Cloud painting
July 1, 2013
Made good progress this weekend…
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Solstice, honk fest fun
June 22, 2013
Good moment on top of the gasworks sundial with environmental encroachment after solstice parade
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Blue clouds! For our burning man project
June 11, 2013
We’re making our first round of clouds for our burning man project. Next step is to stretch them with white spandex to experiment with lighting.
We’ll essentially have 40 cloud shaped projection screens to work with. Fun fun! Fun geek fun! playing with addressable RGB lighting and lasers …speaking of which, i can’t wait for my new programmable laser to arrive.
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Participatory art at the Georgetown carnival!
June 8, 2013
Splat a paint and dodge a weave and bangers and clangers.
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Silent disco
June 6, 2013
It’s dueling silent disco at The Stranger ‘s beach party. Super fun.
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Experimenting with glass casting
May 13, 2013
Greg and I were experimenting with glass casting this weekend. As the word “experiment” implies….largely failing. But learning a lot in the process!!! I’m actually really excited we’ve come this far…
Here’s the kiln studio — up and operational in my garage! We’ve been calling it the art garage.
This is the form in silicon. I made this a couple years ago — had converted to resin, but always wanted to try it in glass. We made a plaster mold using this…
Here it is…cooked in the kiln! Some problem…plaster is cracked. Needs to be thicker, and reunified with chi ken wire mesh, turns out.
Here’s Greg busting it out of the mold. I think there’s something wrong with our release agent…we used kiln wash. Should pop off a little easier than this.
Tada! The form in glass. Cracked, w sticky plaster…but still looks cool! I’m excited for the next round of experimenting!!
Problem is just that it takes a long time…here’s the schedule. We also need to get a controller so it doesn’t take so much monitoring of the kiln…we spent aaaaall day and night on it this Sunday.
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Botanical exotica
April 11, 2013
Beautiful instAllation at the volunteer park conservatory. Sculpted hot glass, giant flowers, by Jason gamrath
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Talking Visualization
April 11, 2013
At the UW ischool iaffiliates meeting, talking about visualizing big data. Interesting to think businesses are hiring people to visualize big data — it’s an odd combination of art and science.
Meeting is in an unconference style: great for conversation when smart people are in the room.
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Robot Marilyn at fuse labs
April 10, 2013
I brought robot Marilyn in to work! Heh heh. Makes the corporate offices more lively and creative feeling.
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Kiln is Installed!
April 9, 2013
Woo hoo! I’m super excited about the new kiln we installed in our garage…though of course I have little time to actually use it. Pesky full time job. Nonetheless, it is there, thanks to Greg (it’s actually his kiln) and Morgan! I’ve been reading up on how to do glass kiln casting. You basically make the mold, and melt the glass into it in the form of frit, a sort of glass sand.
