My Movie Campfire Will Be On Display As Part Of The Cooper Building Video Wall In Downtown L.A.

A couple of months ago, I was approached by Nina Liwag of Flux.net to have my movie ‘Campfire’ be a part of an art instillation in the Cooper Building in downtown Los Angeles. The launch of the Cooper building’s video wall is tomorrow. I just received my invitation…

The Cooper Video Wall features the work of over 30 filmmakers, photographers and designers from around the world. The programming, curated by Flux, includes an eclectic and unpredictable mix of visual treats from around the globe. Among the many artists whose work is featured alongside mine are Koichiro Tsujikawa, Michel Gondry, Kosai Sekine, Shepard Fairey, Sage Vaughn, and Syd Garon. Photographers whose work is featured include Margo Silver, Kiino Villand/Mindbomb Films, Jessica Miller, Marla Aufmuth, Mariana Sabido, Carlo Van de Roer and Elkie Vanstiphout.

I’m so honored and inspired to be featured along side such amazing talented artists!

The Cooper Video Wall will be open to the public weekdays 9AM to 6:30PM.

Cooper Design Space
860 South Los Angeles St. (at 9th St.)
Downtown Los Angeles, California

This movie was also on exhibit earlier this year as part of a video art installation at the Gasteig Cultural Museum in Munich Germany [Dec. 2008 – Feb. 2009].

Next month, it will be on exhibit as well at ZooArt in Cuneo Italy [July 9th – 12th, 2009].

If you haven’t already seen my movie ‘Campfire’ before, here’s a link to it on. Other than the motion graphics work at the beginning and end of the movie, the entire movie is made of over a thousand still images taken with my Canon 5D.

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(Digital Painting and Photography: Canon 5D, Photoshop CS4, and Corel Painter)

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You Can’t Take It With You

I always imagine the worst. The other day I was driving on the highway in the car pool lane with Mary. The center divider was whizzing by. I imagined the car flipping. The accident had killed us both. It’s not like I make an effort to go there. It just seems sometimes to be where my mind wanders. I run through these scenarios to their horrible ultimate conclusion.

At work, I spend hours on the phone cataloging the hardships of strangers. The woman who’s mother died has been left with a house in foreclosure. A husbands wife was hospitalized with a mental disorder after she went on a two week spending spree. He’s now over $60,000 in debt. Meanwhile, I’ve got my rent check. I’ve got Mary. I tell myself I’m lucky.

I just finished reading Joan Didion’s book ‘The White Album.’ In it she writes this fragment…

“Quite often during the past several years I have felt myself a sleepwalker, moving through the world unconscious of the moment’s high issues, oblivious to its data, alert only to the stuff of bad dreams…”

Didion starts the book by saying, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Only, she’s writing about a period of time where she ‘began to doubt the premises of all the stories’ she had ever told herself. I’m not there yet. I still cling to the narrative that I impose on the disjointed and incongruous events of my workday, as well as to the images of my bad dreams. I end up writing the moral. I tell myself a story in order to live. I tell myself I am lucky.

(Photography and digital painting in Photoshop)

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