May your night be sleepless. May food rot in your mouth. May you die of embarrassing diseases, forgetting all your addresses, attracting the laughter of gawking strangers as you starve in the gutter, defecating in your pants. And may your shame outlive you.

Harsh but beautifully written final paragraph of a letter to Countrywide Financial, by Michael Cook, Managing Editor of The White Rabbit Quarterly.

I wonder how many opinions the world can hold. A billion? A trillion? Well, we’ve just added four. But look, the drawing stays the same.

Said the character of Einstein to other characters in the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin.

My congenital laziness is equaled only by my fierce ambition.

David Carradine said that.

Proust In the Belly of a Giant Mite

This is my favorite of all the paintings and drawings I’ve made. The story behind it is simple: years ago, I bought Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, which is considered a master piece. I tried to read it but I found it boring so, instead of finishing the book, I worked on this collage. Anyway, thank you Marcel Proust for the inspiration.

Mixed Technique on Paper

Three Dee Doodling

I’m in my mid 30′s and I confess that I enjoy playing with children toys, specially with building and construction sets. I don’t own many of these sets, however, once in a while I come across one I must have. That happened to me at the Seattle Art Museum Store, where  I bought my  ShapeScapes (I’ve carried it with me to parties and to the beach. It even visited a daycare center).

Because it has been two years since I purchased them and I still open the box often to build something, I decided to celebrate this great toy by making a series of short videos called “Three Dee Doodling” where I’ll be documenting my play with ShapeScapes. Here’s the first video. Enjoy.

Nebula: Dream of the Egg

Reading Vancouver based Inform Interiors‘ blog, I learned about a video competition organized by Bocci (contemporary design company). Filmmakers were invited to submit a video on “the making of” a fried egg. I thought this was a fun exercise and I sent my entry, which didn’t win but hey! it came in 2nd place.

The video is 30 seconds long and, as the title suggests, it tells the intimate story of an egg and its voyage to “become”.

Watch it here:

There are a million ways to film the frying of an egg, my intention was to show the beauty of the process and how form speaks loudly about the spirit of an object (or being).

This was a very small production where I functioned as a conceptualizer, camera operator and editor. Props to Candice Mackinnon for being a great P.A.

Music is by Philip Glass, Etude No. 2 (fragment), and the images come from Nasa Astronomy Picture of the Day website. I hope they don’t mind being part of the dream of an egg.

I love a fancy breakfast

Sometimes it’s difficult to leave bed and dress up all nice just to go out for breakfast (especially in a city where they stop serving breakfast at noon). Still, I want a beautiful and delicious breakfast. What to do then? Well, get the eggs to the steamer.

Rouxbe introduced me to this new (to me) way to cook eggs. It’s not just very easy, but quick and fancy dancy. I mean, just look at this picture:

Steamed Eggs with sausage, basil and tomato sauce.

After the lesson was published, I made this video using the footage from the lesson. It’s basically a lesson give away, just fast paced. Take a look and next time when you want good home made breakfast, make some yummy steamed eggs. Click here or on the image to watch the 40 sec. video.

The conflicted mind of color in the twodimensional city.

By the end of November 2011, I finished 2 more watercolors for the on going City Battle series. Let me introduce you to

“Giants Talk”

Watercolor 23" x 30"

and

“Solar Warrior prepares for the Rain”

Watercolor 23" x 30"

(Both of these artworks were already sold).

And more to come, soon.

City Battle watercolor series in progress…

2010 Fall witnessed the start of a new watercolor series: City Battles. Here, I’m presenting two pieces from the series.

“War Arrival”

Watercolor 23" x 30"

and

“Negotiation”

Watercolor 23" x 30"

 

Gone with the Worldcup

Here is the result of drawing while watching the final games of the worldcup.

Nagging

Celestes on the field

The Final