I first experienced the joy of his work at Thoughtbubble when I walking past the Drawn and Quarterly table. The cover of Adult Conteporary caught my eye because frankly it was the first thing I'd seen in the past hour or so that wasn't fan art, Marvel comics or just general garbage. I started talking to the guy at the table about it and then slowly deduced that he himself was Bendik, which was slightly embarrassing, and then we discussed his work and thoughtbubble and art college and drawn and quarterly which was nice.
I ended up buying the book and the 25 years of drawn and quartlery book with printed historical ephemera, setting me back about £40 and making a serious dent in my earnings for the day.
Totally worth it.
He said he'd sign it for me and I was like okay and stood waiting and then he was like you might wanna go off and come back I'm doing a little picture so I did.
It was a great picture, perhaps the best signing of a book I've acquired since my second signing of Nao of Brown.
Here are some great pages from the book
Since then I read this interview on It's Nice That about this video they made.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/bendik-kaltenborn-espen-friberg-todd-terje
I think this is the best example of moving image put to music that I can think of at the minute.
It's simple, playful, fun, well thought out but spontaneious, perfectly synced to the beats and those colours, oh man.
I can't stop watching it its so great.
So this has firmly cemented Bendik as my new fave.
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