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GIF Magic: Strumble Head Lighthouse
GIF Magic: Strumble Head Lighthouse
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Hold Your Horses
Hold Your Horses
I now have myself a rocking horse and an Arduino. My next challenge will be to learn how to programme the Arduino to make the rocking horse rock to create an uncanny kinetic sculpture.
Obviously this horse will be acquiring a unicorn horn at some point in this whole process.
This could take quite some time but watch this space!
I now have myself a rocking horse and an Arduino. My next challenge will be to learn how to programme the Arduino to make the rocking horse rock to create an uncanny kinetic sculpture.
Obviously this horse will be acquiring a unicorn horn at some point in this whole process.
This could take quite some time but watch this space!
Tags: Digital, Work in Progress
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Scan.It
Scan.It
This is a little something I sent to Gem Barton for her Scan.It project which is exploring the use of scanning as an alternative to photography.
I took my porcelain doll and scanned it at 300dpi in black and white. I then printed out a number of copies of this image and drew on them as in the image above before scanning the composite images again at 300dpi but this time in colour.
There’s still time to take part; click here to download the brief and then simply email your Scan.It work to hello[at]gembarton.com with your name, a title and short description before July 15th. Some of these images will be selected for use in an exhibition at Gallery40, Brighton.
This is a little something I sent to Gem Barton for her Scan.It project which is exploring the use of scanning as an alternative to photography.
I took my porcelain doll and scanned it at 300dpi in black and white. I then printed out a number of copies of this image and drew on them as in the image above before scanning the composite images again at 300dpi but this time in colour.
There’s still time to take part; click here to download the brief and then simply email your Scan.It work to hello[at]gembarton.com with your name, a title and short description before July 15th. Some of these images will be selected for use in an exhibition at Gallery40, Brighton.
Tags: Art, Digital, Drawing, Photography
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Redesigning Spikeworld
Redesigning Spikeworld
As you can see Spikeworld is now stitched. The old purple paint splattered website was a good three years old and I thought it was about time for a change, especially as my primary method of making these days seems to have evolved from painting into stitching.
I set about redesigning the site by laying out a few different fonts in PhotoShop trying to find a combination of type that I was happy with and also confident that I could effectively embroider. After a good twenty hours or so embroidering these words I scanned them at a nice high resolution in order to make them into the buttons for the digital navigation you see here… easy peasy lemon squeezy!
As you can see from the photographs here I had originally planned to include the navigation in a block at the top of the screen as had been the case before. However, after a little while tinkering with the site’s templates I opted to move the main navigation to the left. Part of the reson for doing this was to pull more information up bove the fold and also by presenting the stitched buttons in a column like this it will allow me to add to, or alter the order of the navigation a lot more easily.
I’ve also kept the paint splattered ‘S’ for Spike logo as a nod to the old design as well as my art roots as a Fine Art Painter.
Not being a ‘web designer’ I’ve not built this design completely from scratch. The site is hosted on WordPress and so I took elements from some pre-existing templates which I’ve used as a springboard from which to develop this design. The three key theme templates that I’ve used are: SevenFive (for the homepage), Portfolium (for the galleries) and Twenty Ten (for the blog).
As you can see Spikeworld is now stitched. The old purple paint splattered website was a good three years old and I thought it was about time for a change, especially as my primary method of making these days seems to have evolved from painting into stitching.
I set about redesigning the site by laying out a few different fonts in PhotoShop trying to find a combination of type that I was happy with and also confident that I could effectively embroider. After a good twenty hours or so embroidering these words I scanned them at a nice high resolution in order to make them into the buttons for the digital navigation you see here… easy peasy lemon squeezy!
As you can see from the photographs here I had originally planned to include the navigation in a block at the top of the screen as had been the case before. However, after a little while tinkering with the site’s templates I opted to move the main navigation to the left. Part of the reson for doing this was to pull more information up bove the fold and also by presenting the stitched buttons in a column like this it will allow me to add to, or alter the order of the navigation a lot more easily.
