Interview with Seal!

Monkey here:

Seal recently got interviewed by Northern Forcus, a Norcal-art blog run by Shannon Dutra that also interviewed me a while back. While the interview online here is pretty great, the 6-page full interview by Seal is really, really amazing.

Granted, I live with Seal, and we create next to each other, and have long discussions about art and live and tons of stuff, so I might be biased, but damn, that was a good interview. You have to download the full version (since it's so long), but really, if you're interested in who Eve is, both as a person and an artist, you can get a pretty large glimpse into why she creates, the incredible hurdles she has overcome, and her wide breadth of inspiration.

So enough reading here, go go go over to Northern Focus now!

Ridiculously amazing mashup:Book arts and animation

In the spirit of us vending at the San Francisco Center for the Book's Holiday Fair (this Friday from 5:30-8:30pm), here is a pretty awesome book arts video. Check out this amazing mix of paper crafting, book arts, and animation. It's completely amazing (it is amazing whether or not you have the sound turned on, but we recommend the sound on).

Blu's Muto

So if you've never seen the video Muto by artist Blu, you need to take a few minutes out of your day and see this now.

Blu inspires Monkey + Seal on so many levels. A combination of illustration, painting, street art, and stop motion animation, Blu's work is seriously an amazing injection of inspiration directly to the heart.

There isn't much to say about Blu's work besides this: it is simply amazing.

Additionally, this video of the world's 2nd largest aquarium is pretty amazingly beautiful, serene, and breathtaking all at once. Thanks to Di at What I Learned Today for the OP of this video!

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.