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DopeMotion: Interactive Spatial Experience I created for my show 11/11/11 I LIVE MY VISION
Animations are generated on the wall according to your movements.
The music is from my new album > www.JediWillpower.com





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#D301 Projects is pleased to present the debut of artist William Ismael’s new exhibition, “I Live My Vision.”
Fluidly weaving through a transdisciplinary vernacular, the artist’s new work presents an alternate perspective on perception through music, graphic murals, photographic imagery and interactive digital installation.
With undulating, organic lines and supple spatial contours, the work fluently traverses between the delineations of digital graphic design, free style illustration and raw street art.
Dexterous transition and individual adaptation have played influential roles in both the artist’s life and work. Born in France and raised between Los Angeles, NYC and Paris, where he currently works, Ismael claims no cultural association with either country, but rather sees himself as an autonomous itinerate of his own creation.
I live my vision, William Ismael, 2011 (56x43in)
Creeping up the two-story wall of the exhibition space, the rich graphic mural, “LA” evokes a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles reimagined as a floral phantasmagoria of indigenous flora. Freeway systems and strip malls have been replaced with mutant sized birds of paradise and bougainvillea that traverse the pictorial plane leaving behind a complex grid of overlapping stems and vines.
Though, to be clear, Ismael’s work neither critiques, comments, indemnifies, nor blames. And though it participates in the larger discourse of contemporary culture, it is refreshingly absent of irony and pre-meditative narrative, presenting in their places the bold modus of inherent passion.
Projected on to the back wall of the exhibition space is an interactive digital experience that transforms the appearance and movement of the viewer. Visual data is taken in through a camera and then reconjured through a software program designed by the artist.
It is then projected on to the wall in a multicolored mosaic, creating a dynamic composition of morphing patterns and shapes that dissolve and reform in sync with the viewer’s movement.
Serving as a visual analogy, the work captures the artist’s facility for aesthetic transformation on a transdisciplinary level. And though the works’ surface exteriors are purposely modified, the mosaiced self-portraits and fantastical mural graphics reveal more of the artist’s true identity than any straight photography.
According to art theorist Nicolas Bourriaud, the decline of Postmodernism is due in part, to its failure to grasp the evolution of the new global identity. That is to say, the question of who are you? is no longer determined by where are you from?, but rather, where are you going?
In “I Live My Vision”, we see a portrait of the artist by way of the direction of his destination.
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COME BACK SPARKIN is the title of my song and music video.
SPARKIN should be spelled SPARKING, but I chose to spell it the way I pronounce it.
This is how I create language.
I grew up in urban environments and slang talk (ebonix) has always been my preferred way of expressing myself.
It is the language of my people and culture.
It’s a form of dialect. Countries have a main language, and many different dialects.
I always loved the level of creativity that could be applied to a language, and the power slang has in societies.
To COME BACK SPARKIN is to come back from a difficult situation while creating something absolutely beautiful out of it.
It is the act of overcoming an obstacle or obstacles no matter the level of difficulty.
We have the power as SuperHumans to take advantage of every situation.
In this song, I first remind myself, that I am the one who chooses to feel down or up, no one else:
No matter what i go through, it can’t get me down
Go ahead, take a shot at me. All you are going to do is fuel the beast.
In other words, help me excel to the next level:
I’m a Warrior at heart, kick me down !
See what happens, I COME BACK SPARKIN
Some individuals do a whole lot of talking, but their actions do not match their blah blah blah.
Or they spend most of their time talking, while never truly accomplishing and doing something about what they are talking about:
While you’re barkin, I move in action !
Realising that I have no one to talk to and spending my time by myself because no one around me is real enough, or I do not relate to them:
Very lonely, no one to talk to
I gain consciousness of my HumanPower , and I choose to Keep My Head Up as Tupac told us.
Keep My Head Up, as I walk through
Dark tunnels, with no light dude
I then realize who I am:
Actually, I’m the Light Myself.
This is the path of the Warrior. Check out Warrior of Light by Paolo Coehlo if you don’t understand this.
I then invite those that feel the way I do to listen to me because I live it like you, and I am uplifting myself.
So join me, and we can lift ourselves together.
Listen to my music, if you need help
Coz I give you energy
The Power and the Will to overcome your enemy
When I say enemy some may think that I am talking about a person outside of themselves, but I am not:
Which is the ego, your own self
Get deeper into your self. Understand that money is a tool, and not the answer to life:
Money is a distraction
The answer to all is within you:
The True Wealth is the Inner
I am not one of those people who thinks money is evil and who does not want money.
I’m a physical being with 5 physical senses, so I enjoy things money allows me to do.
I want to be clear that this is not an anti-money campaign, it is about understanding its role and purpose in our lives.
I do not claim to have the answers, what I do is invite others to my journey.
The Art Direction of this music video is a continuation of my project THE REBIRTH in which I created an imaginary world where the unreal becomes real.
The quality of this Music Video is very poor, the camera was old and busted, so this is what it is.
I think it’s cool to have the quality this fucked up because it’s such a huge contrast to crisp HD imagery.
I love crisp HD quality as well
Lyrics:
No matter what i go through, it can’t get me down
I’m a Warrior at heart, kick me down !
See what happens, I COME BACK SPARKIN
While you’re barkin, I move in action !
I’m on a mission !
Very lonely, no one to talk to
Keep My Head Up, as I walk through
Dark tunnels, with no light dude
Actually, I’m The Light Myself
Listen to my music, if you need help
Coz I give you energy
The Power and the Will to overcome your enemy
Which is the ego, your own self
Money is a distraction
The True Wealth is the Inner
Song Credits:
Lyrics: Willpower (William Ismael)
Recording Artist: Willpower (William Ismael)
Beat Maker / Composer: Anthony Harrell
Video Credits:
Director: Willpower (William Ismael)
Co-Director: Guillaume Hamon
Camera Man: Guillaume Hamon
Editing: Willpower (William Ismael)
3D: Willpower (William Ismael)
Compositing: Willpower (William Ismael)















