Black President

I recently finished reading "Fela: This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore" and felt inspired to create some Fela pieces. Being President's Day and all, I figured I'd share a work in progress.

"Black President"
6x6 linocut

By My Valentine

For anyone out there who forgot to pick up a card - here's a printable one from yours truly.  Use with care!

Just print, cut, fold an deliver......oh, and go like Mauro DePasquale Multimedia Solutions and message me there if you want the high res file.

Yours Truly, Mauro xoxoxo

A Mingus Among Us

"Contour of Charles Mingus"
Silkscreen and Airbrush
18x24

Bill Evans on the Creative Process and Self-Teaching

In 1966, legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans (August 16, 1929–September 15, 1980) sat down with his composer brother, Harry Evans, for an intense and deeply insightful conversation later released as Universal Mind of Bill Evans: The Creative Process and Self-Teaching. From filmmaker William Meier comes this gorgeous cinematic adaptation of Evans’s thoughts on the autodidactic quality of creativity and the value of working at the intersection of clarity, complexity, and spontaneity.







Here is a longer excerpt from the documentary, where Evans discusses the step-by-step process of creative problem-solving:

Upcoming Event: Student and Goliath

As part of a global week of events to encourage Divestment from the fossil fuels industries, there will be a showing of Student and Goliath (Ashbourne Films) at Worcester State University.

The showing is completely free.

When: Wednesday, February 11th Time: 7pm
Where: Worcester State University, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA, Eager Auditorium



Based in Amherst, Massachusetts, Students & Goliath follows the divestment campaigns of five schools: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts. Eight students lockdown and are arrested inside an energy company’s office to protest a devastating pipeline proposal. 40,000 gather in Washington DC to demand action.

Mondrian - Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red

This work is a combination between art and music; the famous Mondrian piece "Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red" moves to the sounds of a song by Eviatar Banai. The movements of each color are coordinated with a different instrument- yellow for the cello, red for the violin and blue for the bass. Harmony, balance, and rhythm all lend themselves to the meditative experience.



animated mondrian from Oren Rubin on Vimeo.

Social Marketing

Many people complain about advertisements as an obnoxious way for companies to invade our everyday lives and cram their products down our throats, but that’s not all that advertisements are good for. The advertisements on this list are excellent examples of effective advertising strategies for social issue campaigns that let their voices be heard.

Here's a link to some creative advertisements  that evoke some provocative emotional responses.  These are the types of advertising that I am most interested in embarking on. 

In the future, the purpose of business will have to be about so much more than maximizing share holder value.  This is what I aim to focus on social marketing over product marketing.

http://worldtruth.tv/most-powerful-social-issue-ads-thatll-make-you-stop-and-think/