The old picture

It's interesting the mix of influences that creates an artist style, I can say that for me is a mix of old etchings, fantastic films, children's literature and of course a lot of old pictures. Here is a website that turns out to be a great resource if you like vintage photography is called the old picture and it's a great archive, I specially like these three collections: beauty, Eskimos and Facial hair.

Creepy fun!

Flush's debut single "Losers" featuring Riz MC and Envy is so much fun...specially when accompanied with this video. The illustration are made by Dan Hillier an old favourite of mine. This eccentric, creepy and kind of home-made video really makes me want dance, draw and make some animation of my own. Advice: please go and see it directly from youtube by clicking at the video because I can't fix the size of it in here.

Harmony

Here's a new fantastic way to pass your time and enjoy the pleasures of drawing and playing. The creator of this javascript application is MR Doob or Ricardo Caballero a designer that really likes to experiment. He shows us that the way of original design is to create your own tools to make it. Go and play here! and I forgot you can save your drawings, this one on top is mine!!

Fluxus...creative flow

Hello! This week I want to share with you this fantastic magazine that keeps art flowing every two months. It's called Fluxus Magazine and it's last issue celebrates highgh contrast and of course some Black and White all the way. Great stuff from Colombia thanks to Alex Cano! check it out and while you are at it and you want to, check the circus issue to see some of my work.

Happy Women's day

A post literally fell from the sky on this "día de la mujer", I really don't celebrate this day I think is kind of ironic because there is not a man's day, so it is intrinsically excluding, but it can be a good day for reflection on women's part in the world. Yulia is a french shortfilm in black and white made by rotoscoping a 3D film, I find this extremely interesting because it shows how animators are looking back to the handmade; from high technology to low-tech beauty. Check the film's website here.

Alice in Wonderland Fever

I can't wait to go see Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and I think is a good time to see this beautiful version that it doesn't have for sure the visual effects of the new release but is for sure a treasure. Here it is, the first version for cinema of Lewis Carrol's book restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. It was made more than 100 years ago!!

Combined perfectly.

Retro fifties + rock a' billy + hot rods + bowling + tattoos + great line work = Nate Holmes Trapnell's Illustration. A great find to put the end to this week and I hope it will be a funny a interesting beginning for yours!