After many months of sketching, discussing and research, I finally finished the movie poster for the feature film Raspberry Magic, written & directed by my lovely wife, Leena Pendharkar and produced by Megha Kadakia.

I’m going to follow up with a longer post on the process, since it took me a while to illustrate/design and may actually be somewhat interesting.  The final file is a 300dpi 24x36 inch movie size poster and is 1.3Gig file on my drive.  Many times my mac was struggling and saving took forever, but I’m looking forward to printing it out, there are a lot of details that can’t be seen in this smaller version.

In any case this is the first step into our branding strategy; a new website and post cards are soon to follow.  By the way if you are in the Bay Area, please check the film.  It’s awesome.

CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL
February 24, 7:15pm
March 5, 7:15pm
March 6, 7pm

My good friend, Robin Sukhadia (TablaPusher), and I will be performing together as SADUBAS at the LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) for 2 free live sets, featuring special guests: Sheela Bringi (Bansuri) and Megha & Meena of Taal Dance Collective.

Should be a lot of fun, with world music, mpc 2000 beats, tabla, bansuri flute and live interpretive dance.  Bring the family for a FREE day at the LACMA on MLK’s day.

Monday, January 18, 2010
LACMA - Public Day, sponsored by Target

5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
12:30 pm & 2:30 pm
FREE

Pretty slick usage of the soundcloud player on a page.  Album artwork does make a difference, and as a widget developer myself, i give mad props to the slick design and layout of the player in general.

Its been a minute since I posted a bedtime sketch.  This one was completed last night and is a proposal composition for a mural my very talented artist friend, Santiago Heredia, and I may be doing on a large space in Glendale.

The theme is bascially Sumo vs Octopus; those are supposed to be an army of sumo wrestlers parachuting down to take on a giant octopus.  The sumo theme is related to the space we were ask to paint for but the rest is just some random scene I started thinking of (also, i wanted to draw a big ass octopus).  I’ve never done a mural nor painted something so large, so this is an experience I’m looking forward to.  Not sure how the project will go and what the final design will be, but thought it was a cool little sketch nonetheless.

I’ve been a big fan of generative art for a while and one of the reason I became a flash developer.  This is nice post with tutorials links and app you can use to get started making your own pieces.

Really slick UI for filtering and selecting music tracks that fit the mood you are in.  Love the Flash execution, tight.

so funny

Been a while since I went out for a drink, just came back from one

Last night, the LACMA held a private reception for their very cool new exhibition: Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India’s Comics.  The exhibit highlights some of India’s newest talent interpreting characters from ancient Hindu mythology into contemporary South Asian comic books.  It showcases original black & white boards from some of these comics and the art is quite lovely.  Being an illustrator, I loved seeing these huge drawings in pen and pencil before they have been inked for high quality mass production.  I highly recommend checking out this unique show while it lasts.

Speaking of the reception, I was invited to DJ the event and was joined by my good friend, Robin Sukhadia (TablaPusher).  We played together for the first time in over a year, he on the tablas with effects pedal and me on the decks; was good times.  The invite to the reception was pretty rad and now that it is over I can post it.

Several months back, for a hot minute or so, I really got into drawing birds.  My typical method of drawing things is scouring Google images for photographs and then just illustrating bits and pieces into a composition I like.  I ended up creating my general business card out of some of my doodles and was really pleased with the final printing from vistaprint.

They actually have a pretty solid heavy stock with a nice finish, quality and print was good.  I got a free t-shirt out of it too. nice.