Recent Giffs from my show "High Tech, Low Tech, and Who Cares?"  I displayed these on iPads which looped continuously throughout the evening.

This is a quick test on the sketchbook pro app looking at a short bit from dancer Kazou Ohno (not dressed as a female)

This test was made using the ole iPad. I took some screen shots of a dancer, imported each into AutoDesk Sketch book Pro ($1.99 app) then traced. I did 90% on the ipad then emailed the Photoshop doc to myself and rendered it.

"HIGH TECH, LOW TECH, AND WHO CARES?"

 In October I'll be setting up an exhibition of artwork at the Tugboat Gallery in Lincoln called "High Tech, Low Tech, and Who Cares". Artists Don Foddness and Alvin Gregorio from Boulder Co. will be setting up a multimedia installation, Angela Carbone of Laredo TX (and Washington Crossing, NJ) will be lending two text based pieces made of slip cast ceramic, and Brian Pytlik Zillig/ ME! are collaborating on a set of videos based on his programming.

 Brian Pytlik Zillig is Associate Professor and Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. He is the creator of TokenX which is designed to provide an easy-to-use interface for text analysis and visualization. But most importantly, Brian is a super nerd.

 Token X is just one example of his ingenious workflow. The vector based imagery in the above movie was created frame by frame through the program he created which takes lines of code he writes and converts the lines to animated frames. (I've simplified the f*&k out of his work! It's very cool trust me)

Please come out to see the show on October 5th 2012 at the Tugboat Gallery , 14th and O st at 7PM

A Day at the Zoo

Last month Anne's sister Jenny and her husband Theron were out here for a visit and we went to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha.   What better chance to us my recently updated Stop Motion app on my Iphone.  here's the link.

I sat my ass next to the jelly fish tank while my patient family waited for me to get the best set of shots.  The challenge was taking consistently spaced frames while not getting any lids or flash photography reflections in the frame.   

On Sunday I made an animation using cheap $1 plastic table cloth, a spray bottle with water, and my camera in the Permanent Collection of the Sheldon Art Museum.  Why did they let me do this!?!?!  I was spraying water on a glass window 6 feet from a Dorothea Lange photo.  Tisk tisk.  But all ended well.  Or at least I didn't get a phone call nor have I been fired from the U.

All kidding aside I really appreciate the museum staff for supporting this project.  They asked me to do something for the event and I gave them more to worry about than they thought.  They were very accommodating and understood what I was trying to acheive.

So back to how I made it.  I cut out grass, wheat, and corn from the plastic and I also made 9  5 x 8 foot paintings to go in the window opposite the gallery.  Anne and Katelyn were over there making the anamorphic animation and when I would text Anne, they'd both remove one painting and put the other up.  I sprayed a little water on the glass and capillary action did the rest.  I simply used Dragon Frame to capture the images!  So enjoy.  I sure did.

The Golden Wok's new ad scheme

This animation was made using layers in Photoshop CS6.  I'm not sure why but while I was sitting in Vung Tao (a Vietnamese restaurant across the street) with my wife Anne, who was talking to me,  I couldn't stop staring at the wave motif.  She probably noticed I was distracted.  Lucky for me I wasn't staring at something else!

One trick I learned is to make a selection in PS, then by just alt/otion copying the selection it will keep it on the same layer.  So I didn't have the complexity of dealing with more layers than what I wanted as frames.

Enjoy.