Monthly Archives: November 2009

Robin Meets Cafepress…

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So the past couple of days I’ve had a bit of time on my hands.  Waiting to hear back from clients and rendering times have been hitting a bit hard.  Because it’s still a work day, I can’t just skip off and take pictures.  So I decided to set up a cafepress shop (called The Emporium Of Purchased Gratification) to play around in.  It’s one part joke one part learning the wonders of adobe illustrator.  I’ve created a couple of designs so far and it’s pretty fun!

Link: http://www.cafepress.com/TEOPG

And here is my latest design, available in black t-shirts:

Crush Luther Promo Video

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Back in what seems like ages ago I was asked to come down to the studio where the band Crush Luther were recording their latest album and do a short promo which presented some songs from said latest album and the band’s dynamic.  It was a fun day and they were great guys.  They gave me some footage they had shot themselves the previous day and I spent a day or two combining our footage to make this nifty little video.  I was given a visual reference…I forget what it was at the moment, but it turned out well!  unfortunately, this was only used for a very limited time because soon after I gave them the final product one of the members had left.  But in the interest of my demo reel and for you all to have a glimpse of just what the hell I do when I talk about the odd bit of video work, here’s Crush Luther’s promo video.

VILLAINY LOVES YOU – WINNERS!!!

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After it’s deadline of Oct. 31st, it was rough getting the panel of judges together to do this thing.  Everyone got sick, unemployed or employed.  But myself and the two other mystery judges finally got together, looked at the entries and came to a decision.  First off I want to give a HUGE thank you to all the people who entered this contest.  You all came up with some amazing ideas for this and it made us all laugh.

And as for the winner:  We…actually have a tie.  Kind of unorthodox, but there you have it.  Are winners are JACK COWDER for his Skeletor portrait and LAUREN COTTRELL for her posed Ursula portrait.

Congratulations to the winners!  You will both get a prize pack!

And stay tuned throughout the week where I’ll be featuring the other amazing entries in this contest!

Playing Catch Up

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Wow, it’s been an exhausting couple of weeks.

For the past little while I’ve been working on filming and editing two skits for the special features of comedian Trevor Boris‘ DVD of his stand up show in Vancouver.  It was very exciting to work in a totally different way than I’m used to and I think in the end we made some pretty damn good videos.  The one I’m really fond of is a kind of Office-style mockumentary of a day in the life of Trevor and his work on MuchMusic Video On Trial.  While editing it I was found myself laughing out loud and thus getting some stern glares from the other editors working on their stuff.  I should say right now, huge mega-thanks to Henry Less Productions, my former employers, who were all too willing to let me use one of their editing suites and thus saving me a panic attack.  It was good to see everyone, if only for a brief time (things were pretty damn busy there).  I just transferred it all on to a tape and aside from shipping off the drive and dropping off the camera, I’m done!

So my next job for this week is country musician Diane Chase.  I filmed her CD Launch party early last month and have now been given the OK to go and edit it for possible air on CMT, which will be fun.  I’m also going to look around for my nikon’s charger and start taking some more photos.  Things have just been ridiculous with keeping up with that.

I’ve been asked to speak at a panel on “getting noticed” at some emerging country music artist meeting…thing later on in the month talking about social media.  I’m going to look in to it a bit more, but I think I’m going to do it.  While I’m waiting for that, I’ve decided that I’m going to write a 2-3 page paper on musicians and getting noticed.  Working title is SOCIAL MEDIA: UR DOING IT WRONG.  Of course, when I’m done it will be posted on here for all to see.  And I’ve also been pointed to Kirsty Hall’s blog which is proving to be a DAMN interesting read on the subject.

Also, comic writer Kevin Glover gave me a sample script of his upcoming comic with Amanda Hayes titled The Invisible Skein.  I haven’t finished reading it yet and I can’t give anything away, but I will say this now:  This is reading so damn good and I look forward to it’s release on December 14th.  Anyways, you’ll read more about it on here I’m sure.

And in a more personal kind of note, my 25th birthday is approaching on the 4th of December.  It’s kind of weird… I FEEL like I should be a grown up, but when asked if I wanted anything for my birthday the response was (almost immediately) a Nintendo DS.  There was a little cardigan-wearing grown up in my head saying “NO.  YOU MUST ASK FOR ANY SEASONS OF LAW AND ORDER.  YOU’RE A GROWNUP NOW”.  But still, a quarter of a century…christ.  (And alright you old codgers, feel free to comment with mockery)

Anyways, I should probably eat something before I head out.  My stomach is screaming like some kind of horrible creature that people normally put in basements and feed door to door salesmen to…

Kardak The Mystic

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Kardak The Mystic, originally uploaded by Andre Navarro.

And his gallery of villains: the Mocha Men, the Brahmins, the Great Rexa, the Transparent People, the Beast-Men, the Ice People, and Kid Boppo.

For the Remake/Remodel thread on the Whitechapel forums.
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I’ve had the great pleasure of watching Andre Navarro evolve his art style throughout…however long I’ve known him. I don’t know why, but this drawing is really sticking out for me. I’m absolutely adoring his work.