Michaela Olsen

2/21/13

Target Red Card

Check out this Canadian Target Red Card spot I worked on at Brand New School in January. Lots of paper cutting. Chop chop chop.

10/18/12

This is a spot I fabricated for at Hornet last month. It was directed by Yves Geleyn and created for the Paris Motor Show.

The set was shot on a large spinning motorized wheel. Most of the elements are cut out paper. Looks so cool! Check out the making of.

9/14/12

OLD MAN

I'M SUPER EXCITED to go to the Ottawa Animation Festival again NEXT WEEK!! If you're going, be sure not to miss OLD MAN, directed by my former roommate-wife, Ms. Leah Shore! You go girl!

I created a short stop motion animated chunk for OLD MAN, plus a few other things that pop up throughout this rabbit hole of a film. It's really an incredible mashup of styles, techniques and of course, the bewildering audio recordings of Charles Manson's ramblings from prison.

Below is an image taken out of the section that I put together for the film.

OLD MAN Trailer:

oldmanmanson.com

2/21/12

A naked lady for you.

Happy Mardi Gras!

9x14" relief painting with gold leaf.

2/13/12

Caves

For Christmas, my dad asked me to design a couple of teeshirt graphics for the office/studio complex that he shares with my mom's business and a few other creative individuals. The different areas of the building have been dubbed The Man Cave and The Woman Cave.

TheWoman Cave graphic. For the part of the office inhabited by my Mom's exhibit design company, BaileyDonovan.

The Man Cave graphic, for the engineery - car building - manly man part of the office.

2/7/12

ParaGard

This is a paper cut out animation spot I fabricated with Hayley Morris, Randy Bretzin and Zejian Shen. Directed and animated by Hayley Morris. A birth control IUD never looked so good!

I made a bunch of stuff. Sets! Objects! Flowers, trees, houses, and more! Forced perspective! Replacement animation! Here are a few of the things I made.

The paper cutouts being animated on the multiplane.

1/3/12

BFF's

A commissioned illustration - 11"x17" in graphite.

12/24/11

merry merry merry

Check out this animation I worked on. Lots of animated paper and replacements. Magical + business cards.

12/13/11

Frankie + Gladys

9/26/11

Gathering Fruits

Now THAT is a fertility painting. Gouache, graphite and gold leaf.

8/30/11

HEADS

This summer I designed and created a couple of functional masks and a prop for HEADS, a play written by Evan Twohy and performed at New York International Fringe Festival. It was awesome! Check it out! headsplay.com

A very nice excerpt from a review by New York Theater: "It should be said that the head masks (designed by Michaela Olsen) steal the show; they are simply hysterical." Woohoo!

A little about the play:

HEADS is a comedy intwo acts. In “Freshfaced,” will Colin ever use his own face again?? In “Bubble & Squeak,” is Dolores smuggling cabbage in her pants?? She couldn’t be, or could she?!?! Part satire, part farce, and part romance, HEADS is a timely, absurd look at love in desperate, modern times.

The HEADS cast features all UprightCitizens Brigade famed house team members.Director Will Storie has coached comedy troupes throughout New York and his credits include The Colbert Report, UCB, College Humor, and LandlineTV. Will has put together an incredible cast: Ben Rameaka (BADMAN), Lauren Adams (Onassis), Morgan Jarrett (American Cousin), and John Murray (30 Rock, Death by Roo Roo.)

I made these masks from foam rubber, liquid latex and acrylic paint. And lots of pantyhose... no joke. It's a process that involves chunks of foam flying around my apartment, toxic latex fumes and multiple glue gun burns, but I really loved working this way nonetheless.

Concept Art for Isaac Newton mask

The foam mask before latex and paint

Isaac Newton (slightly frightening, I know)

BUTTHEAD Sketches

It's good to be a butthead.

And finally, a book cover design

and the book.

Hopefully more theater projects to come!!

7/17/11

whatta woman.

6/5/11

still alive

Hello! Spontaneous group show at Root Hill Cafe in Brooklyn! A few of my paintings will be hanging there all month along with the work of so many of my wonderful friends including Laura Decker, Zejian Shen, Leah Shore, Isam Prado, and Jake Armstrong. Thanks to Melissa Loyola for curating... she's a wondrous beast.

Also, here's a thing to look at:

3/31/11

SXSW & 100 Down

I went to Austin, TX this month for South by Southwest!! Saw some great films, including Boobatary, an animated short by my buddy Leah Shore.

I also helped promote the film and music blog 100 Down. Since SXSW is about 90% party, I designed these flasks to hand out as schwaaaaag.

PS. I wrote a review of Miranda July's The Future for 100 Down. Check it out!

3/26/11

for things

3/25/11

pug life

The Back 2 School look for preppie puppies.

3/24/11

my winter babies

These are just a couple of whatnots that I made during the colder months. But now spring has sprung! It's been far too long, but I have lots to post in the next few weeks.