Graphic Design (2014)

This was the first official release from my production company - Avalanche Artists

Art Direction / Production / Animation / Video Editing (2014)

Camera: Dani Barbieri (Little Lou Productions)

This was a music video over a year and a half in the making. It started as solely an animation, but then evolved into this Jumanji style children's book that takes the viewer on a journey in which something quirky/cute gradually falls into a pagan, ritualistic fire dance and then back again (an ouroboros format at its finest).

Turkuaz - "X.Y.Z. (Feelin' Tough)" [Official Music Video] - featured on Future 86 - Available on iTunes: http://goo.gl/GO8yeQ
Music by Craig Brodhead, Taylor Shell and Dave Brandwein. Lyrics by Dave Brandwein. 

Graphic Design (2014)
http://shirleymusic.bandcamp.com/album/different-sized-cages

Produced by Futurist (Curtis Peel, Emily Holden, Brad Weiger, Joey Campanella, and Skyler Browning) 

Music and Lyrics by Curtis Peel

Engineering and Coproduction by Dave Brandwein 

Recorded at Galaxy Smith

Produced by Futurist (Curtis Peel, Emily Holden, Brad Weiger, Joey Campanella, and Skyler Browning) 

Music and Lyrics by Curtis Peel

Engineering and Coproduction by Dave Brandwein 

Recorded at Galaxy Smith

Graphic Design (2012)

Graphic Design (2013)

Illustration / Graphic Design (2012)

Production / Animation / Song Writing (2012)

Cardamom, Panko, Macaron

These are three samples from a collection of animated explainers I created for recipe.com to be featured for a web video series called 'Counter Intelligence".

Graphic Design (2013)

While subleasing a room with my friend Ben, I made this concert poster featuring his awesome cat, Stadium. Yes, he named his cat Stadium.

Animation / Music (2012)

This is a collection of animation styles from 2012. Most of these were made during my time working at And Now Media.

Clients include:
Vook
Verizon
Minute List It
OSI Consulting
Council for Economic Education

Graphic Design (2012)

 This was a trailer that I made for DMZL, the talented goddess/creator of bears, glyphs, and monsters, who was hosting her first performance of DMZL Ritual Art Theatre during Bushwick Open Studios in 2012. Ben Sword provided the backing music, which was also incorporated into the live Theatre show. I recommend you check out their projects, as I find these two both wildly imaginative and weird.

Camera / Video Editing (2012)

I'm quite proud of this little video I shot and edited for my long time partner in creative crime, Emily Holden. This was a promotional video for her Electric Violin persona/project, Emily Simone.

Songwriting / Production / Set Design / Video Editing (2012)

Camera: Roger Edwards

This was a group collaboration featuring Emily Holden, Brad Weiger, Curtis Peel, Skyler Browning, Joey Campanella, Alex Moulter, Robin Austin, Maxine Nienow, Dana Abrassart, Miranda Hope, Kristen Tucker, April Kidwell, Carl Fan, Andrew Mega, Evan Miller, Clifford Dukes, and Chris Grunder.

'Blacksheep Army' is from the Futurist album, 'WAR IS YESTERDAY.'

Animated Gif (2012)

After Founding Father showed me his new touch pad, we made this animation. It seemed  like the appropriate visual parallel to his music. 

Graphic Design (2012)

Balloons (2012)

Late one night, I drunkenly promised that I would bring a slew of balloons to some beautiful ladies who worked near my apartment. I kept my promise and my friend Neal Evans helped me deliver them!

Filmed by Chris Grunder
Music by Daniel Johnston

Video Editing / Costume and Set Design (2011)

After Bleeding Hearts, I had so much leftover material. I fashioned them into a muppet-esque monster which also became my Halloween costume that year. I invited my great friend and collaborator Danielle Barbieri over and we pretty much made this shoot up on the spot.

Music by Dopapod

Filmed by Danielle Barbieri

Metal Sculpture by Abigail Lloyd

Special thanks to Jordan André De Liso for costume material

Album Release Event (2011)

Bleeding Hearts was a multimedia installation and interactive art event that was centered around the release of our album, War Is Yesterday. The concept was based on the idea of a ‘walk-through album,’ in which guests would walk through rooms, coordinated with the 9 tracks on our LP. We had over 50 NYC artists participate, including dancers, musicians, video artists, poets, set designers, and lighting technicians.

