tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37979476893305389062024-02-06T18:11:49.991-08:00Smoky Mirrorsa mirror in, a mirror out<br>
lookit my head inside and outRammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-2225473377252458552013-09-20T04:19:00.000-07:002013-09-20T05:09:18.116-07:00The Mind's Overflow, Vol. 1 + behind the scenes<br />
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My friend recently was going through her inventory and look what she bumped into, one of my first endeavors in self-publishing: <i><b>The Mind's Overflow, Vol. 1</b></i>! It's a 69-paged anthology that has comics, poetry, short stories, and more comics that my partner-in-comicbook-making-crimes <a href="http://www.allthehappycreatures.com/" target="_blank">Alan Abbadessa-Green</a> and I put together. You can see also in the pic above that it is "suggested for mature readers." As I remember, it was a massive labor of massive love.<br />
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May I remind you of the bars to your right? Do you see the Books I'm In section? Notice that Mind's Overflow has been there all this time? Here's the post all about it.<br />
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Inside, you will find an exciting sneak preview of Philip Clark's <i>Quantum: Rock of Ages</i> comicbook series. Philip Clark is soul musician by trade, and trust me, he can rock a soul out of your body. Check out <a href="http://philipclark.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">his site</a> for some <b>free</b> listening. I would suggest <i><a href="http://philipclark.bandcamp.com/album/the-state-of-blue-eyed-soul" target="_blank">The State of the Blue-Eyed Soul</a></i>. But he is an apt writer of comics also. You can read an IGN interview about <i>Quantum: Rock of Ages</i> <a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/06/07/indie-spotlight-quantum-rock-of-ages" target="_blank">here</a>, you can read issues #1-4 for <b>free</b> <a href="http://www.webcomicsnation.com/DreamchildNYC/quantum/toc.php" target="_blank">here</a>, and even issue #5 <a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/06/09/free-read-quantum-rock-of-ages-5" target="_blank">here</a> (with art by James Rodriguez), yes, for <b>freeee</b>! Come on, you know you want to. Give indy comics a read. You'd be surprised how much of high-quality stories are in independent comicbooks. Forget super-heroes; they're so establishment. Indies are in and they're sexy! <br />
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Inside <i>Mind's Overflow</i> are also some comic strips by <a href="http://emperornortonii.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">Jeffrey Plotkin</a>. Just do yourselves a favor and go to his link in the last sentence. At face value it looks all cute and cartoony, but his strips are deep when you read into them. He can say a lot in one picture. Here's a random page from his DeviantArt gallery so you can see what I mean: <a href="http://emperornortonii.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=3024">http://emperornortonii.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=3024</a>.<br />
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Alan Abbadessa-Green and I, while planning all the logistics of <i>The Mind's Overflow</i>, came up with a couple of themes, keys and key holes being a central one. So as you can see, the cover has a key hole, giving you the illusion of you peeping inside the book. The cover illustrates one of the short stories, 'A Dying Bird' by Matthew Scott Carr, illustrated by Joe Kelly. All the stories and poems had a front page like this, with the title and credit and a key hole giving a glimpse of the inside of its respective story.<br />
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Yours truly was Editor, Art Director, and one of the general illustrators. Alan Abbadessa-Green was EIC. He would read all submissions, sift through the ones he likes so I would read them, I would sift through the ones I selected and we'll discuss the finalists' submissions to select which ones will end up in the anthology. I made the cover design and logo, as well as the design for. Every. Single. Sixty-nine freaking pages! And this is before I knew how to mess with InDesign! Both the designing & illustrating and the editing aspects of creating the book were arduous work for both of us, but I enjoyed it immensely (and I know Alan too). Publishing is something I can definitely get used to. Creating a book from scratch just seems to be what I like to do, and I'd do it again (hint, hint).<br />
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Below is an example of some of general illustrations I did for <i>MO</i>. It's from one of the short stories 'Return' by Miguel Ortega.<br />
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Below is another of my illustrations. I like this one because the guy is a writer and he is real. Yup, a real existing writer. I also think the illustration's cute. This drawing is from the introduction, written by Alan. He mentioned how we bumped into this writer at a comicbook convention, sitting at his table selling his books (he's a prose writer, not a comicbook writer, but comicbook conventions tend to not be exclusive like that. God bless them). We kicked off a conversation and it impressed Alan. Here's a glimpse from the introduction (by the way, a reminder, this is <u>For Mature Readers Only</u>, so if you don't have the stomach for cuss words, you might as well skip the quotation):<br />
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Step in the fat guy. While at a convention, I see Rammer talking to a fat man sitting behind a desk. I decide to join them and see who the fuck this guy is. It turns out he's a sci-fi/horror/fantasy writer (which I should have known from looking at him). Being the artistic whore that he is (and has to be in this industry), Rammer asks if he can be considered to do artwork for the guy's book jackets. This somehow spins into a conversation about how to make it in the industry. And by "the industry," I don't intend to limit that to comicbooks. Comics are particularly hard because the market is weak and saturated (a bad combination) but the same holds true for novelists, screenwriters, painters, and illustrators. Creators are in for a rude awakening when they first try to send their art into the market. But I'm getting ahead of myself.<br />
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Anyway, the fat guy says that if you want to be successful, there is a very easy way to do it... Do it. It's as simple as that. Here I shall try to quote him as best as my memory will allow [yes, a double quote. So what? You're in a house of mirrors here. —Rammer]:<br />
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"<i>If you want to be a writer, write. If you want to be an artist, draw. Every night, even if it's just a page a night. In a year, you'll find you have a book. If someone invites you to a party, decline the invitation. If you want to go out on a date with a girl, don't. If you want to have a life, too bad. Hell, if you want to, I'm fine with that. There's already too much competition for me out there and I'd be very happy if you didn't pursue your work. You'd be doing me a favor to sit home and watch TV. But if you want to do it for real, you have to actually do it.</i>"<br />
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Now, this isn't original advice, but it's true. I'd actually given my brother similar advice when he was having difficulty finding the time to write. I suggested he take baby steps. A page a night. It was advice I had given him but had failed to practice myself. I say this man may have saved my life because he re-instilled that work ethic within me. Now, whenever Rammer and I are tempted to meet at a bar and drink our paychecks away, one of us will always remind the other to "be the fat guy." And it's advice I pass along to any of the inspiring writers and artists out there. Be the fat guy.</blockquote>
And I'm passing the advice forward onto you. Be this guy.<br />
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I know I will see him in another convention in the future. He always makes sure to have a table. What a hustler. When that happens, I'll make sure to buy one of his books and get his name and mention it here.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, without further ado, I'd like to present to you my contribution to <i>The Mind's Overflow, Vol. 1</i>: the comicbook story by the same name, drawn, inked and lettered by yours truly, more drawing and inking by Jeff Ploktin, and with writings by Alan Abbadessa-Green, pre-pressed by moi. I really enjoyed this one. It's very unique. I'll tell you why and how. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">First, the main character, Key, man he's something that can only come straight out of Alan's head. "Make his feet HUGE," he tells me. I give him this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He tells me, "Make them BIGGER!" LOL. So I gave him this.</span><br />
