Here’s a few foldy things for you.

Steps: Print, cut, fold, glue, enjoy. I think that’s more steps than setting up an iMac.

Even when printed as large as possible on 8 1/2 x 11 paper, these are fairly hard to deal with. Better would be 11 x 17. Bonus: printing on textured paper, or paper with some sort of design or adding a design to your image before printing results in a cool-looking object.

Cut them out using an xacto blade and a cutting mat. If you’re a masochist, you could try scissors. I’d at least suggest surgical scissors, big ‘ol craft scissors will likely drive you batty.

I still haven’t figured out the best glue to use. Wood glue works great if you can figure out a way to hold the pieces of paper together long enough to have the glue dry. Hot glue works, but is messy even when you do it perfectly, and you also have to hold the pieces together while the glue is steaming hot. Potentially painful. I’d almost suggest super glue, but I’ve never had luck with that stuff.

I’m picturing these as hanging objects in my studio apartment. I have a high ceiling that would be nice to fill with a few of these in different colors. If you think about the size of each little face though, even a poster sized print will only give me something like a 1′ object.

I juiced up a bunch of fruit this last weekend and thought the foam looked really interesting. Turns out that under a zoom lens, it looks like some crazy science experiment. Kind of scary stuff to be eating, eh?

Youngstown Open House
Saturday, December 1st
4-10pm
*Free, All Ages

(I’m doing visuals along with Jason Pitt’s audio from 9:15-10, or so says the schedule.)

Join us and enjoy music, performance, and visual art during our annual open house & open studios event. Cultural Center staff will be on hand along with resident artists and representatives from tenant organizations Arts Corps, Nature Consortium, Southwest Interagency Academy, Twelfth Night Productions, Power of Hope, The Service Board, and Youth Media Institute. Studios in Cooper Artist Housing will be open and performances and activities will take place in the Cultural Center.

The 2007 Touring Reel Youth Film Festival will be screened in our theater from 6:30-8:30pm in partnership with Native Lens, Reel Girls, Longhouse Media, and Power of Hope. Showcasing the best of youth filmmaking, the Reel Youth Film Festival is a collection of insightful and entertaining short films made by youth ages 19 years and under from all over the country. Ranging from the comedic to the dramatic, using video and stop motion animation, this year’s films explore a wide range of themes, reflecting the diversity of the culture and concerns of youth today. Films made by Seattle area youth will also be screened as part of this special presentation.

Adjacent to the screening, Youngstown’s Movement Studio will play host to live performances. Youth dancers from around the area will perform from 6- 7:30pm in an exhibition of krumping, a relatively new, highly stylized and exciting freestyle form birthed in Los Angeles. Seattle’s best youth and adult spoken word artists including Khatsini Simani, Rose McAllese, Dakota Camacho, Angela Dy, Rocky Bernstein, James Ray, eLa Barton , Matt Gano, Chris Carroll, and Karen Finneyfrock will take the stage from 7:30-9:30pm in an intimate reading of their work. Seattle is home to nationally and internationally recognized poets, and the performance will feature slam poets from Youth Speaks-who recently placed 5th in the nation at the National Youth Poetry Slams-and adult poets who regularly showcase their work at the Seattle Poetry Slam.

Residents of Cooper artist housing will mount an exhibition of their work in Youngstown’s promenade gallery. Upstairs, they will open their studios to show and sell their works. Their mediums range from painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, to clothing, jewelry, video, and more.

* This year’s Open House is taking place in conjunction with Come Over! a Delridge Open Campus event. The community is invited to Come Over! between 6-10pm for a progressive menu of delectable foods, entertainment, raffle, and tours of: Youngstown, the Delridge Community Center, and Southwest Youth and Family Services. The event will provide an opportunity for neighbors to connect with one another and learn about programs and services offered by the organizations.

Division is the next project by Stronghold Productions. This is a similar group of people to “The Machine Crew”; who created The Machine for Burning Man 2005. Some familiar faces, some new, all excited to be creating absurdly huge meta-mechanical structures.

A bunch of these are images that I created in various 3d programs, as well as some art, model, and CAD pieces by Tom Hall, buphalo, and Gabe Stern.

golden mean, fractal, and fibonacci imagery & inspiration

3d sketches

20070119 updated 3d (partial)

20070120 Tom Hall sketches

20070120 3d (no wall)

20070120 Tom Hall & buphalo - paintings, drawings & model

20070122 Final Proposal images

Cooper Artist Housing Open Studios & Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Open House

November 17th & 18th, 2006
Open Studios: Friday 6-10 pm & Saturday 12-5 pm
Theater Performances: Friday 6-10 pm
Visit Artists’ Studios and enjoy music, dance, spoken word, film, visual art and more . . .
*Free, All Ages

Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

4408 Delridge Way SW, Seattle, WA 98106
From I-5 or SR 99, take the West Seattle Bridge exit. Take the Delridge Way SW exit. The Youngstown Cultural Arts Center is on Delridge, just past SW Genesee St. (Two lights and then on your left)

Roberto Ascalon | Amy Benson | Flynn Bickley | Susanna Bluhm | Maureen Brogan | Liv Browning | Matt Buckner | buphalo | Anna Callahan | Crystal Daley | Seth Damm | Renee DeMartin | Wilson Diehl | Yvette Diltz | Crystal & Lily Fosnaugh | Barbara Fugate | Paul Goldstein | Gina Karaba | Koji Kubota | Yvonne Kunz | LisaRaven | Alexa Novia Cynoa Odjonii | Cristina Orbe´ | Kristin Ougendal | Ian Page-Echols | Jason Pitt | Saul | Amy Snyder | Scott Squire | Sharon Swanson | Joan Swearingen | Nancy Swigger | Julie Tonkinson | Kim Tran | Katie Yankula | Benjamin Yarges

Visit www.youngstownarts.org or call 206.935.2999 for more information.

