12-21-09
Life After Accounting: An Interview
I’m lucky to have so many friends with artistic pursuits. Allan is one such person. Coming off a recent exhibition of his work at Savant Project, Allan’s show, “Life After Accounting”, is a series of highly geometric prints done with a restricted palette of opaque watercolors.
I had a conversation with Allan walking home from a night at 731 a few years back when I still lived on Boylston. I didn’t know Allan that well at the time but surprisingly we had a terrific conversation discussing school, aesthetics and our plans for the future. He was a business major at the time and spoke to me about switching majors. He said he had always liked to draw and was interested in taking art classes at Northeastern. At the time I had also recently started taking classes in the art department for the multimedia portion of my degree. Both of us coming from analytical, math driven majors, were able to relate to one another in discussing our interests in graphic design, film, and traditional fine arts. From there on out I knew allan was destined for great things… or at least would be doing something he loved.
Here now 2 years later, I’ve compiled footage from an interview I did with allan as part of an ongoing series with members of the Mission Hill community. I’m glad Allan has kept up with pursuing his dreams of creating things that are beautiful and by what I gather of this interview it doesn’t seem he has plans of stopping anytime soon.
I’m lucky to have so many friends with artistic pursuits. Allan is one such person. Coming off a recent exhibition of his work at Savant Project, Allan’s show, “Life After Accounting”, is a series of highly geometric prints done with a restricted palette of opaque watercolors.
I had a conversation with Allan walking home from a night at 731 a few years back when I still lived on Boylston. I didn’t know Allan that well at the time but surprisingly we had a terrific conversation discussing school, aesthetics and our plans for the future. He was a business major at the time and spoke to me about switching majors. He said he had always liked to draw and was interested in taking art classes at Northeastern. At the time I had also recently started taking classes in the art department for the multimedia portion of my degree. Both of us coming from analytical, math driven majors, were able to relate to one another in discussing our interests in graphic design, film, and traditional fine arts. From there on out I knew allan was destined for great things… or at least would be doing something he loved.
Here now 2 years later, I’ve compiled footage from an interview I did with allan as part of an ongoing series with members of the Mission Hill community. I’m glad Allan has kept up with pursuing his dreams of creating things that are beautiful and by what I gather of this interview it doesn’t seem he has plans of stopping anytime soon.
12-13-09
Tony & “The Tape”
Last night Chris and I decided to interview some of the people that happened to be roaming the apartment at the time. We were desperately looking for content to edit and it looks like we found it. Based loosely off David Lynch’s Interview Project, I decided to ask people a series of questions off the cuff and see what their responses would be. We began this series of Basement Interviews with Tony, asking him about the infamous “tape” but later tailored our questioning around people’s personal lives. In this series of interviews I strive to capture the essence of each individual by prodding and churning their emotional innards, hoping their passions rise to the surface.
More interviews will be posted in the upcoming weeks. If you’d like to be interviewed, leave a comment here with a way to get in touch with you.
