Ultra Miami

Am I ready for this?
I'm not too sure, I have no idea what to expect. Regardless, I'm insanely excited as I have never been to Miami and Drew and I decided to stay a couple of extra days to enjoy the pleasures of South Beach.
Oh, and did I mention in insanely good lineup? Coachella, what?

Epic Pet Wars!

So here's a project i've been involved in recently. Drew and Amit, of Miraphonic Inc., made a web/facebook/iphone game called Epic Pet Wars. You raise a pet and gather items and experience points to make yours the baddest pet in the social-network-o-sphere. I designed the pets and all the items and custom backgrounds. The best part? You can battle your friends' tricked out pets too.
Here's a link to play on facebook and a link to play on the web. iPhone version to launch SOON! enjoy and come join my posse and battle me on facebook, I dare you! :) My pet's name is MICHM_SMASH.

i can't deny THE WATCHMEN buzz...

so much buzz around the watchmen, and why not? you take probably one of the best graphic novels of all time and combine it with today's special fx, and you've got a pretty surefire recipe for epicness.
there is much more spotlight due to alan moore than the already bright one he's got on him. if you've never heard of the watchmen before the slew of publicity for the movie hit, then odds are you have no idea that The Watchmen is the only graphic novel to have ever won the Hugo Award.
but yes, take one look at this guy. you KNOW he writes good fucking stories.

io9 has also provided a great list of other that one should read (some of these have already been made into movies, which, moore apparently hates).
all in all, this guy is a fucking genius. i hold The Watchmen very dearly to my heart... we'll just see if the film measure's up an already perfect thing.

FINALLY!

seriously, after they cancelled arrested development, i couldn't stop thinking about it and being sad. but it looks optimistic for the arrested development movie according to killer film. it's about damn time. i've missed you mrs. featherbottom.

since uber died...

i used to have all my own artwork on uber but since uber is long gone, i'm transferring some my artwork onto this blog. hope you like it. more to come.

this was a project i did for my senior solo exhibition. they choose 1 senior every year and award them $500 for exhibition materials and give them a whole gallery room to show. i worked my ass off to get it and here was the end result.
i was working with the mythology of isis and how it related back to me in a very 'joseph campbell' kind of way. that led to thesophy which led to metaphysics, which led to, gee, trying to figure out the inner and outer workings of what makes every single thing tick. you can read the press written by two artists, douglas green and jason keller, here.

materials include: plexiglas, wood, fan, bovine heart in formaldahyde, scale, live emperor scorpions, black light, wood chips, plasma ball, various forms of light, alarm clocks, emergency blanket, ibprofen, drinking birds, spiderman robot, physics book, glow lights, concrete and aggregate, rubix cube, streamers, and ice.



"Universal Apparatus: The Mechanism to Travel Through the Universe on the Back of Isis", 2008


"Univerasl Apparatus: The Mechanism to Travel Through the Universe on the Back of Isis (KEY)", 2008


show flyer

here is a piece i did a few months prior to the senior show:

"Cowboys Don't Eat Caviar", 2007
materials include: plexiglas, wood, electric kettle, taxidermied coyote head, live rabbit.

if anyone has any questions about these or want to discuss, feel free.
enjoy.