I’ve also kept the paint splattered ‘S’ for Spike logo as a nod to the old design as well as my art roots as a Fine Art Painter.
Not being a ‘web designer’ I’ve not built this design completely from scratch. The site is hosted on WordPress and so I took elements from some pre-existing templates which I’ve used as a springboard from which to develop this design. The three key theme templates that I’ve used are: SevenFive (for the homepage), Portfolium (for the galleries) and Twenty Ten (for the blog).
Tags: Craft, Design, Digital, Stitch, Textiles
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Mailto:
Mailto:
Mailto: is the current exhibition at Driftstation gallery and performance space, Nebraska.
The exhibition is built around the open portal of an email address. Beginning in early May, works or messages of any kind sent in the body of an email or as an attachment to anything@driftstation.org were printed and hung, up through the end of the opening reception. 652 emails, totaling over 2,500 pages were printed and installed.
I submitted an email to the project containing digital copies of some of my drawings. Initially I was racking my brain to submit something clever in response to the concept of the project. However, after writing and re-writing my email several times over I decided that a very simple submission, like a stripped back exhibition submission, would do just fine. After all it’s a fair reflection of the types of emails I send.
Curator Jeff Thompson Writes mailto: argues for a curatorial practice akin to chaos theory or aleatoric musical composition – that the initiation of a specific but open structure creates unexpected and diverse results. As the digital files (up until this point infinitely malleable and scalable) reach the printer, they are made manifest as fixed, physical objects; when hung on the gallery wall they each represent a small document in a curatorial process divorced from the geographically-focused perfection of the unique art object.
There is a full catalogue of the exhibition available to download as .pdf here which includes an essay by the Curator. Be warned though, the document is well over 100mb in size and you will need to skip to page 1225 to find my contribution.
Mailto: is the current exhibition at Driftstation gallery and performance space, Nebraska.
The exhibition is built around the open portal of an email address. Beginning in early May, works or messages of any kind sent in the body of an email or as an attachment to anything@driftstation.org were printed and hung, up through the end of the opening reception. 652 emails, totaling over 2,500 pages were printed and installed.
I submitted an email to the project containing digital copies of some of my drawings. Initially I was racking my brain to submit something clever in response to the concept of the project. However, after writing and re-writing my email several times over I decided that a very simple submission, like a stripped back exhibition submission, would do just fine. After all it’s a fair reflection of the types of emails I send.
Curator Jeff Thompson Writes mailto: argues for a curatorial practice akin to chaos theory or aleatoric musical composition – that the initiation of a specific but open structure creates unexpected and diverse results. As the digital files (up until this point infinitely malleable and scalable) reach the printer, they are made manifest as fixed, physical objects; when hung on the gallery wall they each represent a small document in a curatorial process divorced from the geographically-focused perfection of the unique art object.
There is a full catalogue of the exhibition available to download as .pdf here which includes an essay by the Curator. Be warned though, the document is well over 100mb in size and you will need to skip to page 1225 to find my contribution.
Tags: Art, Digital, Drawing, Events, Exhibition
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Dorkbot #2: Cardiff
Dorkbot #2: Cardiff
I popped along to Dorkbot Cardiff last week. For those who don’t know, Dorkbot is all about people doing cool and creative things with electricity.
The image above is a portrait of your truly that was drawn by a robot/machine called Sketchy. A photograph was taken on a smartphone which was then converted to a vector image and transmitted via bluetooth to the machine by a little app that had been written for the handset.
The video below, shot by MCJammyCustard, shows the machine in action as it recieves the information and sets about drawing a portait.
In addition to Sketchy, there was also demonstrations from Paul Granjon, who was showing off his new 3D printer and robots that he controls with brainwaves, and two sculpture students from Cardiff School of Art and Design shared their work with arduinos, lights and gyroscopes, which although in it’s infancy, was fascinating.
Aside from simple geeky curiosity, one of the reasons I attended Dorkbot was to try and get some idea of how easy/difficult it is to have a tinker with electricity. As any one who has followed this blog for a while will now, I have long since aspired to incorporate some form of light or sound within my work.
