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SPX is a great con, wonderful indie comics, relatively easy to navigate. And everyone seems to be in a really good mood! I had only been once before, went this year and had a great time. Not a great place to take photos, but here are a few pictures anyway.
Becky Howland put this video documentation of artists during the installation of the Williamsburg Bridge Sculpture show from 1983 on the Internet Archive.
This link takes you to a much younger Jody Culkin taking about my piece, which was 2 lamps, attached to the street lamps on the bridge. I didn’t know yet if they were going to light up, they did. A link to the Public Art Fund page on the show.
As always, Comic Con is fun. A few pictures, too many more here
Camp is always great. This summer I learned a bit of python, worked with an Arduino Yun and Temboo- sending out different tweets with button pushes, set up a raspberry pi and made a stop motion animation, used the embroidery machine and cut up and etched a bunch of stuff with the laser cutter. Many great sessions on various topics, fun.
A few pictures of some of the stuff I did, some still in progress. More images soon as I finish things up.
I made a stop motion animation with my Raspberry Pi. It’s kind of dark, no audio and the timing is not perfect, but here is the rig I made it with. Yes, that little thing at the bottom of the photo is a computer, and that is the camera nailed to foam core. This is a “trailer” for an animation I am planning that uses texts from Freud’s Dream Analysis material and City of God by St. Augustine.
ITP Camp is great fun, as usual.
Stop Motion Trailer from jody culkin on Vimeo.
I helped fellow camper Kay Anar build a “campfire” last week at ITP summer camp. Here’s a photo comic that documents it. It was fun!
Have been looking through some old projects, some of which used Flash. Here’s another one, from 2010, just added a little sound.
As part of my thesis from ITP, I made a site that was a portrait of the three block section of Clinton Street where I live. I designed and built it in 2002 (tables for layout, font tags- looking at the code I thanked god for CSS!) I just re-uploaded it, with some very minor changes (forgive the bad code and pop-ups everyone, 2002, remember). Check it out clintonstreet.org. Having some hiccups with the videos in Firefox, for now Chrome seems to be best viewing option.
