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Thanks for including me VHX! You make my landing page that much cooler. Super easy to make - compose a playlist and you’re done! Cats playlist is pretty dope, too.
VHX playlists. Mixtapes for video.
Are you a curator?
Music video connoisseur?
Artist with a bangin’ portfolio?
Band with behind the scenes footage?
Or maybe you just really like cat videos?Playlists make it easy to create, organize and customize videos and show them off in wonderful ways. Learn more here.
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After many months of negotiation, I’m proud to say that Sal Randazzo and I have licensed our side project, NYUMobile, directly to NYU. We didn’t start the project with intensions beyond teaching ourselves how to make an app while solving a niche need for students. I wouldn’t have guessed my learning curve would be extended to crash courses in law and business. We were lucky to be aided by Roy Jacobs at Robinson Brog Leinwand Greene Genoveses & Gluck P.C. And I was fortunate to be aligned with Sal and Ricky.
The experience affirmed a feeling of happiness to be living right now. The growing power, versatility and accessibility of the boxes, which sit on our desks and rest in our pockets - is nuts. The abundance of blogs, streaming videos, forums and other free/cheap resources, which practically hand-hold you through making something from nothing - blows my mind. Add to that, the relative ease to independently* distribute whatever that something is, or convert those tutorialed skills into financial gain - and things really start to take shape. Not to mention, what you make just might improve a corner of someone else’s day.
Yes, ok, it’s 2012. This is all well blogumented and my disposition is overly rosy, if not naive. I’m not saying it’s all easy, quick, or without some serious downsides. For better or worse, I loose a lot of time absorbing dumb crap on those very advanced boxes.
Still, I’m just a bit more awed by the possible of now.
*Though, I certainly learned a bunch about the restrictive bureaucracy of Apple’s app store, which bummed me out.
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Want to doodle more in 2012 - posting on Instagram (@gorociao)
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The Dø - Dust it Off
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Javelin’s western music video epic is now showing at the Clocktower Gallery in downtown, Manhattan. The gallery space itself merits a vist: a seemingly hidden floor on top of a building that feels fit to house Gotham City court justices. Mike Anderson also rebuilt the hand-crafted set in the space, which is a treat to walk through. Oh yea, and there’s an awesome roof you can climb up to, complete with gargoyles, a spiral staircase and you guessed it, a clock tower.
Last monday I attended the premiere of the video and got to see Javelin play a small set. The show will be up until the end of January.
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Easily a favorite 2011 track: The Weeknd feat. Drake - The Zone
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Vimeo’d link to previous post! Ah so much easier.
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Last month I helped to animate this Feeding America spot at Brand New School. I learned a lot from Ben Hill, who lead animation, and was pretty thrilled to bring Stephen Kelleher’s illustrations to life. Click through for credits on the site.
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Head over to gorociao.com for a pared-down refresh, some brand new projects and a few boards I had locked away in my coffers since going freelance. To note, Cargo Collective is total gold. Seriously. I think it’s impossible to make an unbecoming website with their tools: the the perfect mix of limitations and ability to tinker for those who don’t want to be programmers, but are curious.
One of the new projects I’m posting is “The Fundamentals of Design”. Looking back, I see so many things I’d like to do differently, but feel good about the outcome nonetheless. I wrote the video with Karl Sluis (who also gave me this awesome opportunity). Michael Coffman created original music and sound. Adrian Letechipia helped me out with some awesome C4D tricks and JD Yepes gave me compositing critiques. Todd Thoenig and Ben Rudlin were kind enough to step in as voice talent. I made the project in a humid, summer hustle and feel relieved to finally release it!
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Recently did some hand-lettering for a music video epic, directed by Mike Anderson and produced by my old friend, Oscar Boyson. If you don’t know Javelin, I encourage you to listen to them (now!) - No Más was easily one of my favorite releases in 2010. The video itself should be out any day now. Can’t wait to show the rest of titles. It’s rare that I have an excuse to focus on crafting type like this. Overall, so very gratifying.
I’m still sitting on a ton of work and have news I can’t really talk about yet. It has sort of come to feel like a dark stone sitting at the bottom of my stomach. Aiming to change that in Nov/Dec.
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Work in Progress…
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So many things at 99% right now. This, being the exception, is from a side-project I’m co-organizing. More legged objects without arms to come.
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SBTRKT feat. Little Dragon & Drake - Wildfire
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1 Part Mimi O’Chun*, 2 Parts Computer, Sprinkle Magic generously. This was my weekend.
*Great meditation of embracing the lack of Control+Z in life. I’m finding a greater desire, if not need, to ping pong between projects that are continuous/iterative vs. projects that are stand-alone/final.
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So deep in 3D compositing right now.
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