Noah Olmsted and I have been collaborating for more than five years on our photography series Love Always. This is the latest.
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Drums of Death
Drums of Death was supposed to be a vector animation music video the the Chuck D and DJ Spooky collaboration B Side Wins Again. It was the first paid project Noah Olmsted and I took on after graduating from Columbia. Our ambitions were impossibly high, and our project management skills non-existent. In the end we came out with some pretty interesting work, but we could never quite finish the video in a way that lived up to our expectations. Eventually the project died, and not surprisingly, no one was happy with us.
Pegasus
Searching for something in my email I came across this amazing drawing done by Noah Olmsted, my partner in XV. If I remember correctly, this was made back when we were in studio with Jeff Kipnis and Greg Lynn at Columbia.
New More Love Always
Noah Olmsted and I have started back up on our collaboration Love Always.
Chicken Twin
Here is a rough draft of a triptych I'm working on with Noah Olmsted.
Chicken Twin Detail
Some details from our new XV drawing, Chicken Twin
Disney vs Dubai
More in our Love Always series...
New, More Love Always
Noah Olmsted and I have been doing a bit refinement while adding a lot of new work to our Love Always project.
Love Always
Love Always is a new and in progress project from XV that documents life in Los Angeles and New York through mood based photography.
Early XV
Here's another discovery made while searching through my hard drive… This is some of the earliest work Noah Olmsted and I did as XV. It was kind of a technique / mood driven research project / art piece. It has its moments.
Fluffy
This animation is proof that I have a problem with doing the work that I’m actually supposed to be doing, Looking for some unrelated files on an old drive, I stumbled onto these images from the first XV animation. Originally tests for a larger project, they are re-edited here into a short flash loop.
XV Fall Collection
This is the first of the work Noah Olmsted and I are putting together for the XV Fall 2007 Collection.
XVOP.com
I’ve just launched a new, ultra simple website for XV, the art production agency I run with Noah Olmsted of Imaginary Forces.
B Side o2
The project that Noah Olmstead and I are doing for the DJ Spooky + Chuck D collaboration, is a disaster. Our first attempt was painfully complicated, so we came up with a new strategy that is somehow even more of a nightmare. We are mostly doing experiments in video production, but if I ever hear the song again my brain will fall out.
This image is the jumping off point for our new technique which promises to be infinitely complicated, as the entire five minute video will be animated frame by frame with vector graphics.
Exo-Skeleton Detail
Infinite Loop
This animation shows an infinite loop we designed at XV as a potential environment for our Chuck D / DJ Spooky video.
B Side Wins Again
Noah Olmsted and I were asked to make an animated music video for the DJ Spooky and Chuck D collaboration B Side Wins Again. We’re basing it on our own idea of the apocalypse, so it will be mostly furry meat controlled robots in a modified Kubrick donut spaceship prison and sunsets. This is our first stab at designing the robotic exo-skeleton. The cradle is where the furry meat will reside. This is our first project out of school and the complexity is growing exponentially in relation to our ambitions.