Paper Orbit

Steven Grisé Collateral Damage

2011-03-15T18:36:00.009-04:00

TThe video artist I've been working with, Steven Grisé is going to SXSW to do visuals for some great bands like Streight Angular and DOM. He asked me to produce some material for him. I made these cassette cases and think they look pretty sweet. The artist uses a lot of analog technology to mix and master the VHS tapes so I decided to match him and use only spray paint, ink, adhesive, and varnish to finish the cases. To see his work and ask him about how the festival went visit his site here

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Location:Studio

splash!

2011-03-11T19:39:00.005-05:00

Here's the splash page I just put up for video artist and filmmaker Steven Grisé. This links to his Vimeo and will later link to his whole website. I made it by chopping up and collaging two of his stills from his live analog video pieces.

Pen Pals

2011-03-10T14:07:00.002-05:00

Finishing up some presents to send out to my new pen pals. If you like trading art send me your address and let's trade! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:Studio

2011-03-08T01:44:00.001-05:00

My first blog post via my phone! A great day indeed. I spent it with Steve making art and I made this^ This great band will be doing the party circuit at SXSW soon so they asked me to create some promotional material. A few more versions to come while I riff on this theme but this one is the favorite.

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Business time

2011-03-06T23:39:00.003-05:00

Finished a business card for my good friend Steven Grisé. He's a Boston based video artist and VJ. After a day of brainstorming we desided on something classy and professional. The back of the card scans to reveal a secret message (big view to see all the colors knocked out). The final product features the inclusion of new media and technology without seeming complex or technical.

Finally Gocco

2011-02-28T16:19:00.010-05:00

Hello! Good things to share. The goodest of them being that the second Gocco machine I ordered has arrived! The first never made it but it was all for the better since I scored a better deal for the second one off eBay. I immediately made these wolf card prints. I used spray paint and silk screen to make them and I'm selling the signed and numbered edition of 15 for the special introductory rate of $5 each. I also painted the grill of my bass amp. Ten points to the first person to guess what album cover it is. Bargain bin win: a 3' x 4' framed particle board with rounded corners for four dollars and 4 mini DV tapes for TWO DOLLARS!!! Thank you Boomerangs for never letting me down.

To buy your prints use the form below and remember!

These CARDS are printed on 100lb stock with 100% post consumer content
They'll come with an envelope if you care to send one as a gift
The envelope also has 100% post consumer content
If you're buying for re-sale I'll include a clear Eco-sleeve that's biodegradable and compostable
The signed and numbered edition is only 15 large so they'll go quickly

deeesign

2011-02-09T15:39:00.004-05:00

working on a gig poster for a great band called Streight Angular. almost done, just waiting on some info and stuff **SHOW'S BEEN CANCELED**. i'm also waiting for a print gocco i bought on ebay to be delivered so i can start making some greeting cards. I bought card stock made with 100% post consumer recycled content and clear sleeved made of cellulose that's compostable and biodegradable. these mini fliers will get slipped into each package.

Vampz

2011-02-02T17:47:00.001-05:00

i'm thinking about doing a zine/comic about a sorority of horror characters. and maybe a calender as well. here's a sweet vampire lady.

SKETCHESSSS

2011-01-16T10:57:00.012-05:00

found a ton of sketches. some new some old. all i find intriguing.
from top to bottom:
a redraw of a sketch for an article about a feral girl
a friend
a lamp in a bar
things on the table in the same bar
a glass of pudding from a dream
a copy of a tattoo that i saw once
view from a window at parsons
a creature
Jessica
an impossibly sad man i saw on the subway one day
tiny fox nuts

halloween

2010-11-16T06:55:00.004-05:00

I MADE SOME THINGS ON HALLOWEEN AND HERE THEY ARE. I FOUND THIS PAPER CUTOUT OF A PUMPKIN AT WORK AND WENT TOTALLY ILL ON IT. LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!! AND THIS IS A DIA DE LOS MUERTOS CALACA MASK I PAINTED ONTO A STORE BOUGHT WHITE MASK. BOOYAH.

