Michael Paul Young was invited to be one of the creatives involved in the fashion label Diesel’s Only the Brave perfume launch. The final result was a room design titled Discolored & Battered Bravery: Physical pain or the threat of death will never overcome the ability to see into the lion’s mouth and ask for seconds with [...]

A work of art that explores the relationship between nature, motion and sound, The Interpretation takes us on a languid journey through a slowly flourishing forest. Hinting at vague memories of microbiology and rotating through a cool organic spectrum of greens, blues, browns, blacks and whites; this motion-based work will entrance its viewer as the forest evolves. The Interpretation is set to a minimal score filled with authentic sounds of nature, complimenting the environmental essence of the visuals.

This is Agostina was developed as animation experiment for YouWorkForThem’s release of the font, Agostina. The font was designed and coded with extra swash like characters in the open type format. This is Agostina explores those swash like features and it’s options in 3d and other experimental animation methods.

King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal . Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers. American President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria. The first commercial nuclear power station was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England. At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline. Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US. There are 75 days remaining until the end of the year.

Projection of my short movie March in Thonburi on display at The Graphic Design Festival in Breda, Netherlands (2008). At different sites around the city exhibitions, lectures, seminars, workshops, presentations and unexpected confrontations take place. Not only at the known cultural institutions but also in public space. Bus shelters, projections and installations fill Breda’s city centre with [...]

A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. Distortion is usually unwanted. In some fields, distortion is desirable, such as electric guitar (where distortion is often induced purposely with the amplifier to achieve the electric guitar’s desired, electrifying, [...]

March 29 is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining until the end of the year.

Intermission with minimal changes.

March 25 is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of the year. March 25, Lady Day, was New Years’ Day in many European implementations of the Julian calendar, preceding by exactly nine months Christmas Day.

The beginning of abundant sweat and lack of energy, this project began the race in the warmest time of 2008 in Thonburi. This is what I soon begin to call and refer to as home, these become my first sketches.

Consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation. Digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark. DG becomes a decade old with version 9. Soundtrack by Designgraphik.

Happy 2008! My name is Kat and I am the multimedia designer here at IdN. In cohesion with the 15th Anniversary Book, we are thinking of ways to edit it into video snippets on the side. Thus, we are looking for raw footages that satisfy AT LEAST 2 of the points below.

Video, Audio and Image installation at OFFF 2007 (NYC). Visuals created by Michael Paul Young, Soundtrack composed by Michael Cina. In mathematics, especially in geometry and topology, an ambient space is the space surrounding a mathematical object. For example, a line may be studied in isolation, or it may be studied as an object in [...]

Artworks commissioned for Todays Art 2007, curated by Maxalot. Project consisted of two commissioned works. One was a static image project, created in collaboration with Michael Cina. The second work was an seven minute video projected onto the building created exclusive for this event. All projections were onto Richard Meyer’s City Council Building in The Hague, Netherlands.

Nokia (via Nico Stumpo) sent me a phone (N93) and asked for moving imagery. Additionally added fish eye and the best performer in Bangkok = happy Nokia and feature on the Nokia Trendslab.

Various short films composed in the early 2000’s. Proceed past all the unnecessary substance and discussion. Try not to apprehend and do not ask. Trying to reason you have ignored what its like to stumble upon new conceptions.

“When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s breath hovering over the waters, God said, ‘Let there be light.’ and there was light”; the “firmament” separating “the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the [...]

Photo shoot from collaboration with Piyada Vachanaratana. Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe. “Nature” refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. Manufactured objects and human interaction are not considered part of nature unless qualified in ways such as [...]

Approximately 5000 years ago, an ink for blacking the raised surfaces of pictures and texts carved in stone was developed in China. This early ink was a mixture of soot from pine smoke, lamp oil, and gelatin from animal skins and musk. Other early cultures also developed many colors of ink from available berries, plants [...]

The basic tenants of VIII are somewhat complicated, having to do as much with psychiatric strategies as mappings of the psyche. Moreover, many of the VIII concepts have, themselves, entered into the popular folklore in the guise of “DG,” “Father-Son Complex,” and so forth. Probably, the folk-preserved versions of this theory are [...]

On March 9, 1886, as Verne was coming home, his twenty five year old nephew, Gaston, with whom he had entertained lengthy and affectionate relations, charged at him with a gun. As the two wrestled for it, it went off. The second bullet entered Verne’s left leg. He never fully recovered. Gaston spent the rest [...]

