One of my main goals as an artist is to add beauty to the world. Sometimes it’s in the form of something that’s been thought-out for a long time and then created with great effort, while other times it’s done in a pretty random fashion.
Below is a Mexican Sprite bottle that I decorated with a mosaic of aluminum pieces cut from cans last summer. Just thought it would be fun to share.
Finally! The first sunglasses prototype from Jump the Walls & Run is done! The frames are made from Cocobolo, a wood that is farm-grown in Costa Rica, and the amber lenses are featured in the pictures below.
After the amber lenses are changed out with a pair of smoke colored ones, these go to Danny from the band What Laura Says. Their currently on tour with Annuals (whose song “Sore” is absolutely magnificent to me) and Jessica Lea Mayfield, so if you check ‘em out and like the sound, you might be able to catch a show soon.
A couple years ago, my friend Ben Faiveley and I were in a Goodwill looking for a 1980’s ghetto blaster, but we ended up coming out of the store with something else.
The Northern Fury
How did such a beauty fall into our hands? After looking through heaps of crap electronics, we didn’t find anything remotely close to a boom-box. A wave of depression overcame us, so we decided to go take naps in the furniture section to sleep it off…
Jump the Walls & Run is a company founded by Zachary James Dodds with the goal of generating new products that have both a creative and artistic edge.
Most products are prototypes or limited-edition and don’t go into mass manufacture. This allows the focus to remain on continuous innovation, and away from the classic model of inventing one product and then spending the majority of one’s time trying to sell as many units as possible.
Mexican Back to the Future III Cactus Planter by JTW&R
In addition to product development, Jump the Walls & Run also serves as an animation and graphic design studio. The studio’s first animated short film, “Malorie”, is currently in production and will double as a music video for the band Nathan in conjunction with Nettwerk Records. Look for the full website and store to launch fall 2008.
Title character from the short film "Malorie".