BRUSCA

365 Days - January

Posted by Brusca under Apple, Photography, flickr, iPhone

I have decided to take a photo for each day of 2010 with my iPhone. They can be self portraits or anything that takes my fancy or wherever I am at at the time. At the end of the year I will hopefully put a book together, perhaps produced in Aperture. Here are my January photos.

For more details on these photos visit my Flickr account. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brusca/sets/72157623118835992/

eVolution of Entertainment

Posted by Brusca under Entertainment, Video

The development of online entertainment continues to flourish. How it settles as part of our everyday life remains to be seen. I think this will evolve for some time to come. In the past 15+ years the revolution of the internet itself has completely changed the way we carry out our everyday lives. While our entertainment is well on it’s way to changing along these lines there is still a long way to go. One thing is for sure, the television networks are going to need to define an online strategy and do it early to keep their market share of audiences. Keep an eye on the .TV eVolution.

Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs, War on Work and Safety 3rd

Posted by Brusca under TED, Video

Mike Rowe is by far my favourite presenter on TV to date. The way he gets into his work on the Discovery Channel with Dirty Jobs captivates me with every episode. It’s the most simple of concepts of presenter being followed by 3 camera men and they film Mike doing a “Dirty” job for a day. It’s simple but works very well. Now this is not the most high quality of content but in my eyes it’s 50% content and 50% the endearment for the presenter, which on the Dirty Jobs show seems to work perfectly.

Apart from being a great presenter he is also a great speaker on stage as shown in the video below at a TED conference. Mike claims we have declared WAR on work as a society. He discusses his own misconceptions of work he discovered working on Dirty Jobs and that the people who do Dirty Jobs are happier. I do have to disagree with his opinion on NOT following your passion. I couldn’t be happy in a job if I wasn’t passionate about the work and the achievements within, dirty or clean. Check out the video for yourself and make up your own mind.

A Little Piece of Art

Posted by Brusca under Illustration

Back in my youth and early adulthood (it’s still early, really!) my 3 favourite subjects were Motorcycle Racing, Wildlife and Surrealism. They are all still up there, I guess the order of love has changed with each subject. These subjects showed up in a lot of my work while completing a BVA degree at JCU in Townsville. I was always drawing as a youngster, so my background has always been in Illustration. But now that I think and look back and compare it to where I am today, it’s more the process of creation and the joy of creating unique pieces was and still is my passion. I love the process of creating a piece of art, be it a painting or a website or taking a photograph. My favourite artist is Salvador Dali, which inspired a few pieces of art in my past. I think the attraction to Dali was his ability to take real life objects and display them in a unique (surreal) setting.

WILDLIFE! One of my all time biggest dreams has always been to live 6mnths out of every year on a property in the middle of Africa where the animals roam free and I can photograph and illustrate these beautiful creatures, something similar to the life and times of Bookey Peek. I’ll keep dreaming for now but you never know right.

I hope you enjoy these examples below, they were all painted/illustrated between 91 - 93. They’re not perfect but represent an important step in my life. :0)

Cheetah in Gouache and Pastel

Honeyeater in Gouache and Pastel

Whale in Gouache

Kookabuarra in pencil

Leopard in Pen and Ink (Pointalism)

Michael Doohan in Gouache

Kevin Schwantz in Gouache

Surreal Pen and Ink

Surreal Pen and Ink

A Lego Christmas

Posted by Brusca under Animation, Nikon D90, Photography, Video

I thought I might wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with a short but fun little animation. Shot with the Nikon D90 using stop motion and masked video. Enjoy :0)

It’s been a big year, Merry Xmas and looking forward to a big 2010.

Brusca
xo

A Lego Christmas from Bruce Levick on Vimeo.

I thought I would put together a small fun Christmas wish animation. Hope you like.