A couple of interesting finds over at Brandon Birds site. The San Francisco-based artist divides his time between doing oil and water color art and thinking about Transformers.
Looking at all of his work as a whole, it's a bit hit and miss, a few of the pieces are just stupid and boderlines "ebay pop art", had he worked with vectors and illustrator I would have no doubt hated it, but seeing as he uses oil and watercolor he gets away with it most of the times, a few of the pieces are really great with a nice surreal feel to them. Personal favourites include "Signifier and Signified" featuring Noam Chomsky walking towards his 'chomskymobile' after doing some shopping and "No one wants to play Sega with Harrison Ford" (pretty selfexplanatory).
Other noteworthy stuff is the "Letters to Walken project". While Bird was artist-in-residence at Cornells arts dorm, he was expected to come up with a stimulating art-related programs for the students to participate in. Hence "Letters to Walken" was invented. A project which allowed the students the chance to write their yearly Christmas letter to Christopher Walken.
And don't miss out on his "Law & Order: Artistic Intent" series. Originally drawn in 2003 when Bird alledgedly "watched three or more hours of Law & Order each night". Since then as the show grew more spinoffs more pieces has been added such as the epic SVU Valentines! Law & Order art is truly the art movement of the future!
p.s. Just so there's no confusion. Walken is not really giving Optimus Prime a tune-up in his garage. Look closely and you'll see it's actually C-3PO wearing a bmx chest protector with a head based off Hoist that is getting the 'treatment'.. any questions on that one?
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