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Clay Play

Kristine Poole

Play and creativity go together hand-in-hand like, well, me and Colin. However, amidst deadline crunches, working with clients, creative problem solving challenges, material disasters and, dare we admit, at times over-the-top, self-imposed pressures to continually bring more to the party, sometimes getting through a piece can feel more like a slog than the expressive rapture that beckoned us into the creative arts in the first place. As our schedules become more and more intense, it's…

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THE BLACK HOLE SUPERETTE EXPERIENCE

Justin Coro Kaufman

May 29, 2025 - Hey all, Got kind of an interesting submission this month continuing on with the Aesop Rock theme. On the last album cover I did for him, the special edition had lights in laid into the packaging and it played a song so there was a running joke about how we were going to try to make this one more complicated. at some point, I realized I’m building all of these 3-D assets for the packaging art, so it probably wouldn’t be that much more work to take this stuff and put it in unreal engine and try to turn it into like a little interactive thing where people could dig a little further into the album concept and maybe sample some snippets or whatever. I pitched the idea to Aesop and he seemed into it…

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