When I saw the cover for the new Death Cab for Cutie album, I thought to myself, “hey, I’ve seen this before.”

Les Savy Fav, The Microphones, and Lamb all had similar album covers for their respective albums around the turn of the century.
The Microphones, in 2000
I would say the Death Cab for Cutie album cover [...]

Filed under: artwork, music, thoughts on July 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »

I was just driving home this evening and rain and sunset mixed together to make everything cool and yellowish. I’d already taken more than enough photos at times like these, so I thought I’d do something a little different. Music is: Lamb - “Five”.

Filed under: artwork, music, video on June 19th, 2008 | No Comments »

I shot a few bits of video during the drive from one friend’s home in Coral Gables to another friend’s home in South Miami. Here’s what came of it. Music: “Neuflex” by Two Lone Swordsmen.

Filed under: artwork, music, video on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

I’m limited in my video capabilities by the fact that I don’t have an actual video camera, so I have to rely on the video function on my still camera. So, I started shooting some short clips of scenery and adding clips of music and ended up with “blips”.
After creating a few of them, I [...]

Filed under: artwork on June 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

Some Waves, originally uploaded by ASurroca.

This one has a simple story. I was working on putting up some new product for my job, and really dug the purple/green color scheme of this bike seat.
This one’s got tons of the screen door effect and pretty much requires viewing at full size to appreciate.

Filed under: artwork on June 10th, 2008 | No Comments »

The Sunset Glint, originally uploaded by ASurroca.

Still at the artwork in Photoshop… I started off with this piece, took out all the ribbony bits, and focused on turning the photos into this abstract piece here. I did add a few new ribbony bits that (purposely) make a screen-door effect.

Filed under: artwork on May 28th, 2008 | No Comments »

In Rainbows, originally uploaded by ASurroca.

Why the title? Duh. I started making something bright and airy and with a white background, and I ended up with this instead.
Reminds me of the Stanley Donwood’s artwork for Radiohead’s current album. I’d say it’s inspired by it, but it really isn’t; this is just the way this bit [...]

Filed under: artwork on May 28th, 2008 | No Comments »

One Drive Cable, originally uploaded by ASurroca.

I’m still on a color kick, and filled with much linear love. Once again, I headed over to COLOURlovers to make myself a five-color palette and got to work.
If you cannot tell, this is a hard disk drive cable; well, it would be an HDD cable, were HDD cables [...]

Filed under: artwork on May 24th, 2008 | No Comments »

Just finished a new little bit of really colorful artwork… from my flickr photostream…

I sat idly for a couple hours, and came up with this in the meantime. Since I wanted something colorful, naturally, my first stop was COLOURlovers, where I used their palette design app to come up with the five-color palette used here.
I’ve [...]

Filed under: artwork on May 20th, 2008 | No Comments »