Thursday nights event was rather inspiring and so I’m sure it won’t be long before I’m dusting off my soldering iron again. Watch this space.
If you want to find out more about Dorkbot, and future events, you should check out the website here: http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotcardiff/
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I popped along to Dorkbot Cardiff last week. For those who don’t know, Dorkbot is all about people doing cool and creative things with electricity.
The image above is a portrait of your truly that was drawn by a robot/machine called Sketchy. A photograph was taken on a smartphone which was then converted to a vector image and transmitted via bluetooth to the machine by a little app that had been written for the handset.
The video below, shot by MCJammyCustard, shows the machine in action as it recieves the information and sets about drawing a portait.
In addition to Sketchy, there was also demonstrations from Paul Granjon, who was showing off his new 3D printer and robots that he controls with brainwaves, and two sculpture students from Cardiff School of Art and Design shared their work with arduinos, lights and gyroscopes, which although in it’s infancy, was fascinating.
Aside from simple geeky curiosity, one of the reasons I attended Dorkbot was to try and get some idea of how easy/difficult it is to have a tinker with electricity. As any one who has followed this blog for a while will now, I have long since aspired to incorporate some form of light or sound within my work.
Thursday nights event was rather inspiring and so I’m sure it won’t be long before I’m dusting off my soldering iron again. Watch this space.
If you want to find out more about Dorkbot, and future events, you should check out the website here: http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotcardiff/
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Tags: Cardiff, Digital, Drawing, Events
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Hospital Xmas PhotoShop
Hospital Xmas PhotoShop
Well the new year got off to a cracking start with an email from the lovely folk at Hospital Records stating that I was one of the runner’s up in their annual PhotoShop competition! Whoop! I was late locking in to the Christmas podcast due to being offline all Christmas so it was an uber nice surprise.
I popped over to the post office this evening to collect my vinyl shaped prize which included Blokhe4d’s Full Circle and the awesome Sigma Remix of Danny Byrd’s We Can Have It All (pictured above). I think I probably own at least ten times more music on Hospital than I do on any other label so needless to say I’m chuffed!
For those of you who don’t know, the annual PhotoShop competition involves Hospital fans taking photos of their artists and making them more ‘seasonal’. For my effort I took Dan Nu:Tone and turned him into a rather disturbing self shot hottie like this…
You can see all the entries on London Elektricity’s blog here. As you can see there were loads of entries so I’m flattered to get the nod! I can’t complain at missing out on the grand prize though as the winning Home Alone entry was epic!
Big thanks to team Hospital Records for the goodies and the shout out on the Christmas podcast!
Oh and while you’re all here go check out the new Nu:Tone Website. There is some truly epic use of Youtube video embedding going on there: http://nutone.org/
Well the new year got off to a cracking start with an email from the lovely folk at Hospital Records stating that I was one of the runner’s up in their annual PhotoShop competition! Whoop! I was late locking in to the Christmas podcast due to being offline all Christmas so it was an uber nice surprise.
I popped over to the post office this evening to collect my vinyl shaped prize which included Blokhe4d’s Full Circle and the awesome Sigma Remix of Danny Byrd’s We Can Have It All (pictured above). I think I probably own at least ten times more music on Hospital than I do on any other label so needless to say I’m chuffed!
For those of you who don’t know, the annual PhotoShop competition involves Hospital fans taking photos of their artists and making them more ‘seasonal’. For my effort I took Dan Nu:Tone and turned him into a rather disturbing self shot hottie like this…
You can see all the entries on London Elektricity’s blog here. As you can see there were loads of entries so I’m flattered to get the nod! I can’t complain at missing out on the grand prize though as the winning Home Alone entry was epic!
Big thanks to team Hospital Records for the goodies and the shout out on the Christmas podcast!
Oh and while you’re all here go check out the new Nu:Tone Website. There is some truly epic use of Youtube video embedding going on there: http://nutone.org/
Tags: Digital, News
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Morbidus
Morbidus
Morbidus / IdN 100th issue from Dvein on Vimeo.
