Open Studios Knitting Update
Here’s a pic of pretty much everything I’ve knitted at the Museum of Arts and Design so far…now I just have to start making stuff out of it.
more info at: madblog.org
Open Studios are open
I’ll be working in the open studios at the Museum of Arts and Design for the next few months. I should be there every Sunday and some Thursday nights. Come down and visit me while I futz with a hacked knitting machine for your amusement.
Update: You can see the stuff I’m making in the open studio at: The Museum of Arts and Design Blog
hyper-local media coverage
shortstream.tv covered my talk at the Portsmouth Museum of Art in their most recent ‘hyper-local’ news show.
Pretty informative stuff.
pizza for your ears
I’m giving a talk at the Portsmouth Museum of Art next week. I’m gonna talk about their current show, stuff I’ve been working on, and pizza:
A Pizza for Sol
This is the box that housed a pizza I had delivered to the Redditor Art Show at the Weavver Gallery in Orange County, during the opening on the evening of February 4th.
I instructed the delivery guy to “DRAW BALDING MAN W/ GLASSES!” hoping that he would oblidge me and draw my short physical description of Sol Lewitt* on the pizza box, much like I’ve seen documented so many times on sites like reddit. This portrait of Lewitt is meant to be a referrence to his famous wall drawings, which generally consisted of a set of instructions written by Lewitt and given to a gallery to be executed by whoever the gallery chose to hire for the job.
I think someone created a pretty accurate likeness of Lewitt here, but I’m fairly sure it wasn’t the delivery guy. It appears that some of the redditors at the exhibition decided to execute their own interpretation of my description of Sol Lewitt as well.
*footnote: Thanks to Becky Stern who, upon hearing my original idea to send a pizza with a drawing made by the delivery guy on the box to an art gallery as a reference to 1970s-era conceptual art, responded with, “Yeah, like Sol Lewitt!”
And thanks to the redditors at the exhibition for accepting the pizza, tipping the delivery guy, and posting that picture for me!
Press for the “Bitmap Balaclava”
Here are some sites that made nice posts about my Machine Knit ID Preserving Balaclava:
CRAFT and MAKE Magazine
Core77 Design Magazine
Neatorama
The Daily What
The Creators Project
The Laughing Squid
Gizmodo (called it a Bitmap Balaclava! I think I’ll use that.)
Machine Knit Identity-Preserving Balaclava
Photo: Becky Stern
About two years ago I invented a way to keep my face warm without hiding it with my Identity Preserving Balaclava. Now I’ve updated my original idea, with the help of Becky Stern‘s hacked Brother KH-930e Knitting Machine, and made this Machine Knit Idenity-Preserving Balaclava.
Home Decor for a Temporary Life
This is a project I made for CRAFT. Here’s the link: how to make a photorealistic latch hooked rug.
The skull image is from the famous Hans Holbein painting, “The Ambassadors.” It only comes into proper perspective when you look at it from the correct angle. Skull imagery was common in these sorts of paintings and usually meant to be a reminder of our mortality and temporary existence and to scare folks into going to church.
I thought that this anamorphic skull would make a nice rug because in the painting it looks like it is lying on the floor, and also I thought it would be nice to make a reminder of my inevitable death for around the house.
Moar Nerds!
Um, it’s been a busy summer. I mean, I’ve been in 34 states in the last 3 months, so it’s been slow going with the art making.
This is a commission that I’ve been working on for the past few months. It’s based on the portrait of Tina Fey as her character from 30 Rock that I made out of Nerds candies for Valentine’s Day. This one has Tina’s co-star, Alec Baldwin, in it too.
Update: The process I used to make this portrait is posted on MAKE:Projects