
Pencil & water color on paper.
4.7×7.3 inches (120×185 mm)
I was looking for a way to publish my comics on the Internet. I didn't like social media platforms too much and I couldn't find a proper blog template to do what I had in mind. I wanted to show my comics in multiple languages and read them on displays of any size from small to big. Then, my brother was able to majestically develop this idea that was spinning in my head: A platform for publishers and artist to publish their comics. For the time being, I use this alpha version to share Ian Nose's my comics and a side project Laino Mehe. Hopefully one day we will be able to launch it so that anybody can make a good use of it!Explore Ian Nose's comics in various languages in Frozeen: http://frozeen.com
This drawing is based on a photograph taken by Steph & Noelis in Ponce in 2012. Fifty years later, Steph continues taking photographs but has changed the skateboard for a modern rocket backpack. Noelis on the other hand is now equipped with a Portable Medical Laboratory Unit. I am the ball floating around. You don't want to know what happened to me.
The expression of the guy in the logo represents the happiness of having sold something and making someone happy as well as receiving money for that. The tear coming out from the guys eye represents the sadness when you let go something that you like just because you need the money. If you realize the two eyes and the nose are made with an 'R' an 'L' and a 'P' meaning 'Random Limited Products' as this is primarily a used stuff store with limited availability of a diversity of products.
This project started just a year ago with ChronOtomo: Katsuhiro Otomo Chronology facebook page. During this time, we have realized that this platform wasn't the most appropriate for this kind of project. Today we launched the website version. For the past year we have been collecting and publishing as much information about Katsuhiro Otomo's works as we could, and despite we are still a long way from completion, we've already published more than 500 posts and 700 images. All this material is now collected in ChronOtomo: Katsuhiro Otomo Chronology in a more convenient way, making use of links and tags so that the exploration of the many books and illustrations is much more pleasing.
We realized that when AA-AND-NN is written, it makes the already confusing and hard to spell name hard to recognize at a glance, so we thought it needed to be changed; this time we made use of the '&' and replaced the typography so that the overall logo had a much cleaner look.
We did this video one afternoon after class with our cat Rasputin, I thought he was going to be more whiling to work with us but the truth is he doesn't like cameras too much.
We were playing some basketball that afternoon and recording ourselves with a cell phone trying to dunk when Jhalon, that always has a funny story to tell up his sleeve, improvised this. He is a natural born story teller. I always tell he him that he should pursue a performing career.
I found Neil stuck to a tree while I was visiting 'El Yunque' rainforest. I took it with me and feed it for one or two weeks in my dorm while I shot this video. Then a friend of mine who was going back to the rainforest took it back to his habitat. I wonder where is it now.
The only rule the teacher gave us this time was that it had to be one continuous shot. No cuts. We were the same group that did the Scape video a few weeks ago so we decided to relate this new one to the old in a certain way. Thanks must be given to all the friends that featured on it for helping us, specially to the two main actors.
I think the only rule we had when shooting this video was to keep it simple. But I really don't remember how we end up doing this. We improvised a lot, as usual.
That was my second semester as teacher assistant with professor Atxu Amann and among the multiple things we did during that semester, one of the coolest was this contest entry developed by the whole class based upon an idea by Inés Sell that was previously selected by popular vote. I don't really know how close the final video is to what she had in mind. Even we had 5 or 6 cameras recording the performance the final footage was terrible, but somehow we manage to make a video out of it.
I did the logo for my own comic strip because I didn't had money to hire anybody else.
It's a long time I know Atxu and Marta and I have done many thing with them in the past but this year I was teacher assistant in their first year DAI 1 class that was centered on the shuffling dancing movement that was hitting hard at the time. We decided the best and most easy and open way for students to share their works with each other and with anyone interested outside the class as well as the most efficient for the teachers to track their work, was creating a blog. It's nothing fancy but it worked pretty well, I think.
As AA&NN was yet undefined as a company we decided that by now it was good to play with the design of the companies that we liked. So we took the first A is from NASA, the next A from AUDI, another A this time from AKIRA. Then an N from NOKIA a D from iPod and finally two N's, the first one from NINTENDO and the second one from SONY.
This blog is basically an on-line manifestation of the way I have been organizing my works and references for a long time in my analog and digital life. I started to visualize this project in a more clear way after the end of year 2007 when I founded AA&NN with my brother during the WEST OF THE MOON / EAST OF THE SUN project in Madrid Architecture School.
The concept behind the proposal was, not only a tribute to Jorge Oteiza and to make small replicas of his well known 'Laboratorio de Tizas' (chalk laboratory) with parts of broken or used Silestone pieces, but to urge, specially the children, to play creating spacial figures an vacuum with the malleable white chalk and why not, with the colorful small hard Silestone parts.
The proposal consisted in using the Silestone boards one after another creating a colorful continuous surface inspired by a famous soda brand.
Launched in March 2011, this project went from various stages of design until the launch of its Frozeen page in August 2014. We conveniently accommodated there the translated comic works and we have continued using LainoMehe's website and its facebook page for more text centric entries and also, to post, link and share every time we translate to Basque and publish a new comic. A thing that happens less often than we would like.WHAT IS LAINO MEHE?
It was really exhausting recording all this with a single camera. I was running up and down the streets to make the best shots possible by myself, with camera on hand, with no tripod and even my camera is really light, by the end of the day my wrist fall apart. Then when I went back home and check for the clips I realized some had some audio issues due to the loud music. That and my already oldie HP6710b laptop make me leave the video unedited for a long time. It was not until I got an Apple Macbook Pro that I finished editing it. Definitively next time I have to find a real crew to do a work like this.
After six months outside the architecture school, I came back for the first days of classes of the second semester and my friends and professors Atxu Amann and Marta Maiz were there organizing a crazier than ever commencement class for DAI2. I was luckily there to shoot it and I end up editing this video featuring the awesome music composed composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for David Fincher's latest movie: The Social Network.
Juliette, Constance and Giulia were so generous for letting me record their private conversations while having breakfast in Alpina 11 where we were living as interchange students in Mexico. All the credit its theirs...I just, was there.
Meeting an anime director as relevant and busy as Satoshi Kon in person is something that you are lucky if happens to you once in a life time, and a privilege if you are not even living in Japan. Luckily Satoshi Kon accepted the invitation to this year's Animadrid and I had not only the opportunity to meet him, but also pick up one of his books I owned and ask for a signature. He did a beautiful drawing of Chiyoko in his book KON'S TONE. Today, four years later is sad to read that he passed away because of a cancer at the young age of 48; in the maturity of his creative career. I would never expect that. I guess, sometimes we think that the people we admire will live forever as their works will, but then the reality hits us every now and then. Rest In Peace Satoshi Kon.
The organization of Solar Decathon promoted a video competition so Rodrigo Delso, Javier Argota and I, came up with a simple idea; we went on location to see what was happening there. Even the joke was funny and the execution pretty poor, we ended up winning the first prize.
My friend Luis Mesejo called me one afternoon asking for help in creating a bunch of videos for Sweet Life Society so I help him out making one of them. I did the video the day the iPhone 4 was presented and as I was watching Job's key note, I came up with the idea of using the factory footage featured on it. When you use quality footage the quality stands out.