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Play close attention to his face. He's like a realistic cartoon in a unrealistic real world. His hair is something else. The hair would convey and echo the emotion Key's going through and/or direct your eye to the focus for that particular panel. It's a great visual aid and aesthetic in character design. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's a character design for Molly, Key's girlfriend, just to be fair for both characters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, I will tell you why this is a very unique comicbook. You see, in the story, Key goes to another dimension. Alan had the idea to do something visually interesting: have one kind of artist draw the characters in our dimension and the background in the other dimension, while having another kind of artist do the vise versa. Being that I like to stick to details, he chose Jeff Plotkin as the other artist, for he's more on the comic strips/cartoony side. It was an intriguing and unique progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the first segment to 'The Mind's Overflow' comicbook story, starring Key. Another reminder: this is <u>For Mature Readers</u>, don't like cuss words? Please skip the comic. Hope you enjoy it!</span><br />
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Alan Abbadessa-Green wrote about <a href="http://allthehappycreatures.blogspot.com/2010/08/minds-overflow-1.html" target="_blank"><i>The Mind's Overflow</i> book and comic</a> too over at his blog <a href="http://allthehappycreatures.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i>Look At All the Happy Creatures</i></a>, but in completely different take.<br />
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I have fond memories of Alan and I going to Baltimore, MD for the not-so <a href="http://www.spxpo.com/" target="_blank">Small Press eXpo</a> con. We had tons of material and art work to show, plus <i>MO</i>. I also met a lot of creators that I still am proud of knowing to this day. And guess what. <i>The Mind's Overflow, Vol. 1</i> ended up in the <a href="http://www.artbma.org/" target="_blank">Baltimore Museum of Art</a>'s <i>Cram Sessions: 02 Dark Matter</i> exhibit! That's what pays to go to cons as a creator.<br />
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Alas, <i>The Mind's Overflow</i> was an endeavor that ended prematurely. With all of life's demands and anguish, there is no Volume 2. But Alan and I still work together. Since then we've made tons of comicbook short stories that ended in comicbook anthologies. He continues to writes books, like <a href="http://thesyncbook.com/" target="_blank"><i>The Sync Book</i></a> (<i>Vol. 1</i> and <i>2</i>), <a href="http://thesyncbook.com/the-sync-book-myths-magic-media-and-mindscapes" target="_blank">one</a> of which we have work in. We have our 8-page comicbook story 'Desperate Skin' in it, and I have two poems in there. I ended up becoming a poet of sort and host a monthly party and open mic while doing gigs in Graphic Design (if you're interested in my writing and poetry, may I direct you to my writing blog <a href="http://irammer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">I, Rammer</a>? If you are, thank you and I hope you enjoy it). Comicbooks is still a love of mine. I put comicbooks and graphic design in one set; they're the same to me, just with the same elements re-arranged differently. But that's a topic for another post.<br />
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Although <i>The Mind's Overflow, Vol. 1</i> is out of print, you can still purchase a copy for a measly $6! I have like five of them left, I'm sure Alan has one or two, but there are two copies of <i>The Mind's Overflow, Vol. 1</i> at <a href="http://www.fpnyc.com/New-York-Store/" target="_blank">NYC's Forbidden Planet</a> comicbook store! Just go there and ask for it.<br />
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Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-50982089058609939322013-06-19T20:19:00.001-07:002013-06-19T20:19:41.246-07:00What the G says to the O in GOD.<p dir=ltr>While the D is clueless. I figured the D is clueless because it's countenance seems to look to our right; the G is also to the right, so it would speak to the O, a frontal and very egalitarian vowel. </p>
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Know those ubiquitous figures in train stations forever sleeping, like they've been caught up with their beauty sleep and they're now on triple overtime? </div>
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Sandman catches them when they least expect it. It can be anywhere. He waits in those interstitial moments that lies a true vacation. </div>
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Here's a nice straight-forward charcoal and pencil drawing of hands in the process of typing poetry. Any other hand models out there? :-P</div>
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WORD AT 4F's intention is to cultivate poetry and a literary community at
Uptown NYC. If you're interested in attending tomorrow, Saturday
February 2nd, to party or to perform, please RSVP to
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a month, made and hosted by Angela Abreu and yours truly!<br /> <br /> And a big THANK YOU! goes out to Angela Abreu for opening up her home to the world for the art and the power of the word.</span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoPageTagList"><span class="fcg"></span></span>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-83288464554236623652012-12-18T22:20:00.001-08:002012-12-18T22:20:38.130-08:00"Thank You" Menorah<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was a "Thank You" card I drew, a typographical menorah drawing saying "Thank You" I did for a doctor. I really lucked out on the "N" and "K" there. Done on pencil and color-pencil, free-hand.Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-50529206034456496082012-08-14T15:29:00.000-07:002012-08-14T15:30:27.958-07:00Headshot Retouch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Luisa Inés García</b></span>.<br />
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Actress, with many different side-skills that can be appropriated with her craft. (Directing, Writing, Poetry, Acting, Dance, I believe she does Costume Design, and even freaking Gymnastics)<br />
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I did some retouching for her Headshot earlier this year. I tried to smooth out the natural blemishes while keeping true to her look and aura/aesthetics, while enhancing some other areas. True, I could have taken some more of those stray hairs, but dammit if the hair doesn't end up looking like she's wearing a head-piece that <i>looks</i> like hair. You would notice there's probably a 20% increase in eye size. Yup, the rules of subliminal allure, made not-so-subliminal in this blog.<br />
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Here's little bio of Luisa Inés García:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Luisa Inés García earned her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (PHTS) in Creating Original Work and Acting. For the past two years she has worked in New York, New Jersey and internationally as a director, actress/dancer and teacher. She most recently co-founded Buffoonocene Productions with Seth Baum (Columbia University’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions), which creates new works built on scientific research to stimulate dialogue and promote activism regarding climate change. The project was debuted at this year’s Nature, Ecology and Society Colloquium at the CUNY Graduate Center and the newest video will be available on YouTube soon! She currently plays the role of María Teresa in <a href="http://www.repertorio.org/productions/index.php?area=ind&id=131">In The Time of the Butterflies at the Spanish Repertory (Repertorio Español)</a> .</span></span></blockquote>
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She's currently directing<i> <a href="http://www.repertorio.org/productions/index.php?area=ind&id=126">El Coordinador</a></i>. <span itemprop="description">“The Facilitator” takes place in an
elevator where four people must deal with the ambition and morals of the
others. Shut in the elevator, they experience a collective desperation
that results in the discovery of the true personality of each person
when their fears and virtues come out to play in this game of survival.
