Last Saturday’s Art Hop at Aces & Kings Cheesesteak

Posted on January 22, 2018 by portfoliolongo.com

I was stationed at Aces & Kings Cheesesteak last Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. While I was there, I was playing around demo-ing in Sketch Club on my iPad Pro with my Apple Pencil.

Videodigital Leitmotif

Posted on January 3, 2018 by portfoliolongo.com

Back to my roots: Videodigital Leitmotif. Turn your sound on, and say that 10 times.
Videodigital Leitmotif, Videodigital Leitmotif, Videodigital Leitmotif, etc.

“Beginnings,” A Commissioned Digital Drawing of a Sculpture on the Campus of UC Merced

Posted on October 9, 2017 by portfoliolongo.com

Several months ago I was commissioned to render a digital drawing of the “Beginnings” sculpture situated prominently on the UC Merced campus. The image was printed on fine paper, matted, framed, and presented as a gift. “Beginnings,” was conceived by noted American sculptor Aris Demetrios, and according to the official website “consists of two gently curving, vertical stainless steel arms, each about 40 feet high, rising from a large circular base.” (Click here for further details)

Use the “Leave a Reply” box below to initiate contact with me if you are interested in purchasing a print of this freehand digital painting on paper, canvas, metal, or wood.

Digital image in Procreate on an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil:

Video display (effects in iColorama):

Something…

Posted on August 6, 2017 by portfoliolongo.com

… under development. More on this later.

Started in Paper 53, then iColorama, even some PhotoSpeak, then Videoshop.

Thinking about Hannah Arendt

Posted on July 2, 2017 by portfoliolongo.com

…and what happens in the absence of genuine education, when propaganda and marketing hollow out one’s voice… [prompted by this article shared by a friend]

“The constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.
With such a people, you can do whatever you want.”

—Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher (1906–1975)

Reference photo source: click here.

Crafting a Creative Story … About Me

Posted on June 26, 2017 by portfoliolongo.com

I mentioned in a blog post last month that I had begun a process, which I said I would elaborate on in detail at some point. Well, I’m not going to elaborate on that just yet, but I will say that one of the goals of the process is for me to be able to have something coherent to say “about me.” I will also say that I’m working with Adam James Butcher, artist and coach. So in the spirit of showing my work, when it comes to this sort of work in progresss, here’s a one minute, thirty-one second video that I did in Videoshop that represents a draft “illustrated about-me statement” that I hope to improve upon. Your feedback, as usual, is welcome. Please feel free to chime in on this or any other post.

A byproduct of this process is my ABOUT page.

Congestion: An Interactive Post

Posted on February 25, 2017 by portfoliolongo.com

What do you do when you’re sick, your eyes are watery, and your nostrils can’t even collaborate?

You pull out your iPad, open up Paper 53, and get to work!

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Now for the interaction: which of these two moms is more modern? The Vick’s mom or the pill mom? [Use comment form below to reply. The first 25 respondents will win big prizes.]

Forecast

Posted on January 25, 2017 by portfoliolongo.com

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BEHIND THE SCENES: For weeks now, an evasive idea has been trying to form itself on my cognitive drawing board, having to do with depictions of absurd, segregated services reserved for conservatives or liberals. At first I thought of separate traffic lights at any given intersection, one set of red lights for the conservatives and another for the liberals. Then I realized how unlikely it would be, in such an imagined reality, that conservatives and liberals would even share the same roads. If nothing else, there would have to be fancy toll roads for conservatives only and old, beat up, public roads for the liberals. So I scratched that.

Then notions of segregated meteorological services for conservatives and liberals began appearing on my internal drawing board. I imagined a conservative weatherperson standing in the pouring rain with a mic in one hand and an umbrella in the other outlining the counter factuals: sunny, low humidity, time for a picnic. You know, “fake weather.” But then a staff researcher found the YouTube video below, published way back in 2012. Damn it! That’s when I decided to go with the simple shit storm forecast.