goodbye, comfort zone. see you in a year or so.
i am embarking on a new documentary project which will take me who knows where, mentally and physically. i still haven't decided when to start sharing informations about it, but will soon set up a website for the project.
wish me luck, it's going to be a long journey.

finally! the documentary narrating the making of the album N.A.S.A. will premiere on August 2 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. it was directed by my friends and collaborators Sam Spiegel and Syd Garon, and i helped doing some animation segments for it (aided by the magic help of Markus Wagner and Ranefritte). make sure you come and support this 4 years long effort!
congrats Sam and Syd, you fucking rule.

i love it when the excuse to leave LA for a while comes in the form of a festival. I will be in Atlanta from 11 to 15 of August, where my film Megunica will be screened at the Living Walls Conference, an event about public art. in their own words: "The idea behind Living Walls is to put the work of a very small subset of the population (street artists, graffiti writers, etc), people who actually interact with space, and people who spend their time in discourse about public space all under the same roof. Our intentions are simply to broadcast to the attendees a wide spectrum of ideas about public space, hoping that everyone leaves the event looking at the city, its walls, and how we interact with space differently." Very much my cup of tea.
The film will be screened at the Java Lords venue on the 12th. More infos on the website. Please come and say hello!

yesterday i was at The Family, the best art bookstore in LA where a lot of my favorite artists pass by all the time, where they hosted a presentation of the new epic book by one of those favorite artists of mine, Anders Nilsen . The magnum opus, which has just been released, is called Big Questions, and it's the collection of all the chapter that he released over the years in smaller fanzine forms. i would find them over the years with great pleasure at random comic bookstores, and soon i realized they were part of a bigger plan/story. nothing out of the ordinary, i agree, if only it didn't take him 12 years to complete the story. TWELVE years. i won't even begin to think about how much dedication, passion and commitment you need to keep going at something for all that time. infact, i was complaining all the time that my film Megunica took me two years to make.. pff, beginner.
you can buy Anders book directly from Drawn & Quarterly website here, you won't regret it, trust me.

the short film I shot for the Levi's Workshop Food event, "The sound of heat", is up online. yes, we ate that food after camera stopped rolling.