Modomatic

                   

Photos edited with online tools from photoshop.com. Originally from Americana Set on my Flickr account.

30 Second NYC Diary : King Curtis Morning from moriza on Vimeo.

30 Second NYC Diary : Kambi Ramen Night from moriza on Vimeo.

We all have our "few likes" to be associated with our "like to have them" at certain time of the day. I like my coffee in the morning and noodles at night, though some might beg to differ.

They party, pose, run around naked and just plain happy.
A new project documenting toy cars as they play roles in my older son's imagination. Then, how soon they will be passed to his younger brother.

           

Painting I did when I was still in school.
Original is now in care of a friend somewhere in Indonesia.
This is a scan of an old slide, therefore the dirt. :(

I still carry my color sensibility untill now, couldn't tone it down, even if I tried to...

This new set of picture are part of a larger set I am putting together using the collages tool on Picasa.  Picasa's powerful image browser helped uncover and brought to surface and attention larger selection from my photo libraries.

         

Started a new project, producing video diary of 30 seconds length. I found this less ambitious video format easier to crank out. Editing 30 second clips is affordable, selecting soundtrack much less challenging and no long wait for rendering. I'd started with building the 30 seconds with 6 second chunks on the earlier piece, then evolved to 2 second chunks just to make it a bit more challenging. I do not use transition or any effects, and keep the title rolls to 6 seconds.

The clips are here: http://vimeo.com/album/136248

Taken on the many occasions I found my self staring at these vinyls through the display glass in a Japanese novelties store. I have no desire to buy and collect them, but to detailedly capture them in pictures.

                     

Modomatic enjoys walking with camera.
SoHo, NYC

Rejuvenating old painting with new treatment. I started to do this a lot  during a transitional period in my art creation. I am occasionally going looking for a new inspiration within. A creative way of describing a lazy period.

This unique collaboration work connects New York, London and Hongkong  through a robot named Yewco. The project started with a sketchbook of robot drawings, a mock contest of 100 robot designs. Scanned and posted on Flickr, I invited my contacts to name and claim the robots. Each claimed robot design then rendered, printed, signed and shipped to the rightful owner. Yewko Kootnicoff of Hongkong claimed robot #30 and named it Yewco. She got her print and posted a photo of it. Rob James, an artis living in London, takes a challenge I threw out to model #30 in 3D. Weeks later both Yewco and I received prints of the rendered Yewco the Robot. Such a wonderful projetc, robot #30 or Yewco has connected me with new friends and collaborators.