| This song on SPOTIFY - bit.ly This song on iTUNES - bit.ly This song on AMAZON - bit.ly FREE DOWNLOAD of my songs - bit.ly OFFICIAL - bit.ly FACEBOOK - bit.ly TWITTER - bit.ly GOOGLE+ - bit.ly ______________________ EVERGREEN Written by Gavin Mikhail & Simone Porter Animation by Nick Navatta ______________________ I love quiet brilliance. I really do. Those people in life whom, although outwardly unassuming, are possessed of a vast and as-yet-unproclaimed talent. Passionate... driven in their efforts... they just... get it. And, to get to work alongside people like that? Truly a gift. So, why do I bring this up, you ask? Because recently, I've been fortunate enough to work with one such person. Nick Navatta. I met Nick several months back on a speaking engagement at a music industry seminar (I was there as a guest speaker and he was there, god bless him, to create an elaborate whiteboard collage from my ramblings. And let's face it... I can ramble... a lot. :)). Anyway, we kept in touch after that, and when YouTube contacted me in late November to create a holiday video... Nick was my first call. At that point, I'd seen only his cartoon-esque work, but knowing I wanted to do an animated video (rather than your favorite 3-angle-buttercream-wall-behind-me cover treatment :))... I thought it'd be fun to try. Honestly, I had NO IDEA he was such a versatile artist, and what he ended up creating... quite frankly... blows me away. Using only a single canvas... sketched ... |
