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The Dead Files, Death and Dolls

Jason — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:06:35 +0000

I’m a sketch artist on the Travel Channel show The Dead Files, Death and Dolls episode! Fun and creepy experience. It’s on this Friday, February 3 at 10pm.

Until I get an image from the show…

… Here’s a book cover I made for James Chambers’ Lovecraftian Engines of Sacrifice, available from Dark Regions Press.

American Graphic Design Awards 2011

Jason — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:11:10 +0000

Congratulations to the N.C. Zoo for winning an American Graphic Design Award for outdoor signage! Stacey Brown, Betsy Powell, Lance Hill and Bill Rankin did a great job! The kiosk is located at the Solar Pointe pavilion at the N.C. Zoo in Asheboro, N.C. I’m lucky to have helped as programmer!

Scroll through the gallery at the bottom of this link to see the winning kiosk, Plug into the Future.

Charlotte Hawkins Brown

Jason — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:45:23 +0000

The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum accepted donation of my portrait of the museum’s namesake. The portrait will be presented at the museum’s Annual Christmas Open House this Sunday from 1 to 5 pm.

The portrait was painted in 2005 for The Charlotte Observer and the donation is courtesy of The Charlotte Observer. Thanks to The Observer’s Dee-Dee Strickland and June Lancaster and the Museum’s Marian Inabinett.

Peeved Poultry

Jason — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:57:42 +0000

Another Heyman/Whitley collaboration recently landed on Kidzter.com. It will soon be available as a free mobile app (as time permits). The idea is simple. Peeve as many fowl as you can in thirty seconds by clicking on them.

Peeved Poultry

Digestion

Jason — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:46:42 +0000

Project completed! This is the final interactive graphic for the UNC School of Public Health’s Nutrition 240 course. Thanks Dr. Beck, Catherine and Megan! (I’ll update this post soon with some of the bizarre comps we came up with.)

Digestion

Get Horizontal

Jason — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:21:26 +0000

Eric Knisley surprised me with this exhibit at the Carrboro Arts Center opening September 9. Eric’s a great collaborator whose work can be found here. The horizontal works are done exquisite-corpse style over a few months … or years. I’m excited to be included in an exhibit with Eric, Bill Fick, Ron Liberti and Saul Zimet.

Eric also has work in a group exhibit at The Looking Glass Cafe. Other artists in that show include Kevin Dixon and Paul Freidrich!

Plein Air Painting

Jason — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:55:34 +0000

If you’re in the Durham/Chapel Hill area and interested in plein air painting, please sign up for my seven-Saturday course at the Carrboro Arts Center. It’s up to a group vote, but we’re scheduled to visit spots at Duke Forest, the Botanical Gardens and Northwoods trails. Questions? Drop me a line.

(Click here to see more of my plein air paintings.)

GeoGeo

Jason — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:46:08 +0000

GeoGeo is available for Blackberry PlayBook and Android devices. GeoGeo grew from Carolina Adobe User Group meetings with me and Mark A. Mark knew former Pixar artist, James Elston, who gave us our nice logo and mascot, GeoGeorge. I coded the app and Mark handled quiz development. Please give it a try, let us know if you like (or dislike) it and we’ll try to incorporate good ideas. It won’t be free on the Android Market for much longer.

UNC School of Public Health

Jason — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:00:39 +0000

These are some of the latest pieces I’ve had the pleasure to work on for the UNC School of Public Health. The interactive pieces are made in Flash, Illustrator, and Cinema 4D and they’re built to live in BlackBoard or Sakai. The only thing we bought was the iStock video of the man in the desert. The interface was only meant for client review.
Credits: Catherine MacAllister, Informational Design; Megan Bell, Project Manager; Jason Whitley: Illustration, animation, actionscript; Dr. Melinda Beck, Subject matter expert. If you click around on the Nutrition 240 site, you’ll see more work by the rest of Teaching and Learning Interactive: Andy Brawn, videographer; Denis McDonough, grip; Tim Harper, web development; Jamar Jones, on-screen talent; Kerry O’Sullivan, web designer.

Rock Steel Hustle Flow

Jason — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:19:23 +0000

My dad’s and my exhibit ends Saturday, July 30 – the same day, there’s a closing party from 1-3 pm at The Art Station gallery. There were over sixty of my paintings and more than thirty of my dad’s sculptures. Ryan Karpinsky, Roy Woods, Ted, Tammy Cantrell and everyone at The Art Station are doing a great job getting a new gallery off the ground in Gastonia!