Blood made of corn syrup

For the past three days I've lived in front of the camera of McNair Evans, drawing, painting, cutting paper, talking, and doing whatever McNair asked me to do, including standing still in my backyard for two hours, while around me the snow was being colored blood-red with a mixture of corn syrup and fabric colorant.

It has been a truly great experience, flattering and also kind of exhausting. So much more than the simple Q/A I was expecting. McNair's has rendered his interpretation of my art with surreal sequences shot in stop animation. The footage, from the previews that I saw, looks amazing. Can't wait to see the final film.
Thanks again to McNair Evans and Ruth Ingram, and to the Black Harbor.

Here's a couple stills, directly from McNair's camera:




Ruth, McNair and me at the end of the second day of shooting.

Video interview for the Black Harbor

The Black Harbor, a great online art magazine based out of SF, contacted me last week to shoot a video interview/documentary about my work.

Photographer McNair Evans will film me for three days, starting tomorrow.

It'll be interesting to be, for once, in front of the camera.

Asunder has been named one of the five best book trailers of 2010 by L Magazine

My animation for Robert Lopez' Asunder (Dzanc, 2010), has been named one of the five best book-trailers of 2010 by L Magazine. The list is HERE.

Thanks to Ned Vizzini for including me, and for writing such great things about my work:

"Luca Dipierro, whose stop-motion cut-out animation feels like The Triplets of Belleville meets South Park, gorgeously juxtaposes excerpts from Robert Lopez's story collection with dreamlike imagery in this trailer with music by Sin Ropas. 'Every time I brush my teeth or shave it's a bloodbath,' Lopez writes, as Dipierro gives us a man brushing with a vertically oriented brush, as if trapped in a cubist painting, until he bleeds down his chin into a vermilion goatee."