a picture is worth a thousand words

Blog

Caltech Magazine Cover

JO-D-130625-Portada_low

I’m really proud of this one. Few months ago I had the opportunity to work for California Institute of Technology, one of the best universities in the world, by creating summer issue cover for their E&S magazine. What can I said… more than a pleasure it was an honour, be related to Caltech is a dream come true.

Finally I did three illustrations you will find along the magazine. The seed for the cover is Thinker of Rodin and the words are current questions around science. You can navigate it on-line through this link.

I love science and technology, and I truly believe science people makes the world go around. I think we have to learn a lot from science world, how they share and how they criticize and grow. Forget politics, bankers or whoever… science people, like these studying at Caltech, will make your life better.

They send me some hard copies that, nicely, arrived yesterday, so it was a great name day gift! BTW I jumped across a bonfire as I used to do when I was young (another crazy spanish tradition!).

Thanks Jenny for thinking of me for this!

Michael Jordan

JO-D-130527-Jordan01_low

Air Jordan, Your Royal Airness, Le Wilde Bulle, Sir Altitude, MJ, Ready For Takeoff… yes, he is Michael Jordan.

Last week I took my daughters to their swimming lessons and I was able to see an amateur basketball game. Not All Stars at all but I love how nice and fair basketball is, and I remembered my school days… These days Jordan was some kind of hero, and I think time proved he is also a great person.

This one dedicated to my old school friends, Alex Rivas, Antonio Paredes, Pedro Flores, Ricardo GarcĂ­a and so many… those with whom I played basketball and shared passion about this fantastic game.

Be the owner of this illustration. Buy it at Opensea.com.

Srinivasa Ramanujan

JO-D-130423-Ramanujan01_low

He is one of the most amazing minds ever and one of my favourite characters, Srinivasa Ramanujan. Probably because he is one of these isolated autodidacts that probe the wonder of human mind. He died very young and we have only a couple photos of himself, I choose one of these for this illustration… I feel we can see many things through that eyes.

We have a lot of results from him, near 3900, but not too many words. I love one of his quotes “An equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of God”. I took this one and spread over his portrait.

You can read about Srinivasa Ramanujan in his wikipedia article.

Buy print at Society6

  • Pie Derecho

    JO-D-130421-PieDerecho_low

    Una de mis ilustraciones sobre la obra de Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca ha sido portada de la prestigiosa revista latina de Nueva York Pie Derecho http://www.piederecho.com/, en cuya ediciĂłn se habla sobre el evento ‘Back Tomorrow: Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca/Poet in New York’ un homenaje al poeta andaluz y en particular a su obra “Poeta en Nueva York”.

    En el post en el que publicaba esta imagen podĂ©is encontrar los detalles sobre la misma. Esta compuesta por las palabras más utilizadas en sus poemas, sin duda una preciosa lista que empieza por: niños (215), muerte (210), amor (199), agua (194), corazĂłn (193), noche (180), cielo (156), canto (146), blanco (136), estrellas (130), oh (130), rosa (128), ojos (126), ay (118), luz (118), quiero (117), sangre (117), viento (116), mar (111)…

    Ha sido todo un honor formar parte de esto, gracias Norberto!.

    Victor Mannuele

    JO-D-130421-VictorManuelle_low

    He tenido la suerte de participar en un concepto creativo para la celebración de los 20 años de carrera profesional del cantante Victor Manuelle. Utilizando los nombres de los álbumes de su extensísima discografía compuse un retrato que se ha utilizado como imagen principal para la campaña.

    Si os dais un paseo por su web http://www.victormanuelleonline.com/ podréis como se ha utilizado, de manera muy creativa, esta imagen en vídeos y otros medios.

    Gracias Lina y Jaime por la oportunidad.


    Visualizations

    Rafa

    Mi pequeño tributo de despedida deportiva a Rafael Nadal, mejor simplemente Rafa, con un puñado de

    More in Visualizations

    Art

    James Randi

    My little tribute in memorian of James Randi. In the age of information is hard to believe that peop

    More in Art

    Games

    Tetris Nightmare

    I woke in the middle of the night, thousands of coloured pieces was falling from the ceiling and my

    More in Games

    Quotes

    La Grande Bellezza

    Esta película me atrapó hace unos años, cuando pasaba un momento difícil. Y como en casi todas l

    More in Quotes

    Calendars

    Crisis Calendar 2021

    Last two years have been hard to me, especially at personal level. Not related to Covid, but I feel

    More in Calendars