Winning play of the 1993 Best Dramatic
Text Award at the VII North American Chilean Institute’s Theater
Festival and the 1994 Municipal Award for Literature in Theatre in
Santiago, Chile. </span><br />
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<span itemprop="description">They have</span><span itemprop="description"> 5 performances!<br /> August 23: 7pm<br /> August 24: 8pm<br /> August 26: 6:30 pm<br /> August 30: 7pm</span><br />
<span itemprop="description">and<br /> August 31: 8pm</span><span itemprop="description"> </span><br />
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Written by: Benjamin Galemiri<br />
Directed by: Inés Garcia<br />
Assistant Director: John Gutierrez<br />
The players: Antonio Solar, Billy Martin, Elena Sanz, Ron Sarcos<br />
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Set design: Leni Méndez<br />
Sound design: Erin Cummings<br />
Light design: Miguel León Valderrama</div>
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<span itemprop="description">Tickets are $10, with premium seats at $20</span></div>
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The play i<span itemprop="description">s in Spanish with simultaneous English translation. </span></div>
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You can find more info on <i> <a href="http://www.repertorio.org/productions/index.php?area=ind&id=126">El Coordinador</a></i>.Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-18702920724437068992012-05-22T18:17:00.000-07:002012-05-22T18:30:30.341-07:00I crown you, MotherMy mother had her birthday yesterday. It's been a surreal year so far for the family, so I wanted to give her something original, as original as her love, contribution, and warmth that she brings (so, yea, so I'm a mama's boy, yea, I'm a son). <br />
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I wanted to do a calligraphy piece from a poem of a poet she likes, Pablo Neruda. But after I found "Sonnet 31", I wanted to crown her with his words more than concentrating on calligraphy. I recently purchased a Pilot Parallel Pen, which I'm excited about, but it has a wide nib, big enough that it didn't give me room to draw the foliage deco that I wanted to design with the size of Bristol board I have. So I settled with a less cooler calligraphy marker.<br />
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With the spirit of being original, making a piece that's un-repeatable, captured in the moment, and of being on time, I wanted to do
this as a stream of consciousness. I winged the calligraphy, with only
one horizontal line drawn in pencil showing the top of the x-height of
the first line of the sonnet as a guide to the rest of the poem. The
decos are winged too, only loosely sketched in pencil first, just to make sure I have room for everything. I only looked at the visions the poem paints as
inspiration.<br />
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It's in Spanish, for we are a Spanish-speaking family.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjTgs2mtv8EotK1tsoU5ge565oB9B1OqcQXikkCKSOtiZWjWIY5ZXBUYhozUu284UWBcIHRvGGOgPyEZcOtCG2KKyQuXU5mtq29QvgFNgUQdXVHDd5p6uADZ77JQw6pxnbKcCOQjORdOI/s1600/57th_bday_2012_Pablo_Neruda_72dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Soneto XXXI" border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjTgs2mtv8EotK1tsoU5ge565oB9B1OqcQXikkCKSOtiZWjWIY5ZXBUYhozUu284UWBcIHRvGGOgPyEZcOtCG2KKyQuXU5mtq29QvgFNgUQdXVHDd5p6uADZ77JQw6pxnbKcCOQjORdOI/s400/57th_bday_2012_Pablo_Neruda_72dpi.jpg" title="" width="400" /></a>
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The shape of the paper is designed so I can crown her with the poem (and I did), like the Romans wreathed themselves (notice how the two loops can go around the ears).<br />
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This is the poem in Spanish and in English:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><u>Soneto XXXI
</u></span>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Con laureles del Sur y orégano de Lota
<br />te corono, pequeña monarca de mis huesos,
<br />y no puede faltarte esa corona
<br />que elabora la tierra con bálsamo y follaje. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Eres, como el que te ama, de las provincias verdes:
<br />de allá trajimos barro que nos corre en la sangre,
<br />en la ciudad andamos, como tantos, perdidos,
<br />temerosos de que cierren el mercado. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Bienamada, tu sombra tiene olor a ciruela,
<br />tus ojos escondieron en el Sur sus raíces,
<br />tu corazón es una paloma de alcancía, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">tu cuerpo es liso como las piedras en el agua,
<br />tus besos son racimos con rocío,
<br />y yo a tu lado vivo con la tierra.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Pablo Neruda 1959 </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Sonnet 31 </u></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">With laurel from The South, and Lota oregano, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I crown you, little monarch of my bones, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and you cannot do without this crown, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">that the earth elaborates with foliage and balsam.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />You are as he who loves you, from the green provinces:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">from where we brought the clay that runs in our blood,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> In cities we go about, like so many, lost, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">fearful that the market will be closed.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />Beloved, your shadow has the plum's aroma,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> the roots of your eyes remain hidden in the south,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> your heart is a dove-shaped collection-box,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />your body is as smooth as stones in the water, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">each kiss a cluster covered over with dew, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and I, at your side, live with the earth.<br /> </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Pablo Neruda 1959</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Sonnet 31" is 61 years old. It's older than my mom. :-)</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Happy Birthday, little monarch of my bones.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-57736751422837302312012-05-03T19:31:00.000-07:002012-05-03T19:33:49.054-07:00Random drawing 001Random drawing from some Sports Illustrated on some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Land">Greg Land</a> status.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjkTvzZTdB6g7REUM7OZ2SY848UyGtsQKGNPY0G6RAvKFfDU-PWjmm9LWgerQi-a1c5BNs3j4vCGL7NmTMHTaMPPgv-usJy_UHkT8jDBpzrH7COc0lSLsN73wljwywN7OAWD7FT40-w2g/s1600/model01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjkTvzZTdB6g7REUM7OZ2SY848UyGtsQKGNPY0G6RAvKFfDU-PWjmm9LWgerQi-a1c5BNs3j4vCGL7NmTMHTaMPPgv-usJy_UHkT8jDBpzrH7COc0lSLsN73wljwywN7OAWD7FT40-w2g/s640/model01.jpg" width="449" /></a>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-87594339028501999252012-02-14T10:19:00.000-08:002012-05-22T19:13:37.299-07:00She Is<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGlI4msNf62OpBZzlUYlBcICHmlLTlQ6MP7T6Hrt7lWuITE3MJTxN8LnH0m4upCUz930zylB66g5Jng53hkQsRlK212OIbTR9nWWPRuQoEO-pP4sFu3dEsKhrKwo72lmnliiu6mh2mnfw/s1600/She+Is.jpg"><img alt="She Is" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709059803049885826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGlI4msNf62OpBZzlUYlBcICHmlLTlQ6MP7T6Hrt7lWuITE3MJTxN8LnH0m4upCUz930zylB66g5Jng53hkQsRlK212OIbTR9nWWPRuQoEO-pP4sFu3dEsKhrKwo72lmnliiu6mh2mnfw/s400/She+Is.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 384px; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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Happy 2012 Valentine's Day!<br />
