We were elated to get a bag of coffee in the mail from Bedfellows Roasting Company this week.
The company’s founder Marc Beauregard, now living in San Francisco, is a long time friend of Oniracom, soulful singer/songwriter, surfer and all-around cool guy.
On Tuesday, October 14, I took a trip down to Carpinteria Family School to do some abstract watercolor painting with the students there.
Here’s a little photo documentary of our fun. Thanks Angela White for the invitation!
Some might think it’s rude to doodle during meetings, but studies suggest that it improves focus and memory. In an effort to promote doodling as a constructive activity in the work place, I’m presenting the first in a series of Oniracom Staff Meeting Doodles.
Feel free to link to some of your doodles in the comments section!
Here are a handful of great documentaries that I’ve found inspiring in one way or another. I love watching artists work. I love watching the focus, the intensity and all the small decisions that go into finishing a work of art or a completed designed object. This all probably started with watching Bob Ross as a kid (Someone please make a Bob Ross documentary!)
I hope you find some of these interesting and inspiring. Please share your favorites in the comment section.
• Beautiful Losers
• Helvetica
• Objectified
• The Cool School
• Crumb
• Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
• Art: 21 - Art in the 21st Century
• Rivers and Tides
• Style Wars
Permalink Post CommentI’m lucky enough to have some great friends who live in Maui. I would honestly hitchhike to Missouri to visit these people, but they’ve made it extra easy on me by living in an amazing tropical beauty-scape.
While I love the beach, I’m not really designed for it. I burn easily and am attracted to shade. I work in a low-light room doing web layouts all day and am statistically more likely to be inspired by an artist’s rendering of a beach than by the beach itself… Eventhough my desk is about two blocks from the Pacific Ocean. Oh - and I’m ok with that.
So it is with this self acceptance that on my vacation I journeyed inland from the beaches of Maui and looked for the expressions and visual tokens of people who need to build a life and career first and hit the beach second… or third.
Click here to see the full slide show.
(It’s a Flash slideshow… sorry iPhones).
On a technical note, these photos are shot on Fuji Provia iso100 color reversal film processed in C-41 chemicals. See “cross processed” or the slang “x-pro”. I have some digital photos as well which I’ll post in a separate slide show.
Aloha.
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Thomas Campbell makes “stuff”. That’s the short description. But if you take a look at his body of visual work, you’ll see that the word is appropriately broad. Film, paint, photography and typography are just a few things he’s impossibly talented at.
If you’ve been following Jack Johnson’s career as a musician and as a film maker, then you’ve seen Campbell’s work. Check out the beautiful handwritten “Jack Johnson” font and macro photography on www.jackjohnsonmusic.com as well as the artwork featured on his surf films “The Seedling”, “Sprout” and “The Present” (all on Jack’s Woodshed Films). Campbell has brought a bold, timeless and fluid graphic touch to each project.
Campbell introduces himself on his web site’s bio:
“Well, I am not a huge fan of using words to describe art and every time I am asked to write an artist statement my gut instinct is just to say “Um, I make stuff”. And in reality, that is what I do. I am a creative person by nature and by trial and error - and I just enjoy adapting to different creative scenarios and moving with them.” Check out the entire interview on Campbell’s web site.
Also, Brushfire Records just released the soundtrack to his film The Present which you can pick up here.
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