A collection of fun stuff I’ve made over the years in no particular order, context or organizing principle. Because order, context and organizing principles tend to suck the fun out of things sometimes.
BREAKING: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, but the dog who wasn’t so lazy after all stuck its paw out and we hope you learned your lesson, fox.
BREAKING: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, but the dog who wasn’t so lazy after all stuck its paw out and we hope you learned your lesson, fox.
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project: bidenciaga
If Balenciaga can take the Bernie logo, put it on a hat and charge four-hundred bucks for it, I can take their logo, put it on a Biden hat and charge my friends zero bucks for it in exchange for generous campaign donations to democratic candidates.
BREAKING: I hate to break it to you but they stopped serving breakfast in the lobby half an hour ago.
BREAKING: You can still get coffee in the break room.
BREAKING: I hate to break it to you but they stopped serving breakfast in the lobby half an hour ago. BREAKING: You can still get coffee in the break room.
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project: liquid distortion
One time when I was working on a Nike project, there were these super cool looking Nike cleats from a shoot sitting around. One late night while waiting for something to render I was curious what would happen if I scanned the shoes while moving them around as the scanner did its thing. Here’s the result.
BREAKING: The news ticker's gone wobbly. I repeat the news ticker is all wobbly. Please contact Barry with the Dept of Chyron Maintenance, EXT. 2117.
BREAKING: The news ticker's gone wobbly. I repeat the news ticker is all wobbly. Please contact Barry with the Dept of Chyron Maintenance, EXT. 2117.
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project: modern lisa
If you’ve ever been to the Louvre (quaint little museum in Paris) you’ve probably tried to see the Mona Lisa in person, only to realize that between you and the archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance were dozens of other people like you. All of them trying to take a smartphone photo of the thing you can easily find images of on the internet. Gee, if only these people would get out of the way for you to take the perfect photo of it with your smartphone.
But I digress.
My point is, wouldn’t it be cool if we redesigned the Mona Lisa for the modern times? One designed to be seen from afar. The closer you get, the less you see. I call her “Modern Lisa.”
BRAKING: Grammar isn’t my strong suit.
BRAKING: Grammar isn’t my strong suit.
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project: the like page
A few years ago, when the facebook “like” button was the thing to click on the internet, I decided to create typography out of the button. So I made a website called “the like page” hosting a big-ass “LIKE” made from 169 “like” buttons you could actually click and like. And if that’s not meta to the bone, I don’t know what is.
BREAKING: Ugh, the carpool lane is going so much faster.
BREAKING: Ugh, the carpool lane is going so much faster.
BREAKING: Yay, the carpool lane is going so much faster!
BREAKING: Yay, the carpool lane is going so much faster!
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project: underground chaos
Have you ever wondered what the Subway maps of New York, Tokyo, Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro and Paris would look like superimposed? Of course you have. Duh.
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project: karaoke bot
Can robots sing? Think about it. Sure, you can make a machine play music but can you make it sing? From the heart? Singing takes sensibility. Can machines feel anything?
Anyway. I made this thing a few years back. I called it “karaoke bot”.
BREAKING: Uh-oh we're going backwards.
BREAKING: Uh-oh we're going backwards.
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project: alphabet of icons
This is something I started some years ago. An alphabet of the people I admire. I’m yet to complete it. But I like the look of it.
BREAKING: Legs, records, bread, glass, serves, streaks. It's all breaking today.
BREAKING: Legs, records, bread, glass, serves, streaks. It's all breaking today.
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project: infinitinfinitinfinitinfiniti
Here’s an idea that inexplicably never got made. A few years ago, Infiniti had a problem: brand recall wasn’t where they needed it to be. Meanwhile, we had all this great footage of Steph Curry driving the QX50, shot by Mark Romanek.
Now, if you’re like me, you’re thinking wait a minute here. The car is called Infiniti. What if, we made a 24-hour-long film, in which Steph Curry drives an Infiniti around the block over and over – while listening to a song that says the word “Infiniti” over and over? Here’s the prototype. It somehow never got greenlit.
BREAKING: Slow day out there. Nothing to report.
BREAKING: Slow day out there. Nothing to report.
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project: the most awesome things in the world
Back when I lived in London, I got invited to do a gallery takeover at the 55DSL Boxpark store in Shoreditch. So I made a series of posters called “The Most Awesome Things In the World” depicting exactly what the title says. Each subject was picked according to the cultural status quo. You know, those things in pop-culture that never seem to fall out of the vernacular. Irony very much intended.
And here’s the projection that played on the back wall of the gallery with totally unlicensed footage.
BREAKING: Slower traffic keep right.
BREAKING: Slower traffic keep right.
BREAKING: Left lane ends ahead.
BREAKING: Left lane ends ahead.
BREAKING: Do not pass.
BREAKING: Do not pass.
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project: humangraphics
Remember when infographics were super hip? I jumped on that obsessively designed bandwagon and took a stab at creating infographics that took the shape of the subject represented by the data while still conveying the information.
BREAKING: Man breaks leg in attempt to break breakdancing down.
BREAKING: Man breaks leg in attempt to break breakdancing down.
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project: earth films
I’ve always been obsessed with blurring the lines between reality and fiction. Google Maps is a perfect canvas for that kind of stuff. So I started hiding film scenes in Google Earth, placed exactly where each movie was set. The series is an ongoing project.
BREAKING: None of the news tickers on this website are real. We apologize for the confusion.
BREAKING: None of the news tickers on this website are real. We apologize for the confusion.
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project: found cars