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This is <b>She Is</b>, about 14 inches squared frame, written by yours truly and made by hand, with love for love. It's sits in the home of she.<br />
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This is the text to the poem: <br />
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<u><b>She Is</b></u><br /><br />She is that way.<br />Her manner is affable,<br />vision and sound. Soothing<br />and I will never stop her bantering<br />so I'd reminisce if I become lovelorn.<br /><br />She is her smile.<br />Her smile is her joy.<br />Her voice is pleasant to my<br />ears, like the waves and sounds<br />of foams from the sea by the beach,<br /><br />and the dunes of warm sand are her skin. The makers to her words, her lips, do her<br />voice justice. The creator to her words, her heart, is always true to her soul. Kissing<br />her during the summer, and I kiss the warm summer rays. Kissing her during winter<br />I kiss refined snow. You would want to hear her nature as you sleep, in hopes you<br />dream of resting times, dreaming a long dream. Her lips feel like marshmallows.<br />the soft ones. Not viscous like honey, but a bit diluted like marshmallows.<br />not sweet like honey, but a bit tender like brown sugar. Making me yearn<br />for more. And whenever she speaks to me, her words travel through my<br />ears pass my veins and wind my heart into a golden glaze. When she says<br />“hi” to me, I feel my body soothingly warm. It’s because I feel as<br />though she is here, with me, in front of me, with open arms. And<br />she warms me. She is what I look forward in·a day, or pass<br />many days. One can say this about few people; her way<br />manner and words are all the act of her heart in<br />fruition. She is the reason to my ambitions,<br />the fuel of my intellect and joy. She is<br />the lovely hand that genuinely<br />cares. She is lovely, every<br />day in every way.<br />She is lovely.<br />She is love.<br />She<br />is.Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-36227318086919843492011-05-13T20:54:00.000-07:002011-05-13T23:24:53.223-07:00Beyond the Four Walls:The Rising Ministry andSpirituality of Hip-HopHi everyone.<br /><br />Below I present to you a book I designed named<br><span style="font-style:italic;">Beyond the Four Walls: The Rising Ministry and Spirituality of Hip-Hop</span><br>by Walter Hidalgo. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDYROzyFVxE2C5zYe6DhYgcD18HjhFtFRdUNZPKHWLx7BTR7UhntFEGIrxgQg9qtk3arr-Id66GJZaDI_2Rjp5wDqZhM02cP_AkgRy-Qjt3eMV1Qc7eqLY9fZjENckcG9fmHG3YT5YrI/s1600/Beyond_the_Four_Walls_72dpi.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDYROzyFVxE2C5zYe6DhYgcD18HjhFtFRdUNZPKHWLx7BTR7UhntFEGIrxgQg9qtk3arr-Id66GJZaDI_2Rjp5wDqZhM02cP_AkgRy-Qjt3eMV1Qc7eqLY9fZjENckcG9fmHG3YT5YrI/s400/Beyond_the_Four_Walls_72dpi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606416632789800914" /></a>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-61224974775653980062011-01-31T15:00:00.000-08:002011-01-31T12:40:01.371-08:00Marilyn Manson's Antichrist SvperstarThis is a hypothetical CD cover I did for an existing artist of my choice, as an assignment for illustrator <a href="http://www.timokamura.com/flash.html">Tim Okamura</a>. I gotta say Tim's a stand-up kinda professor and person. He taught me tons and even more via example. There's a nice <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Okamura">Wiki entry of him</a> that shows some of where his paintings have been featured. And, since I just wrote about graffiti on my previous post, it's only fitting to mention that his work is very Hip-hop. To quote a quote, "...a painter who does portraits with tumultuous graffiti backgrounds....a hip-hop painter". --Nicholls,Liz (October 29, 2005).<br /><br />In this assignment, he played the music from each corresponding CD that each student brought. He played Antichrist Superstar as he displayed the illustration... Isn't it fitting? :-)<br /><br />This is collage with acrylic, trying to convey the character of Antichrist Superstar in all three of his incarnations, the man/boy, the worm, and the Svperstar!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkw9VdtPMGSVDi52IwJH27qAA1r5h0WvOdbDd2h6mZ5SpEBMyL_YmXPYvgjRhkw9X3CZLFlPeWGZSJZJAxnqZejJR-O8-PC8bzxKO4HhLZrZUXD0QdzRThbj67WGj57ZKWHWUCZMYanA/s1600/Manson03.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkw9VdtPMGSVDi52IwJH27qAA1r5h0WvOdbDd2h6mZ5SpEBMyL_YmXPYvgjRhkw9X3CZLFlPeWGZSJZJAxnqZejJR-O8-PC8bzxKO4HhLZrZUXD0QdzRThbj67WGj57ZKWHWUCZMYanA/s400/Manson03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568442897730866850" /></a>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-89899220018981552422011-01-29T13:51:00.000-08:002011-01-30T11:07:30.594-08:00Graffiti GaloreThe following shows my graffiti side. <br /><br />I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but I feel graffiti is a definitive expression of what goes to the core of what typography, calligraphy, and graphic design is all about. There are countless graphic designers in its rich history that began their artistic endeavors in tagging on the wall, spraying throw-ups or wild style graffiti anywhere they could. There are also a lot of letterers, doing signs on grocery stores and supermarkets, painting on the stores' cinder blocks that would make any graphic designer jealous. These people also turn out to become great graphic artists. <br /><br />Yet the determining results are the same. One tries to be legible and readable, following the rules of type in such a way that its appeal lies with how well the rules are executed, how elegant and crisp it seems with the bounds of its physicality, whether on painted plaster, chalkboards on a wooden easel, or canvas signs hanging overhead. The other is on the yang to its yin's side of the spectrum; its beauty lies in how well the artist is breaking the rules, how much can the artist abstract type beyond the point of recognition. "You can't read it? Too bad! But the letter form is there somewhere, if you look and not just see." And that probably says something more than its conventional cousin, for by stripping away what makes letterforms relate with other stylized letterforms, you're ratifying what defines that very letterform to its essential anatomy. And as they're tearing apart the constitution of graphic design rules, they're enjoying it, having their fun as they rent! You better believe that when you see an exceptional piece, you think that piece was done with fun in it, it may be a serious kind of playfulness, but you can't deny that you're looking at it in every color, in every stroke. Some graphic or type artists can learn a thing or two from graffiti artists.<br /> <br />I did these at different times, different spaces in life. Hope you enjoy them.<br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0J_pa7l9vaeI8VajLn2FQl8hJjtGb3icapJSqPDZQnciU4F8pAjhF-4lwHQPEkwMkZChsqr1AyocZhCcsQ0i8BAGIX3ya-T9DBhhyphenhyphenFud7D_XjXW0cFUVH2b2b9CNg8eGYf7zabhbysmw/s1600/kno03.