- A Video about Scenic Art -

This video documents some of the scenic art work that I worked on from 1975 through 2000. I worked for various film, tv, stage and miscellaneous other productions over a period of 25 years. The video was made for a lecture given at the North Valley Art League in Redding, CA, last Monday. This is Part 1 and I'll post Part 2 soon.......(Click on arrow to see the video)

- MEN IN BLACK MURAL -

And now for something completely different.   Here is a shot of a mural that three of us painted for the film "Men In Black" at Sony Studios (used to be MGM). We were on a sound stage that had an extremely high cieling.  The mural was a 100 foot half circle that was 60 or 70 feet high.  We worked on it for about 10 days.    Side note:  It was painted on a freshly plastered wall and the temperature at the top of the stage was 100 degrees, but on the stage floor it was 72 degrees.....consequently the plaster at the top of the mural started to explode off of the wall and needed repair.  

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- CREATING VIDEOS -

This is really off track, but I've been having fun putting together a video honoring our troops. I used Apple's Imovie HD and took a bunch of public domain photos that I found online and topped it off with my version of "Battle Hymn of The Republic". I sequenced the music entirely with GarageBand, using a midi-keyboard with several software instruments. Here's the finished product (if it is ever finished). (Please click on the arrow to see the video)

- Less is More? -

Here's another one done a year later and in it's simplicity, I find it appealing. Again - this one was done in pen and ink.

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- SKETCHING FROM IMAGINATION -

I do a lot of sketching when I'm in restaurants. Sometimes, especially when there's nothing that interests me, I'll do something imaginary. This is one of those. The date says 2002 and I just initialed it.

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