PANDORAYOUNG

I was given an Illustration assignment last year to create a series based on a mystery. I actually was at a loss up until the night before the project was due for a really killer concept. And then it struck me! Here in British Columbia the last half decade has been marked by the repeated discovery of left feet washing up on the beaches. At the time there was no name for this, but in the time since this project this phenomenon has been dubbed the Salish Sea Mystery. And what a thing to be known for, BC I mean; really good marijuana, and dismembered human feet. 

For my final concept I envisioned a lone trucker picking up a lone hitchhiker, somewhere along the Highway of Tears, Highway 16, where as many as 43 women have been killed or mysteriously disappeared since 1942. The eye is already on the prize, and the tag is already on the toe.

To date, eleven feet have been found.

Mystery. 2 of 2.

Pandora Young. 2011

I was given an Illustration assignment last year to create a series based on a mystery. I actually was at a loss up until the night before the project was due for a really killer concept. And then it struck me! Here in British Columbia the last half decade has been marked by the repeated discovery of left feet washing up on the beaches. At the time there was no name for this, but in the time since this project this phenomenon has been dubbed the Salish Sea Mystery. And what a thing to be known for, BC I mean; really good marijuana, and dismembered human feet. 

For my final concept I envisioned a lone trucker picking up a lone hitchhiker, somewhere along the Highway of Tears, Highway 16, where as many as 43 women have been killed or mysteriously disappeared since 1942. The eye is already on the prize, and the tag is already on the toe.

To date, eleven feet have been found.

Mystery. 1 of 2.

Pandora Young. 2011

Baby shower gifts for my friends!

Andy, Janine, Baby.

Pandora Young. 2011

Weekly autobiographical comic for Illustration class! Note; this is a highly idealize me, but I want my work to be marketable. In reality yes, I do have much back, but I also have a lot more, hmmm, how to put it gently, human crisco. Small Moment Story Boards - Week Seven Pandora Young. 2012

Weekly autobiographical comic for Illustration class! Note; this is a highly idealize me, but I want my work to be marketable. In reality yes, I do have much back, but I also have a lot more, hmmm, how to put it gently, human crisco.

Small Moment Story Boards - Week Seven

Pandora Young. 2012

If there’s one thing I adore it’s a really good concept. That’s why I love this Penguin Classis Kama Sutra cover. Erotic, minimal, subtle, elegant.

If there’s one thing I adore it’s a really good concept. That’s why I love this Penguin Classis Kama Sutra cover. Erotic, minimal, subtle, elegant.

Logo commissioned for a friend’s website. Although I was never very good at logos, just hot anime chicks. Cupcake/Corpse. Pandora Young. 2009

Logo commissioned for a friend’s website. Although I was never very good at logos, just hot anime chicks.

Cupcake/Corpse.

Pandora Young. 2009

I think I was sixteen when I made these? One can truly see in the artist’s early works the distinct lack of influence of drugs, alcohol, and deviant sex. Drawn in high school, trying to encompass the different techniques (print, collage, etc.) we’d played with that year. (Orange is me!)

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple.

Pandora Young. 2004.

Inspiration: Jean Giraud a.k.a Moebius

Some very tragic news today from Paris. No, Hitler’s clone has not escaped. Mr. Jean Giraud, known by his pen name Moebius, has passed away! But he has left the world with an immortal body of work.

I was absolutely enchanted last night by The Artist, which could bludgeon all those people who won’t give the time of day to a silent film with its Best Picture Oscar.

Following the release of Cyriak’s new video this week I thought I’d post a little more of his work.

This is a music video he produced for Eskmo’s We Got More, and it’s probably my favorite thing he’s done:) Don’t get me wrong, I love fucked up shit as much as the next person, but, I don’t know, there’s something about this one. The unbridled creativity Cyriak uses to answer questions like “what can I do to this sheep” just seems to be directed into something more. Maybe it’s the urban setting relatable to so many of us, but it seems to be deconstructing reality, questioning it, rather than just fucking with it:) Or perhaps just by toning back the disturbing parts, there is something really beautiful underneath. Either way, it’s a fave and the music gets me dancin;)

Following the release of Cyriak’s new video this week I thought I’d post a little more of his work.

This video titled ‘Something’ is described by the artist as “a journey into horribleness.” It sure is.

Seriously mentally unsound sweet digital artist Cyriak just released his newest video!

I can’t figure out why no one else seems to see what I see, which is that OKGo rock seriously hard. These four dudes with nothing but their point and shoot, a couple of treadmills and their giant throbbing imaginations bring actual creativity to their music and bring it in abundance. Man, I’d marry all these guys. I mean come on. Look at them in their little rainbow one pieces. They look like Smarties.

“For their latest music video-slash-Chevy Super Bowl ad,OK Go drove down a two-mile stretch of desert lined with 1,000 instruments in a Chevy Sonic fitted with retractable pneumatic arms to perform a very complicated version of ‘Needing/Getting’ that took four months to prep and four days to shoot.”

Aw, but it don’t get much dumber, it don’t get much dumber
than trying to forget a girl when you love her.
And I, yeah I still need you, but what good’s that gonna do?
Needing is one thing, and getting, getting’s another.

Street artist Tilt screws with hospitality staff by painting half a Marseillais hotel room for his latest project, “Panic Room.”

Street artist Tilt screws with hospitality staff by painting half a Marseillais hotel room for his latest project, “Panic Room.”

Anyone prone to seizures might want to avoid this one, but epilcptics never despair, I haven’t forgotten you, for you I submit the infinite pleasures of cat breading. Everyone else, please enjoy Murakami Takeshi’s Superflat Monogram, created in 2003 for Louis Vuitton, with music by Fantastic Plastic Machine.

Murakami is an artist worth checking out not simply for his lushly beautiful illustrations, but the conceptual theories that inform them. Seeing Pop Art as a realm where social class and popular taste are ‘flattened,’ his work is a playful refutal of the rigid Japanese social hierarchy. “Murakami’s practice involves repackaging elements that are usually considered ‘low’ or subcultural and presenting them in the ‘high-art’ market. He then further flattens the playing field by repackaging his ‘high-art’ works as merchandise, such as plush toys and T-shirts, making them available at more affordable prices.”

 In an interview Magdalene Perez in 2008, when asked about straddling the line between art and commercial products, Murakami responded, ”I don’t think of it as straddling. I think of it as changing the line.”