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0J_pa7l9vaeI8VajLn2FQl8hJjtGb3icapJSqPDZQnciU4F8pAjhF-4lwHQPEkwMkZChsqr1AyocZhCcsQ0i8BAGIX3ya-T9DBhhyphenhyphenFud7D_XjXW0cFUVH2b2b9CNg8eGYf7zabhbysmw/s400/kno03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567729307932125906" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizeJweiKJnaMCmtJcej1D1ujS7D8OV4ErfKTPRvD3JzZeLa5y0Ch1uFSNRztO9PAchaFLNSTiABb-qHWtR0aBEWAduru_kp6BSzWiZtwA3wJVz_buShTmX_7kHl84BlBwb73OUI4w2Pg/s1600/ek01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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cursor:hand;width: 357px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSpiJQq298gH5_VgfgWzJXVMlQwu-5f0WsfSj7uwfrr9sLBe3IbnSXbBGdOf15AZ3S1GwSAUa_-cZr2blAjrzPu5ei3_VPLykANto4Xehew9UguHmh-Eubz8ykVAspSHt0spChLau89BA/s400/character03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567729935982546930" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVblYjJeRoiBURaKcIutcLMOvcWhQ5GpoK-MbJQOWYM5YcUIN6C-wce4jbmEyKZyOcj-v4-b5GRm18S9x7pGGpDILoxx4DAUCHc9XtAh2nm2NjIaQNXgCPaI6DOxkH5bwe2tSl_n6NcFk/s1600/character02.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 393px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVblYjJeRoiBURaKcIutcLMOvcWhQ5GpoK-MbJQOWYM5YcUIN6C-wce4jbmEyKZyOcj-v4-b5GRm18S9x7pGGpDILoxx4DAUCHc9XtAh2nm2NjIaQNXgCPaI6DOxkH5bwe2tSl_n6NcFk/s400/character02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567729936902614146" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NqWLatw_HUgN8z4bhW4bahGR6z7_2j9kury559uSNtA3dhmmPEuec-L9Rc5N61QzbK8T7AtoIXaTLTLow7upGQC-SpOjaGmn7Xlz-0WhTlw6Mkk4tw4Va9Oe_DhZeeRIcfcSTUjYH4s/s1600/character01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NqWLatw_HUgN8z4bhW4bahGR6z7_2j9kury559uSNtA3dhmmPEuec-L9Rc5N61QzbK8T7AtoIXaTLTLow7upGQC-SpOjaGmn7Xlz-0WhTlw6Mkk4tw4Va9Oe_DhZeeRIcfcSTUjYH4s/s400/character01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567729941612521346" /></a><br /><br />I'm working on something new, something very very new! Yup, said too much. You've probably guessed it already. Keep your eyes open and stay tuned.Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-15775480269300245472011-01-18T23:01:00.000-08:002011-01-19T00:23:34.014-08:00Tata (Elba Piña Peña)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQsHDmVgIsWvErAWeZm9YE7aUB2qbVeLwL-RbM-oXjVtdwXqXfyOEY8fsvNq9vQ7Ic2Kh_e_PgPCXTxhrtNZuQHZVjX4UBfrZPww7FSxgoikV3mLqHVlZihx-GEV2ce13UulJir25JiFU/s1600/tatayblacky01b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQsHDmVgIsWvErAWeZm9YE7aUB2qbVeLwL-RbM-oXjVtdwXqXfyOEY8fsvNq9vQ7Ic2Kh_e_PgPCXTxhrtNZuQHZVjX4UBfrZPww7FSxgoikV3mLqHVlZihx-GEV2ce13UulJir25JiFU/s400/tatayblacky01b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563789127477391202" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim0jY0tVemsstHDn0kBCuGVNVBAMZiLsO8qv8TTCNv-3T26Qff8y46D4oaWrjuZ5j3yOYqibys2ZYB6z_pI4WfOKvhu8GXQnsbrLGluLc70Fk33S823Q9Ew_El2gVNMG9AJQ5u2xo3-Cg/s1600/tata01b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim0jY0tVemsstHDn0kBCuGVNVBAMZiLsO8qv8TTCNv-3T26Qff8y46D4oaWrjuZ5j3yOYqibys2ZYB6z_pI4WfOKvhu8GXQnsbrLGluLc70Fk33S823Q9Ew_El2gVNMG9AJQ5u2xo3-Cg/s400/tata01b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563789140472954354" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Feel better querida Tata.Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-69077187834747317882010-01-01T18:45:00.000-08:002010-01-01T20:35:24.050-08:00The Decade of NothingHere's to a decade that now is part of the void that its type symbolized: the Nothings before the Somethings. No one knows what to call it. Some call it the "Naughties", others "The Big Zero" or the "Double-Os". Regardless, the nature of a name with this number-logic had a psychological effect on me. The mortality of seeing a number, a decade, counting down (or up, depending how you look at it) makes a person want to seize it before the next number. Something about '00s creates a different flow. <br /><br />I don't know what to make of the decade; there were a lot of ups and downs, bests and worsts of. But maybe that's the point. Don't have an absolute claim to make in such an expanse of time, but make it bold for the next decade because you already know how it is <span style="font-style:italic;">not</span> to. The Nothings before the Somethings, turn to the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-that-Natural-History-Zero/dp/0195142373">Nothing that Is</a>.<br /><br />And with that I give you a nice The Decade that Passed present. It's a free-association drawing I did in '01. I thought it fitting for I drew it in the onset of the decade (it starts with the first year, not '00, you know), a worldly, significant, sad, and impressionable year, and because as a free-association drawing, making it as you go along without consciously knowing what you are drawing, with no intentions, making it seems a lot like life itself. And also, it's a drawing of a nascent of a man waking out of his cocoon. Yes, very fitting.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><u>Happy Decade that Passed and a Happy New Decade!</u></span> <br />(hey, you only get to say 'Happy New Decade' once every ten years; make it count!)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizl-HCG07nxOw0OASSrLQKVphvHWPYYUmFrx3_8tUY-V977g3dVYuT96hkp1zstdfOJUdu58z03XYiFlw7hzoKmLHWGhe8LMBseXS_tp78KGUuj_v6tTPe5_jet3G8jGPOogxZ-qsJAKI/s1600-h/cocoon.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizl-HCG07nxOw0OASSrLQKVphvHWPYYUmFrx3_8tUY-V977g3dVYuT96hkp1zstdfOJUdu58z03XYiFlw7hzoKmLHWGhe8LMBseXS_tp78KGUuj_v6tTPe5_jet3G8jGPOogxZ-qsJAKI/s400/cocoon.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421984991860805298" /></a><br /><br /><font size=1>PS: Thank you so much to everyone who Subscribed to SmokyMirrors! I so appreciate the love and interest. This is the kind of thing that keeps me moving onward.<br /><br />And to those that are not in the know, to my first 100 Subscribers, as a big "Thank You!" for letting me into your Inbox life, I'm drawing small limited-edition sketches. One-of-a-kind drawings about any subject matter you desire, drawn specifically for you, and I'm only doing this for 100 people. I still haven't reach my first 100, so there's still time to have something cool.</font>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-30115708364008932382009-12-06T11:00:00.001-08:002009-12-06T11:46:17.355-08:00FeskMag spread graffitiesque (or urban calligraphy/typography, as it's being called as of late). Done with color-pencil, a bit of watercolor, markers, and Photoshop for embellishment. I left negative space for the headline, subhead, and lead-in paragraph of a hypothetical article.<br /><br />That's my tag right there.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5R6fMsG66n30LY1qGqvDhUWUFWfPjbMffUGMfZjDadJgbhgIt73K_Dxc-r_GiiiCzmCoPOWQq1hmDrDyQlVkIzZStg-DVp18Aac3NU1kFpeCUzhhSR_fiYhbf8v65aXGtIZtsIezw0iI/s1600-h/fesk01b.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5R6fMsG66n30LY1qGqvDhUWUFWfPjbMffUGMfZjDadJgbhgIt73K_Dxc-r_GiiiCzmCoPOWQq1hmDrDyQlVkIzZStg-DVp18Aac3NU1kFpeCUzhhSR_fiYhbf8v65aXGtIZtsIezw0iI/s400/fesk01b.jpg" border="0" alt="FESK Mag Layout" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412209181215927938" /></a>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-41838244374354535762009-12-02T04:57:00.000-08:002009-12-02T05:17:00.662-08:00Rammer TotemTake a gander at another Rammer logo, a symmetrical totem. I'm not sure but I think this one constitutes a bilateral/mirror-image ambigram too (can any ambigram friends put me on whether or not?). Though there are some negative space issues here, doesn't it look like a person, or if you rotate it, a fish? And the name can repeat itself vertically ad infinitum (a la wallpaper), for the first 'R' is the same as the last 'R', forever.<br /><br /><center><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Y8-jgA-YvX5LChrjwiHUxbn-fC5S-4V0Ehgz3Yzn19C2U02uE4afsjEVF77hhfyV_9O8D-k0csZD00FnCk5J4VX6qii-p0jWZgqUzCOfESeTk6hzJ3UbN0XnndVn6FRxscYBHMrfYn4/s1600-h/rammertotem_v1half.