Crazy Flash movie. Follow the link, then move your cursor around and watch her face.
Weird, huh?! Animators talk about the relationship between the realism of the image and the realism of the movement. If you get too much of both, then you produce a really uncanny effect (not really pleasing…way too unsettling…see Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within). I think they've reached that here.
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Sometimes a pictures really is worth a thousand words:
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The show opened today. Feels good to have it done. Nick was a great help setting the lights last night and I think the whole thing looks good. Already had one gallery visit with Christopher Deris' Sculpture I class from Loyola. Reaction so far has been positive.
The show got blogged over at Art Swamp (thanks Courtney!).
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Derek helped me hang the show yesterday. It went amazingly smoothly. I was very pleased. Some pics added to my Flickr account and more over at Derek's Flickr pool. I lit it last night, but there was no one around to give me an opinion on it. On my way back to the gallery in a little bit. Nick is going to come over and help me tweak the lighting and then I'll be officially done installing. Good thing since the show officially opens at 9am tomorrow morning.
Laura put up the title wall today too!
Now, for the defense on Friday….
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Almost done with the panels. Just finished the face of the second large band-aid panel (did a nice set of pictures in sequence…will upload that to Flickr later tonight). Now I just have to do the sides and corners and the biggest piece (a diptych of two ~4′x8′ panels) for the show will be done (yeah!). I finished the last of the wounds last night. Tomorrow, I just need to do the smaller band-aid diptych (panels gluing at home right now) and the work will be done….then I just have to hang it all… 
…but that's for Sunday…
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If you've been following along in my Flickr stream, you may be saying to yourself, "Self, why are all the installation shots of Cynthia? Is David installing?" Well, that would be a good question. The answer is that, no, David isn't really installing yet. David is trying to finish building panels and mounting canvases to panels.
I should be done with the bulk of the panels today. Now, to do the large band-aid diptych…that's going to be a bear…
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My adviser, Kevin Jones, just mounted a show in Tokyo's Ginza district. Pretty cool stuff. I like his technical answers to traveling with your art as well. No big canvases to ship. Vinyl and paint directly on the wall.
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Leah Buechley rocks! I just got hold of one of these Lily Pad Arduino modules. I had hoped to trick out my kid-carrying backpack in time for Mardi Gras, but that just didn't happen. Can't wait to play around with it, but it's going to have to wait till after the show….which reminds me…gotta go…
Related: Processing & Arduino on the OLPC: link
[via the Make blog]
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Barry Bailey, professor of sculpture at Tulane, usually hosts a River Day in the fall. This year, it didn't happen, so he picked it up today. Its a day when he takes his students (and anybody else around who feels like participating) down to the levee along the Mississippi River at Freret Street. They scour the river side and pick up whatever they can find (trash, trees, etc) and then they make sculpture out of it….a little Robert Smithson, a little Andy Goldsworthy.
I took Gardner out to see what was going on. We didn't stay long, but there were some interesting pieces going up. See all my photos here.