? ?This is something we came up with after realizing how influential Japanese comics and punk rock have been on the American culture in the last few years. Anime is mainstream and no longer just underground, punk is almost tame, and I think of Malcolm Mclaren in the 70?s with Vivienne Westwood,? says photographer Tim Hunold from his home in Newport Beach California. ?Multiple cultures are blending and we are seeing high tech go from sci-fi to real time, punk is no longer anti-establishment, we want to return to the roots.?
The future is evident when looking around the drawing boards and sketchbooks. Concepts start from 3D renderings and blurs on watercolor paper, then are photographed in a painstaking process that requires as much planning as a trip to the moon. Bondage pants, bits from racecars and wide-eyed Anime heroines are pinned to the wall like some hieroglyph that makes no sense until you refer back to the sketches. The vision is here and the artists are taking time often testing on models for 8 hours at a time to see if certain elements combined can work.
With the amount of effort going in to the project from over 10 artists, for what is essentially what artist Eric Swann calls ?a creative enterprise? but it all makes perfect sense as it begins to appear in the scanner from 6cm by 7cm slides. Eric continues: ?we have about 40 concepts at this moment, many more will materialize as we continue, but it will be released to the public in groups of 20 images, versions 1.0, 2.0 and so on, beginning in January until we have completed what we see in our minds. We don?t plan on manufacturing, this is a purely artistic endeavour where we must please ourselves, and artists are often more perfectionist than clients.?
For additional information (or sample, copy or demo), contact: Robert Van 949-642-4204 Behind the scenes and press inquiries should be made to: Tim Hunold TestShoot.com 310-617-3080
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