretty sweet. Click Here.    Anyways, here are the progress shots from that project.  

 

Sketchbookin' it. Had many good ideas, but only one drum head. So I opted for something flashy but still punchy. I also designed the drum to look different under different colored lights, cause I know there's different colored lights on stages, and cause I'm real smart and cause I've seen live music before.

    Some shots I took while in progress. Ignore the booze.

 

And that's how that came into existence. Boom. But seriously, check out The Indobox!

Video for GentlemenHall's son 'Sail into the Sun'

  So for the last few months Ethan Goldhammer and I had been producing a video for GentlemenHall's new hit song. The song has been popping off, featured in Samsung and Target commercials (the Target ad premiered during the Grammys), as well as being played on a couple major radio stations. So needless to say, when they approached me about doing the video, I peed a little.    We came up with a great story idea, with levels of eye widening happiness that would match those of the song itself. A love story, of course. Two souls, living in a blank universe, who eventually come together. Once united they begin to fill their world with colors and patterns, and delight. Finally they unite forever as the sun that provides the new world all of its life.   Well, you can watch the video and see the story develop for yourself,   so what I'll talk about is how we did it.    We created our characters from paper, and decided that we could then have different sets of eyes for each character, which would make eyes blinking and looking in different directions an easy feet. We also cut out hundreds of construction paper triangles we could use to begin the pattern creations in the blank world.  

   

 

With some of our tools and thoughts in hand, we set out to build the torture chamber that I would spend the next 769 hours occupying. Bending over, making a tiny adjustment to the painting we were shooting, moving the paper characters ever so slightly, then sitting back up, then bending over making a tiny adjustment to the painting we were working on, moving the paper characters ever so slightly, then sitting back up, then bending over making a tiny adjustment to the painting we were working on, moving the paper characters ever so slightly, then sitting back up, then bending over making a tiny adjustment to the painting we were working on, moving the paper characters ever so slightly, then sitting back up. Of course this was totally worth it in the end. But here is that devilish torture chamber of back muscle doom:

Then we set out to time-lapse several different boards that I would be painting. Trying our hardest to not have my hands in any of the shots. This would all be footage of the characters creating the color and pattern and filling their world with awesomeness. We used the paper characters over the paintings during shooting. 

 Once we had all the footage shot, everything went into Goldhammer's hands to ruthlessly edit & kaleidoscope everything into the monster (cute, fuzzy, happy monster) that is the video for Sail into the Sun. Finally I created all the lyrics by digitally tracing every letter in the alphabet 3 times (to create that wobble effect) and then putting those triple letters into the formation of words. I then sent those files over to Ethan who dropped them into the video with class and ease. Boom, video. Here are some fun detail shots of the process:

We were lucky enough to have the video premier on the front page of MTV's Buzzworthy blog, here: http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2013/04/24/gentlemen-hall-sail-into-the-sun-lyric-video/

Which is pretty friggin' awesome. And they did a pretty sweet write up for the whole thing.

Then I dropped a few beer can bombers around the Hall House.

And then I ended this blog post.

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THE NEW IMIGHTBEINSANE.COM IS ALIVE!

Finally after about 2 or 3 busy years, I've had the chance to rethink how my website works. Put it this way, the old imightbeinsane.com was way too complicated. It was a pain in the ass to update anything I wanted to update. It was not too attractive, if ya know what I'm saying. So anyways, I've simplified. You'll notice that now the website is really just more of a fancy directory that will shoot you off into the directions you need to be shot to. Yes. Finally.

So in the time that I have not posted and blogs, a lot has happened. I don't think I'm going to describe everything cause that would take the remainder of my life as well as yours. So I'm just going to go through it in photos best I can. Prepare your eye holes.

A minimally described photoroll of all the art work I've done since my last post:

Multiple fliers/posters for Grey Sky Appeal.

A flier for Virtue's album release party. Featuring Buck65.

A poster for PT Burnem & Eyenines 'Computer Rock Tour.'

A blank poster for the HubDub.

Sticker design for DJ Emoh Betta.

A logo design for Gia Von Tate.

A logo design for Animal Farm.

A logo design for HubDub.

A track image for Streight Angular's 'Supermarché.'

A Charlie Chaplin inspired tattoo for Ben Maitland-Lewis.

All the album artwork for The Doctor Fox's 'Handful of Laughs.'

 All the album artwork for The Wonder Mics EP.

Illustrated punk bears for the Indie Ambassador website's error pages.

A series of 7 paintings with cut vinyl.

A live painting done at Foundry 24. Halloween.

 

A painting.

 

A large painting with some new style.

A large painting with some new new style.


There's more, but I have to locate, organize, crop, and touch up the photos.


As you can see, I've come a long way in the last few years. Though I gained many artistic skills I lost my internet presence. But I'm back baby! I already have lots of stuff to show you in the next entry I do. Whoa whoa, I've been busy. Anyways, check out the new website: www.imightbeinsane.com

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