SICK AT HOME by Tonja Torgerson, opens this Friday, February 24th at Craft Chemistry gallery in Syracuse with an Artist Reception from 7pm-10pm!
Wow, check this out —> In this weeks NewTimes, there’s a great article about the exhibition! ”The Art of Sickness“ written by Veronica Magan.
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MGMT – All We Ever Wanted Was Everything from oneedo on Vimeo.
Excellent combination of vector style graphics, animation, texture, and music!
Here is a better quality video on youtube, wasn’t able to embed it in the post.
I remember watching this on TV the first time and saying, “HOW DO THEY DO THAT!?!”
Jason Evans, local architect and good friend has been receiving lots of press again lately. Jason is full of excellent ideas and enthusiasm – especially in the realm of unique architectural solutions and developing interesting communities through inspiring atmosphere.
You may have heard of the compound project, the multi-use facility that we had all schemed out a few years back. Or perhaps you’ve seen some of Jason’s spreads in Syracuse Magazine lately?
Well, Syracuse is becoming a talked about region. It could be because we get record amounts of snowfall in comparison to most the country, could be that you knew someone that attends university around here, could be because we have a ridiculous amount of apple orchards and ski slopes or maybe you did the 70.3 last year?
A vision to revitalize Syracuse
On one front Syracuse has been garnering a lot of attention because it seems it is becoming an experimental icon of what some some refer to as the ‘american rust belt’. Where we one had an excellently diverse economy based on manufacturing, be it machines, clothing, original inventions, or resources in terms or salt mining. Many of these rust belt cities whose primary economy was heavily dependent upon large industrial factories are struggling across the country. (wiki)
Syracuse is muscling through, the people of Syracuse are tough and creative. You can’t complain about shoveling snow, this and that, if you live here you learn to make the best of things or get the hell out.
It may be a strange derivation of that mind set that makes Syracuse and people like Jason, or Rick Destito (info) able to go from entertaining wild concepts of efficient living, architectural preservation, community improvement, and transform them into sustainable, functional, and fruitful living.
For more info check out Jason’s blog at www.rethinksyracuse.com
creativity + hard work =
Hope everyone has been having a great break. Up here in the North East the winter weather let up a bit, got some sun, all the ice in the driveway melted got up in the 50′s?! It was sad to see the snow go, but it was awesome to be able to get out on bicycle, missing the winter spin classes in favor of fresh air and the excitement of the open road.
However, don’t fear – winter is coming back with the close of the winter break, as is school. Going in to the second semester of the after school animation will be exciting. Last semesters culminating project of 1 semi-cohesive cartoon done by the 2nd graders was great, animated in front of the live audience while they improvised the soundtrack on stage into the microphone. Great performance I think.
Tuesday marks the beginning of the next group, and I am excited because I’ve always been a huge fan of the Sony BRAVIA color like no other tv commercial campaign and the behind the scenes you tube videos that go with them. It seems like they have uploaded more in depth behind the scenes videos since I last checked, and this one in particular shows the process exceptionally well. From concept to experimentation, to execution, with great commentary on how you have to let the animation form it’s own life and existence with the mind of its own and other great incites that I’m excited to have the kids hear from another source.
Feel free to comment on this, and check out all the related color like no other videos. They are wild.
I could talk about this kind of stuff all day.
lighten up! enjoy any long weekend or vacation! or just 11 seconds to watch mr. bean do the boombastic dance.
ok! now back to building websites and customizing some lettering!
Check them out on December second and fourth!
If you interested in entering contact Randy or the show info on the cards above. Featured will be original art and design by local Syracuse Artists. R Hadzor’s ’birds’ series will be available as well as new work.
Happy Winter!
Strathmore Artisans Feature Open House
Strathmore Artisans will hold its third annual Open House on Sunday, November 21, from noon-5
p.m. at the home of Sandra Case, 107 Strathmore Drive. The public is welcome to attend this event,
which showcases local artistic talent and provides an opportunity to purchase unique, high-quality
merchandise at affordable prices.
The event will feature the work of seven artisans, all of whom live in or have a connection to the
Strathmore neighborhood:
For information and directions, call Mary Beth Horsington at 315-476-9380.
For three years now I have been teaching art & animation to elementary school aged kids through an afterschool program. It is part of my goal as the Teaching Artist to present the modern technologies and artistic wonders in a way that they first learn to use their brains before getting their hands on a computer and merely becoming program operators. So that later on in life they can use the tools of the new age as tools to accomplish the various and endless unthunk possibilities of visual communication or any other application.
This is an awesome example of how you can take the basic idea of animation, throw in a little ingenuity, some principles of shadow puppetry and boom: looping animation.
The Shadow Machine from Jason Eppink on Vimeo.
This one I include in the same post though not stop animation, these time lapse clips of spray paint sandwiched in acetate paper are super reminiscent of an invention two of my students came up with last year which they called Ink Traps.
Aerosol Amoeba from Pahnl Whatnow on Vimeo.