David Lynch

Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. Attending art school in a particularly violent and run-down area of Philadelphia, inspired Eraserhead (1977), a film that he began in the early […]

George Condo

George Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1957 and studied Art History and Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. He has occupied a prominent position in the art world for close to three decades. Mr. Condo’s art can be viewed as a multi-layered experience incorporating art historical references ranging from […]

Projection Mapping

Projection mapping, also known as video mapping and spatial augmented reality, is a projection technology used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into a display surface for video projection. These objects may be complex industrial landscapes, such as buildings. By using specialized software, a two- or three-dimensional object is spatially mapped on the virtual program which mimics the real environment […]

Rick Owens

Southern Californian Rick Owens began designing after a two-year stint in pattern cutting school in Los Angeles, where he founded his namesake line in 1994 and remained largely under the radar, with a small but dedicated following in the underground glam rock and grunge communities who prized his slim-fitting leather jackets and destroyed jersey knits. […]

Videodrome

Videodrome, 1983 – Set in Toronto in the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small television station who discovers a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. Layers of deception unfold as he uncovers the signal’s source and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre and violent hallucinations. Writer/director David Cronenberg recalled […]

Abscence of Satan

A beautiful woman screams at something unseen off camera. Paul Newman appears eating salad and soon the famous sequence of Paul Newman closing a car door cut with a helicopter takes place. Absence of Satan is probably one of George Barber’s best Scratch works and is a deft reworking of cinematic narrative and cliché. George Barber […]

Analogue – The Making Of

Via the exploration and creation of various pieces of sound design I was inspired to create this short film drawing inspiration from the soundscapes I had constructed. Whilst being unfamiliar with working on a sonic level I realised that the formation of music is very similar to the inception of an image; in particular the […]

Gone Girl

On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behaviour have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill […]

Programming – Visualiser

I have an almost universal disproval of music videos. On the whole they fail to let the visuals accurately represent the accompanying audio track. In response to this I programmed my own audio visualisation software to see whether I could accurately represent audio visually in real-time. The results proved to be successful.

Soundscapes

Whilst exploring the notion of Sound Design I decided to craft some soundscapes of my own. Generally these have been produced using an electric guitar, synthesiser emulators in Logic Pro, then assembled in the open source program Audacity. Inspirations for these include The Social Network and Interstellar OST. https://soundcloud.com/rickvoropayev/drone https://soundcloud.com/rickvoropayev/reverse-field