Vicious Valentine: Never Go to Bed Angry from CinéCinnati on Vimeo.

I'm still playing catch up after a vicious hard drive failure — finally putting the finishing touches on a short film Bridget, Chrissy and I made in March of 2008! It is part of my Valentine series, or "Vicious Valentines" as I am now calling them, a failed feature film that has turned into a series of shorts about a man named Dede who has very "unfortunate Februarys."

Here is a link to Chrissy's production stills of the shoot.

This is what our nephew thinks Bridget looks like:

The Singing Bridge from CinéCinnati on Vimeo.

This is an example of an experimental documentary style I was developing around 2002-2006. I experimented with abstractly communicating the history of a place with only sound and image — almost if the memories of a place would come alive while you were visiting.

I just found an incomplete edit on an old disc — unfortunately my source files have been lost due to a hard drive failure and this project was never completed.

Many thanks to Chris Bautista who ran sound while we were filming. Later we had a production "wrap party" at Mullanes. Oh memories!

My new year's resolution for 2011 will be to create at least one piece of art each week. It could be a photograph, design, film, sculpture, etc,. I would also like to share the work of my friends and followers as well, perhaps here and there we will do themed contests as well.

A bit of decadence for the holidays


For the past year my workload has been pretty diversified and I really love it. I work on everything from detergent to water to snacks to air fresheners to chocolate to liqueur and sometimes coffee and identity projects.

I love customizing a design to fit a unique brand and their consumers. I create a lot of typography for custom logos and it is something I have had a passion for since design school.

This year I drew a coloring book for my nieces and nephews for Christmas. I really loved making this for them — it is rare that anyone gets to see my actual drawings as a finished product.


Cover with Animal Numbers.


Shepard Fairey even made it into the book!


I love the detail of Bridget's cyclocross bike on the right.

I think I will do this more often. It has been a few years since I have pushed myself to use my drawing and painting skills in projects.

I've been racing bikes a lot lately, actually that is why I stopped posting on this blog for nearly 3 years. I have another blog called JimmyRoadRash where I also experiment with design while telling cycling stories. This video combines the aesthetic of the blog from the Summer/Fall of 2010 with video by Thomas Campbell and Brian Vernor. I really love abstract, soulful videos that capture the beauty of sport as well as at times capture what it is like to participate. Thomas Campbell's films are beautiful and there are moments in Brian Vernor's films where you feel you are in a race.

Today I had the opportunity to present my film Summer at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Fortunately someone remembered my video and asked for me to present it in front of an audience. I even made a "making of featurette" that I narrated after my film was shown.





Chrissy, Tommy, Mummy & Pappy could make it, we celebrated my Mom's birthday in the Museum Café.



I'm about to wow the "crowd." I mean, I'm about to wow 4-6 old ladies.

A short promo I created for a local Cyclocross race weekend. Cyclocross is a form of off-road cycling that requires cyclist to dismount their bikes to get over barriers, it is as much fun to race as it looks bizarre.

Lovely little video I found on Vimeo:

PORTOFINO from I C Blue Production on Vimeo.