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Author: ROBERT IOLINI

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Studio Syncandi Back Story

Here is a timeline showing some key milestones in the SYNCANDI story. Current to August 1, 2017 SYNCANDI is to be set in a post cyberpunk/post human world. Learned the backstory of cyberpunk via the writings of Philip K. Dick, William Gibson,  Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto. Consumed a long list…

SYNCANDI COMIC + POSTER 10

Dear friends and supporters, At the beginning of this month we published the tenth and final chapter of our current SYNCANDI series. It has been a wonderful experience for both Joanna and myself. And I hope for you as well. Stay with us, as we have plans to continue the adventures of Ikkyu, Sync and the…

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SYNCANDI art + music experiment 03

Hello – Roberto here.  It has been mentioned in this blog and elsewhere, that I’ve been working on a collection of musical works to accompany the SYNCANDI COMIC. As an aside: Interesting circular creative collaborative process here. I write a screenplay. Illustrator Joanna Krótka turns it into a comic. Then I compose music inspired by her artwork! The…

Humans used Genies Res to experiment with artificial evolution

EXT. BEACH – DAY Long golden sandy beach. Cloudless sky. No wind. Gentle swell. Ikkyu casually walks along the water’s edge. Deep in thought, Ikkyu remembers… SYNC (V.O) …So humans used this place to experiment with artificial evolution? SHAMAN (V.O) Yes, on a grand scale. They needed to solve the mystery of why the DNA…

Editor’s Choice: Ikkyu’s underwater adventures

For today’s post I’ve chosen to share three gorgeous images of Ikkyu in three different undersea  environments. I chose these three in particular, to demonstrate the striking contrast in the style of backgrounds that filmmaker David Nerlich created for the  Love Song of Genies Res music video.  David used Nono Nagami’s poignant lyrics as a starting point for…