The Amazing Jellyfish from the Year 12,000

Jellyfishmobile Before Dark from Jared Gallardo on Vimeo.


I think the thing about creative projects is that once something is created, it's hard to imagine that it ever didn't exist. In a couple of weeks Discovery Canada is coming to shoot footage of the Jellyfish, and then they'll shoot follow-up footage in August at Burning Man. A year and a half ago Jared didn't really even identify as an artist.

My role in the project was to say yes. I was kind of like the old Inuit man in Never Cry Wolf who says "good idea;" when Jared would wake up and say, "I just had an idea!" I would look at his sketch and say, "good idea." Or, I would get excited with him and say, "or what about like this!?" and draw another picture. That was my job: keeper of enthusiasm, late night brainstormer, sayer of yes.