An ongoing project of questioning potential, imagination, and dreams of being all you can be.
work
Trash bag kids
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Noddy - Remora, Remora
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Album artwork for Noddy’s 2010 release “Remora, Remora”.
Bald Drawings
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Giant of Illinois
Monday, December 28th, 2009
Giant of Illinois from Eric John Olson on Vimeo.
Snake Pit Through the Rabbit Hole
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009This summer I decided to try and relive some of my childhood adventures through the perspective of my niece. This set represents the beginning of my exploration into my childhood dreams and imagination as a way to escape the realities and hardships I experienced growing up, and a way to inspire. Strangely the photos ended up being all focused in parks I explored growing up. I wonder if this is because I subconsciously, and many times consciously, yearn for an escape from the concrete jungle of New York City, I don’t really know but it is always fun to experience something unexpected. Special and most grateful thanks to my magical nieces Faelynn and Tristen for joining me in my exploration.
A map of the places we visited:
Painted photos:
The Sunshine Sailboat
Friday, August 7th, 2009So I was inspired to create a stop motion animated short by T. Scott, and finally got to it. The idea came to me from talking to my sister and spending time in Seattle w/ Timothy at Foster Island, oh the good life.
The Sunshine Sailboat from Eric Olson on Vimeo.
A History Of Ugliness
Monday, February 16th, 2009The following is the artwork for the latest Man Plus album due the end of summer. I will post some updates when we finish the full layout. The album will be named A History of Ugliness and was partly inspired by an amazing art history book called On Ugliness by Umberto Eco. Jared and I had a series of ideas bouncing from coast to coast until we came up with the idea of having a series of collaged monster heads categorized on the forgotten shelves of an old biologist’s laboratory. I hope you enjoy, also I have heard a few of the rough cuts and the new music sounds as magical as ever.
BoozBot
Friday, December 5th, 2008Recently I finished working on a version 1 of the communication and brain framework for a robotic bartender Jeff Crouse and David Jimison dreamt up and coined BoozBot. The idea was to create a robot that is reminiscent of the forgotten service robots depicted in movies of our past. The end result was a very interesting interactive bartender that captured interesting insight to how people expect robots to behave and interact in our society. Hope you enjoy!
For more information and photos check out the BoozBot pages on Jeff’s and Digital Situation’s websites.
Story of the Underground
Sunday, November 16th, 2008I worked with David Jimison to help create the mood and wall paintings through a huge maze installed at Eyebeam in November 2008. Our idea was to help give people path finding symbols to help navigate themselves through the maze and also to help build a mythology around the labyrinth and the New York City underground.
Here are some images of the murals:
The party was a huge success, showcased another project with David and Jeff Crouse, BoozBot, and garnered praise from a number of media sources including the following:
The Gothamist
WNYC
Free Williamsburg
The murals were based off of a series of illustrations about a story I adapted from the Mayan myth of the Underworld.
Saint Sebastian the Eagle
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
My newest screen print was created for my sister, and follows some of the current ideas bouncing around in my head related to hope, belief, life, death, and the frailty/impermanence surronding them. The screens were exposed at an amazing studio in LIC called Post Expose. Anyways this one is for the family. Respect queens and saints. Alas Saint Sebastian the Eagle.
