Last night was the 3rd installment of the Red Hook Crit. I missed last year’s race – think (know actually) I was avoiding the rain. There seems to be a lot of momentum behind this race – reaching some middle ground between an alley cat race
- at night, no official class groups, roads only semi closed, location
and official event
- labeled unsanctioned not an alley cat, well planned, pre race meeting, rules requiring helmets, people with flags and reflective gear to control traffic, started on time.
Lots of press this year, big name sponsors. I can totally see this becoming a fully sanctioned race, thought it would probably take some work to keep the format the same, particularly the late night start. I think the bicycle film fest crew were working on doing a documentary about the race. so i would expect a bunch of press on the race.
see the rest of the pictures here
Crazy Mr. Squirrel builds Google’s new web browser.
Produced at Go Robot.
Made it back from chicago where it was cold even by chicago standards.
The show was good, my piece was only mildly successfull. It did show me that it doesn’t really work so nearlty as well in an open room (it’s potentially a failure in an open room actually).
Took a processing class that was good. Now I just need to start trying to use it… more specificly, need to find a reason to use it. Suspect I’ll be using vdmx for installations for the time being. Think the things I would want to use processing for – data graphics- will take a while to figure out.
Oh, I also had to relearn an obvious lesson re using equipment (tripods) your not familiar with after a couple drinks. Think the camera still works bit I was too mad to even check. So I am lacking any decient documentation of the show. Have a few stills, but nothing that will be better than what I already had. Was hoping for some better documentation. … Oh well.
ugg…. so i never finished moving things over to the wordpress format. so things are still a mess around here.
also, please imagine a post just after jan 1, where i say happy new year and (mostly for myself) recap what happened last year.
but…., more importantly, you should come see my video installation. It will up on sat jan 24 at the motion graphics festival in chicago.
Saturday, January 24th, 9pm-12am
at Pixel Brothers Studio, 400 N Wolcott, Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
i posed a quick couple of clips from the last time it was installed.
“sorry, I’m not here right now” video installation documentation.
For the past couple of months I have been working on animation/motiongraphics that is included in the Johnson & Johnson pavilion at the Olympics.
I worked on the looping floor projection that was projected via 3 projectors. Here is the animation, full frame and with section shown in detail.
This was part of a large installation for the 2008 Johnson & Johnson Olympic pavilion in Beijing, China.
