After migrating over to WordPress (and being unimpressed regardless of the thousands of people telling me to use this place) I am migrating BACK to Blogspot (blogger). Oh well…
This site is being abandoned. Sorry!
I am a little embarrassed to admit this (but not enough not to mention it, I guess), but for the third year in a row I have won a competitive Independent Artist Fellowship award from the Nebraska Arts Council. The nicest part about it is that each year it was a completely different body of work. This time it was for very experimental animation which I have shown only a handful of times, most of which I have not posted or even shown in my home State. I suppose it is a good sign since what I will be doing this coming year will be a whole new body of work, yet again.
Here is the Earth Day version of the IPCC quote with Jamie Burmeister joining the party. Note the wasteful gas powered generator and air cooling units to the right:
The old blog is gone. It was crap. This will be the new one. I doubt I will do much to customize it (does that make me lazy?)
I am sitting in the Denver airport on my way to Orange County, CA to do a presentation of my experimental videos at the &NOW conference. The internet is free at this airport (whoo hoo).
Yeah, I get excited by stupid things.
The project for Earth Day was almost canceled due to my impossible schedule. In a panic, I started talking to other artists. Jamie Burmeister, a very cool and excellent artist in Omaha, showed interest in the project and has jumped on board. He is working on it while I am out of town. I got the new molds finished (the old mold that I created for the piece for the Climate Crisis Coalition formed letters that would be too small for warmer April weather). All that work left no time for casting.
Enter Jamie, the OEA Public Artist of the Year to save my butt. It is an honor to work with him and I am thrilled he wanted to work together. Simply put, this piece would not have happened without him.
I will post the results after this weekend… Until then, enjoy a snapshot of the winter version for the CCC:
I swear I keep toying with the idea of scrapping this idea altogether. A [very] few friends keep convincing me to see it through, however. I still won’t have much to add for a while, but I am hoping to work on a piece for Earth Day (a variation of the piece I did for the Climate Crisis Coalition in support of the Kyoto Protocol. It utilized a segment of the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. If it happens, I will post images here. I will be presenting at a conference in California this week, though, so I doubt I will touch this until then.
Still, the countdown continues until May. If my two summer classes go, I might not really get this going until June. Once I officially start my sabbatical, however, I will try and hit this more often. Maybe good things will come of it. (and Yas found me here! cool and crazy…)
Thanks for the supportive emails, btw.
I am not sure how many people will check or watch this during the next month before I announce it to others, but if you find errors (especially bad links, bad videos, etc) please let me know. I appreciate it.
Not so sure I like the ugliness of this blog. I might abandon it. I suppose I still have time since it won’t go “live” for some time. Still… I’m not big on wasting time (maybe precisely because I do so much of it…)
video test of a flock of geese I created in Maya for a project with Davis Schneiderman (works on your iPhone)
even though I won’t go live with this for another month, I attached a stat counter to track the visits. So far, I am already getting hits from Germany and even one from Malaysia (!) via some site called “artist of the century” (must be a scam – still, nice for the solitary artist)
I am still hoping to start using this site by the beginning of May
THIS IS ONLY A TEST
If you find this blog and are tempted to post something, I should let you know before you do that I will eventually delete all posts once I have time to set this up properly. This is just a testing phase while I set it up. Since I will devote 15 months to just creating art and traveling, a few friends have recommended I keep a blog.
I am not so sure this is a good idea, but there is only one way to find out
so…
Actually, I encourage you to post comments here so I can test this a little more before I go live with it. I want to keep testing and experimenting
