i can't believe i found the time to sit down in a pub and draw something, in the midst of all the music video madness.

airplane pilots can get creative too! i'm in London preparing to shoot my first music video with Warp, for artist Jamie Woon.



this is a picture from today's location scout, it really doesn't have anything to do with the video but let's be realists, it's meerkats chillin under a heater. i mean, you know what i mean.

halloween is quickly approaching, so what better moment to share with you guys the wonderful moments i had at last year's one.

today i was browsing through some of my original art, and found this little thing I did in occasion of an art show put together for last year's Bicycle Film Festival in Milan.
revenge taken, with ink pen and coffee.

this is the result of my September trip to Italy. hope you like. i do.

glad to be back in Italy and working with Mercurio again, this time for a Nike spot. here are a couple snaps from the shoot (note to myself: make that bruise a lifelong statement against my stubborness).

i am happy to say that finally, after years years of sweat, long nights spent in front of thousands of pixels, eventually, in spite of hundreds of obstacles, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, trimming, shaving, in the end, at last, wait.. i forgot what i was going to say.
oh, yes, i got it: i am now represented by Warp Films for commercials and music videos in the UK.
this is how i feel right now:

a couple weeks ago i was riding a train in Alaska. faint of heart, this unedited and unadulterated clip of a bridge crossing is for you.

the music video i did for the icelandic band For a Minor Reflection is finally up. The song is "A Moll" from the album "Höldum í átt að óreiðu". Please watch it below (make sure you watch the HD version). And sorry about the lack of explanations this time, i'd rather let the images do the talking.

before deciding for some obscure reason that what i wanted to focus on in my life was directing, i tried different mediums and ways of working with the arts. one field i was incredibly interested in (well, i still am) were interactive installations. the amazing amount of human ingenuity and creativity that is poured in the creation of this kind of artworks never ceases to amaze me. for instance, watch this video of Listening Post, by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin. witnessing that installation was pure ecstatic bliss.
so, since i myself gave this wonderful new art field a shot, here i present you with one of the installations i created when part of the collective Thankyourupert, together with Enrico Mazzi and Rudy Melli.
the white liquid is milk, and the phrases that come out of the toys are those silly made up stories that your parents used to tell you as an excuse to not have you do something they didn't want to cope with. when grown, you look back at those memories and smile about them, being old enough to digest them with the help of some of the milk they forced down your throat when you were gullible enough to believe in everything. aah, youth.
the installation was based on Processing language. a camera was placed on the ceiling shooting at the pool, so to track the different toys floating. when a toy was moved, the program would recognize movement and a new phrase would be crapped by the toy, it would float for a minute and then sink forever into milk oblivion.

Watermelon seed - Interactive installation from lorenzo fonda on Vimeo.