News

21.02.2025

BIG DAY!

Molecule art space launched!

Gym for a soul as we call it!

Good news:

It’s offline, it’s what planet needs, very big people

are already interested and most important part: it totally works!

All our concepts are working, all we worked so hard for past few years! Endless brainstorming was not in vain.

(kinda) Bad news:

Most of my new stuff (including ton of work already finished) will only be displayed offline. At least for now.

Also, I’m getting back to Unity, as it turned out for interactive stuff Unity is better than ever. Exciting times!!!

17.01.2025

Lynch died today. His death will not affect my work, but his life certainly did! Thanks man, for everything!

Yesterday Water Buffalo finally dropped, you know if you know!

Yesterday Katya got accepted to Russia’s Writes Union!

We’re planning to open new Molecule Feb 14th, but let’s just hold champagne on the ice for now.

Let’s keep momentum going!

03.10.2024

Покойся с миром, ХМТ

12.08.2024

We’re opening new kind of gallery space, think of it as a gym for the soul! Ambitious, yes, but hey?!

Countdown started!

Meanwhile, my Open studio idea starts to take shape, as well as LDR-kind-of-series made by kids. Season 1 is already in the works!

We took part in Russian Creative Forum, governor was really impressed by our interactive installation (codename:tetris), this was the first field test for our interactive stuff. Come to think of it, it was risky as hell, thankfully it didn’t occur to me before))

Grand collab with Grodekov museum is on the way!

27.06.2024

Molecule is on it’s way to major transformation, starting with small stuff, new logo!

Also do check our new 24 reel!

27.05.2024

Some rather confusing interactions with local government, radio silence from Khabarovsk Music Theatre, budget cut on what appeared to be gig for wealthy local business …

but

very promising future with Gradekov museum, my cat got 1KK+ views on instagram, AMAZING trip to Beijing, best concert we ever saw live thanks to The Vaccines, visiting mind blowing 798 art district (ok now I know ton more about art galleries and art clusters), visiting amazing Parkview Green!

And something very new and very big is cooking right under your noses, stay tuned!

22.03.2024

Couple of weeks ago our 2024 reel was premiered at regional Creative Industries Summit, yesterday our collaboration with Tanya was premiered at official culture’s workers celebration ceremony, along with shorten version of our Neo Classic concert. Got called out from the stage by name, pretty awesome!!!

This bit is for Russian crowd only (text play telegram sticker pack):

А еще вчера мы выпустили набор стикеров для Телеги, назвали МУДУРОСТИ

По ссылке видео и можно установить сам набор. Пожалуйста пользуйтесь, делитесь!

22.02.2024

Remember when I told you this project for local Music Theatre is rather small?… BOY WAS I WRONG!

So we went to check premiere of the concert we worked on and … I mean … for the first time in almost 20 years of work I truly felt it, like deep inside!

Second project for the Music Theatre is already in the works, can’t wait to see it live and can’t wait for the next one! This is rare type of commercial work I really enjoy!

Doesn’t mean there will be no personal work, here is the new one: CANDLE

13.02.2024

Hard to believe, but I’m slowly getting back to commercial work, this time in collaboration with my favourite painter, working for our local Music Theatre. Top 5 in Russia, mind you )) Relatively small but exciting project, we’ll see where it takes us. This is one of those collaborations I would really like to work long term, because when our business launches full scale, this is the only other type of commercial work I’m comfortable doing and it is necessary part of balancing process.

Business, huh? Yep! In the works. Parallel with art, parallel with commercial work, but everything of course is interconnected.

Got the flu. Annoying but rather small fish in our sea. Had to move dentist appointment. Bummer, but I’ll live )

Oh, here is new quicky for you: SMILE

17.01.2024

My dental adventure went really well considering one of my teeth merged with the bone. To be continued …

2024 so far still feels strange, but really promising! Clearer.

This part is for Russian speaking crowd: Наконец-то урвал момент и запилил из своих дебильных фраз про зверей не менее дебильный набор стикеров для Телеги. Брать тут, называется:

Кто Что Звери

09.01.2024

Let’s start 24 with new work: Kiss OF Mindreader 2

24 feels different, it’s like there is ton of new info downloading in your head and you can’t make sense of it. Let’s give it some time!

Going to start my new dental adventure today, not very exciting but it has to be done.

