Reality Show

(Working hard on a show with the Portuguese academic group CITAC...
Here's a teaser of the performance, called Reality Show:)

REALITY SHOW from Vvoi on Vimeo.

Leonard Cohen At The Nokia Grand Prairie

Last night I saw the best concert of my life. At 46 I have been fortunate to see some legendary performers over the years including Elvis, Dylan, Cash and recently Joan Baez. Nobody I have seen before can touch Mr. Cohen's performance last night and his band was amazing. Sharon Robinson & The Web Sisters did a fantastic job on vocals. Javier Mas (bandurria, laud, archilaud, 12 string acoustic guitar) was worth the price of admission alone.

I could go on and on about what a great poet Leonard is or talk about how he sang all of my favorites, and yet in thinking about the concert I keep coming back to the man himself and his stage presence. Mr. Cohen is such a gentleman. As much as I enjoyed hearing him sing I also enjoyed watching him not sing .... yes, watching him take his hat off and hold it closely to his heart as he listened to his fellow band members perform their solos. His respect for them was so powerful. We were fortunate to have 7th row seats and so I found myself wrapped up in the tiny understated movements of his body as he sang. During the evening Mr. Cohen alternated between tiny graceful side to side movements of his feet to dropping to his knees in an almost prayer like fashion to deliver his song to us. When called back on stage for numerous encores, 74 year old Cohen literally skipped on and off the stage with the lightness of being that is normally only seen in children and the mentally deranged. I think he was having a very good time.

Leonard is leaving Dallas to play at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix next. Check out his tour dates on his website.
In 2008 Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and it was also the year that brought him back to the stage, performing in front of audiences in Canada for the first time in 15 years. Don't miss this legendary performer if he comes your way.

EAGLE-300 concept plane by Robert Szikszo

Concept plane model and render by Robert Szikszo.



The EAGLE-300 is a Mach 2.5 concept supersonic airliner which can carry 300 people to roughly 6000 nm. Revolutionary in design and features compared to other airliners. Renders were made with an engineering CAD program. Hope you like them. I am still continuing the work on the interior and will probably make a movie presentation too at the end.

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Easter Bilby Sketch

"Easter Bilby"
Crayon, Ink, Pencil

Last night I started a new sketch journal. I found a cool image of the skeleton of a Bilby and started a collage and sketch from information I learned on-line about Australia's Bilby. Bilbies are desert-dwelling marsupial omnivores; they are members of the order Peramelemorphia and closely related to the bandicoots.Evidently the Bilby was endangered for awhile and a campaign began to replace the Easter Bunny in Australia with the Bilby. I tried to find a retail source on-line to purchase some chocolate Bilbies, however none of the sites I found gave me a lot of confidence due to shipping concerns. I guess I was hoping to find an American supplier, and it seems that the chocolate Bilby has not reached our consumer market yet. You can learn more about the Bilby over at Wikipedia.

Have a great weekend everyone. I plan to get back on my doggy butt project on Saturday so I can post some new works next week.

Star Wars Paper Mask Jackpot

Starwars.com has a total of 32 different paper masks available for download! The masks are offered in three separate collections. The Anakin Skywalker and General Grievous masks pictured above are part of a collection of 17 Episode III masks created by various Star Wars illustrators. Downloads of the masks may be found here. The Asajj Ventress mask is part of a collection of 6 children's party masks of Clone Wars characters. These masks were issued to celebrate the premier of the Clone Wars 3D animated television series on Cartoon Network and are available here. Finally, the C-3PO mask is available here as part of a collection of 9 masks of characters from the Star Wars Original Trilogy. These masks are scans of masks that originally appeared in the 1983 book, The Star Wars Book of Masks. Happy printing and cutting Star Wars fans!

New Collie Art

"Rocket" ( see all proofs)

This handsome Collie is Rocket. I just uploaded his proofs this morning. I am in the process of starting around 7 new commissions. Just when we thought we were caught up a handful of new projects have been sent in. Two clients placed a Rush on their projects and one of those is actually shipping today. I'll be sure and add Sydney and Vida to the blog soon.

Concept ships by Luke Harrington

More concept ship art from our friend Luke Harrington.







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