Stephen Tamiesie is a photographer based out of Santa Barbara, CA. I stumbled upon his work over at Behance and was instantly drawn to it. Stephen’s collection of work doesn’t rely on fancy light set ups or obvious photoshop work but, focuses on just raw compositions. Stephen’s compositions all share strong graphic qualities using shape & form, patterns, perspective and positive tension while staying close to the Golden Section. Stephen is able to capture an array of emotion using everyday subject matter thats beauty and potential is often overlooked and unappreciated by the not so keen eye. I could even go as far as his work sharing some subtile “new realism” qualities as Wayne Thiebaud and Andrea Galvani’s pattern compositions. Amazing work Stephen!


You can purchase Stephen Tamiesie’s photography at the Len’s Modern Gallery.


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If you skate, then I’m sure you’ve had a dream at least once in your life that shares many similarities to Mystery’s latest promo spots appropriately called “Dreamspot”. The Dreamspot promo’s feature Mystery’s top skaters skating in a dream-like setting. Everything from the minimal surreal set, music, camera angles, props and effortless skate style. Every trick is mastered, landed with both feet over the bolts; a skater’s dream. Thanks for the link Matt!


Enjoy!




Dreamspot’s 1 - 3

I dug this album up the other day and it still sounds as good as it did back in 04. Emperor X for the most part is a one man show with similarities to the band “Atom & His Package”. Emperor X’s sound ranges from electronic elements to basically any tangible object you can imagine, backed with a vocabulary all to it’s own. The songs posted below are off his Central Hug/Friendlyarmy/Fractaldunes album; my fav.

There’s also apparently a small documentary soon to be released about Chad Matheny aka Emperor X; I’m keeping my eye out for it.


Enjoy!

Emperor X — Live in a Connecticut Laser Tag Arena
His commentary cracks me up, sounds fun!







Emperor X - Sfearions

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Emperor X - Right to the Rails

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Emperor X - Coast to Coast

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Emperor X - Use Your Hands

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My buddy and fellow designer Demetre Arges was playing some office tunes the other day from “Zoot Woman”. I instantly fell in love with them. The band has been around for quite sometime now (2003ish). I don’t know how I ever missed these guys?! Their sound is remenisant of Hall & Oats, Queens of the Stone Age, Fuji Miyagi with a The Pet Shop Boys flare. A great blend of driving basslines, sexy/aire vocals, warm analog sounding synths and minimalist compositions. I can almost guarantee that after you hear the song “It’s Automatic” you’ll catch yourself singing the chorus for quite some time. I know I can’t get it out of my head!


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Video: Zoot Woman - Grey Day

Zoot Woman - It’s Automatic

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Zoot Woman - Grey Day

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Zoot Woman - Useless Anyway

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Zoot Woman - Living In A Magazine

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The latest Scion Drive Tour site featuring cool After Effects, an interactive map, photo gallery and live fundraiser ticker.

More interactive portfolio updates coming this week…