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This is the Kickstarter Video for a project we are trying to get off the ground.
In August of 2000 Brad Henderson and Ryan Ford met randomly as dorm mates in college down in Savannah, Georgia. Ryan majored in painting and Brad in computer art. Over the last 10 years Brad has been moving between the east and west coast honing his video game developing skills while Ryan has been further developing his painting skills and having gallery shows in New York City.
Brad recently decided that he wanted to move back to Brooklyn and as any good friend would do, Ryan provided him with a couch to sleep on. Overnight Brad thought about the surreal versus paintings hanging all over the walls in Ryan's apartment. And in the morning Brad approached Ryan and said, " Hey man, what do you think about turning your paintings into video games? I was looking at them all night and they just look like they would be really fun to play." Ryan flipped his lid with excitement for the project!
They immediately turned Brad's apartment into the Bromand Center think-tank with scribbled drawings all over the walls. In their new laboratory hide out their creative forces conjoined and exploded which then made other mini-explosions and then further turned into nebulas which further turned into new galaxies of moist heat and erosion.
Brad and Ryan knew deep down that things would never be the same again.
Two cups of coffee later along with sketches covering floor to ceiling that seemed to make sense about something, two hours of shooting video of Ryan drawing 16 Nintendo controllers, one day of shooting 25 takes of 4 minute video couch footage, two days of editing video, and four days of adding animation to the video.
They were ready to unleash their mega idea.
With the funding that they would receive from Kickstarter they would spend the next 3 months in creative harmony (along with a month and a half for testing and fine tuning). Ryan would paint all new versus oil paintings with crazy environments hosting new far out characters. He would paint till his finger tips bled raw with turpentine burns and then he would make a new painting based off that called, 'Bleeding Finger Tips vs Turpentine.' Meanwhile Mad Brad would be in the Bromand Center mixing up the medicine flexing his full digital might turning Ryan's paintings and their character ideas into fully operational interactive video games.
In the meantime they would lock down a hot gallery location in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Upon entering the gallery space 3 months later one would walk into a well lit, white walled room #1. Room #1 would solely be dedicated to showcasing the oil paintings. Then once you got all hype from viewing the twisted versus paintings one could walk into a darker lit room #2. In room #2 projections of the paintings would be laid out in the same format as room #1 but the difference being that you could walk up to any of the projected paintings and pick up an old school NES controller (controllers would be mounted on the wall under the projection of the paintings) and play the characters in the paintings. Room #2 would be a fully interactive video game experience which equals an opening night of kick ass fun and excitement. Not only would it be a celebration between the creativity of two good friends but it would also be dedicated to finally welcoming the video game world into the fine art realm and giving the artists who develop video games the long over due credit that they deserve. We welcome all of you to join us and if we don't know you we look forward to meeting you and sharing creative ideas.
Thank you ,
Brad Henderson & Ryan Ford
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