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Update!::I am now located, living, and working in Santa Fe, NM. Work: Adjunct Faculty at the institute of American Indian Arts as well as working the freelance side as much as possible. There arequite a few updates and developments that I have neglected lately. Many are listed bellow with a proper update. Mainly, working on a much needed website overhaul, a show in Dekalb Il, artwork published in the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center's arts journal Blood andThunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine, two dead hard drives, an application to creative capital, and efforts to simply enjoy the Santa Fe area. |
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03.01.2011::Much of my recent creative effort has turned to building work for the IAIA Fulldome. The Fulldome is a really challenging format for media creation. It uses six projectors to display a full image at 2048x2048 or 4096x4096, a very large image for motion graphics that puts a lot of stress on your system. Displaying work in a hemisphere, rather than on a flat rectangle, also presents a challenge.A motion graphics composition, flat while you are working on it, changes when viewed in the dome: elements stretch, your composition has to be circular, and left right movement changes dramatically from standard projection. Here you will find some tests and organizational tools I have been putting together to figure out this unique viewing situation. (view) |
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02.18.2011::I know have a 3D section on my site. I have been working with 3D modeling and animation since 2007 but have only ever posted finished work. The 3D section is more of a digital sketchbook containing lots of ideas, previsualizations I have completed for other artists or myself, modeling and rendering exercises, and some general experimentation. Some of the work has been shown, most has never seen the light of day. (view) |
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02.14.2011::One of my freelance ventures is producing scale models for artists. This particular model, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, was requested by Rich Pell of The Center for PostNatural History. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a seedbank located in the Arctic Svalbard archipeligo and contains backup copies of seeds held in genebanks across the world. The seed vault is considered insurance against loss in genebanks and global crises. The structure itself is built into the side of a mountain and the only sign of its being there is the rather ambiguous concrete entrance. The entrance features a lighting installation by Norweian artist Dyveke Sanne and acts as a beacon marking the vaults location. (view) |
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01.25.2011::The Davison Grant Genetics site has been updated with new content and new shows/performances should be forthcoming. The site is the work of artist Bob Dohrmann of the University of Oklahoma. Several of my 3D models are featured as a part of the site. "At Davison Grant Genetics we have assembled a team of the most brilliant scientists in their fields dedicated to eliminating the unsightly and harmful imperfections in our lives. Within the very code of life, we are hard at work wiping out mankind’s frailties and cosmetic flaws and replacing them with the highest level of physical qualities." |
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01.12.2011::The 3rdi, by artist Wafaa Bilal, is online and running despite issues with mounting hardware surgically implanted on the back of the artists skull. The 3rdi is a project aimed at capturing the ephemerality ofthe past as objectively as possible and follows from Wafaa's experience of leaving his home land of Iraq behind. "During my journey from Iraq to Saudi Arabia, on to Kuwait and then the U.S., I left manypeople and places behind. The images I have of this journey are inevitably ephemeral, held as they are in my own memory." I worked with Wafaa during the previsualization phase of the 3rdi project and some of the resulting renders are shown here. (view) |
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