01.07.10
I am really digging this little experimental motion piece titled, ‘Metempsychosis’ from motionographer Alain Lores. I would love to see something like this utilizing typography. You can see more of Alain’s work here.
12.11.08
Wow, I gotta lay down some memories here because the flickr-folio of Carlos who also has a site called Miami Fever brought back so damned many visions of that city it hit me like a wave. I lived in Miami for a year and it has to be one of the hardest, craziest most surreal years of my life. That city is wild. It’s harsh, it’s beautiful, it’s sexy, it’s cruel, it’s illegal, it’s fun, it’s evil humid, it’s stinky sweet, it’s mean, and it is hotter than hell almost all year long. You can’t escape the heat either because of the humidity. You adapt after a while and your skin and hair look great but coming from Colorado it was a rough adaptation.
There are some of the most amazingly beautiful women you have ever dreamed of in your life there. The humidity is choking even at night and there are always rings around the street lights and cockroaches scurrying in the gutter. There are silicone boobs, wannabe rappers and sixpacks everywhere you look on Miami Beach and a good mojito is going to cost you at least 12 bucks. You can have some of the best times you have ever imagined and then the next second have a bloody lip lying on the floor in detox. I made shit money there, but had some amazing times. Denver is a lot more easy living but there was a desperate beauty about Miami that (sorry to sound corny, but it is absolutely true) still haunts my dreams.
You can really get a sense of all that at Miami Fever. You can almost feel it and smell it.
03.25.08
There’s some really nice work coming out of Miami, specifically from MAP Magazine.
MAP Magazine is a unique quarterly publication fusing intelligent content and progressive design to reflect the relevance of Miami as an emerging cultural mecca.
MAP stands for music, art and people and covers cultural issues, showcases talented artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, designers and chefs and covers everything that is design. I’ve been checking out their interactive page-turning website and downloading their free PDF issues since Issue 1 now and they’re obviously growing in the right direction.
As a Miamian living in Los Angeles, it’s nice to see some unique work coming out of the 305 and it’s a great way to be apart of the Miami cultural scene even living 3,000 miles away. But the best part of MAP is that you really don’t need to have anything to do with Miami to appreciate the design and art work coming out of the south and the cultural capitial that So. Fla has become.
