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Pinch Control: Gesture-based Personal Music Device with Arduino
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
In introducing the second Physical Computing lab, Dan O’Sullivan demonstrated a variety of analog inputs: stretch sensors, photoresistors, flex sensors, force sensitive resistors, knobs of all kinds. An hour later, I found myself standing in front of the ITP shelf in the NYU computer store, staring blankly forward and trying to figure out what to […]
Bobby Birdman “Only For A While”
Light and Sound
New Bobby Birdman single, from the upcoming album New Moods! (photo by Sarah Meadows) Check it: _RLT.render(’26ad9445396de39646b7225712e2b618′);
Out of the Office
Golden Age Work Group
Tomorrow I’m leaving for a residency called Signal Fire. Unlike other residency programs where artists are invited to stay on privately owned land, Signal Fire hosts its artists in a mobile home at the end of a logging road in the Mount Hood National Forest. According to Tarp and Amy, the organizers at Signal Fire, […]
Answer a few questions about your creative practice?
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Designers, filmmakers, artists, writers: every day, we make decisions and take actions, large and small, that influence our lives and the world around us. What do you do, personally, that helps create meaning in your life and your work? What everyday habits do you cultivate? Feel free to answer one or both of the questions […]
Housin’ Thangs!
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House has dropped two new series: posters and serigraphs. I want…. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts & letters: www.neworegon.org —
Scion Installation Auction
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Scion Installation 5: Self Portrait – Final Show & Online Art Auction Trailer from Scion ART on Vimeo. All of the work in Scion’s latest Installation tour is available for public auction here. All artwork sale proceeds go to funding Creative Capital, a non-profit organization benefitting artists. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com […]
Acid Art: the Museum of Blotter Bits
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Rak Razam interviews Mark McCloud, collector of LSD blotter art, about the design/art form. Online at Juxtapoz. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts & letters: www.neworegon.org —
On Contour Drawing
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
Place the point of your pencil on the paper. Imagine that your pencil point is touching the model instead of the paper. Without taking your eyes off the model, wait until you are convinced that the pencil is touching that point on the model upon which your eyes are fastened. Then move your eye slowly […]
Shine A Light: Night at the Museum
Golden Age Work Group
Tonight I”ll be unveiling a new project, The Doris Ennis Collection, at Shine a Light, an event the PSU Social Practice MFA students are presenting along with the Portland Art Museum. The night’s events are $12 – there will be lots of music and a different activity/project starting every 15 minutes during its 6 hour […]
Temple U. Japan: Typography 101
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It’s that time again: I’ll be teaching Typography 101 at Temple University Japan in the upcoming semester. About the course:An in-depth look at typography (designing with fonts) for both beginners and experienced practitioners. This class is a working examination of Western typography including lectures on type history, type classification, and contemporary practice. Practical exercises, as […]