YOU BREAK IT YOU BUY IT

2010-10-08T21:01:00.005-04:00

POSTER FOR A SILENT AUCTION FUNDRAISER MY PLACE OF WORK IS HAVING. MOST OF THE TYPE IS SET. SOME WORK TO DOOOOOO STILL THOUGH. HERE'S FIRST ITERATION, THE FINAL, AND A PRINTOUT ON A BULLETIN BOARD. CLASSY.

vialvialvial

2010-09-22T22:40:00.002-04:00

compelled to make this for no reason

gf flew over the plant

2010-09-22T19:56:00.005-04:00

some stuff i've been working on. the top one is a character from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. the middle one is my lady sleeping. the third is a house plant.

dogs

2010-09-05T11:08:00.002-04:00

some dogs i've drawn in my sketchbooks

ozzzzzzzzzzzzzy

2010-06-28T19:18:00.003-04:00

tooo liittttlle timee-working on a poster for my place of work's show

cycle-ops

2010-04-27T22:07:00.003-04:00

I've been too busy looking at bicycles online to post anything. i really want a new bike. I may convert my 70's Windsor to a fixed gear. that could be satisfying. I'm working on a poster for a small performance of the Wizard of Oz the company I work for is doing, also the business cards I designed for Jessica Keefe came in and they look super - more on that later. For now here's a photo of one of my shelves.

quiet tree

2010-04-14T21:43:00.004-04:00

i like this tree. i go biking a lot and i pass this tree which is by some other cool stuff i want to be around more often.

corkboards galore

2010-03-22T20:21:00.002-04:00

a friend of mine told me about a pair of "lost" posters she saw. people can be sooooo creative i love it

maki madness

2010-03-21T23:43:00.004-04:00

a sushi place near my place in jp hosts an event called "Maki Madness" every sunday. as long as you pay with cash they offer a long list of maki rolls for 4.50 each. the delivery charge becomes nominal if you're like me and order 389367 rolls at a time. test your skills and try to match the maki names to the crudely drawn morsels.

from the depths

2010-03-15T20:12:00.005-04:00

dug up an oooold unfinished project here. i was reading a book on pigeons (yup) and came across the factoid that Iron Mike Tyson raised homers when he was a kid and still holds them dear to his heart. i found this rather ironic along with i'm sure EVERY OTHER PERSON EVER.

also, don't you have days where it seems you drank a whole handle of this stuff?

i like painting

2010-03-10T19:37:00.003-05:00

stayed up late painting in my sketchbook last night. african wild dogs are noted for their instinctual practicing of socialized health care. after a successful hunt, food is brought back to the young, old, and ailing dogs. something to be learned here.

some drawings

2010-01-22T17:05:00.004-05:00

some drawings i made today of two of my clients at my day gig.

warming up

2010-01-21T22:28:00.002-05:00

after upgrading living situations as well as operating systems i've scoured the internets for all the drivers i need to do the things i like to do on my computer. i've been super busy making over my new apt in jamaica plain so illustrations rarely leave my sketchbooks these days. i think my phone hates me. here is a portrait to be later refined.

eat me

2009-09-21T19:10:00.005-04:00

sort of on hiatus while i get things sorted. currently on the bus to new york from boston - i designed this pattern as a color experiment (i'm color blind so i rarely spend time on color) and i think it would look great on dinner plates. maybe some blue duotone versions later to play on the blues on "fine" china.

Keeping My Hands Busy

2009-08-07T13:49:00.002-04:00

creativity BLOCKED! just keeping my hands busy with some teenage mutant ninja turtles intravenous action. the original idea was to have the contents be petroleum but that was too cliché........

TYPETYPETYPETYPE

2009-07-21T22:30:00.004-04:00

been working on what would be a complete display typeface if i had the time/knowledge to finish it all. i saw something similar to this on an advertisement a month ago and replicated it to suit my memory at first, then did some fine tuning so the set felt more cohesive.

Lucha Libre

2009-07-02T04:55:00.002-04:00

so this could be a logo for a team of texan luchadores. the mask is self explanatory. the snake is a coral snake, which, among other places, resides in Texas and is highly lethal.

small drawings

2009-06-16T18:35:00.008-04:00

went home to MA for the weekend and did a lot of drawing on the bus and stuff. here is some of it.

