Discovering works of January 2008 inspired by previous exhibits in New York and Holland. New discoveries are acquired through various senses and are usually assimilated with pre-existing knowledge and actions. Questioning is a major form of human thought and interpersonal communication, and plays a key role in discovery. Discoveries are acquired through questions. With reference to [...]

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.

Prints created for the traveling exhibit, Current. The exhibit was looking for original methods of printing from many artists. Michael Cina discovered a printing method using films from screen printing to transfer the image to paper, instead of using them to burn the screens. In November of 2007 we started exploring taking the alpha channels [...]

A journal or archive per say, starting around 2006. Considered by many the biggest let down due to the lack of naked women and tit shots, this continual stream of imagery and ideas is best served during free time and after late dinners. Visit the MPY Flickr stream.

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.

The country’s official name was Siam (สยาม) until 23 June 1939, when it was changed to Thailand; it was renamed Siam between 1945 and 11 May 1949, after which the name Thailand was once again adopted. Also spelled Siem, Syâm or Syâma, it has been identified with the Sanskrit Śyâma, dark or brown. But the [...]

Sketchbooks come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, with varied covers, and differing numbers of pages. Sketchbooks began as a way to provide a readily available supply of drawing paper in the convenient form of a book. Finish of the work found in the sketchbook varies widely from artist to artist, with some [...]

The work of Michael Paul Young (with Michael Cina) featured in the OFFF 2007 program book.

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.

Michael Paul Young featured in IDN Magazine’s insert feature about the ‘15 Degrees of Separation’.

The Philippines, is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine archipelago comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing maritime borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Palau, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world’s 12th most populous country with a population approaching 90 [...]

Michael Paul Young was a speaker/presenter at Graphika Manila in Manilla, Philippines. Photos by Paulo

Artwork exhibited in Madrid, Spain at Madinspain’s Psicotipografia on September 21-22, 2007. Final artwork created in collaboration with Michael Cina. Final artwork was printed into a massive 150×100 (centimeters) print. Curated by Wenceslao Sanz Alonso.

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.

Invited to created original artwork for IDN Magazine’s “where do you see design in 15 years.” My answer, full circle…

Various works shortly after relocating to Thailand. Upon arrival I dabbled in various stomach flu symptoms and more unpleasant health issues. I felt it was a perfect time to illustrate my stomach problems and new found eating habits.

Illustrations composed for the Washington, DC band Greenland members Michael, Jess and Tony.

This was the print that dropped Atomic bombs over volcano’s in the year -3,000BC. You forgot? Maybe because we lazer beamed up your souls, boxed em up, made you watch movies in 3D at Le Cinema. Don’t worry, we put all the souls back into cavemen and we are clear. This poster in your house [...]

Two page spread for Romanian art publication Omagiu. A problem is an obstacle which makes it difficult to achieve a desired goal, objective or purpose. It refers to a situation, condition, or issue that is yet unresolved. In a broad sense, a problem exists when an individual becomes aware of a significant difference between [...]

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.

Adobe Design Center features the work of Michael Paul Young and Michael Cina. They profiled the work (Feed the Ferrets) we created for the television music channel Fuse.

“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 [...]

In physics, displacement is the vector that specifies the position of a point or a particle in reference to a previous position, or to the origin of the chosen coordinate system. When the reference point is the origin, this is better referred to as a position. Displacement vector versus distance traveled along a path. Notice [...]

Artwork created for the ‘Todaysart 2006′ exhibit on Richard Meyer’s City Council Building in The Hague, Netherlands on September 23-24 2006. This part of the event was produced and organized by our good friends at Maxalot. Created in collaboration with Michael Cina.

Commissioned artwork for the book Two Faced. The works objective was to cover “Portraits of some of the most Talented and Influential Creatives of the last decade.” Our work was completed as a portrait of Tomm Muller (Muller Design) and in return he completed a work of our (Michael Cina & Michael Young) portraits. Final [...]

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 [...]

Traveling through Paak Nua via small van, we stop amongst many settlements, some sinister but most ethical. Either or, the villagers are willing to talk and discuss. A year passes and we decide to relocate to the old home for one and new home for another.

Three artworks created to tell the story of Roland Park. Roland Park is the first planned “suburban” community in North America. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It was developed between 1890 and 1920 as an upper-class streetcar suburb. The early phases of the neighborhood were designed by Edward Bouton and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. The neighborhood is [...]

Michael Paul Young presented work at APMT2 in Tokyo, Japan. This artwork was also created as a limited edition print for the Be Aware Of The Next Door Neighbor held at the gallery SpeakFor in Shibuya, Tokyo. Artworks concept was to portray preconceptions of what Tokyo was to an outsider. Final artwork created in collaboration with Michael Cina.

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 [...]

The last trip as visitors, one year before we relocated.

Cabin fever is a slang term for a claustrophobic reaction that takes place when a person or group is isolated and/or shut in, for an extended period. Symptoms include restlessness, irritability, forgetfulness, and excessive sleeping.

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 [...]

Michael Paul Young was a speaker/presenter at AIGA (Washington, DC). Lecture held in collaboration with The Corcoran Gallery of Art & College of Art + Design.

Artwork commissioned by Coca-Cola for the coke side of life campaign. While not used in the final campaign, a second work was created as a remix of the delivered version. Final artwork created in collaboration with Michael Cina.

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, [...]

Print edition of BPM magazine does a feature on our DVD Finding Eutaw and North.