Mondolithic Studios

Just published Cover illustration we completed for a French Science Magazine on recent developments and discoveries via the Hadron Collider and the effect these results are having on our current understanding of the fundamental laws of our Universe.

Cover done back in 2005 for Scientific American Magazine on DNA Computing.

Another fantastic piece by Chris sharing company with a cover of Time Magazine and Sir Richard Branson – used by High Life Magazine for an article on Space Tourism. Yay Chris!

Yea yea… an ego boost… but who can resist posting a pic and profile for contributing to an article from the latest issue of Men’s Health Germany – SHIRTLESS no less… if I was chocolate, I would probably have consumed myself long ago.. sigh…

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy are on a collision course! In about 3 billion years, the two galaxies will collide. Then over a span of 1 billion years or so after a very complex gravitational dance, they will merge to form an elliptical galaxy.

The Milky Way
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a collection of about 400 billions stars spread out in a thin disk more than 100,000 light year across. Our sun is one of those stars sitting about midway out in the disk moving around with the others on nearly circular orbits. The Milky Way would look like an average looking spiral galaxy if we could see it from the outside.
Andromeda
The nearest big spiral galaxy to the Milky Way is the Andromeda galaxy. Appearing as a smudge of light to the naked eye in the constellation Andromeda, this galaxy is about twice as big as the Milky Way but very similar in many ways. At the moment, it is about 2.2 million light years away from us but the gap is closing at 500,000 km/hour. While most galaxies are rushing away as the universe expands, Andromeda is the only big spiral galaxy galaxy moving towards the Milky Way. The best explanation is that the two galaxies are in fact a bound pair in orbit around one another. Both galaxies formed close to each other shortly after the Big Bang initially moving apart with the overall expansion of the universe. But since they are bound to one another, they are now falling back back together and one very plausible scenario puts them on a collision course in 3 billion years.
Interacting Galaxies.
Galaxies collide and interact occasionally and there are several well-known examples in the vicinity of the Milky Way. We see interacting pairs as snapshots in time and the results are often very dramatic. Long streams of stars thrown off in beautiful open spiral patterns are characteristic of these collisions and are known as tidal tails and bridges because of their origin in the strong mutual gravitational tides of the two interacting galaxies. Colliding galaxies also tend to merge with one another and the final outcome after some violent convulsions lasting a few hundred million years is another kind of galaxy called an elliptical. During this period, the gas in these galaxies can be ignited violently in a starburst creating stars at rates hundreds of times greater than normal. Galaxy interactions are not that common an event in the local neighbourhood (maybe one in a hundred galaxies) but the rates of merging and interaction is much larger at early times in the universe. Galaxy merging is fundamental to building up structure in the universe and explains many of the peculiar features of young galaxies seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.

An image of the interacting pair NGC2207/IC2163. A distant observer on another galaxy might see something like this in 3 billion years when our galaxy merges.

Outtake illustration for an undisclosed assignment.

Proposed concept/info-graphic for a project on weather control. Things are kind of hairy around here right now so I will post more info on the concept with links at a later date.

Final artwork for an embroidered patch published for an article in Men’s Health Germany. The article is about the steps one takes to accomplish a given goal… like art, architecture, life… it is a series of steps… a set of refinements to arrive – ICH HAB’S GESCHAFFT!! All of the artwork was done with Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter…

http://www.menshealth.de/

Design phase for an embroidered patch published for an article in Men’s Health Germany. The article is about the steps one takes to accomplish a given goal… like art, architecture, life… it is a series of steps… a set of refinements to arrive – ICH HAB’S GESCHAFFT!!

http://www.menshealth.de/

Rough concept sketch for an undisclosed project.

Okay…. I cannot do the math on this… or quantify it. BUT…

While walking the dogs, I ran into a couple on the beach that were coming back from a ‘healing circle’ they attended near Oaxaca. The conversation moved into pseudo science and what I like to call ‘Intuendo’… yes… you heard it here first… I think. Bottom line was, they were trying to wrap their heads around what exactly it is I *and Chris do for a living.

So, put on the spot, I asked them if they were familiar with the traditional printing method of rosets – plates – CMYK. Yes… okay…. now… let us also assume the Universe is not limited to 4 plates… CMYK… but a printing press that can express an infinite spectrum – infinitely divisible. Contemporary printing techniques use a stochastic Gaussian method. Now imagine a set of 3 dimensional stochastic plates – cubic CMYK to keep it managable. And then, conceptualize You are living in Magenta but you cannot account for a ‘complete’ logical, mathematical understanding of your Magentic universe. Stuff is missing…. Cyan stuff, Yellow stuff, OR Black stuff….

All of these plates or pixels combine in a Multidimensional construct to manifest a single, universal constant. These pixels/dots/rosets are interlaced, influencing each other… yet unaware or able to form a complete ‘theory of everything’ within their monochromatic reality.

They just stared at me.

So I told them I build bridges. I attempt to take contemporary and classical archetypes and logos, and build a bridge between present and future. He gave me the Peace sign and walked away saying… ‘wow… you are one strange dude…’