200 Solar

200 Solar features characters inspired by a Xerox image I found on the street of Prague, on it a black and white photo of a empty room with bold striped wallpaper. The "200 Solar" characters (above) are what came from that.

The Black Sea Hotel: Mexico City Album Cover Variations/Visual Conversation

"The Black Sea Hotel" existed as a conceptual band derived from as online conversations between members in Bulgaria and the U.S.A. The covers show here are an exploration and part of the conversation. Once photographs were sent to me from Sofia I took them i to PhotoShop adding my raw line work and filters to create a hybrid. 

p.s. the model is Bulgarian superstar Polia Alexandrova!!

Motomechi Nakamura/MTV Games: 2004 "MTV Summer Party Crash-a-thon Game"

It was producer/director David Guinan who introduced me to the original animated works of Motomichi Nakamura. Moto created several cool MTV logo animations for the early MTV Online site, later as seen here Motomichi would be given a larger role in guiding the visual look and feel of MTV's online games. Suejin Yang produced many of MTV.com online tent pole events including the "MTV Summer Party Crash-a-thon Game"  shown above for MTV's Beach House.

MTV Online 1998 Redesign

The MTV Online redesign of 1998 was an attempt to bridge the visual gap between the trail blazing visual style of MTV's television channel and the post Java web 1.5 look of MTV Online (MTV.com). For this project I brought in several brilliant young designers each took part in the creation of this short lived design, including Manabu Inada, David Haring, Kaeshi Chai, Periel Tunaligil, Emmy Iida, Todd Hulin, Thoma Kiki, MTV's first Photo Editor Eufloria and the unforgettable maverick designer Matthew Chun who provided the model which we then dumbed down to fit the crude web tools of the time.

MTV: Fuzzy Nunchucks Vs. The Squirt Patrol 1.0

For The MTV 2000 VMA blow out, I designed a photo based two person fighting game. At the time most games used illustrated characters, I thought it might be time to get actual actors on the screen. Thank Zardoz that wiz-kid Josh Byard produced the game otherwise it would never have been made. At that time Amy V. Cooper was the Photo Editor, it was Amy who introduced me to the work of Ian Tong. We hired to shoot the photographs and live video then got Heavy to figure out how to turn it into a game that could be played on the internet (this was web 1.5). In the end it all worked, and then just like so many great web moments it was gone without a trace. The images shown here are some of the only screens that exist from this historic project.

Poster: Edison Woods: Seven Principles of Leave No Trace

This image is a collaboration featuring drawing, photographs, digital manipulation, text, inspiration, and craft of Carla Gannis, Julia Frodahl, Angela Voulangas and myself. The final work has been printed and folded into the 2003 Edison Woods album "Seven Principals of Leave No Trace" as a limited edition poster. I art directed the project and took the base photo images which I snapped on the frozen shore of the Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn New York (I stood out in the icy air with Wendy Tronrud pointing my camera at the thick white surface of the water for about an hour). Later Carla would put these images through her own singular process before creating the final composition. For some time I thought that Carla had added birds into the left hand side of the image until one day when I looked through the original snaps discovering that what I saw as birds in the poster was actually leaves suspended in the ice covered lake.

Eboy on MTV.com

Eboy created several siminal 8 bit animated logos, as well as cool web games for the MTV site back in the 1990's when it was called MTV Online. This a was nice feather in my cap because Eboy wasn't yet a international hit--I'm very happy that I got a chance to get them on MTV's web site. Thanks Eboys!