I would have shot more time lapse but my back was turned on my camera for so long and I could not shake the fear that some passerby could just swipe it and be gone. It would be a stupid way to have a camera stolen.

It was so nice and bright that night. The next few pieces you will see uploaded here will be mostly red. I have a huge surplus of reds, blacks and whites. I over budgeted on the Havana Cultura paint order. Lucky for me it’s a favorite color scheme of mine.

I was contacted by the makers of Havana Club rum to do some live painting for an event they were throwing in Sept. Ever since my voyage to Cuba I fully and completely endorse Havana Club rum, I still have an unopened 7 year old bottle in the kitchen. Anyway the first two sketches below were submitted, when I mentioned that the letters could be filled in black they of course had to see that as well. In the end, in true corporate fashion they felt it was not legible enough, so as requested I dumbed it down for them a bit. On a sunny day I would have really enjoyed myself, the Cuban music was good, i had a nice big canvas, Yet unfortunately all it did that day was rain nonstop. Barely a crowd of 30 at the event’s peak and as any promoter who was involved would tell you, it was a complete failure and in my opinion a huge waste of money. Except for the money used to pay me. Because I worked so hard all day with no umbrella, in a complete downpour. And I didn’t even have one mojito, rum and coke or anything.


Here is the ‘more legible’ sketch that finally got approved.



This is what the sketch I brought ended up looking like at the end of it all.
It literally never stopped raining the whole time. How aerosol even managed to adhere to a dripping wet canvas is way beyond me.

Due to the fact that no one else who was involved with this wall has finished yet I am only posting my work.

There she goes again…



A neighbor who lived around the corner commissioned this galactic cluster of nebulae and supernovas for her garage door. It was a great opportunity to empty out the 30 or so quarter full scrap cans that have piled up this summer. Kept all the full ones that the commission paid for.
The other side of that garage.

I need to bring the weed whacker next time.

This deserves a caption of some form I just cant think of what to say about it really.
I was happy to catch this ‘06 Jero on the line. This guy used to paint tons of freights when i started out.

Sgt
Wysper
Jack by Chuck
Rcade
Gems by Scam
Teck

I’m not super crazy about this one, I pulled it off real quick with ‘Painter’s touch’ as I was being filmed and interviewed for a documentary. I’m a bit rusty without my fancy euro brands of paint now.
A dedication. Rest in peace Abby.

This was fun.
Okay, I helped a little bit, with the outline…
We got to pat their heads and throw a couple herring in their mouths.



our neighbor Totoro.

These are some of my favorite shots from the 2 episodes of the National Geographic channel’s new series ‘Aftermath’ that I worked on as a member of the art department. Over 2 months we created many sets for the show in many locations, not all of which are represented here in these photos. The general plot line of an Aftermath episode centers around some cataclysmic end of the world type of apocalyptic scenario, and what humans do to survive. I don’t really care to explain any of the details here, but the photos you see below may just speak for themselves, I hope. The work on the beach was definitely the most fun. the entire crew was sent up to Sandbanks Provincial Park for a week for these sets and locations. The link below will take you to the original first Aftermath pilot, which I had nothing to do with. it’s called ‘Population Zero’. These shows are fairly heavy on the CGI so it was nice to get so much actual sets and special effects involved for these episodes.                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4R8IkSOY9k




When our makeshift windmill was in position the wind got it spinning so fast that when we stuck a 2×4 between the blades in an attempt to stop it, it hacked the wood down like a carrot on a Cuisinart. A true hazard for any actor in the scene, so it stayed tied off.

Getting this tail section off the truck and down the trail to the beach was pretty interesting. Oh yeah and the trail was fringed with poison ivy to either side.

Getting any work done and communicating on this point was so hard because the winds did not dip below 50 km/h the whole time, just so loud and always knocking our stuff down. My face was all red and windburned by the end of it
December in July.
Quite fond of this photo.
Goat wrangler.
Special fx team on the water cannons.
i really like this shot.
Custom made emergency refugee center base camp type thing in Seneca.
The infirmary

Hyperbaric chamber at the Seneca College commercial dive school training pool. The pool has a depth of 40 feet, justifying the need for a Hyperbaric chamber. Deep enough to get the bends.

These shots are from the second episode I worked on, shot almost entirely in Hamilton. Ont. Commuted there and back every day. Long days

Painting up this abandoned car while the on-set police officers looked on was pretty fun, felt strange.



In an attempt to be regionally correct from a graffiti standpoint I got 2 New York writers up in a set that was meant to look like the NY subway system. News1 Inkheads and Cycle BA. Tags executed in black colored hairspray that comes off with soap + water. Called streaks n’ tips.

Somewhere in the Casa Loma tunnel system.