Some Music videos ... by Tony Petrossian

Stone Sour - Through glass
Directed - Tony Petrossian

Stone Sour's clever new video for the radio hit "Through Glass" takes a super-ironic dig at all things plastic and transparent in the not-so-mythical land of 'Hollowood'.

I love how Tony Petrossian portrayed this in a way to make the audience connected to the message and make them realize that Hollywood is just a place where people want to belong but have to be fake to do so.



Avenged Sevenfold - Beast And The Harlot
Directed - Tony Petrossian

One of my favourite bands, this song is pretty dark when you take it apart but yeah i like the style of the video and the quirkiness to it.

Stone Sour and Avenged Sevenfold are due to do a co-headlining UK tour in October and November.

Maggie Taylor Vs. Digital Kitchen

Maggie Taylor is an American Digital artist and photographer who uses photoshop to create prints.

"Maggie Taylor used to be a still-life photographer who created collages by physically laying out her compositions and then capturing them on film. She then discovered digital photography and how images could be transformed and enriched thanks to Photoshop, a technique she has used since 1996."
(http://ilanadavita.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/photoshop-art-in-italy/, 1/10/09)

Digital Kitchen used Taylor's prints in the title sequence for 'Ghost Whisperer' and changed some of the prints to fit the program. You could say its a 2.5D animation, for they used still images and made them like they were in a 3D world, much like Taylor did with her originals.

Left, Maggie Taylor's original prints.
Right, Digital Kitchens Ghost whisperer Opening Credits.







Find more prints and similar ones to the credits on Maggie Taylor's website, Maggie Taylor.com

The opening Credits to Ghost Whisperer by Digital Kitchen (link in side bar)



I Was thinking of using Ghost whisperer as a starting point in my own title sequence, but make one for its 'webisode', a spin off, "Ghostwhisperers The Otherside" the 'webisode' shows you the Otherside of the story the ghosts story.

Found out about this here: Livingtv.co.uk/shows/ghost
Then went to youtube, and found the first 'webisode' which is below.

The Otherside, 'Webisode' 1.

Kyle cooper

I chose one of my favourite designers; Kyle Cooper the creator of many memorable title sequences like Se7en, Flubber, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Mission: Impossible, The Mummy, Dawn of the Dead, The Incredible Hulk and many more, to look into his influences and interests. Kyle is still very proud of his work and doesn't regret any of them, he pushes the boundries especially for 'Dawn of the Dead' by using real blood. One of his influences helped him base his sequence from the film 'Se7en' to a classic sequence for 'To Kill A Mockingbird" created by Stephen O. Frankfurt.

'To Kill A Mockingbird' - Stephen O. Frankfurt.

'Se7en' - Kyle Cooper

Cooper's style is very similar to Frankfurt's in this sequence with the live action filming, up close and personal, so it feels like your the one doing the things it shows in both sequences, you get the same feel for them, although 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is really different to the film 'Se7en' the mood is different you still think the same in the way that you know where cooper got his idea from.

From an interview by ThunderChunky.co.uk

"You have been cited as the most influential film credit designer since Saul Bass. Was his work an inspiration to you?

Not as much as people who have written about me have suggested. I love Walk On The Wild Side and Man With The Golden Arm but I actually have gotten much more familiar with his work after I started doing this. Paul Rand was my mentor and he and Saul Bass were often compared to each other. There is no question that Saul Bass is the father of film titles but Paul Rand was the father of American graphic design. Mr. Rand and my teachers at Yale did not hold up Saul Bass as a great designer. I think Saul Bass’s contribution is obvious and I love the later work he did with Martin Scorsese but by Rand’s standards Bass was not a typographer. I prefer the Westinghouse logo to the Minolta logo. The thing with Rand also was that he did everything with his own hand and I do not think as far as the logos go that was the case with Saul Bass. But again I do not consider myself worthy to be compared with either of these men but I will press on and hopefully get better."

Saul Bass was one of the first to realize the creative potential of the opening and closing credits of a film and started to experiment in different ways to draw the attention of viewers and try to create different moods to suit the nature of the film itself.

'Anatomy of a Murder' - Saul Bass




Paul Rand was a graphic designer who wanted to push boundaries and experiment to create a certain mood in his work that would suit a certain situation, also to make it memorable and have a meaning that everyone gets straight away like Saul Bass and Kyle Cooper in their title sequences.

Direction Magazine, 1939 - Paul Rand




'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' - Danny Yount & Kyle cooper

Many designers get their influences and ideas from what they have seen and incorporate them into their own work like you can see above.

Antony Micallef

A friend told me about this artist not too long ago and I got curious so I began to look him up. His mix of political imagery fused with contemporary expressionism create something original and straight to the point he is trying to make, some more intense than others, which makes his work more respectable on his views.

Face.


This piece named 'Face' caught my eye while I was browsing through his work, I just love the different textures and brush strokes he used to create such an abstract piece of art.

Parasite.


This piece made me look twice when I saw it as an icon. This Exhibited at the Royal Academy in London (Burlington Gardens entrance) until Jan 19 2009. I have to say its in your face a little but I like it, like from a distance or small it looks like a moth/butterfly but when you look closer you see a lot of bodies of children forming the shape.

Check out his Websites antonymicallef.com just click on one of the three pictures to enter the site.

Spookyland - Roman Dirge

Ah! I got all giddy when I came across this guys work 'Roman Dirge'.
I found him on Myspace and he is an odd character himself, but I guess that comes with what he does. He does things like comics and animation, unfortunately the animations are no longer available so I cant show you but here is some of his art work and comic strips.

Fancy Shmancy Lenore.

Serpenteese.

Lenore Comics





Go Visit his website Spookyland.com to see more of his work and find out more.