Ninja March 31st, 2009
What great news for Doyald Young! His book, Dangerous Curves, was included in Step’s 100 Best designs of 2008, Print’s upcoming issue, and the AIGA has named him 2009 Gold Medalist.
Congratulations, Doyald!!
Related links
+ Visit Doyald Young’s web site
+ Doyald Young on his five mentors
+ Stefan G. Bucher interviews Doyald Young (STEP magazine)
Purchasing link
+ Buy your copy of Dangerous Curves, ($100.00)
Ninja March 31st, 2009
With my Powerbook in the shop, it’s difficult to get my Photoshop work done. Penguin kindly let me hop onto his PC in the meantime. My fingers felt a tad off when it came to the keyboard shortcuts, but with a quad-processor and 4 gigs of ram, it’s hard to complain.
Here’s the scan. The paper was too big for the scanner, so I had to piece it together. It has a very obvious seam, but no worries, all will be well in Photoshop.
I cloned out stray bits of dust, adjusted the levels and curves, and painted in some of the gaps with the paintbrush tool.
Afterwards, I painted several ugly, color layers. This is an example of one of my color layers with the normal blending mode selected.
To add more color and depth to my original painting, I simply changed the layer blending modes of the messy, color layers (mentioned above). I’ve still many more layers to go, but you get the idea.
Happy drawing,
Ninja
Ninja March 30th, 2009
Paper artist, Noriko Ambe, cuts some wonderful organic shapes into sheets of Yupo paper and book pages.
A Piece of Flat Globe Vol.6, 2008
Cut on Yupo, glue
5 1/8(H) x 6 11/16(W) x 5 15/16(D) inches
Photo by Masaya Yoshimura
A Piece of Flat Globe Vol.6, detail
A Thousand of Self, 2007
Cuts on a book of “1000 on 42nd Street” by Neil Selkirk
9 1/8 x 14 3/4 x 5/8 inches
Cracking, 2006
Cuts on Yupo
25 x 36 x 1 inches
Diptych piece
Cracking, detail
Flat File Globe 1, 2006
Cuts on Yupo, metal cabinet
12 3/4 x 11 x 16 1/8 inches
Flat File Globe 1, detail
LACP 12 “A Book of Anatomy”, 2002
Cuts on a book of “Anatomy of a Human Being”
11 3/4 x 19 5/8 x 1 1/8 inches
LACP 12, Encyclopedia “Phisical Gymnastics, Human Body”, 2002
Cuts on an encyclopedia
9 7/8 x 19 5/8 x 1 3/4 inches
Related link
+ Visit Noriko Ambe’s website
Ninja March 30th, 2009
Penguin cooks & I bake! We both adore the crew at America’s Test Kitchen, so it was only fitting that we used their Chicken Teriyaki and Boston Crème Cupcake recipes for our birthday dinner party.
Much thanks to my lovely sous-chefs, Stay-C and Steph, for helping with the delicious Boston Crème filling.
Related postsNinja March 30th, 2009
My wee Powerbook is still getting fixed. He’s a trooper. My IT guy sent me these screen shots for giggles.
before
after
He then showed me an 89-page pdf of all the errors that he fixed so far. I think my face turned 3 shades of red when this one popped up. Why did Ryan have to name the router, “puppynuts”?
Related postsNinja March 26th, 2009
My poor Powerbook is giving me the grey screen of death, and I will have to get it serviced tomorrow. If all goes well, I’ll be back and running by the weekend.
It’s never a good sign when the first line on your screen starts with the word, “panic.”
– Ninja
Related postsNinja March 26th, 2009
The kind folks at the Parachute type foundry have put out some new wallpapers. You can download them here.
Last September we decided to redecorate our office by placing 3D typography on a wall using an inspiring quote by Oscar Wilde “I have the simplest of tastes, I’m always satisfied with the best”. It was during this process which involved cutting and painting the letters when Stavros started taking pictures. Some of them turned out so good that we decided to place them as wallpapers on our desktops.
White Letter Mess
Out of the Dark
Disturbing the Uncool
Ninja March 25th, 2009
Check out the incredibly beautiful trailer for the upcoming Spike Jonze film, Where the Wild Things Are. Adapted from the famous children’s book of the same title
Where the Wild Things Are was written by Dave Eggers, directed by Spike Jones, scored by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and featured Jim Henson Company creations.
Via BOOOOOOOM
Purchasing link
+ Where the Wild Things Are
Ninja March 25th, 2009
Here’s your dose of Wednesday inspiration—gorgeous, glittery Hookers.
Los Angeles painter, Natalia Fabia, is too adorable and incredibly talented to boot. Here’s a short video she shot in her studio of a photo shoot for her oil paintings. It’s a small glimpse into her jewel-toned, fantasy Hooker world as she prepares for her Hooker DreamEscape solo exhibition at the Corey Helford Gallery.
Here are some paintings from her Hooker DreamEscape show:
Jessica Louise, Cupcake Monster
Oil and glitter on panel, 12″ x 12″
Getting Butterflies
Oil and glitter on panel, 40″ x 30″
Hooker Sleepover
Oil on panel, 48″ x 48″
Aileen Ice Cream
Oil on panel, 11″ x 16″
Nap
Oil and glitter on panel, 36 x 24″
Peacock Dancer
Oil and glitter on panel, 24″ x 36″
Pink Castle in the Sky
Oil and glitter on panel, 24″ x 36″
Pizza Party
Oil on panel, 48″ x 48″
Happy hump day,
Ninja
Related link
+ Visit Natalia Fabia’s website
Purchasing link
+ Get Hooker prints, clothing, and jewelry from Natalia Fabia’s online store
Ninja March 25th, 2009
This is just a working title—I had the song, Sur Le Pont D’Avignon, stuck in my head this morning. Now I have The more you ignore me, the closer I get by the great Morrissey looping in my mind.
I promised that I would create more personal work in 2009, so in keeping my word, here’s my latest—a set of triplets with triplet rabbits. I’m hoping to finish the pencils before 3 AM, so I can put some gesso on it and let it dry overnight.
6B graphite pencil on Birch panel
This is where I’m at now.
detail
The patterns are killing my wrists! But it’s so worth it.
Happy drawing,
Ninja
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