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Illustration + Animation + Soundtrack by William Ismael aka Willpower
name of short-film: willpower – the film
director: william ismael aka willpower.
photo graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
music: william ismael aka willpower.
recording artist: william ismael aka willpower
willpower – the film.
it’s about have the willpower to be who we are.
i did the song about the 3 parts of the film: beat fear, courage, and willpower.
i have to beat fear, have courage and the willpower to follow what is in my heart.
it is to express myself artistically with the intent to share… Hopefully it can bring you something of value.
i’m getting to a place where i’m combining the visuals and the music. it’s been a long time coming. it’s been since i was like 6 years old living in new york city that it became clear to me that hip hop was who i was. it was probably before that, but i was not conscious of it until i was living hip hop in new york around 1982, 1983. yeah, right at the heart of a beautiful start. i am so happy to be of what i consider an absolutely beyond amazing hip hop generation. to keep it short, this piece is another step in my evolution as a living being. it is made for you. yes, for you. if you feel down, watch and listen to it. if you feel like everybody is against you, bump it loud! if you are going through hell, watch it relentlessly. nothing can stop us but ourselves. so let’s be the amazing people that we are and do what we love everyday of our lives instead of slaving for the few that enslave the planet.
Willpower.






























name of short-film: willpower – the film
this is the process of the film.
photo graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.







this project is for an art director’s office.
she wanted to be able to look at her wall and be inspired by words.
the words we chose: belief. strength.
work by: william ismael aka willpower.




director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
music used: always have a choise by havoc of mobb deep.





you are not a skin color. don’t look at people on a surface level but on a deeper level. stop blinding yourself.
director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
recording artist: william ismael aka willpower
beat: humbleman

director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
music: humbleman.

I created animations that played on the huge plasma screens you see on the stage during the New York – Tokyo Hip Hop Festival 2007 in Central Park, New York.
Performers: Pharoahe Monch + Rakim.
self promo art center graduation 2007
director: william ismael aka willpower.
photographer: jaesung lee > http://www.jaesungphoto.com/
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
soundtrack: leo z.
exploration of an idea.
director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
special thanks to all the ones who helped by being in the project.
live out loud > project with mtv europe – berlin. aired the first trimester of 2007 in germany, denmark, and poland.
creative director: thomas sabel
art director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
music: sebastian müller
director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
song: still shinin’
group: mobb deep
album: hell on earth


director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
music: anthony harrell of brutha.
director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
hip-hop artist: jr of brutha
music: anthony harrell of brutha.
music video to stanley clarke song.
director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
music: stanley clarke





director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
music: anthony harrell of brutha.
what part do you play?
director: william ismael aka willpower.
graphic design / illustration: william ismael aka willpower.
animation: william ismael aka willpower.
soundtrack: william ismael aka willpower