
4 pages | B&W
Read it in various languages in Frozeen.
Collected in the book:
It's a shame how most of the DVDs and Blu-ray discs released nowadays are presented in cheap plastic cases with huge holes, no booklets and many times horrible cover art. We already owned many of the Coen brother's movies on blu-ray so I thought it would be great to complete their filmography in a more convenient way. I chose the affordable Viva Elite 8 disc boxes to fit the 16 films the Coen's have directed to this day. I've organized them chronologically and for the cover art I used the original movie posters and rewrote the credits included in therein, so they could be readable. The two boxes together measure just the same as four single disc boxes so shelve space is not wasted and there is nothing to miss, because the films didn't come with any kind of special booklets or cool cover artwork.
This was a sketch of a short story about 'Txorimaloak', the bigheaded carnival figures that follow the kids around the town during the festivities, I hope to finish it one of this days.
'Laino Mehe' means 'Thin Cloud' in Basque so I couldn't though in none other than the most famous cloud in comics history, even it's pretty thick. I hope Laino Mehe grows thicker everyday.
KALEBLOK is a group of climbers that once a year go hangout on the streets of Oñati and climb in the walls and balconies along the streets. That is what they've told me they do because I've never seen them in action. Their motto in basque is "Siñistu ta Txipittu" that means Believe and Destroy. The t-shirts were silk screen printed.
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?