Author Archive
JGSILA.org
Recently Completed this website for my good friend Rabbi Dave Sorani. JGSILA.org Jewish Leadership
Project Light
A Poster for an Initiative to help promote friendliness in the Religious Jewish community.
36 potent foods
ebook cover for 36 potent foods to lose weight and live healthy Read more about this…
177 ways to reduce and burn calories book cover
177 ways to reduce and burn calories book cover Read more about this…
State of Israel – Collage Series
Playing with existing images to create a collage feels like found art. Working with a myraid of sources from stock photos, old magazines, online resources has really been a lot of fun and I look forward to rolling out this new series as time moves on. Read more about this…
rosh hashannah
Although Rosh Hashannah has always been a great nostalgic time for me – family, apples & honey, pomegranates…how could you go wrong – it’s also an incredible time for spirituality. We get judged…some cares enough to spend time assessing all of our actions and to decide based on those actions what kind of year we should have, if any.
The three shofars underneath the pomegranate represent the past, present and future. When Abraham was going to sacrifice Isaac on the altar he was presented with a ram that would take his son’s place. One of the horns of the ram was used then and another will be used in the time of Moshiach…the middle shofar in this painting represents the time between the time of our patriarchs and prophecy and the time of Moshiach, it’s the shofar that we live with now. Read more about this…
etrog – definition series
The experience of walking around the shul with your lulav and esrog is something that cannot really be explained. At first it’s silly almost, grown men walking around with something that looks like a lemon and some green shrubbery, waving it around like crazies – but once you let go of it and try to connect with it spiritually there really is some amazing depth to be had there – at least that’s what I keep telling myself 
tefillin – definition series
I remember my first time putting on tefillin. It was a whole big thing. I actually wrote down an interesting series of events that happened to me revolving around tefillin – it appears underneath the picture. Read more about this…
Hassid – definition series
Judaism has always appealed to me by being so diverse. It’s ancient as well as modern, general while at the same time giving attention to the most intimate details of life. In this series I revisited the roots of Judaism as the oldest practicing religion. A sense of whimsy was brought to the project by adding modern definitions to the ancient terms. To a gentile, or non-practicing Jew this series will seem as though these Jewish elements have come from another world, another place lost in the span of history, but to a practicing Jew these are real elements of our lives. This dichotomy provides for a unique user experience of the art depending on the audience. Read more about this…
Beverly Hills Adjacent Site
This site was deisgned/developed to showcase the animated pilot that I have been working on for the last few months. It’s going to updated with clips, episode guides, a show treatement, etc.
Bijan interview for BHA animation cartoon pilot
So I went to see Iron Man 2 with my friend Tony Elias last night at midnight and the movie theater’s key to the digital print wasn’t working and we ended up walking out of the theater at 1:00am. I got home, futzed around with my mic and decided to record a little. Read more about this…
Wes Parker voices a test run for Beverly Hills Adjacent
My very talented friend Wes Parker has agreed to help me out with my new spec animation Beverly Hills Adjacent. He voiced this quick test run in his own sound booth at home for a bit in the script where Chanel is being interviewed by the “documentary crew.” Read more about this…
United Painting Company
This site was quite an interesting one to work on. It had to serve as both a blog site as well as a portfolio/brochure site that could collect estimates and information from potential clients. Read more about this…
Robot Hands
Working in the science fiction realm was a bit of a scary thought for me. I’ve always been one to be more grounded in reality and working with robots, aliens, androids, etc. never seemed appealing to me until I had a little chat with a friend of writer friend of mine.
He said, quite simply, that I was looking at it wrong. The mistake people make is that they treat robots like robots. Giving them those silly voices and robotic movements. The whole thing that makes robots interesting is their possible relationship with humans. The more human the robot the more interesting the story tends to be. When he said that I realized that what I really had to do was imagine classic, iconic images that spoke to me and then simply swap out the person for a robot.
This image is a first in a series of images where high society takes on a metallic twist. It seems only fitting in today’s age of technology that the idea of elegance somehow seems to fit with a technological marvel like synthetic life.
Larry’s Long Arms
This Children’s book was a personal, full color project done with both digital and traditional mediums. I have a true passion for entertaining children. Before I was a designer, or an animator I was a professional magician. Although I don’t perform professionally anymore, my friends children all know me as the funny guy who does magic. The spark of light ignited in a child’s face when they laugh, are amazed, or even intrigued is something I thrive on. Read more about this…
Bob Paparazzo
This is one of the many episodes that I was hired to direct/animate for Vh1. This was the first animated project I did not write myself…it was a ton of fun working in a more collaborative atmosphere. Read more about this…
