ARCHIVE April, 2010

American Gothic Project

February 28, 2009

With all due respect to Grant Wood and his iconic painting, American Gothic, we put together a number of variations on this theme for a Photoshop compositing project at the Art Institutes Int’l. Everybody in the class did a marvelous job with this project, demonstrating original thinking, humor and technical virtuosity. Here are a few [...]

Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)

February 27, 2009

Now that I’ve opened the pandora’s box of music, it’s going to be hard to stop. All of the Miles Davis fans know of this one, but if you haven’t discovered this yet…here you go. In this promo to the film, listen to the background music, that’s Miles. The soundtrack is fabulous, that is, if [...]

Emerson String Quartet

February 21, 2009

I saw the Emerson String Quartet perform this Shostakovich piece in St. Paul, MN. The music is about war and conflict, and we were in throes of the bad period of the Iraqi war, so it was a powerful and moving experience. And, it made me want to go out and buy everything Shostakovich had [...]