01.01.2024

23 was interesting … never did so much, never showcased so little!

The best part is: I know myself a bit better now, it helps to live life properly.

Happy new year, enjoy life and create instead of destroying, this is what you’re here for!

23.12.2023

Twin Peaks ROCKS!

We didn’t go to Prosvet after all, decided not to work with government just yet, but will probably try ourselves in business instead. Making some steps towards this direction.

Processing is such a darling, interactive art is my new passion!

Dragon’s Dogma turned out to be great! Enjoying it a lot!

After couple of years on the shelf my idea about clothes killing people finally made it to the film, please welcome: YELLOW

11.11.2023

My god, where to start?

Cursor is briefly back in new quickie, called KNIVES

New video is up, called LUJI

Ok so Prosvet happened. 15k people in Khabarovsk, old airport terminal in 2 evenings? That’s insane! So happy we made it there, was worth all the trouble.

Went to Komsomolsk for 3 days for some team building, also to close one expo and open up another one, both in Metamorphose, cool local modern art gallery. Featured on local tv as well! Nice city, very cute, something I did not expect. Also a bit colder than Khabarovsk, although it’s so snowy back home it’s almost hard to believe!

Automatic pet feeder I made in Arduino worked really well, although it’s already broken, hacked by cats.

Managed to fall in love and back with Dark Souls. Can totally see where the cult status came from.

We finally figured out how to properly photoshoot paintings. Yay!!

Right now we’re gearing up for Prosvet in Perm, in December. Going to be huge!!

Next Monday going to check abandoned factory that can potentially be either our next exhibition venue or headquarters. Either way that’d be really great!

11.10.2023

Yet again the best feature we ever had happened thanks to local TV, quality of the craft and passion for the subject is second to none! Thank you guys, you are objectively the best!

Paris feature didn’t work out, good thing we never sent real paintings there. It’s not like they’d appreciate it anyway. As it often happens, Paris was immediately replaced with something even better, Просвет festival, massive futuristic showcase of art and technology! First it will take place in our city in 2 days, and later this year in Perm, Russia. Both fusion of paintings with motion graphics and our new interactive stuff.

14.09.2023

This gif is perfect for my news update:

As you can see I did play a bit with OpenCV, crazy powerful thing, will definitely use it in our interactive projects.

As you can also see there are some holes on my face, 10 in total. Went ahead and surgically removed some stuff that bothered me for ages. Now I’m not allowed to go outside for a few days, but it was worth it and it’s already healed a lot. Yeah, looked much scarier at first!

Commercial project for a friend is almost over, didn’t go very well, good reminder of why I must stay away from commercial work.

27.08.2023

Awakers Vol2 Trailer is out!!! Hopefully it’s up to the book’s standards.

Have to go back to SOME commercial work, but it’s due to dear friend’s request so it’s the right thing to do. Will only take 2 weeks so should be doable.

Planning 3 more offline exhibitions this year with Molecule, and I really want to look deeper into OpenCV library, that’d be really useful for us in near future, but can’t really promise myself that now, trying to avoid unnecessary overloads.

01.08.2023

Just finished new project and our first together Molecule event, it became real after we saw the story about it on TV. Of course it makes a lot more sense to do it this way instead of just posting work online, but it takes a lot of effort. Still it’s absolutely doable and totally worth it! So, there will be no new work today, sorry, only offline screening so far.

Molecule b-day is today, so yay and yay!!! Amount of new stuff piling up so quick we can barely keep up. Trying to get our stuff screened in Paris, shipping artworks in galleries locally and globally, working with great curators, stuff is happening!

Got proposition to take one of lead roles in new teaching/production facility, pretty massive one, great opportunity to widen the horizons.

Animur 2023 is approaching rapidly, some of our works are already in, yay!

Planning to finish new work in 2 days, no idea when and how it will be screened.

09.07.2023

Perfect moment to breathe out, before breathing in again. Yesterday was first public presentation featuring my work for Molecule, went really well! Tomorrow is the day the future starts! And it’s going to be big!

But today is just my lazy day, so please check out our new video: Promolecule

Sorry for radio silence, do check back my Instagram (@tomin.one) for more frequent updates.

07.04.2023

With commercial work out of the way, made some crazy amount of animation in last 2 months. Can’t wait to share, but all in good time!

Meanwhile, painted a trailer for my beloved Awakers