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Pompeii: AD 79, in the shadow of the volcano Vesuvius.
In this third image in my Nothing is Real but the Girl series, model and singer Lisbeth Boada Phelps poses on a set designed to evoke the Lares Shrine at the House of the Vettii in Pompeii -- the same Lares Shrine mentioned in the Siouxie and the Banshees song, Cities in Dust.
digg.com ran a feature tonight called If David Lynch directed Dirty Dancing... which (I was surprised to see) began with a :05 animation of a logo for Vestron Pictures that I worked on back in the 80's.
I thought I had a clipping from a trade magazine called Computer Pictures, so for fun I dug it up.
We ran that thing on a Cray supercomputer - and, yes, that's the originator of the Perlin Noise Function as one of the TD's.
UPDATE 7/27/2009
...and interestingly, given the recent resurgence in interest in TRON, Jan Carlee, Christine Chang, Ken Perlin and Josh Pines (not mentioned above, but should have been) were all on the original TRON cg animation crew at MAGI
The Harmonious Art of Eric Dandurand by Natasha Dalton. Glassblowing photo by Joseph Francis issuu.com/journalplus/docs/may_09_journal_plus_web
While driving home to LA from a New Year's in San Francisco, we passed through the tiny town of Harmony, CA (pop 18) where I happened to photograph master glass artist Eric Dandurand. That photo was recently published in Journal Plus, Magazine of the Central Coast, May 2009, p 12
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Liquid metal morphing and dinosaurs for Philips CD-i discs in this 3 spot campaign. What more could you want?
I notice The advertising industry's Clio Awards are turning 50 this year. Time flies.
I was a Clio Awards judge back in my 20's. At that time The Clio Awards were, shall we say... not uneventful
Nice to see they bounced back. :D
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UPDATE 4/24/2009
I've been going through old hard drives and uploading to this Flickr set anything that seems worthwhile.
"You never know what you gonna get..."
Here's an animation I designed for a logo I was provided by the client. This ran at IMAX resolution at the head of the concert film All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live! (2001)
