I am alone, but…

Some of my work is predominantly about loneliness. We write about what we know. I was born alone, have lived alone, and assume that even when we die, we die, probably, alone. Grim, to some, maybe. To me, this is simply fact, and it lacks any particular charge – it is as potentially helpful, as […]

Day For Night.

Well, the main reason I do any of this is that I want to leave the world a better place than the way I found it. But what is Day For Night? That’s some question. Nobody knows for sure. But my bet is that it’s something to do with my fascination with music. Every time […]

There are some nights.

You know the ones – when your mind simply will not focus, and everything you feel like saying is best summarized by that 4-bar phrase from the song that passes through your head, just long enough to create an impression and then disappear, before a different one from a different song, takes its place. On […]

Foreword.

This is the first page. The objective of a blog with this title, “Obsessions,” is to share some of the reasoning that flows through the creative studio environment, and which influences much of our everyday lives. There must be power in the written word. That is not an ambitious plea; it is an imperative. Otherwise, […]

Tomato Workshops NYC :: June 2001

Art Workshop Event “Record the world in front of you and in the edges of what you cannot or will not see.” – Eric Scott Excerpt from the brief for Tomato‘s workshops: The workshops are a way of immersing yourself suddenly and intensely into the process and conversation that goes on within tomato. Several members […]

1998 – Present : Day For Night Client Portfolio

April 1998 marked the start date of Eric Scott’s career as Creative Director with Day For Night Multimedia. After a very productive “re-invention hiatus” of three months, re-focusing priorities from his previous role as Art Director with WorldWest Communications, Eric moved all of his attention on developing a compact and flexible studio environment; one which […]

1991 – Present :: Day For Night Label

Art Direction Eric Scott, Art & Musical Director for Day For Night: “With instrumental, and especially textural electronic music, the primary relevance of music is clearest – namely, that music doesn’t really mean anything – it doesn’t need all sorts of lyrics and words and gimmicks in order to be successful.” Therefore, it feels appropriate that […]