31 July 2009 | Heading to SIGGRAPH...
I am off to New Orleans for SIGGRAPH 2009. I will be presenting my Encoding with prime factors series during a panel discussion, The State of Aesthetic Computing or Info-Aesthetics, on Monday, 3 August at 3:45 p.m.
This will be my twelfth year contributing to the conference.
I especially am looking forward to the Computer Animation Festival’s Stereoscopic program and, before the conference starts, the 7th International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
— Francis Bacon
27 July 2009 | Back from Singapore
I just returned from a five-week visit to Singapore. I was invited by Lucasfilm Animation Singapore to do some training for the apprentices in their Jedi Masters Program. While there, I also gave seminar presentations on my body of work, a behind-the-scenes, technical look at the same, and on stereoscopic imaging (its history, some important technical concepts and the creation of anaglyphic images from photography).
Here is one of my photographs from Singapore that was shown during the stereoscopic imaging presentation. We found this wonderful display of waylang golek puppets in a Singapore store, Mata-Hari. I took the photograph as a stereoscopic pair and it is presented here first as one of the original photographs and second as an anaglyph.
I had the opportunity to visit and present my work to a number of schools during my time in Singapore, including Egg Story Digital Arts School, the Temasek Design School at Temasek Polytechnic, the School of Interactive and Digital Media at Nanyang Polytechnic, the School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology and the School of Design at Singapore Polytechnic, Intense Animation Academy and SAE Institute Singapore.
Lucasfilm Animation also sponsored a public lecture at the studio.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
— Kahlil Gibran
15 May 2009 | Experiment
Research for a work-in-progress…
The bottom row is a stereoscopic anaglyph (arguably a redundancy), just in case you have any red/blue glasses about your person.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
— Lao Tzu
14 May 2009 | Springtime in Savannah
“As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation, I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications”
— Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species
1859
(Happy belated birthday, Mr. Darwin.)
Somekindeous vineyflowerous, growing outside our front door. Over the past month or so, this vine has produced over one hundred blooms.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
— Henry David Thoreau
08 May 2009 | Photo from Deep Space
Here is a photograph of one of my print works, 2000.16b, showing in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space gallery. There are people standing on my artwork and I do not mind in the least.
deep space II (aec). Originally uploaded to flickr by magrolino.
There is another photo here of 2005.1.
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If you always follow the right way to do a thing you will never be creative, because the “right way” means the way discovered by others. And the right way means that of course you will be able to make something, you will become a producer, a manufacturer, but you will not be a creator.
— Osho