I’ve got 15 photos ready for an art show. No specific art show in mind yet, but I have the prints. There are five sets of three images.
Here’s an overview of the sets (from top to bottom):
Blurry
Detail
Light
Music
Texture
(click on the image for a preview of the blurry plane image, which is one of my favorites)
I am doing visuals again for Decibel Festival in Seattle! I’ll be holding down the fort in the Baltic Room and doing visuals for a few specific acts, including:
Welder at the Baltic Room
weldersounds.com, myspace.com/weldersounds
Friday 9/26 at 10:15
and
Fax at Neumos
faxmusik.com, myspace.com/faxmusik
Sunday 9/28 at 9:30
(clicking the image above will load up a java sketch created using Processing from Processing.org)
Just got the Korg DS-10 cartridge for the Nintendo DS, and it’s great! This is a simple little modulish patch, somewhat like a modular synthesizer patch.
The people that have driven or even experienced in some way the EV1 and RAV4 want to buy these vehicles if they were only given the chance. After seeing my only EV1 in the wild and hearing shredding tire noise and no engine as the car left the stop light I was sitting at I also wanted one. That’s all it took. That’s your commercial. I had the biggest smile on my face. I would have bought any car that did something similar, but there was nothing available.
Go grab one of the couple EV1s that you guys have floating around by test tracks or wherever. Sit in the car. Turn it on. Take a few laps around the track. Go off GM grounds and get a coffee or a shake in the car and sit outside drinking your beverage. Listen to the comments of the people that ask about the car. Don’t discount people’s opinions about the car or GM’s actions, even if they’re negative. They aren’t directed towards you or anyone you know, they are directed at the frustration they have at being told they can’t buy the car you’re driving. They want in. Think about yourself being the proud owner of the car and hearing the amazed people talking about it and asking where they can get one. Think about the possible numbers if this many people in a tiny random sampling are interested in the car. Is there actually a market for this? Let your mind think of some of the basic things that could be done to produce the car more cheaply and think about how much money those simple changes would save. Go back to GM, and have a closed door meeting with some engineers and ask them each for their five easy money-saving ideas for producing something like this. Is it actually feasible?
I think that I’m going to start putting up a bunch of the clips that I decide are NOT going into The Machine documentary. There are just too many clips that I like that I have had to pull out, and I still need to cut at least 35 or so minutes.
Here’s one of them:
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.
View on Vimeo (looks nice, HD version available)
View on Youtube (works on iPhone)
This is a sequence of photos taken with a Canon Digital Rebel (1st gen). The photos are almost 2x the size of the frame, so they have mostly been downsized to fit. A couple sections have full resolution shots, these look zoomed in compared to the others.
This was the night of 02/21/2008
I’m proud to announce that a photo of mine will be printed in the Spring issue of Yes Magazine! Their focus is on sustainability and positive things that are being done and that can be done. Too much in the media these days is negative, and it’s great to have people putting energy into getting all of the good things their fair share of attention.
I’m happy that my photo will be in the magazine for a couple reasons. One is that the photo is of the EV1. I think this car was a game-changer that GM let go. I really think it should have been mass-produced. I also happy that this is a photo above an article by Sherry Boschert. She has been a long-time voice in the EV world and somewhat recently put out a book called “Plug-in Hybrids, The Cars That Will Change America”. It’s worth a read.
Check out Yes Magazine:
yesmagazine.org/
(clicking the image up top will load up a .pdf file of the page my photo is on)
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?
I shot a bunch of pictures of one of the cooler cars out there, one which I think holds a lot of historic significance, a GM EV1 (though they would possibly rather none exist in any capacity). They let a few universities get a hold of some to use as test platforms and will only let them run in hybrid orientations, apparently.
This car is mostly functional, and will get some sort of small motorcycle engine tucked in that will kick in on the highway to be able to cruise indefinitely (well, with enough gas that is).
You can see that quite a crowd came out in freezing weather to see this car. I felt like we were having to clandestinely come see the car in an alley.
Click any of the images above or this link to see all of my EV1 photos on flickr.
I don’t know which university this is below, but it feels a bit crazy to be hacking apart 1 of about 40 vehicles in existence. The youtube post says that they have theirs running as a turbojet/electric hybrid.
(for some reason the first turbojet video address got changed)
