Postcards are in the mail!

Alright! So postcards have been sent out!. For everyone who doesn't know everyone and everything on the card, here's a cheat sheet I made up that lets you know a little bit about the items and people that may not be as familiar as the rest.

1. Queen Elizabeth: Queen of England.

2. Velociraptor: 8 foot man-eating dinosaur from the movie Jurassic Park.

3 L. Ron Hubbard: Founder of Scientology.

4. Zombie Head: Decapitated

5. Pauly Shore: Film-Actor from the 90's (Bio-Dome). Most people love him or hate him.

6. Michael Steele: Head of the Republican National Party since Obama became President.

7. Calista Flockhart: Actress from the 90's. Best known for her work on Ally McBeal.

8. A Chainsaw: Can be placed on Santa's arm so he can have a chainsaw arm.

9. Knobkierrie: An African club, which in times of peace are used as walking sticks.

10. Chest Plate: Roman

11. Big Blueberries: Delicious

12. Faberge Egg: Elaborate jewel-encrusted eggs made for the Russian Tsars.

13. Cats: A useless amount.

14. Statue of Shiva: The Hindu god of creation and destruction whose dance represents chaos.

15. Justine: A novel written by Marquis De Sade.

16. Coca-Cola: Taken from a Christmas Santa ad from the 50's.

17. Lotus Shoes: Chinese shoes for foot binding, a phased out practice for women.

18. Cecropia Moth Wings: North America's largest native moth.

19. Zoloft: A commonly prescribed antidepressant.

20. Oil Lamp: An oil lamp similar to the magic lamp from Arabian Nights.

Send me an email if you have any other questions about what's what on the card. Enjoy cutting up the card!

Christmas Card 2011

Alright everyone!. I haven't been very attentive to my blog the last couple months unfortunately. However, that doesn't mean I haven't been working. More about that will be posted soon, but for now, this year's Christmas card has been finished and I'm now collecting addresses from anyone who would like to receive one of my editioned postcards this year! Here it is!

This year's postcard is a paper doll of santa with many accessories so Santa can be whatever you want him to be this year! Send me your addresses to oz@azizozlalani.com. I'll send you a confirmation email when I get it. Then check your mailboxes around Christmas time for the card!

The events of recent...

So as of recent, I've been bouncing around between jobs and not taking the time to write on the blog. The piece that was featured on the blog The Feast ended up selling! The show in general was a success and we sold a lot of my friends work. It's pretty rewarding being able to help your friends pay off their car payments and rent.

So beyond the gallery work, I've teamed up with a friend of mine, Loni Deip, and we are collaborating on some new work. A lot the materials we are using is what is available to us and cost effective. I will be dumpsterdiving for more materials soon to create some larger pieces. Most of our collaboration so far has been combining different techniques and materials. We've been playing around with wax, string, and latex mostly. Check out the pictures below.

Need more blog enries...

I have been ignoring this. I'm going to do some dishes and come right back to this.

I have work up at our new show!!!

Hey I have work up on NBC's Culture Blog "The Feast"!!!!!! Check out my work and the article on the Itty Bitty Art Show which is this Friday from 7-11pm!!!

Computer drawing atwork with Microsoft paint!

Just updated the design on my website

I've been busy with work, looking for work, and running TBA Space. I haven't had much time to pay attention to my web stuff time. But anyway, check out my site. I hope you like it.

azizozlalani.com

Christmas Card 2010!!!

Hey, I have posted in awhile cause I've been super busy. I started a gallery with my friend Jillian Knox and we're having our first show on Dec 11th. Chicago has been good. There will be more to come, but for now, check out our blog page. We're TBA 1039, our blog is TBASpace.wordpress.com. Check us OUT!!!

Summer Over

My summer travels finally came to an end 3 weeks ago. Here is the residual evidence of my travels. No more photos. Photography is for wieners. And here we gooooooooooooo!!!!


Click on here to get to the sketch and postcard gallery.

The Trailer for Hard Gravel is Released!!!

I'm in Austin, TX right now staying with my good friend Sam Eidson. Hard Gravel is a TV pilot that is almost done editing about a country music band called Hard Gravel that is trying to make a name for themselves on CTM while many people try to make sure that Bobby Alexander and Hard Gravel are out of the picture. This is a comedy. The drummer is gay, the bassist is a murderer, the guitarist is Mexican who continuously gets replaced throughout the episode by another and they continue to call him Gerald Lee, and then there's Bobby who is the kind hearted fool that everyone is out to destroy. Check out the trailer!! And keep your eye out for me, I'm in it for a hot second as one of the replacement Gerald Lee's.

And don't forget to check out the website at HardGravel.com where you can see the continuously updated Bobby's Blog videos!

The Hard Gravel Teaser from matt moore on Vimeo.

FINALLY!!! My demo reel is in absolute COMPLETION!!!

After over a year doing makeup in Savannah, I've finally finished making my demo reel. Please watch, please enjoy...