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Y8-jgA-YvX5LChrjwiHUxbn-fC5S-4V0Ehgz3Yzn19C2U02uE4afsjEVF77hhfyV_9O8D-k0csZD00FnCk5J4VX6qii-p0jWZgqUzCOfESeTk6hzJ3UbN0XnndVn6FRxscYBHMrfYn4/s400/rammertotem_v1half.jpg" border="0" alt="Rammer Totem"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410623652197407314" /></a></center><br />I'm following up my previous post's last drawing, the one with the logo and abstract lady. It was an abstract, monoweight, geometric, black/white theme I was going for.Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-26582781910444238862009-11-30T17:18:00.000-08:002009-11-30T17:40:40.485-08:00Studying (?) in class... SketchesHere're some quick line sketches, the roads of my neurons, while thoughts on the topic at course careen ablaze. Well... It's a multi-tasking possibility. Have fun:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif9FAyRKqmFNZpe_SGYsDlaEZylW2g38dOq0yP0wjE2Gi1SD22aAnY2WqfJsKbFjf1iFQ3SIbTLQE9Bd1unlMoiSogSchtNKWkf_V3T-kXf9xWpdI4cS3EwemRizpe5HBym9wpQRip-78/s1600/CG252HxofPhoto01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif9FAyRKqmFNZpe_SGYsDlaEZylW2g38dOq0yP0wjE2Gi1SD22aAnY2WqfJsKbFjf1iFQ3SIbTLQE9Bd1unlMoiSogSchtNKWkf_V3T-kXf9xWpdI4cS3EwemRizpe5HBym9wpQRip-78/s400/CG252HxofPhoto01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410073712926431106" /></a><br /><br />Oh, his one I must comment specifically. Abstract symmetrical logo doodle of, guess what <a href="http://www.smokymirrors.com">website...</a> (plus a dash of a hint of a foggy layout). I like the lady in particular.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2boq0Gtir1XflwdGy5AWjK_hdWeJyPvrwfpZ6OVYyyDetjPLttOusOWz2qwd0jPitIihYFQ14QNBw6G_BVCxJ-WsZM2kPy4CQU03OV9Qgd5gKVoaQBHjaWdwMItN4T5pD8aBg-I6mRi0/s1600/smokymirrorsspread01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2boq0Gtir1XflwdGy5AWjK_hdWeJyPvrwfpZ6OVYyyDetjPLttOusOWz2qwd0jPitIihYFQ14QNBw6G_BVCxJ-WsZM2kPy4CQU03OV9Qgd5gKVoaQBHjaWdwMItN4T5pD8aBg-I6mRi0/s400/smokymirrorsspread01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410073714302022610" /></a>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-68545580902012969882009-03-09T23:29:00.001-07:002009-03-10T00:32:31.349-07:00FriendsEvery now and then I draw whatever I see, sometimes scapes, sometimes things, sometimes my friends. Here a some of the latter:<br /><br /><b>Joshua D. Cochran</b><br />Joshua D. Cochran is a writer. I had him as my prof for my last English class in City College of New York. He has a book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Echo-Detained-Joshua-Daniel-Cochran/dp/0976420333/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4434659-3782238?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194791059&sr=8-1">Echo Detained</a> from <a href="http://www.fractiouspress.com/">Fractious Press</a> on Amazon.com, and though I never read it, he and I share publication in City College's Promethean, the 2004 issue. His poem, <i>Dance of the Nomenclature</i> is one of my highlights. Google him; he's around.<br><br>This is what happens when you think with your eyes in class:<br><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFe_d2oW0bd80xJnr4xgL7sWZt7rvp68rtQy6rtFwIYOB6EI8YGbP0anSrs91MY4UrM1PX3rkkTXUaHCRmf0FbWuyc0c-KdfjjDY0Zsu9TGYsu-118LzLQzAdOf6j0YN5aM55zDSMbxCE/s1600-h/jcochran01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFe_d2oW0bd80xJnr4xgL7sWZt7rvp68rtQy6rtFwIYOB6EI8YGbP0anSrs91MY4UrM1PX3rkkTXUaHCRmf0FbWuyc0c-KdfjjDY0Zsu9TGYsu-118LzLQzAdOf6j0YN5aM55zDSMbxCE/s400/jcochran01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311443497114252210" /></a><br /><br /><b>Lenny</b><br />Quick one of my boy Len, while playing cards.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfO6GJsrzswHmEbcqyP1th082FJ89Qso-UYbX3_CL2HQMlzBX5zzzL7tS5fxbjWBG3hN6YEr-mrjqpAC7yWKU29KY7s_jB1Zoqu05vseSM4MOOnQ-58rE0_HVCu1SZblAKnjyMxsSXtgw/s1600-h/lenny01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfO6GJsrzswHmEbcqyP1th082FJ89Qso-UYbX3_CL2HQMlzBX5zzzL7tS5fxbjWBG3hN6YEr-mrjqpAC7yWKU29KY7s_jB1Zoqu05vseSM4MOOnQ-58rE0_HVCu1SZblAKnjyMxsSXtgw/s400/lenny01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311443488213419298" /></a><br /><br /><b>Felix Luis García</b><br />Poet with the last punto. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXpigjVBGD9oqyI2Oiql7Kwmmy6CcooIRSpo2Egk48UVqQgQrAr7vcTYJKJ8cNIo3Vkd-Pnd4pyF2PPwlfwYrxEipJDgdSItW8Pxdrj6yI6YnldBz2bKZKo0HBxzHB_26d9nGntZyE4c/s1600-h/felixgarc%C3%ADa01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXpigjVBGD9oqyI2Oiql7Kwmmy6CcooIRSpo2Egk48UVqQgQrAr7vcTYJKJ8cNIo3Vkd-Pnd4pyF2PPwlfwYrxEipJDgdSItW8Pxdrj6yI6YnldBz2bKZKo0HBxzHB_26d9nGntZyE4c/s400/felixgarc%C3%ADa01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311443485343837042" /></a><br /><br /><b>Hristo Atanasov</b><br />The random brains behind <a href="http://www.ratherrandomreality.com">Rather Random Reality</a>. I play the games he designs and creates, I look at his drawings, I watch (and sometimes contribute) his animation. His latest one won him a spot on the front page and a Daily 3rd Place award on <a href="http://www.newgrounds.com">NewGrounds.com</a>. It's called <a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/484545">Cigar Wars: Lightersabers Collide!</a>, and worth me reserving a post to hightlight this nice masterpiece. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQE3LTzZbr7E_5AwJWFhDRnD3H7my-dFQB-b8U1qV_-xkMUC_qaL5GCJCajPXReSabNK9H4V7cFiPVD2ak8wh3Qr_xhrqUy-X0qRVs7sMWDfWsqz55QL9fF3D0EHLkkfyvdAsljgNZ514/s1600-h/aku-hristo01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQE3LTzZbr7E_5AwJWFhDRnD3H7my-dFQB-b8U1qV_-xkMUC_qaL5GCJCajPXReSabNK9H4V7cFiPVD2ak8wh3Qr_xhrqUy-X0qRVs7sMWDfWsqz55QL9fF3D0EHLkkfyvdAsljgNZ514/s400/aku-hristo01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311443479677528594" /></a><br>This drawing says 'Aku' to the left, for <a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=Web&q=aku%20samurai%20jack&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi">Aku</a> is the wickedest shapeshifting master. Actually, there is evidence Hristo <span style="font-style:italic;">might be</span> this world's Aku master:<br><br><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-C2p6n_uW6dvgGNoPQJjmzlHb-SDCRtBINBcSQiBTAFCCAzncYoXSBL1YrSliPa4Y7olEh_X_tPm9pTbhtwxt5wC3AXt4_mHR7937mzIp2qMAXAujymMxS2uTkt9chc3IuTM56YhEx4Q/s1600-h/TheRealHristo01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-C2p6n_uW6dvgGNoPQJjmzlHb-SDCRtBINBcSQiBTAFCCAzncYoXSBL1YrSliPa4Y7olEh_X_tPm9pTbhtwxt5wC3AXt4_mHR7937mzIp2qMAXAujymMxS2uTkt9chc3IuTM56YhEx4Q/s400/TheRealHristo01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311456046552824722" /></a><br>See!?Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-51395951739796750402008-07-12T20:50:00.000-07:002008-07-12T21:31:02.884-07:00Still PendingMy boy Key Soto is a man of many hats. He is <a href="http://www.myspace.com/keymelodics">Key Melodics</a>, MC to your hearts, but he's also Key Soto, film director, producer, editor, screenwriter and the man behind Enigma Films. And yesteryear, on a cold winter night, he shot <span style="font-style:italic;">Still Pending</span>, of which I was the Art Director for.<br /><br />He has <span style="font-style:italic;">Still Pending</span> on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/filmingkey">Key's YouTube page</a>, along with music videos and PSAs he shot. Watching this in its fruition makes me think it a prologue for a series of movies causing mayhem and "shitting the fan." <span style="font-style:italic;">Still Pending's</span> ambiguity, which I feel might make question marks to some people's faces, is really the verve of its mystique. Favorite bit: <br /><blockquote>Nevin: Fucking psychos.<br />Teddy: That's the cost for survival.