This Thursday! Nov. 9 2006, 7-10 PM
All ages, only 5$

The A/V Room is an audiovisual event featuring both prepared short films and live audio and video performance by emerging artists. The film line-up includes entries from Vancouver, Seattle, Istanbul, and Capetown. All performers live in the Seattle area.

Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW, Seattle 98106

Films
• c505 & KNBS - (tracks from Noise Driven Ambient Audio And Visuals DVD)
• Boran Pasha Guney - Benimgfx
• Passing Through
• The Blackheart Gang - Tale of How
• Ian Page-Echols - Various
• Kinoko & Tony
• Amy Benson/Scott Squire - (Scenes from) Tent City 4
• absolutemadman - Music Video Premiere!

Live
• absolutemadman - dj
• Benjamin Yarges/Ian Page-Echols - Flute/Visuals
• Leo Mayberry/Steve Fisk/Greg Gilmore - Visuals/Keyboards/Percussion&Looping

Youngstown is located conveniently close to downtown. Once on the West Seattle Bridge take the first exit after the peak to Delridge Way SW and stay in the left lane. After two lights, you will find Youngstown (the old Cooper School) on your left.

(Images at the top are vertical emailer, horizontal emailer, and poster layout. Click to view.)

Nov 9 from 7–10 pm

The A/V room is an audiovisual event featuring both prepared short films and live audio and video performance by emerging artists. The film line-up include entries from Vancouver, Seattle, Istanbul and Capetown. The evening’s live performance includes Japanese bamboo flute, spoken word, and experimental electronic music, all presented with visual accompaniment in the fabulous theater at Youngstown.

$5 sliding scale at the door to recoup costs and fund more of these events in the future. We are planning on creating DVDs of the events to be produced and sold. This is an all-ages event.

Email avroom@v8media.com or check the web site for more details: http://v8media.com/the-av-room/
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW, Seattle, WA 98106

Youngstown is located conveniently close to downtown. Once on the West Seattle Bridge take the first exit after the peak to Delridge Way SW and stay in the left lane. After two lights, you will find Youngstown (the old Cooper School) on your left.

at Grand Illusion Cinema

Films:
Gail Noonan More Sensitive
Sean Arden The Red Box, Empty Head
Heidi Nagtegaal Hug Attack
Mark Yurn D-Construct, Ironman

Live Performance:
audio: Deceptikon
video: Stefanie Loveday (Thegreyroom) + V8 Media

More Films:
Amy Lockhart A Single Tear
Rickie Lee Owens Dress u Up In My Love
Vincent Parker French Toast
Florian 17
Stephen Wichuk Der Kannibale
Stuart Losse Beastie
Magnus Bjor A Blush to Snow, Comet
Rickie Lee Owens Jellyfish
Tasha Brotherton The Good Life of the Cacti
Lori D Thursday
Erik Hood The Swing
Rickie Lee Owens Sick Day
Stephen Wichuk w Veda Hille White Flowers, Fine Start
Barry Doupe Handball

If you asked what I was working on during the past year, I could probably tell you that I was “working on “The Machine”. While this could sound like a vague reference to “the man” or something of the sort, it was actually a huge collaborative project that I was working on with a bunch of people. This was created for the 2005 Burning Man Festival.

We had people from many professions including contracting, art, realty, party and event creation, shmoozing, welding, computer geekery, audio, engineers, graphic design, multimedia, dance, performance, and some architecture background. This huge structure was community created, community run and used during the event, and then community destroyed at the end of the event.

The short description given to the Burning Man event beforehand:

Made primarily of steel and wooden parts, The Machine (Mach12e) expresses an elusiveness of time and place. Burning Man participants will at first have the opportunity to view the sculpture, a triangulated meta-mechanical temple, in the open vista of the playa. They will explore its isolation, both spatial and emotional. Three elevated drive wheels and housings, a raised rotating central core comprised of a tower of gears and a transmission, and an upper platform that suspends eight articulated kinetic limbs define its multifaceted rust, blue, and gray form.

(wood, steel, nails, screws, cable, gears, rubber belts, hard rubber casters, soft rubber tensioner wheels, belt tensioner/belt rider system to cut down on the belt harmonics caused by the wind, 8 channel audio, olfactory)

The Mach12e: Rise of the Machine
Saturday, April 16th 9PM

@ Big Building - 3600 East Marginal Way South (corner of Spokane and East Marginal Way S - under the viaduct) $15 at the door 21+

A fundraiser for THE MACHINE, one of the most technical and interactive sculptures to ever hit the playa! This multi-storied mechanical form will be created and destroyed by the inhabitants of Black Rock City.

We are 2/3rds of the way to our fundraising goal through a generous grant from Burning Man . . .

Come be a part of this historic project, check out the work in progress and enjoy performances by:

MBlue Variform BR8 DJ Whatever Pyrosutra Primary Element and more . . .

(I ended up putting together a few looping dvds of footage I created for the event as my grandmother passed away)