A deep dive into art occurred for Joan Torres's All Is Fused fourth album REVOLUTION....

The results: 

• A $20K grant awarded from the San Francisco Commission for the Arts to produce the fifth album  in 2021
• Album photography and artwork gracing the cover of the best Funk/Fusion/Jam album at the 18th Annual Independent Music Awards

To make it happen, WCI contributions include:

• Grant award:
  
  • Grant writing and submission strategy
  • Budgeting and cost planning
• Album artwork:
  
  • Line Production: location scouting, venue coordination, transportation, time management
  • Photography
  • Graphic Design (aka lots of Saturday afternoons spent meticulously pushing pixels around to get the feeling right)

Sample and purchase this musical experience from Bandcamp, with proceeds going straight to the artist.

The first album artwork WCI has developed in partnership with Joan Torres Music:

• Line Production: Location scouting, Transportation, Time management (aka herding Puerto Rican cats)
• Photography
• Graphic Design

With my good friend and owner of Kayak Connection, I managed and helped develop a retro style apparel logo. Truckers hats are a sought after commodity on the beaches of Santa Cruz, and Jess (the owner) wanted her own business to shine. It was a colorful project and fun to be a part of. 

Next time you're in Santa Cruz, be sure to head out on the water! Kayak Connection's got you covered.

In the Spring of 2012, Ian Fein of feinproductions.com asked me to step in to work as a producer on a short film project he wanted to create about capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art that both of us had been practicing for several years.  The result was a 9 minute short film aimed to enlighten the audience about the basic purpose, structure and history of the art form.

Now, two years later we're relaunching the project in an effort to create a longer format of the film. I am contributing to the film through the following services: short-term and long-term strategy, coordinating marketing material, co-managing budgets and logistics, conducting interviews, transcribing material (in English), and co-managing the development of the film's overall narrative.  

      For more details about the film content,
               visit thecircleproduction.com


Please consider making a contribution to go towards the making of the film via the Donate button on the fundraising page.  Thanks so much!

A big big thanks to Lucas Ainsworth and Alyssa Hamel of Kinetic Creatures for allowing me to spend the weekend with them at Maker Faire this year.  I got to learn a bunch about Lucas' inspiration for the creatures from an industrial design perspective, and relished in Alyssa's artistic attention to detail which ensured that every curious person was welcomed, intrigued and in awe of cardboard animals that come to life...

Bonus points: I even made it into a MaKer Faire Vine!