I Constantly Have videos on play while I’m working on stuff, I love tunes but a huge influence on my work is films, I just like to pick a movie and watch it over and over and subconsciously let it work it’s way into my drawings.
Here’s what’s currently on my DVD playlist:
The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie.
In Luis Bunuel’s satiric, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined. Perhaps his greatest film, Bunuel’s absurdist view of the upper class is a timeless satire about consumerism and class privilege in a late capitalist world.
Dither’s Disc 2
Art aficionado and filmmaker Reid van Renesse focuses on graffiti and other street art in this sweeping exploration of contemporary urban painting. In interviews with some 30 artists, Van Renesse highlights their intriguing underground culture. Painters, photographers and others — including Sam Flores, Andy Mueller, Ricky Powell, David Choe, Dug One and Tiffany Bozic — discuss their creations, their motivations and the state of art today.
I think the Ricky Powell Interview is hilarious because he keeps losing his focus on account of his cat Blackberry, I keep watching that one.
