Stuff happens everyday

but I'm such a loser, I forget to post. Or soaking in the tub reading Botany of Desire wins out.

Recycled horse sculpture

Inspirational duck float

A magic portal, I think

Suicidal Beetles

We went to this rural farm in Wisconsin on a tuesday night. I though we were driving out to meet Ed Geen. But no, there was a woodfired pizza place on the farm that made pizza's once a week, using thier farm veggies.  Really Amazing.

jumping from the blue tube

We have very few days of autumn weather left. So after I got my boots, I did a bit a filming. There's quite a nice sculpture garden here, and I spied these giant blue tubes on the ground.  What a filming op!. I can film my self inter-dimensional traveling through the big blue tubes. So as I came back from photo bike ride. (I'm making a book called 30 leave before they are gone), I saw the giant blue tubes being loaded on a truck or something. So I biked over and interrupted them and asked if they were taking the tubes away. No, they were putting them on their stands.  I was horrified.  My filming op was disappearing into the realm of art.  They hadn't finished today, so I set up the camera, stripped down to my tights, and spent about an hour jumping and rolling out of the blue tubes. The green grass and my purple hair is rather fetching.  Quite sore now and think I'll go soak in the tub.

Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Since Oct. 1, I have been in Minnesota at the Anderson Center, an artist residence. I should probably post every day, but I'm quite the dud, just in my studio, staring at the basking turtle, remembering that trees turn colors when autumn arrives.

when I can't figure out what to do, I draw with henna on paper and hang them in trees.  I moved them to the house how.  

Red wing had its annual warehouse sale. Yes, we all got boots.

Digitizing Fish Bomb Boats

For as much as I enjoy making and exhibiting the Fish Bomb Boats, they are problematic to ship and exhibit.

I have begun to digitize my flying machine using a Next Engine 3D scanner.  It scans solid objects rather well, but the fins and more transparent pieces are problematic.  In this first piece, I digitized the pieces individually and then reassembled the airship in Maya. I had plenty of help from the Library technician who knows Maya, 3DSMax quite well. We then animated the parts of the machine, and have created a stereoscopic or 3D camera in Maya, further animated that and have exported the short 10 second film.

I have created an environment in Vue Infinite and brought that into Maya with the flying machine.  We have animated that is well, but the next step will try to create stereoscopic cameras in Vue and export a full 3D clip.

The current clip can be viewed with 3D passive glasses, red green or non at all.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgMaTpYY90I&list=UUDlNN7-BHsKmXXcpIu4J7Zg

Magic Vardo in Cloudcroft

I tested the solar panels with the Vardo in Cloudcroft camping. Although the mountains and campsite are heavily wooded there was still about 9 hours of usable sunlight a day.  Mainly used the batteries to charge up people's cell phones.  Did use the lights and the fan a bit.

Side of Magick Vardo--well almost done

Here is the side of the vardo with the windows done. I haven't finished outlining the tilework at the bottom tho.

Front of Magic Vardo

Finished the front of the Vardo. I may put a bit more on it, but the sides are taking a long time, and want to finish them up.