1/15/12
11/30/11
San Diego City Beat! / November 30, 2011
I was just featured in this weeks San Diego City Beat! Very grateful for their support. Here is the write up they did.
Meet the cover artist
David Peña goes by the artistic alias Half Asleep (halfasleepdesign.com). “Float Cluster,” his drawing of a somewhat shapeless, anthropomorphic creature on the front page of this week’s CityBeat, is indicative of most of the work he does. Pena lets his stream of consciousness take over and tries to give form to the meanderings of his mind.
“It’s more about color, geometric shapes and being conscious and aware,” he says. “That’s the vibe I try to reflect in my artwork…. For me, it’s like this dream state. I like the idea of portraying this feeling of floating or being half awake and half asleep.”
Peña’s process starts with a drawing. He then scans the sketch and colors and manipulates the image in Photoshop and Illustrator. The art student is also in an electronic-music trio called Illuminauts and says his approach to making music is similar to the way he makes art.
“Music is such a big part of my life and my creative process,” he says. “It’s another way of expressing myself with these psychedelic sounds. I feel like our music is on a similar wavelength with my artwork…. It’s this stream of consciousness that I’m trying to project through music and by putting it down visually.”
—Kinsee Morlan
11/20/11
10/30/11
Dam-Funk at The Casbah San Diego
Excited to be on the same stage as Dam-Funk! Santino Romeri of Kill Quanti and I worked together on the design. I though I would share it. - HA!
10/27/11
10/22/11
Future Sounds of San Diego
Big Up Magazine just posted a preview to Future Sounds of San Diego! The compilation will be available for free download the first week of November. A lot of work and love has been put into this project by many San Diego artists. I'm very excited to have been apart of designing the artwork for the cover. I want to give a BIG UP to Miguel Vega at Accent Creative for organizing and having a vision for this project. - HA!
10/20/11
Where I'm at
1. No Age - Keechie
2. Burial - Shell of Light (Shlohmo Remix)
3. Tycho - Hours
4. The Album Leaf - D Day (Sister Crayon Remix)
5. James Blake - Tell Her Safe
6. Tokimonsta - Bright Shadows
7. Asura - He Sees Through Her (Mystery Cave Remix)
8. MatthewDavid - All You'll Never Know
9. Araabmuzik - Streets Tonight
10. Balam Acab - Now Time
11. Jeremiah Jae - $easons
12. RUN DMT - Club Scout
13. S.Maharba Feat. Je and Lucia - So Much Skin
14. Knxwledge - Beech
15. Javelin - Susie Cues
16. Evenings - Babe
17. Phen Swan - Super Cell
This is where I'm at. A fall mix for life transitions.
I hope you enjoy it.
DOWNLOAD IT HERE
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