</blockquote>Check it:<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNVXDJ5pwcE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNVXDJ5pwcE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-21070857369536931702008-07-02T07:04:00.000-07:002008-12-08T14:44:19.740-08:00I'm Not HereI did some storyboards for a long-time friend of mine <a href="http://www.myspace.com/coretempfilms">Karly Beaumont</a>. <a href="http://www.chicaluna.com/fword-films.php#1st">I'm Not Here</a> is a very short but very potent, 4-minute film, so how can I summarize without spoilers? Let's just say that it drags a very real but very abusing reality to your pupils, one that we all know somewhere in our hearts occurs every single fucking day. I'm happy to be part of the message it brings, and to work for such a great person. I'm also happy to say that <span style="font-weight:bold;">I'm Not Here</span> was accepted to the 2006 <a href="http://www.nylatinofilm.com/">NY International Latino Film Festival</a>, and "has been screened nationwide at various, educations institutions, conferences and festivals."<br /><br />But hey, dig the storyboards:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8nVIHfPP3pK4FQHr_ja4jitxZ9IETOugJvWeUCuOP0d_28Bjlpb3lAnUqsIFPGtnF28PWFNTK2nqm4Z97JSV0CHRO1WZup3Ef1SSSCnVlskolfXNBhshvWd46Tao4BZ8XHl3gXUoMP58/s1600-h/INH01sm.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8nVIHfPP3pK4FQHr_ja4jitxZ9IETOugJvWeUCuOP0d_28Bjlpb3lAnUqsIFPGtnF28PWFNTK2nqm4Z97JSV0CHRO1WZup3Ef1SSSCnVlskolfXNBhshvWd46Tao4BZ8XHl3gXUoMP58/s400/INH01sm.jpg" border="0" alt="I'm Not Here storyboards, pg1"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220218831982609234" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHmog4EVC0fE9X-Kys5DRdQb5HPe3Ww6fxgBz40w0VqYrZN1ebOy-8OitxzJOgoer2mb7D7yRpeYQ1MKG3ra9KDTgUTq-hdNQysbcaABOAe5zjkWNmy5LHqXT4i92DYKbvUtzkMKBw-U/s1600-h/INH02sm.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHmog4EVC0fE9X-Kys5DRdQb5HPe3Ww6fxgBz40w0VqYrZN1ebOy-8OitxzJOgoer2mb7D7yRpeYQ1MKG3ra9KDTgUTq-hdNQysbcaABOAe5zjkWNmy5LHqXT4i92DYKbvUtzkMKBw-U/s400/INH02sm.jpg" border="0" alt="I'm Not Here storyboards, pg2"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220218836875487490" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhurLNNVQOv3ew93D3DZTWPsXahZ4qkceRi1ShWc5lcs5rM1T5cub28NUdmy6MwYOWN1nKV_t_wEbSjxhxARFh9KWCWIVLvRdZ0kJYXgLARev2OHek46GwOp2Cjw6u6nYdmFCQoseTdNXI/s1600-h/INH04sm.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhurLNNVQOv3ew93D3DZTWPsXahZ4qkceRi1ShWc5lcs5rM1T5cub28NUdmy6MwYOWN1nKV_t_wEbSjxhxARFh9KWCWIVLvRdZ0kJYXgLARev2OHek46GwOp2Cjw6u6nYdmFCQoseTdNXI/s400/INH04sm.jpg" border="0" alt="I'm Not Here storyboards, pg4"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220218846084096290" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD1H-B6TkInrNgkEeqsNcu1tumHH4znwTLttnpyjLjZQbJGOoge1q_8ktjBxx5UUbyI8-z28NQc_LKekQe6ANRhbsYgTZVuergyFxh3nkdmsY5BKIqI8xhFSlkisaBkAx2cvvP2uMBFpQ/s1600-h/INH05sm.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD1H-B6TkInrNgkEeqsNcu1tumHH4znwTLttnpyjLjZQbJGOoge1q_8ktjBxx5UUbyI8-z28NQc_LKekQe6ANRhbsYgTZVuergyFxh3nkdmsY5BKIqI8xhFSlkisaBkAx2cvvP2uMBFpQ/s400/INH05sm.jpg" border="0" alt="I'm Not Here storyboards, pg5"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220219565870083426" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyr-RHCoFHSVZGTXSfNRir8NpLyxGwhsJpjNYoSqKtHwyUGpVhIXXYUKPFf64-uKkOwsXKOk2HoHneALUl646T2kLNlxDH-ZH997qhCPyJo5jAXZTHkuo5TdBvYhfcQRjbMTVyy1bYG2Q/s1600-h/INH07sm.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyr-RHCoFHSVZGTXSfNRir8NpLyxGwhsJpjNYoSqKtHwyUGpVhIXXYUKPFf64-uKkOwsXKOk2HoHneALUl646T2kLNlxDH-ZH997qhCPyJo5jAXZTHkuo5TdBvYhfcQRjbMTVyy1bYG2Q/s400/INH07sm.jpg" border="0" alt="I'm Not Here storyboards, pg7"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220219583481446674" /></a><br /><br /><br />Below's the storyboard to still frame comparison. I was happy to see some of my storyboards make it to the final shots (like this one). Makes me feel like I did my job. Melissa Cruz knocked out her debut role. She literally was the star of the movie.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSqiY-4kO4ZlD2nv4QBEme2EYqLfsPaEcBQuu0vs7khJ_1oZo6jJo0AGJGB8FPvR9pSl9GAArDRYWYXordLD1OTVmJVHQhvW5ZXxh8Z2GGu7R9HPbbzSc4X_gU4TrLnbsjx6GpcyCydRo/s1600-h/INH-No16.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSqiY-4kO4ZlD2nv4QBEme2EYqLfsPaEcBQuu0vs7khJ_1oZo6jJo0AGJGB8FPvR9pSl9GAArDRYWYXordLD1OTVmJVHQhvW5ZXxh8Z2GGu7R9HPbbzSc4X_gU4TrLnbsjx6GpcyCydRo/s400/INH-No16.jpg" border="0" alt="I'm Not Here storyboard No.16-Still Frame"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220219585411275858" /></a><br /><br />Also, if you're already itching to see this short, here's a YouTube:<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CKqyidPNGVs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CKqyidPNGVs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Can't wait to see what feature Karly's got next.Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-71755819131058146702008-05-27T03:07:00.000-07:002008-12-08T14:44:19.923-08:00Hys<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik0FdwlWFEbBlpLWwYbOPZS4Dcmjvd9-S3JR8BELa57xm6iyvfugz-yc42dU-gs12C6hVZwkze3quR4l50r9WRrSP9M9XxjKYz7g-gCK1nljR-7saBsAobbvJnsx4IjrVbT-aXjwgnN1E/s1600-h/Hys.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik0FdwlWFEbBlpLWwYbOPZS4Dcmjvd9-S3JR8BELa57xm6iyvfugz-yc42dU-gs12C6hVZwkze3quR4l50r9WRrSP9M9XxjKYz7g-gCK1nljR-7saBsAobbvJnsx4IjrVbT-aXjwgnN1E/s400/Hys.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204997563583767186" /></a><br /><br />This is <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hys">Hys</a>; talented MC. Check his tracks. It's rare to bump into an MC that actually has flow and energy throughout. He has a very interesting indy music video directed by fellow comrade <a href="http://www.youtube.com/filmingkey">Key Soto</a>. Key has a few tracks of his own (by the name of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/keymelodics">Key Melodics</a>), one of which is a Hys track featuring he. They seem to be a natural together.<br /><br />I was strolling the group of photos from Hys's page, while listening, and just saw this montage in my mind' eye. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theme_art">Theme Art</a>'s photographs really exercised the various angles and poses Hys can evoke.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/theme_art">Theme Art</a> has a style where he controls light by obfuscating anything that he doesn't want shown. Most of his work consist of portraits and portraitures and headshots, bodies flowing in darkness... very distinctive.<br /><br />Between them two, this piece <span style="font-style:italic;">had</span> to be done. It's a web exclusive piece, since it was in the spur of the inspiration, and limited to 72dpi, alas. It needs tweaks here and there, but all in all, it was a good exercise.Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-82752281036357028862008-05-12T10:04:00.001-07:002008-12-08T14:44:20.732-08:00Two Logos, Out of Five-Hundred<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7XhtlXK6VakejQsudHcLuPLd-zOzRGT1hKV_WMhA2_E92sgeNXAge-kXhgT3TQ50X6iO-VGrjWYbyDmkLBTlcEUmWSHcu4Lf5gESspiNv9ajTi68s_AiPAECEbf_XnmwmJ2QzRwKFYxw/s1600-h/reallygoodlogos12.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199538785390197970" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="Really Good Logos Explained" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7XhtlXK6VakejQsudHcLuPLd-zOzRGT1hKV_WMhA2_E92sgeNXAge-kXhgT3TQ50X6iO-VGrjWYbyDmkLBTlcEUmWSHcu4Lf5gESspiNv9ajTi68s_AiPAECEbf_XnmwmJ2QzRwKFYxw/s400/reallygoodlogos12.jpg" border="0" /></a><br>For some 'really good' news, the <a href="http://smoky-mirrors.blogspot.com/2007/08/rammer-ambigram.html">Rammer ambigrammatic logo</a> and the Seven Up logo (not to be confused with 7UP) are published in <a href="http://www.rockpub.com/description.asp?isbn=1592534279">Rockport Publishers' Really Good Logos Explained</a>, written by Margo Chase, Rian Hughes, Ron Miriello, and Alex W. White. This makes this heap of flesh a happy designer.