Semi-Permanent Sydney 2015 (2015)

Away from the hustle, bustle, and endless distraction of our world, you stand alone at the edge of possibility. Take a deep breath. Leave the safety of the familiar and the mundane, leap headlong into the unknown. All systems go. Ready for egress. It’s out here that ideas live – tumbling through the vastness of memory and experience – where grand monuments drift by in the void, shattered and half-formed, bigger than life.

Cut the cord. The thin umbilical tethering you to your point of origin. Rolling, twisting, there is no choice but to continue. Drifting ever further into uncertainty, something finally grabs you: Is this it? What you’ve been looking for? But it slips through your fingers before you realize it – or was it you who slipped? Careening off in a new direction, the answer now looms large, looking you right in the eyes. A new focus and purpose captures you. Down and down you go, ideas long forgotten come into view, propelling you out into the light and an infinity of promise. Closer, closer, almost there. Touchdown.

Title designer Raoul Marks’ extraordinary opener for Semi-Permanent Sydney 2015 visualizes the challenges that any creator faces when trying to do what they do: create. The sequence, which is essentially a short film, wears its influences proudly on its Ortho-Fabric sleeve – from the isolating paintings of artist Jeremy Geddes and the otherworldly imagery of Kubrick and Scott, to the Neo Tokyoite architecture of Katsuhiro Otomo and even Space Race-era issues of LIFE Magazine. Inspired or not, creation is a lonely endeavour, here perfectly encapsulated by the journey of a faceless astronaut hurtling through space, then free-falling from great heights. Will inspiration fuel your vision? What awaits you at the end of your voyage? Breathe it all in and find out.

A discussion with Title Designer RAOUL MARKS.

So, the last time we chatted was for Halt and Catch Fire. What have you been up to since then?

Halt and Catch Fire was almost exactly a year ago! After Halt, I headed to LA for the Emmy Awards, got married, spent a month around Japan, packed up and moved to Melbourne.

Thanks to the magic of fibre internet, I’ve been able to continue working closely with Patrick Clair, who is now with Elastic in LA. We’ve done a number of advertising gigs and main titles. We made the titles for Amazon's…

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