Archives: February, 2006

The Postal Service: Water stains dancing to the music

Monday 27 February 2006

Water Stains: 1-dimensional CA
inspiration
after checking out the sub pop records office, i was on my way to the Experience Music Project, and i came across this building with sweet water stains on it. i think i’m attracted to water stains because growing up as a kid in new mexico, our house had stucco on the […]

Sleater-Kinney: Traveling Mattes + Cellular Automata

Monday 27 February 2006

Sleater-Kinney: Carrie Brownstein
bps: renderer!
finally, an example from the bps: renderer and just in time for flash forward: seattle and OFFF: Mexico. woohoo! the renderer is dedicated to processor intensive, pixel-based animations that can not be played back in real-time as a swf, so it lends itself more to broadcast tv, film and print. it combines […]

Koolhaas’ Seattle Public Library: Ghosts + Motion-Capture

Monday 27 February 2006

Seattle Public Library
inspiration
last year when i was admiring and getting lost (signage?) within Rem Koolhaas’ Seattle Public Library, i captured the supernatural lighting upstairs. i didn’t realize until later, there was something else on the footage. just kidding. continuing down the path of capturing data from an external source and then exchanging it from one […]

ben + casey = processing

Sunday 19 February 2006

Roadtrip: Jason Arena + Casey Reas
in the spring of 2005 my buddy jason arena, who teaches at RIT and whom i team up with on a lot of projects, invited me out to see casey reas’ show-n-tell session and to do a road trip with them to FITC in toronto.
it was an incredible honor […]

Music: Motivation + Inspiration.

Saturday 18 February 2006

Music. It is a driving force. It motivates. It inspires. It is as important to the creative process as air is to living. Here is what I am listening to now: Dr. Woohoo’s Music.
What are you listening to?

Sub Pop Records: The Shins, Jesse LeDoux + Spirals

Tuesday 14 February 2006

Sub Pop Records: The Shins, Jesse LeDoux + Spirals
sub pop records + the shins
in may of last year i was in seattle to present at the aiga: experience design conference and i had some extra time to walk around the city. on my way to the experience music project, i came across this window with […]

Case Study House: Ray+Charles Eames House

Monday 6 February 2006

The Ray and Charles Eames House
The Ray and Charles Eames House
‘The Eames House (also known as Case Study House No. 8 ), is a landmark of mid-20th century modern architecture. It was constructed in 1949 in Pacific Palisades, California (a suburb of Los Angeles) by husband-and-wife design pioneers Charles and Ray (Kaiser) Eames, to serve […]

The Entenza House + Case Study House designed by Richard Neutra

Sunday 5 February 2006

The Entenza House

Case Study House designed by Richard Neutra
Entenza House
475 Mesa Road, Santa Monica, CA
The Entenza House was built for John Entenza, the editor and publisher of Arts and Architecture magazine in 1937 by Harwell H. Harris, ‘as a declaration of his commitment to modernity. His curved-wall carport, spiral staircase, and metal railing make it […]