Designing Sets Within A Theme

I am a theme whore! I love theme parties, theme rooms, theme stripper costumes, you name it. If it's got a them, then it's automatically 100x more awesome in my book. Today was spent designing the padded cell set for the Hedonist music videp, but I wanted to experiment with designing with a theme. In this case, the theme is HEDONIST. So, what I did was ask myself, what kind of a padded cell would a hedonist be locked inside? The answer is this one.

The Hedonist's Padded Cell

I'm not too sure yet as to which padded cell design I'll be going with because I really love both concepts. The concept seen below is the padded cell of what I call the broken down lunatic. I love this one because I'm a huge fan of showing the song lyrics being scrawled in blood on the walls of the padded cell a scene in the video. 

The Broken Down Lunatic's Padded Cell

Ugh! So many creative ideas, and it's so hard to choose a direction. What do you think? Which padded cell do you like better?

Getting Creative With Lyrics

Today was mostly spent doing some more set design for my Hedonist music video. Today's set is a padded cell in an insane asylum with the lyrics for Hedonist written in blood. How creatively macabre is what I say. Peace out.

Inside My Mind

The next music video I plan to make is for my song Hedonist, which lyrically is 3 distinct voices having a conversation inside my head. How I visually want to convey this is by using a psychiatrist's office as the symbol of me having a conversation with myself. I've done up a few set designs for said office. One is an ornate office, which would appeal to a hedonist, and the other is a more surreal setting. Both sets are decorated with actual paintings I've done as a form of art therapy. Prints of my are for sale here.

Transferable Skills

So I hate my day job, and most people do, but I am grateful for the transferable skills I can apply to doing the awesomeness that is Borg Queen. During the day I work as an interior designer which basically involves me designing kitchen's and bathrooms for fussy middle aged women and helping solve the dilemma of which shade of beige they should paint their walls. Ugh.

However the bright side to this is that I've got some wicked design skills and software that I can transfer over to doing much cooler things like designing sets for my next music video as seen below. Behold the psychiatrist's office that is yet another carefully crafted symbol of what goes on in my mind as I have conversations with myself as a form of my own inner cognitive behavioral therapy.