Business Card for the lovely Jessica Keefe

2009-06-11T11:51:00.001-04:00

you can find her work at
http://www.jessicainvitesyou.blogspot.com

complete

2009-05-29T15:07:00.000-04:00

playing with the atmosphere and adjusting some background compositional troubles did it

in progress

2009-05-29T00:25:00.002-04:00

so i heard about the 300 tigers that were lost in India this past week and i started this here

aaand you're sure you want it in the shot?

2009-05-27T03:59:00.006-04:00

so i read a story last week about this girl that inadvertently flashed her lady parts all over her high school year book. i guess wearing underwear to picture day at school isn't something most of of us have to think about. what made it worse is that her mother went on national television to talk about it. awesome.

logomotion

2009-05-26T17:19:00.002-04:00

this is my favorite logo sketch for a Massachusetts based theatre production company's apprenticeship program. it will be printed on the polos the apprentices wear during shows and rehearsals.

MMNY

2009-05-18T20:30:00.000-04:00

so here's my submission for a poster contest to design the Make Music New York 2009 official poster that will be part of a 50,000 copy distribution. sweet. wish me luck guys!

I'm going back - back, to cali - graphy

2009-05-01T18:28:00.001-04:00

painted on my apt door while listening to classical music today. art is fun. see.

Subway Drawing

2009-04-27T11:59:00.002-04:00

Spent some extended time on the subway last week and drew this. Which has seen some enlargement and will look mighty fine on a structure of some sort. I haven't drawn something this metal in a long time.

cool kid wallpaper

2009-04-24T02:41:00.003-04:00

ok, so if i had wallpaper i would want it to look something like this

eddie 8ball

2009-04-15T21:09:00.002-04:00

if i knew a guy named Eddie 8-Ball he would have this tattooed on either of his slightly hairy shoulders.

2009-03-10T12:24:00.000-04:00

a-fraud?

2009-03-06T18:08:00.001-05:00

aaaand here's what i came up with

2009-03-06T01:16:00.002-05:00

here's a quick color study for a piece about yankees slugger A-fraud's current dethroning . he's definitely dead to a lot of fans.

New Art

2009-02-25T15:47:00.002-05:00

Here's the mostly complete image for the justin timberlake article.

sketches

2009-02-23T12:11:00.003-05:00

i'm working on art for a cool article for a friend's upcoming web magazine. the story's about how justin timberlake's album took the electronic hip hop scene to the next level as well as helped to launch timberland's producing career. here's the sketch i'm hoping to finish up in a few days.

NEW WEBSITE!!!!!!

2009-02-08T21:55:00.002-05:00

NEWSITENEWSITENEWSITENEWSITENEWSITE!!!!!!

My new site is up go look at it!!!!!!!!1

www.emmanueltavares.com

works in progress

2009-01-27T10:42:00.008-05:00

as i prepare to move into a new apartment i've been thinking a lot about the gentrification of brooklyn and the similarities to the occupation and dissection of Africa by European powers in the late 19th century. what's happening now kind of seems like a diluted version of this, sort of a cold war...

2008-12-12T13:57:00.002-05:00

NEW SHIRT!!!!

it's a new shirt! i've had the image of two magpie's tearing apart a human heart in my head for a while so i put it on a shirt this morning in class. more to come!

where's waldo, jimi hendrix, and mythology

2008-11-16T20:01:00.005-05:00

this was an action packed weekend. i got a lot of sketching done and went to some cool events. i dressed up as jimi hendrix for a legends, myths, and folktales themed costume party and it was so much fun i might impersonate him more often. i also got the pleasure of playing wizard white beard in a real life game of where's waldo my friends organized. i wandered around washington square park casting spells on squirrels and stroller-bound infants while teams of two hunted myself and other where's waldo characters down. brilliant idea and it was a killer time. i also finished some studies for a new piece based on the lunar and solar cycles. the characters represent the sun and the moon and you'll see more of them soon.

American Illustration

2008-11-14T16:35:00.006-05:00

i went to the American Illustration kickoff to Illustration week party last night with some classmates to sell our new Poketo wallets. the artwork to be included in the next American Illustration book was up on the wall and it all looked great. there was some really inspirational work, Sam Weber failed to disappoint as usual and there seems to be a sweeping trend of bears and shaving in fine art/illustration coming about. so despite crumbling economies illustrators are still making great work. i'll have more updates on my current projects later but for now here's a look at one of the wallets poketo produced with my art on them.