Title indulgence to Michael Tompert of Raygun Studio commissioned by photographer Andy Mahr to create a rocket ship for the 2012 Chick-Fil-A calendar, available at a restaurant near you. Here is the A-B-C of building, sans E.C.s-extraterrestrial chickens-though we haven’t given up hope they exist somewhere in the universe:
A) comp:
B) design:
C) build:
D) final:
+ reminding that daylite savings comes our way this weekend too.
DIrections to BRIM | WHITESPACE Are Here
Further Reception + Art Details on Facebook Are Here
RSVP’s happily being taken: 12LVE@tidepoolreps.com
Michael Tompert embodies Tidepool’s founding Mission Statement in all the right ways: The vision that it’s possible for artists to be artists and still thrive in the commercial world.
Which ultimately meant we weren’t anything other than pleasantly surprised when we started seeing the parts and pieces of a very personal labor of 12LVE lve coming out of the Raygun Studio. Pieces that relied on the honed and updated technologies of his medium, which in turn became the contemplative crux of this debut collection—a channeled technique of photography and scanography combined to produce large scale works with microscopic detail.
As this invite headline encourages, you’re invited on March 12th to view the collection, form an opinion…
DIrections to BRIM | WHITESPACE are here
RSVP to 12LVE@tidepoolreps.com and we’ll count you in.
Combining high-resolution photography, scanography and self-referential iPhone photography, these images from digital artist Michael Tompert, in collaboration with photographer Paul Fairchild, are large scale yet microscopic, providing a canvas for contemplating our relationship with fetish, fashion, freedom and bondage.
Reception and preview of the collection in its entirety, November 12th from 6:00 p.m. through midnight. RSVP for the guest list to kate at tidepoolreps dot com. “12LVE” will run through November 14th. Pricing available upon request.
Further info, gallery hours and continued updates for 12LVE on FB here
11/12 Review Over on Cult of Mac
A seed of an idea sprouts and makes its way to the light…
Check it out as details grow over on Facebook/TakingLiberties
Two days alone in New York. A weekend stay after a long project in one of Michael’s favorite cities—a rarity of time and space allowed somewhere between the family vacation and Raygun Studio work-flow. Michael’s Polaroids and the words of Poet, Anna Hempstead:
When with her clouds the early dawn illumes
Our doubtful streets, wistful they grow and mild
As if a sleeping soul grew happy and smiled,
The whole dark city radiantly blooms.
Pale spires lift their hands above the glooms
Like a resurrection, delicately wild,
And flushed with slumber like a little child,
Under a mist, shines forth the innocent Tombs. Thus have I seen it from a casement high.
As unsubstantial as a dream it grows.
Is this Manhattan, virginal and shy,
That in a cloud so rapturously glows?
Ethereal, frail, and like an opening rose, I see my city with an enlightened eye.
Working for/with photographer Robert Schlatter meant that for their most recent collaboration, Michael found himself and his CG capabilities embedded on the front lines with Goodby and Robert on a 12-concept HP campaign.
Nothing like a daughter’s college tour to get you out of the office and remind you how time flies.
For Best of CGI in a category of conceptual for a client to-maybe-be-named-later…
Besides that, the Raygun app just passed the 10,000 downloads mile marker, pick yours up today for free at the iTunes App Store… just type in “Raygun” in the search.