<br><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit2UuB6F6cX16MQwcOBzgymQxKUQW-nNcNx2VJtc7DCOo994jnvfaUN2Q41du7ZC3BVkjQ7GUijpbxcIXFc6WqMj5wg4lxtPjgkIP-2_-opWCOxT-NsZIKFU2r6-_b6g-fujurfJdLQCY/s1600-h/reallygoodlogos21.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199538793980132578" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="Seven Up logo in Really Good Logos Explained" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit2UuB6F6cX16MQwcOBzgymQxKUQW-nNcNx2VJtc7DCOo994jnvfaUN2Q41du7ZC3BVkjQ7GUijpbxcIXFc6WqMj5wg4lxtPjgkIP-2_-opWCOxT-NsZIKFU2r6-_b6g-fujurfJdLQCY/s400/reallygoodlogos21.jpg" border="0" /></a><br>Seven Up is a logo for a column by a prominent news site for comicbooks and its ilk, <a href="http://www.comicon.com/pulse/">The Pulse</a>. Seven Up was an interview column orchestrated by fellow comicbook writer <a href="http://www.myspace.com/lovebuzzcomic">Len Wallace</a> where he asks seven questions to up-and-coming comicbook artists. I figured I'd do the logo in black & white since most comicbook artists that're starting out print their comics in black & white for the cheaper price. Check out Len's latest endeavor, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/lovebuzzcomic">Love Buzz</a> with <a href="http://www.myspace.com/becomingx">Michelle Silva</a>.<br><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkVktNFfoiYt8JJLGf_PXxcI5WN7c6MpZWa6xxfOjKCxOXTdCvXAQnraPaHkAOAR5U87VI8Wt7lWR1m9zeWtHhs5KJIgHVwuHML3U2Fbl7OW9jULLEHeijM8otCKOYNaGY-y0W8FO7t8g/s1600-h/reallygoodlogos31.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199538798275099890" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="Pages 48 and 49 of Really Good Logos Explained" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkVktNFfoiYt8JJLGf_PXxcI5WN7c6MpZWa6xxfOjKCxOXTdCvXAQnraPaHkAOAR5U87VI8Wt7lWR1m9zeWtHhs5KJIgHVwuHML3U2Fbl7OW9jULLEHeijM8otCKOYNaGY-y0W8FO7t8g/s400/reallygoodlogos31.jpg" border="0" /></a><br>This is the spread featuring the <a href="http://smoky-mirrors.blogspot.com/2007/08/rammer-ambigram.html">Rammer ambigram</a>, its neighboring logos, and critique from three out of the four authors/designers. I wonder why any of them didn't suggest to put the logo upsidedown for those whom aren't privy to <a href="http://www.johnlangdon.net">John Langdon</a> or the advent of ambigrams.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyvG2JZk2WhcDoaGYOE_ssvqqGwB1C-KKuvPZvmEhE3TIdJuiS7IqS-THqgH_pkrGXgvVD3y3HJsJRpWwCu3ZVuDarVupqiFaHJFQa3LP3xb9kcXHoDQNHPt6xNkIF1EyDY_pk7ip89c/s1600-h/reallygoodlogos51.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199538802570067202" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="Rammer ambigram description in Really Good Logos Explained" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyvG2JZk2WhcDoaGYOE_ssvqqGwB1C-KKuvPZvmEhE3TIdJuiS7IqS-THqgH_pkrGXgvVD3y3HJsJRpWwCu3ZVuDarVupqiFaHJFQa3LP3xb9kcXHoDQNHPt6xNkIF1EyDY_pk7ip89c/s400/reallygoodlogos51.jpg" border="0" /></a><br><br>It's good to see that all the attention to negative space and my attempt to take Blackletter away from its current pigeonholes got recognized. The two logos wouldn't be in the book if it weren't for <a href="http://www.alexanderwwhite.com/">Alex W. White</a>. I took the Electronic Design 2 class and there he was, ready to turn the class into a design bootcamp. Not only did he introduce me to the existence of <a href="http://www.johnlangdon.net">John Langdon</a>, or the <a href="http://www.tdc.org">Type Directors Club</a> (of which White's currently serving as President), but he openned my eyes wider, and I began to see the negative space all in the world.<br><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPO8WqYcsU0DqIeVzpkmZhFixLj3Y2MaZCJatJ7J5BthOa2ecqjRHIX7Jr6w3-gBFs__azEjnfEZ7xweNTa8HMU4gdp0DLeJ0xLB7gz4HHgLqOYHtsNbSHi29buxCMt2dST-v-0XFcQJI/s1600-h/reallygoodlogos41.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199538806865034514" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="Rammer ambigram in Really Good Logos Explained" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPO8WqYcsU0DqIeVzpkmZhFixLj3Y2MaZCJatJ7J5BthOa2ecqjRHIX7Jr6w3-gBFs__azEjnfEZ7xweNTa8HMU4gdp0DLeJ0xLB7gz4HHgLqOYHtsNbSHi29buxCMt2dST-v-0XFcQJI/s400/reallygoodlogos41.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-22572672417159180432008-02-09T23:57:00.001-08:002008-12-08T14:44:20.906-08:00JetBlue Vector MagicYou saw the Lavalife vector ads at the NYC subway. (Done by <a href="http://www.marcoschin.com/">Marcos Chin</a>, the guy does good work) In a similar vein, here's some vector magic as a hypothesized gig:<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">JetBlue ad</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBXtMW9SEqRnzmrSWwgDj-AJEjjU2pTGk5dEidB90Crbc9eEb4nBvYj5jNmGNxdHVUWgtaUCK87L2yjI98o1SmF1Y19ZEbjNmU8VnVV6EwGNR9PY0cAloRIq8LH4LHiOph40H4T_Ros38/s1600-h/JetBlue-p01b72dpi.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165724581752945490" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBXtMW9SEqRnzmrSWwgDj-AJEjjU2pTGk5dEidB90Crbc9eEb4nBvYj5jNmGNxdHVUWgtaUCK87L2yjI98o1SmF1Y19ZEbjNmU8VnVV6EwGNR9PY0cAloRIq8LH4LHiOph40H4T_Ros38/s400/JetBlue-p01b72dpi.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Yo <a href="http://www.jetblue.com/">JetBlue</a>, get at me if you like the looks. The latest ad campaign was good (as I look at the NYC subway ads. Can anyone tell I'm from NYC?).<br /><br />Fun is there if you see close enough. Done 100% vector.<br /><br />Comments welcome and ilcome.Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3797947689330538906.post-78055158588319249842008-01-12T09:42:00.000-08:002008-12-08T14:44:21.257-08:00a Poster or twoYo yo yo. Whatup? Here's a poster for a fictitious reading event by <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Mamet</span> called <span style="font-style: italic;">Gems from a Gambler's Bookshelf and other Stories</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkhVbEyCzGxJ6G0Ux4WT6u3n2nLM1zYo_fbw-ptBgMsKG4SD_NkVm0OX3Vb7m79OvsHpu7rE945wJoZPJermov0USfN3F9NRNYToPx5OtMb8K9N0tKShXdaJQW5E0Jg2EGq8sNx2Olb4/s1600-h/davidmamet.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkhVbEyCzGxJ6G0Ux4WT6u3n2nLM1zYo_fbw-ptBgMsKG4SD_NkVm0OX3Vb7m79OvsHpu7rE945wJoZPJermov0USfN3F9NRNYToPx5OtMb8K9N0tKShXdaJQW5E0Jg2EGq8sNx2Olb4/s400/davidmamet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154653420966982674" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Below is a poster I did for City College of New York's SAME-TV for a fashion show they were throwing. I was art directed, so no one get any assumptions, ahem, ideas; 'very ghetto' is what we were going for. This was done with watercolor and color pencil, tabloid size.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiglIgOllaWaC20a_0dtLrC7ED_XTqyQIos060zQOl2wQ5X-KjUuPprNTJasfNwsC21MU4V4gW8CzSY9VBUca6iW1kKQkDt8cRMMV6mnH_BXnqZhHWxwt2fHxjGieH9_UHT8jXVjCy4MFk/s1600-h/fashionthrowdown.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiglIgOllaWaC20a_0dtLrC7ED_XTqyQIos060zQOl2wQ5X-KjUuPprNTJasfNwsC21MU4V4gW8CzSY9VBUca6iW1kKQkDt8cRMMV6mnH_BXnqZhHWxwt2fHxjGieH9_UHT8jXVjCy4MFk/s400/fashionthrowdown.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154654211240965154" border="0" /></a>Rammer Martínez Sánchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313793878134948296noreply@blogger.com2