Who Be He?
They call him Phillip Retuta. He calls himself a visual & interactive designer, motion graphics artist, and illustrator -- an all-around artist. He's 29 years old, from Chicago, living in NYC, and has a lovely husky-lab mix named Nico. Currently employed as Senior Designer at a digital and social media firm.
What's All This Then?
Well, it's a fairly random tumblog of current and upcoming art endevours, photographs, comic sketches, creative philosophies, inspirations, and generally incomplete art projects.
So yeah, it's like a sketchbook.
Demo Reel 2012-2013
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
For the past 5 years I’ve taken a photo/drew an picture/wrote something and posted the image onto Flickr (give or take a few hundred while I was busy with grad school). I’ve collected all the photographs into a single Flickr set.
Guys, with these last 5 years, this is my autobiography.
Burning Text Into Your Polaroid (The Impossible Project Stock Film).
I ran into this cool tutorial on their blog. Needless to say, it works: just cut out some stencils into a completely opaque, paper-thin material, and as soon as the picture pops out of your Polaroid camera, immediately tape the edges of the stencil to the picture (this way, no light can enter around the corners) and develop it under a bright light.
It works best if 1) your camera’s exposure setting is dark, and 2) your subject is wearing dark clothing.
I’m starting a new, long-term interactive art project, inspired by the “A Million Little Pictures Project,” “Disposable Memory,” and YouTube’s “A Life In A Day.” As of yet, I haven’t developed a formal title.
Here’s the gist: I’m sending out disposable cameras across the US to people who I’ve met in my life. It’s a way to reconnect with old friends and create an individual, personal narrative of the people I know and miss. They’ll use that disposable camera to document everything he or she sees in a day or a week or a month: the people they meet, the places they visit, the things they eat — no subject is off limits, except that the person who gets the camera can’t be in the picture. Essentially, it’s supposed to represent what the user sees, and unless the user is staring at a mirror, he or she shouldn’t be seen.
Anyway, they’ll each mail me back the camera, and I’ll develop the film (with digital copies) and I’ll compose an interactive site/film using the images.
The map above consists on where the cameras will go on a local, national, and even international level.
GPOYW - Merry XM Edition.
After the Holidays, it’s time to get back to the grind. Merry X-Men, from Nico and me.
-pr.
