I landed an opportunity to show my completed Snot Rocket in the 2 Bit Art Show at Raleigh’s DesignBox for September’s First Friday. It was a great show with some excellent pieces. Apparently it was the largest turnout Designbox had experienced at one of their shows.
22
Aug
09
Artist?
It seems these days that I’m more along the lines of a bullshit artist than that of any other. My art seems to be in my ability to deftly procrastinate, talk about doing but not doing and generally ignoring projects in the cue.
But hey, I did manage to walk into the fucking ocean with iphone in pocket two weekends ago. It felt like I ran over my own dog. Since then I have resoaked it in isopropyl alcohol (to remove the salt water) dried it in silicone desiccant, replaced the battery, camera and LCD. Though throughout the ordeal, while the phone has sputtered and coughed and truly seemed to be coming back to life within my own hands, it is indeed beyond repair. At this point I’m convinced there is some software issue and not that of hardware as I have had intermittent functionality of all systems. Resets, restores, hack utilities and crying have been to no avail. My beloved phone is undone.
It’s rather eye opening to see how much being without my phone and it’s eventual demise has effected me. So much more of a reason to become a Luddite; To move to that cabin in Montana; To just tune out.
Sure.
A heaping helping of goddamn it with a side of SHIT!
While not one to jump to a cryptopzoological conclusion when a dog corpse washes up on a beach somewhere or when some hunter finds a pile of bigfoot shit; I really have to wonder if something is up with the Raleigh, NC “sewer creature.”
According to my girlfriend I have become obsessed with this thing and I guess to a certain extent I have. I grew up in Raleigh and have turned over rocks, crawled through drain pipes, swam creeks and have poked a stick at just about every critter to be found from forest to suburb.
The suggestion that these are a colony of tubifex worms is questionable. Thomas Kwak, a biologist at NC state takes the cake however. His clasifiying the organism(s) as a bryozoan is laughable at best. I am no biologist but even an arm chair scientist can tell that this thing is no bryozoan. One has to wonder if Mr. Kwak took more than a cursory look at the video, or even looked at all. To take it one step further, has Mr. Kwak taken one for the team? Was he asked or directed to lie? Do the “powers that be” worry about a mass shitting of the pants if it gets out that an unknown/extra terrestrial species lurks below Raleigh’s fashionable Cameron Village shopping center?
No I don’t sleep with an aluminum foil cap (besides my skull chip only get’s 4 channels.) I’m not a conspiracy nut, in fact I’m quite the sceptic. However that skepticism goes both ways and my malarkey alarm is going off big-time. The organisms videotaped in Raleigh’s sewers are in my strong opinion not of the local ecology, if of any known ecology. If these things are real, they’re no proto-animal bryozoan nor any colony of worms. Show me a video of these things anywhere else in the world (another sewer maybe) and perhaps I’ll be more likely to believe in a more conventional explanation. In the meanwhile I’m suspending all sewer crawls for the time being…
03
Jun
09
The Angry Babies
Illustration done in InkScape and Photoshop CS2.
29
May
09
ShopBot you fickle Mistress
Actually the ShopBot isn’t really fickle at all. It merely demands you know your X from your Y; something I got switched around last night, hence my return tonight. On my 3rd night trying to cut a specific piece I think (THINK as the cut is not yet done) I think I’ve got the piece in the can. As many headaches as I’ve had the last few days, I still find using this thing to be one of the more satisfying things a person can do with their clothes on. I do however find Partworks (the software that takes your vectors and turns them into tool paths) to be a little frustrating. While fairly easy to use it lacks a number of “professional” features that I’ve come to expect in my software. That said, I can’t blame all my problems on the software. I have to realize that I’m dealing with a machine that actually cuts something out according to your file. While similar in theory to exporting a Max file (in other words it has to be functional and not just look good) to a game engine there are some rules and conventions that I just need to get my head wrapped around.
ShopBot Success in the making... I hope...
20
May
09
My new kicks…
Yes indeed my shoes have toes. And toes are about all they have. Other than an ingenious form fitting construction and grippy Vibram sole they are devoid of anything extraordinary; and there in lies the difference from most athletic shoes. In the belief that modern shoes actually weaken the foot (particularly by means of the arch support) the FiveFingers division of Vibram(Vibram FiveFingers)have come up with that which you see on my feet. Being the consummate gadget/new idea geek (some might say sucker) I thought I would give them a try. I’ve only had them on for a couple hours and I can say… well it feels like being barefoot and that’s a good thing. I’ll give them their 1st all day trial tomorrow and will try to follow up with my take sometime in the near future.
19
May
09
Techshop in Durham
Check out Techshop. Join and you can have at your disposal equipment ranging from a serger sewing machine to a CNC plasma cutter.
Techshop Durham's Webpage.
18
May
09
Blogspot vs WordPress discussion
Also an excuse to demonstrate posting from my iPhone.
17
May
09
Disassembled Dolls
This is a flyer I did for a friend’s talk she did at UNC as part of her PHD. *photo credits Anna Panszczyk*
16
May
09
Pigs on Parade
This is my submission to the Pigs on Parade benefit auction. Proceeds went to assisting NC farmers. False teeth and epoxy clay over a ceramic piggy bank. Finished with acrylics and enamels.