KNBS are a cross-country collaboration between New York based world renowned video artist and musician Yoshi Sodeoka and Seattle based noted musician and programmer Sean Rooney. They have been collaborating for more than 10 years on a variety of music and art projects. Together they create dynamic music and visuals which are sometimes confrontational [...]

ACT6: Then God said, “Let the earth be filled with living creatures.” So He made the animals on the earth, the cattle, and every thing that crawls upon the earth - all producing after their kinds; and God saw that it was good. Soundtrack by Michael Cina. Originally created as live audio/video performance at Flash in the Can, [...]

Finding Eutaw and North was the second dvd from myself and Michael Cina. It includes six short films, featuring the title video track — a 34 minute ambient architectural interpretation of the mean streets of Baltimore, Maryland. Mixed live on custom video editing software and featuring an original soundtrack, “Finding Eutaw and North” pioneers mesmerizing [...]

Commissioned by the Canadian music video station Fuse. The Ferret Foot wants to take a journey through his favorite place to vacation, FUSE Mountain. So he jumps on his flying carpet to see the surreal creatures that live on such a psychotic stretch of land. Whales jump, creatures beg for Nachos, a brown lump rocks [...]

Myra contains over 27 minutes of commercial and independent broadcast work by WeWorkForThem (Michael Paul Young & Michael Cina). This collection of work was produced from 1999-2003 and brought together in this first DVD release by WeWorkForThem. Contains the works 722, Gallery, Overcross, Vh1, Form, Designgraphik, Brasil, NTHN, Parking, YouWorkForThem, Thought Process and Submethod. Purchase (almost out of print)

Every well-designed typeface has its own spirit, its own personality, its own vibration. And every vibration has its own pulse, its own pace, its own motion. Enter the Dragon is an experimental video compilation exploring the nuances of type. The videos don’t just spell out words; each video embodies the spirit of the typeface it [...]

Animation created using the font Onecross for YouWorkForThem’s Enter the Dragon DVD. Final work created in collaboration with Michael Cina. Audio by Michael Madill.
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01: The act or process of thinking; cogitation.
02: A product of thinking.
03: The faculty of thinking or reasoning.
04: The intellectual activity or production of a particular time or group: ancient Greek thought; deconstructionist thought.
05: Consideration;
Soundtrack by Michael Paul Young, Michael Cina and NPFC

Five station identities (concept, design and animation) commissioned by VH1. In 2003, the network changed its focus again, dropping “Music First” from its name, and introducing their new and current box logo. Having saturated its Behind The Music series (and spinoff BTM2, a 30-minute version that told the stories of current chart-toppers), gotten past the [...]

Originally created for an sweatshop agency but the deal went sour to say the least. Then emerged YouWorkForThem with some special website launch videos. Final animations created in collaboration with Michael Cina (2003). Audio by Michael Madill.

The empire contracted out many of its services to private groups called DG/WWFT. Shares in publicani were called “socii” and “particulae” which were analogous to today’s Over-The-Counter shares of small arms. Though the records available for this time are incomplete, Edward Chancellor states that there is some evidence that a speculation in these shares became [...]

Grammatically, the word “nothing” is a noun, which suggests that it refers to something. The simplest meaning is: no thing. So if “Nothing” is said to be in a particular place, have a particular quality, then it is meant that “no thing” is there, or has this or that quality. Nothing simply sounds better, and [...]

At age 23, there were two ways of distinguishing between these processes. First, was the fate of an impulse and, second, the relationship to the object. From this view point, we may see the primary process as being “objectively autistic.” The secondary process, in contradistinction, leads to language, contact and interaction with an digital object. [...]

On air identity spot for the Canadian Much Music, created in 2001. Final designs created in collaboration with Michael Cina.

Get away from the expectations, the discussion, the noise, the media, and the pressure. Whatever you do, move away from anything that distracts you from contemplating your life and where you want it to go. Soundtrack by NPFC.
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There are three classes, three stages of growth: little children, fathers, and young men. Others confirm this three-fold division, this three-fold step in fulfilling manhood. When the good seed falls onto good ground, it brings forth in three degrees - some thirty-fold, some sixty-fold, and some a hundred-fold. There are three stages of growth: little [...]

Motion developments commissioned for XGAMES (2000) broadcast package. Architectural structure created to simulate my idea of a skate park.

A online project designed and curated by myself from 1999-2001. Project won awards from Flash Film Festival, IDN Magazine, Dazed and Confused and Magma Books. Project no longer online, but included in the YouWorkForThem book One (out of print).