“Futurist harkens to the past with the sounds of strings and colonial drumbeats, but the underlying darkness meshed with sunny demeanor proves they offer enough light to burn.” 
- Allison Levin - The Deli NYC

“War is Yesterday” is a polished, obviously well adorned project that I couldn’t stop listening to."
- The Sleepfine Collective

"On their debut War Is Yesterday, the band constructs a colorful, vivacious musical terrain filled with good vibes."
- Nancy Chow - The Deli NYC

All Songs written by Curtis Peel
Produced by: Curtis Peel and Dave Brandwein
Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by: Dave Brandwein
Assisted by Michael Haziza
Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Galaxy Smith
Additional recording at The Fort
Album illustration by Jade Fusco

© 2011 Futurist, All Rights Reserved

Curtis Peel - Vocals, Guitar, Percussion/FX
Emily Holden - Vocals, Violin/FX
Brad Weiger - Bass
Philip Mayer - Drums
Dave Brandwein - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard/FX
Grant Schulte - Guitar
Ben Fox - Upright Bass
Anna Callner - Cello
Evan Honse - Trumpet
Josh Schwartz - Saxophone
Nat Osborn - Piano
Michael Haziza - Vocals, Percussion

Songwriting / Video Editing (2011) 

Artist: Futurist - futuristnow.net
Director: Maxine Nienow - maxinenienow.com
Camera: Glenn Chocky
Editors: Maxine Nienow, Curtis Peel

Featuring: Emily Holden, Brad Weiger, Curtis Peel, Alex Moulter, Robin Austin, Collin Peel, Lili Iturbe, Maxine Nienow, Lise Marie Jamhoury, Dana Abrassart, Alicia Lemke, Tavia Ordinak, Elana Brody, and Lindsey Ames

Special thanks to Blonde + Co - blondeandco.com

'Antihero' is from the Futurist album, 'WAR IS YESTERDAY.'

Music / Video (2010)

We (myself and Brad Weiger) hosted an acoustic Futurist concert at Pete's Candy Store. Someone sent me some recorded footage from the concert and I wanted to share this song in particular, but felt that I needed to dress it up a bit for the Internet. Maxine Nienow helped me create this beautiful set in her apartment building (made out of mostly her stuff), where we rerecorded the original footage through this little television set.

Illustration (2011)

This was originally a doodle-turned-thank you card, and I scanned it before I sent it because I liked it so much. I called it 'Monobot' for obvious reasons, but if totally personified, I think there's a metaphor here. Who doesn't love surround sound?

Wall Art / Video Editing / Music (2010)

I was read 'Capacity,' by Theo Ellsworth, in which he observes (through the character in his graphic story) how truly amazing it was the first time he illustrated a character that was bigger that he was. I was inspired and painted a sea monster on my bedroom wall that was about 7 feet tall (a foot taller than I am if you are dying to know). It had an interactive, light-up heart and a removable tear drop that I could hang or not, depending on my desired state. I had frequently been listening to Björk that winter, which is why I filled my monster's word balloon with the phrase 'You'll be taken care of...'

The backing music is called 'A Metaphorical Punch to the Belly' from my 2007 experimental album, wings on Thursday. 

Club Cover (2010)

I made this little creature to cover my Dad's driver whenever he needs to fetch his ball from the woods. He sends me pictures of it every so often.

Animation / Music (2010)
 
This is a collection of my earliest animation and video experiments, ranging from flash animation to stop motion to rotoscoped video. My ideas were developing, but wildly scattered, so I created this demo reel to better reach out for new work opportunities or collaborations. Similarly, the backing music was an unfinished track that had been sitting on my computer for a while. I guess I was waiting for some kind of melody that I could overlay, and it ended up being an ocular one.

Music / Video Editing (2010)

I met up with my friend Shane Allen, aka Danke, and we gave flowers to commuters one autumn evening, getting varied responses such as:
- "Thank you!"
- (WTF face)
- "Leave me alone."
- "What are you selling?"

We filmed each other and later I mixed it down and we made a trippy track to accompany the randomness.

Illustration (2009)

Don't let the man get you down.

Illustration / Graphic Design (2008)

I drew this tearful ape while my dad told me of my grandfather's passing over the phone and later colored it in all primary-like for the indie-rockin' Illinoisans of Elsinore.

Illustration (2009)

This was a sketch that I later used for Futurist designs.

Illustration (2009)

I wanted to create a comic that told a lot with a little.

Illustration (2008) 

Stingrays are the most underrepresented animal in the illustration world. They aren't too happy about it either, as they've almost all turned to the sad sanctuary of blues music.

Illustration / Graphic Design (2009)

Animation / Video Editing (2009)

This was a collaboration with the very talented composer/programmer/performance artist, Nathan Wheeler. He sent me the audio track and asked if I would create complimentary visuals for him to use for his live performances. In September, 2010, the piece was performed at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts in Minneapolis.

"We haven't accepted — we can't really believe — that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing 'America the Beautiful' as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness."
- Wendell Berry

Diorama (2009)

This was a birthday present for my friend Claire. The campfire light up in the dark.

Illustration (2009)

Illustration (2008) 

Illustration (2007)

Painting / Collage (2005)

This is the look of a man who has discovered the light, glittered with butterflies after too many days wandering in a cave. This was a Christmas gift for my brother, Collin.

Illustration (2007)

For about a year I worked at a coffee shop in Boulder, and that prompted a whole series of doodles like this on paper bags meant for pastries. I animated 
this one a few years later.

Graphic Design (2006)