Modomatic

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.

   

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Jasper Holding #15, #16 and #13, #14

Once upon a time I received a fresh Moleskine from a Flickr contact of mine, Calicojane. It was a very kind gesture of her. I promised to work on something new on the book. Its easy to decide to do something inspired by her. A little I know of Calicojane, but what I can get from her flickr stream, I know she is a lover of nature.

Always been fascinated by small structural/sculptural work, using materials from nature, I once dreamed of a sculpture series... build with sticks and stones, branches and twines... pieces of wood, leather strips and bones, and all the the good stuff. 

I called them Calico Sculptures. Let's hope someday I will have time and resources to actually build them. There are few more of this on my flickr stream

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If you are what you eat, What if you are what you do? Here you are.
I have been working on this book for a while, a design and illustration of people shaped by what they do.They are what they do, their task reshape their life, from the way the live to the way they become. The change happens slow of course, from the outfitting, physical modification from extending limbs to sensory enhancement to pure  and engineered mutation. These are some of the completed drawing, I have few more in rough sketches and many more still run loose and evolving in my dreams.

   

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There is a lot of cleaning in my attic studio recently, which uncovered work I haven't seen in a while. Here are four from a set of ten postcards I created in collaboration with my then five years old son. He used color pencils and pen, I used water color, pen and ink and acrylic transfer. We had lots of fun making these.

       

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Dug out of my old paper archives are set of three drawings from my Machine Rooms project. It was originally designed to be build as an interactive game, where player is trapped in a matrix of rooms filled with machines (some are bio-mechanically inspired). The idea is to simply tinker with these machines, to figure out what their purpose, each, and as a whole. I am picking up this project again, perhaps it would be just series of drawings.

     

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One of a series of 40 altered posters. Work done as collaboration work with my then 5yrs old son Jasper.  We painted on a Corbis giveaway promotion poster using range of medium from acrylic wall paint, poster colors, marker and color pencils.

     

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These are series of drawing from a new sketchbook about fantasy architecture. Like many designers I know, architecture in its many form has been a constant source of inspirations. This new sketchbook has 400 blank pages and I am looking forward to fill it with all source of wonderments from my eyes and my mind's eye.

             

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Moleskine Japanese accordion book
31 panels (each 9 x 14 cm (3½ x 5½"), including back of front cover.

Expiatory Sutra I is a collaboration between me and extrodinary artis friend of mine Venantius Pinto. We simultaneously each began working in a Japanese Accordion Moleskine, starting the thread–very much as in an exquisite corpse. An ideas formulated by Venantius, Expiatory Sutra I was begun by me then passed between us several times; it was an exploratory dynamic that we continue exploring with the second Sutra. We finished both books at the same time and had a dinner exchange. I am to keep Sutra I. Venantius, Sutra II. Completed work can be seen at Venantius' Flickr.

           

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This was a collaboration project on a small art book between me, an artist friend Aliza Augustine and my son Jasper. The work was based on series of Aliza's photographic scenes of a doll house she had constructed for the purpose. The scene were printed postcard size and bound as a book before given to me and Jasper to alter and paint on. The process of altering either start with jasper pen and color pencil work, them my painting, but it could also the other way around. Here are few pages from the book. I am planning to then scan each page in high-res to be altered again digitally.

         

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There were nothing much you can do or avoid to be impressed and inspired by Gaudi's as you stand a top La Pedreda. The guards all around you, the heat of the sun in the orange glow and beautiful blue sky. Below unheard but there, the spirit of the architect still tinkering in his attic studio. No escaping that once you walk by a moleskine store, you grap a couple of light one and to start drawing at the next cafe you can find the thickest hot chocolate.

         

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