My girl and I headed down to Los Angeles for the weekend. On the plane I decided to try to complete some speedies for as long as my computer could tolerate. It was a quite a challenge considering that the airlines like to cram there economy passengers in like chickens. All said, flying Virgin America still has its advantages, like TED Talks lectures for FREE! These paintings were all done in short 30 to 40 minute periods. I have been having fun doing them.

The paintings on the bottom were inspired by some paintings with a similar color palette. I just had to get it out of my system and they were a blast.

While I was still in school at Art Center I had a great time working on a project with the grad industrial design department. It was both entertaining and socially responsible, which was rewarding.

The idea for the project was that each designer was given a deck of playing cards that would ultimately drive design. This helped to create back story. Chosen at random, each card described a small segment of the infrastructure of a future world like key political changes, population changes and disease epidemics. The eerie thing was that all the cards were relevant to what could potentially happen in the future should society make certain key and pivotal decisions.

If you would like to learn more about it, and I highly recommend checking it out with some of the other cool artwork on the site, it can be found at:

Mobility Vision Integration Project

This is actually old news, but something recently came up that reminded me of a project that I worked on while at the Honda Advanced Design Studio in Pasadena. The first assignment was to work on this concept called one to the power of four, a mega car that splits into four smaller cars to save energy. Some may be asking how that works. The big idea was a kind of organized ride sharing where the vehicles bond together when convenient and break apart when their routes go in different directions. Anyhow, this project was submitted for the Los Angeles Auto Show of 2007 and recently made its way into the June 2008 Dwell Architecture Magazine (pg. 189). I will post the link when it becomes available, but for now, you can check it out on a car blog:

Honda: One to the Power of Four

I submitted this piece for a gnomon competition and won. Yay! There were many talented artist that had participated and I feel really fortunate for winning the first prize, 40 Gnomon Workshop DVD’s. Special thanks goes out to Alex Alvarez, Gnomon Workshop and those at the organization for making this competition possible. The link for competition results can be found at the following location:

May Gnomon Workshop Competition