Aziz Oz Lalani - Makeup Demo Reel from Aziz Oz Lalani on Vimeo.

In Boston: Hanging out with the B-Boys

I took a trip up to Brooklyn last week and decided to head up to Boston to visit my friend Johnny Tang (pictured above). Probably the most interesting thing I did up there besides eat a lot of strange Asian food was join Johnny to his break dancing practice. His crew he started a few years ago, the B-Boys, met a few times a week in the lobbies of MIT in Cambridge to drill and dance. From the two practices I sat in on I could tell it takes months of daily practice to be able to do what these guys do.

Check out the Photos.

Check out a couple videos I shot of them at practice below!

B-b-back from Germany!!!

I had a long trip with a local choir from the area I grew up in back in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I did some drawing, too, which I'll have up soon. But for now, this is a collection of my favorite images including some group pictures with my Mom's cousin Hal who live outside of Munich and our German host Helmut who gave us a place to stay for 2 nights in Eberbach.

Click here to see the gallery.

Incomplete demo reel preview!

Well here's a preview of my demo reel not quite finished. Check it out and check in soo to see the finished reel!

Incomplete Demo Reel Preview! from Aziz Oz Lalani on Vimeo.

HEY it's May!

Just got done with my good friend Guti's film the Ressasser. Here's some pictures of the makeup I did. The photos are by Martin Battilana.

Holy shit! I'm sorry I haven't touched this in forever!

I have been hyper-busy since December. I went out to Tennessee to shoot Matt Perry's Fig Boy, which I did makeup, AC, and had my acting debut! Fig Boy is a southern folktale about a boy whose friends and family get taken by the devil and a group of old man angels come to help him. Down below is the movie poster I shoot for it.



January I finished the shooting of People Are Strange and then picked up working on John Stiner's Pest Control. Pest Control was about a Nazi who likes to keep a prize of everything he exterminates, including a Jewish girl he took as his wife! Down below are some pictures and videos from People Are Strange.

February I worked on my friend Jacob Fry's directing the narrative final, which I can't remember the title to and a Documentary called The Angel Of Marye's Heights which is a documentary on a Confederate soldier that tended to the wounds of a Union soldier in the middle of a battle. I got to join the filmmaker Clint Ross at a Civil War reenactment in South Carolina. I got to dress up some myself! Pictures are below.





Along side of those films I picked up on a lot of other projects that I was on for just a day for. One film was Jaun Cearas's thesis The Magic Opera. Another was my good friend Renn Brown's thesis To Augment. Also a directing the narrative piece by Adam Baily that I got to do some gore makeup again for the first time in a long time. Again, I have pictures.

Most recently I have been working on a music video with my friend Mike Bailey, Christine Vartougain's grad thesis The Visions of Dylan Bradley, and in the works right now is my good friend David Gutierrez's directing the narrative final Ressasser. Down below is a giant schlew of pictures.

Finally finished with the latest Christmas Card!!!

Tell me what you think!
Here it is! I drew this up months ago and finally finished it! Send me your address via email or whatever if you'd like to be on my Christmas card list!

Beginning of November... I have ignored my blog page long enough!

Ahhh... So... I have been the busiest beaver. I got a job making candy at the Savannah Candy Kitchen down on River Street here in Savannah. I am now planning on staying here til June since I'm getting a lot of job offers to work on more films! I since worked on several different projects. The bigger projects I've worked on are People Are Strange, Lindsey Rallo's senior thesis film and The Adventures of Kip Thunder and Jeff, which is the senior thesis of Jacob Hall.

I got working with Lindsey when we met on the set of My Way. Her movie is about some messed up circus and LSD and some d-bag who cheated on his wife. The makeup is real fun and I got to design some characters! Oh, and I probably forgot to mention that I was finally able to use that werewolf mask! I forgot to take pictures though... I did photograph a bunch of the other stuff though. Check it!

As for Jacob Hall's movie, my friend Renn Brown that I met back when I did Mike Bailey's All For Audrey called me up and asked if I'd be interested. I'm secretly in love with Renn. So, I of course said yes. I had to make a prosthetic for an alien, which I really don't like to do, but it turned out all right. See for yaselves!

I will be posting up new shit soon. I'm gonna be cranking ut my t-shirt line soon and finishing my new Christmas card for this year! Keep checking and thanks for reading!

Mid-July, Slow Going in Savannah

So I went home for awhile and got back to Savannah and have been looking for work ever since. I've been getting some freelance gigs, shooting a jewelry portfolio and assisting on two of Captian Ceo's photo shoots. Just this weekend I started doing makeup on the movie I don't even remember the name of it. I barely know what's going on with it. All I do know is that it's about a boxer who got sick and can't fight anymore. Throw in some stuff about hydraphobia and that sums up what the movie is about. Here are some pictures.






Once I officially land a steady job I can start doing some more of my own work. I'm really hoping I can start doing some of the black and white Zombie shoots again stuff again as well as add another image to my main portfolio. Thanks for reading!