shynanigans

Dumping ground for thoughts on the creative life, by artist/designer Shyama (Rhymes with llama) Golden.

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Animation for Red Bull Music Academy celebrating the Detroit Techno greats: Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Mike Banks, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood and Carl Craig. Huge thanks to Carl Craig for the music.

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melting flowers #pattern #loop #illustration (at New York, New York)

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Nothing is ever really complete... but here's 33 hours condensed into 14 seconds #process #patterns #wip #illustration #melting #floral (at New York, New York)

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At the @redbullmusicacademy @officialspikelee talk and seeing my animations of him everywhere #🙆🏽#🎨 (at SVA Theatre)

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made so many variations of this #🙀 #fallingcat #cat #pattern

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scanner experiments #RGB

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the start of a new pattern #fallingcat

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Getting this book dummy critiqued/tweaked before looking for a literary agent 🕵🙀 #Catsquatch (at New York, New York)

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Here's one tile of the pattern. There's just some final cleanup left to do today. #vicuñas #Bofedales #flamingos #pattern

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Digital Typographic Painting (more of these to come)

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almost done

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almost halfway done #watertheflowers

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A serif and sans I’m currently working on. Two months ago this would have seemed impossible. Yay learning.

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Illustration I did for Cosmo Magazine

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Catatonic - Illustration I did for Cosmo Mag

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growing up and making my own typefaces

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testing a few letters of my incomplete typeface