Thursday, April 23, 2009

Taking Woodstock and Tweeting It


I've always been thrilled with poster art.

As a kid I'd spend hours poring over books of illustrations. Toulouse-Lautrec, the storybook works of Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell's covers, Robert Crumb's cover art for Big Brother & the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills album.

Last week I was admiring the new ad poster for the upcoming film: "Taking Woodstock" and fooling around with the Twitter platform.

I sleep close by my studio because I often wake up with new ideas. And a couple of days ago I got this concept for bringing the Woodstock bird forward into the Twitter Age.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Largest Train Layout in the World

Here's a bunch of guys(& girls)that just have way too much fun all of the time.

This is the largest model train layout in the world.

Before the OFFICIAL recognition of the terms "geek" or "nerd", there were modelers.

Model builders are in my opinion the Pre-Geek.

Before the days of computing or experimental radio, modelers were creating scaled replicas of existing machines, landscapes, structures & the mockups for new inventions not yet created.

When I built models for rail years ago I dreamed there being a way to get a trackside view on film, but small cameras for stills or video were yet too large.

Today, Miniatur-Wunderland in Hamburg brings the latest technology to the oldest of arts! And not just trains! Autos, ships - the works.




If I were in Hamburg, you'd find me here!

... After checking out all of the food and the beer.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Back to the 60's and Woodstock


I've ALWAYS loved poster art. Whether it was Toulouse-Lautrec, Maxfield Parrish or Wes Wilson's Fillmore Concert Posters coming out of San Francisco, I'd spend hours looking at it.

This artist absolutely nailed the genre here for the film "Taking Woodstock"

I haven't yet found the artist's name. The Internet Movie Poster awards site credits MOJO, LLC.

Truly inspired work.