James Alley

James Alley is a 28 year-old artist currently living on the Gold Coast of Australia. His work is primarily oil-based paintings which explore figurative, character-based situations. In an attempt to explore elements of paradox and differing emotional states within society, James isolates and depicts a sample of his daily observations onto paper and canvas in order to record them.

Psyop for MTV HD

HD TV was made for the type of lyrical detail in the recent video that our friends at New York-based Psyop created for MTV HD. Set to a score that re-interprets Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," the 90-second piece features finely-rendered images of flying black birds (alone and in flocks), branching abstract forms, and birch forests that morph into one another against a white background. The high-contrast …

Guillemots

When guillemots fly, they look hilarious. A little bit like a cliff-dwelling combination of a puffin and a penguin, they flap their wings like crazy before crash-landing in the sea. The black and white birds are utterly charming, and so is the band that has borrowed their name. Fronted by charismatic singer-songwriter Fyfe Dangerfield, the multinational quartet called Guillemots come from England, Scotland, Canada, and …