Originally from Philadelphia, Damien Correll is an art director and artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly a member of the Rad Mountain collective, Damien is now a creative partner at the small design studio, Part & Parcel.
This week we begin shooting our first short-form documentary, so we are heading up to Portland, Maine with a small crew to kick this thing off.
I think they get it, but they rarely do it justice when they try and explain it to to others. One thing for sure is, they think whatever it is sounds “fun.”
I get Elijah Wood and Brett from Flight of The Conchords quite a bit, so I imagine somewhere in and around that part of the face spectrum.
I have thought about this at length before. As much as I love the ability to hear things, it’s a distant second to sight.
My father is a magician. And if that isn’t enough, when I was a kid I fancied myself as one as well. There are videos and stills to prove it.
It did, tremendously. But looking back I think it could have counted even more. Ultimately, I sort of went to school for the wrong thing so I spent a good deal of time trying to make the wrong curriculum work for me.
Definately
A Jiffy is actually a unit of time. It’s 1/100 of a second.
A lot, I think. The studio I co-run, Part & Parcel is finding its footing and we have a lot of great things coming down the pike. A number of video projects, which is exciting for me. I also finished a few prints and zines that should be seeing the light of day very soon.
I’m all in. No other real desirable skills. If I wasn’t making images or thinking, maybe I would try my hand at woodworking.
Shot in 1964 in his 1,100 square foot basement in Topanga, CA, Mandala was Gumby creator, Art Clokey’s most ambitious stop motion film. The short film’s abstract nature and spiritually-aware subtext were quite a departure from his work on Davey and Goliath. And I’m not sure the evolution of consciousness ever looked so good.
I have very recently become enamored by Barcelona-based artist, Sabine Finkenauer’s work. Bold shapes, rough abstraction and great color all things I love.
Found image blogs are a dime a dozen these days, some good, some bad. Most are void of context and are just “pretty things” to look at. Matthew Owen’s Simulacrum Beta is no different really, except all of his found photo fodder is available as desktop wallpapers.
Gunta Stolzl’s blankets were reason enough to go to the MOMA’s Bauhaus exhibit late last year. She was an artist, textile designer and the only woman among the faculty at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau.
The Internet knows very little about Swiss-born Bernard Voita. Trust me, I’ve looked. About a year ago I came across White Garden, a catalog of his graphic, high-contrast, black and white photography from the late-80’s to mid-90’s in a pile of discount art books and have been intrigued ever since.