“Morbidus is an inflatable thought about the weight of creativity on individuals.”
I love this short little animation. Apparently it was created to celebrate the 100th issue of ldN magazine.
It reminds me of the gloopy balls that I posted in my work in progress pages earlier this year. I haven’t found a solid outlet for those little objects yet which is a little disappointing since they got me rather excited. Their time will come!
Morbidus / IdN 100th issue from Dvein on Vimeo.
“Morbidus is an inflatable thought about the weight of creativity on individuals.”
I love this short little animation. Apparently it was created to celebrate the 100th issue of ldN magazine.
It reminds me of the gloopy balls that I posted in my work in progress pages earlier this year. I haven’t found a solid outlet for those little objects yet which is a little disappointing since they got me rather excited. Their time will come!
Tags: Art, Digital, Inspiration, video
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Alex McLeod
Alex McLeod
I was totally seduced by the combination of shiny, gloopy, viscid textures and the organic, bulbous, flowing forms in these works by Alex McLeod. They are absolutely incredible works. I was however, initially a little disappointed to discover that they are all digital renderings and not actual three dimensional installations. As soon as I clapped eyes on them I was imagining immersing myself in these fabulously fantastical worlds. That said, that they are digital renderings is incredible in itself. I’ve never come across digital work that has such a tactile sense to it. If I’m completely honest, most digital work that I come across normally leaves me a little cold. This really is something else though and has sparked my imagination into overdrive. I’ll have to get the sketchbook out and see where it leads.
Go check out McLeod’s website www.alxclub.com right this minute and immerse yourself in his wonderful world.
I was totally seduced by the combination of shiny, gloopy, viscid textures and the organic, bulbous, flowing forms in these works by Alex McLeod. They are absolutely incredible works. I was however, initially a little disappointed to discover that they are all digital renderings and not actual three dimensional installations. As soon as I clapped eyes on them I was imagining immersing myself in these fabulously fantastical worlds. That said, that they are digital renderings is incredible in itself. I’ve never come across digital work that has such a tactile sense to it. If I’m completely honest, most digital work that I come across normally leaves me a little cold. This really is something else though and has sparked my imagination into overdrive. I’ll have to get the sketchbook out and see where it leads.
Go check out McLeod’s website www.alxclub.com right this minute and immerse yourself in his wonderful world.
Tags: Art, Artists, Digital, Fine Art, Inspiration
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Spike Splash
Spike Splash
This article on the Artexposure made my day when I stumbled across it earlier. It’s not every day my website gets described as ‘a welcome slap in the face‘ but I like it
Those close to me will know that my website went through at least 10 variations over a two year period whilst I tried to get it to a look that I was happy with. Essentially I wanted it to reflect both a little of me and a little of my practice. It wasn’t easy as my practice is very reliant upon textures and surfaces. I dabbled with textured backgrounds and such on my website but they just didn’t work for me. They just seem to make the pages feel overly cluttered. Eventually I parred it down to what you can see here. I’m rather chuffed with it even if I do say so myself. I think it works well bridging that gap between my physical practice and my digital presence on-line.
If you have any interest in art and the internet you should definitely go and check the Artexposure blog. There is some really interesting research taking place there.
This article on the Artexposure made my day when I stumbled across it earlier. It’s not every day my website gets described as ‘a welcome slap in the face‘ but I like it
Those close to me will know that my website went through at least 10 variations over a two year period whilst I tried to get it to a look that I was happy with. Essentially I wanted it to reflect both a little of me and a little of my practice. It wasn’t easy as my practice is very reliant upon textures and surfaces. I dabbled with textured backgrounds and such on my website but they just didn’t work for me. They just seem to make the pages feel overly cluttered. Eventually I parred it down to what you can see here. I’m rather chuffed with it even if I do say so myself. I think it works well bridging that gap between my physical practice and my digital presence on-line.
If you have any interest in art and the internet you should definitely go and check the Artexposure blog. There is some really interesting research taking place there.
Tags: Art, Digital, Research
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