Hand Hub

6x6x6". Plaster, paint, and USB hub.

Current project - part 2

EDIT: Oh yeah, never posted part 1. Here's a hint:

More inventing

USB-powered!

Two inventions I am currrently working on.

Chicago Art Photo Dump

Visited some friends for Thanksgiving in Chicago. We spent 3 hours at the Art Institute of Chicago, and also visited Millenium Park to look at Anish Kapoor's big bean. Here are some samples, I apologize that I didn't get all the names.

Detail of A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georget Seurat. I was this.

The Key, an early Jackson Pollock

Ray Yoshida

Philip Guston

Piet Mondrian

Francis Picabia (hot damn! This was at least eight feet long in each direction and glowing.)

Fernand Leger

Yves Tanguy

There was this hilariously skinny Barnett Newman in one room that I just kept looking up and down and giggling. It's way more surrealist than his normal stuff, and I had to animate how I looked at it for you.

This is a composite photo of a Gerhard Richter painting. It was impossible to get the right colors to show up in one shot, so I layered a few different exposures to get it right. I suspect he wouldn't mind the slight blur.

Lastly, Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor. You wouldn't believe the crowds this piece was drawing. Everyone was all over it, even though it felt like 15 degrees outside. This is another composite to show from looking straight up into the "bean" to a horizon view.

Dump IRL - Selected pics from setup/show

From left to right: Curator Lindsay Howard, dump.fm founders Stefan Moore and Ryder Ripps, and anonymous artist

Animated tile by Chris Shier (the work can be viewed here)

"Ray" by anonymous (ed. Oct 2013)

Left to right: dump.fm members Melipone and Frankhats

Working on my piece "In Rainbows"

dump.fm founder Scott Ostler

Gallery visitor standing in front of "dump.fm Group Portrait" by Tom Moody

UPDATE: More pictures of the show here, taken by exhibiting artist/writer Erik Stinson. I also uploaded more photos to dump; you can see them in my log. Hit the previous button to page through.

Absurdity

Fin!

Yay! Host is as done as it will get. Does anyone else have some paintings that never conclude? This one reached a point where further work felt like it would be over-polishing, and so I stopped. I plan on testing the interactive portion either tonight or tomorrow night, so a video will be up then.

Also, here's a GIF just for fun that I thought up this morning while trying to not spill my coffee.

Temporarily possessed by Picasso