We documented our trip down the street to our Polling Place.

It was great to wake up and know, we are taking part in American History.

Then you also have a project between the New York Times and AIGA.
POLLING PLACE PHOTO PROJECT

If you weren’t there, you missed a good’n. The AIGA Upstate New York Chapter had a social event at Abilene Bar in Rochester on Thursday, October 30th, 2008. We counted at one time 60+ people in attendance. We call that a good turn-out.

Looking forward to our next events through-out the Upstate.

We have a little sample of the event:

If you are in Pittsford, New York, you can stop by Nook to see the set of posters. Nook is a boutique that focuses on designer based, hand-made goods. We appreciate them to volunteer their wall space to display a set of posters. Read the rest of this entry »

Being invited to participate in art exhibitions are always good things. That means someone remembered the work that I created. A few years ago, I produced three online mapping projects that involved mounting a camera on my car and capturing images on various road trips. The series is called: Drive Project. Stephanie Schuster, of the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, invited me to display some of the artifacts in an exhibition called Highways & Byways: American Road Culture on display August 31 - October 18, 2008

This exhibit includes 74 works of contemporary art by 18 artists from around the country. The work is inspired by, related to, or depicts American highways & byways and includes an array of media from graphic paintings to retro photographs.

My submission to the show was 6 framed photographs and one video installation. The photos are true sequences from the first drive project in 2005. The video was a timelapse from Rochester, NY to St. Louis to Rochester, NY. The video runs 1:07. I was able to present it using an idea that I sketched up a while ago. It is a pedestal that holds a car headrest that has a monitor mounted inside of it.

It kinda forces the kids to see the landscape.

In coming up with promotional projects for my clients, I made the investment into a 1.25 inch button-maker. Made the purchase from an online company called: BuyButtonParts.com . It was the best price I found online. They have a primative web site structure but included a video on making a button. This was news to me. Never before have I seen one of these contraptions in action, but was pleased to see this video. WATCH IT.

After doing a few designs and scaling the buttons out, my conclusion is that the 1 inch is too small and 1.5 is too big for promotional buttons. 1.25 inch gives me just enough space to goof around, yet be very specific with my imagery and message.

A very cool thing about having my own machine is that it is easy to “One-Off” a button or make a series of limited edition button sets. Love it. Sending away to order you have to buy 50 - 100 of one design. Not fiscally responsible if you want to have some fun.

Here is an example of some buttons I did for James Brown’s Place.

We thought it would be a good idea to get this out of the way before Robin headed back to school and I started into the fall with my new projects. We hustled through it to get to the end of “phase one”. It is such an improvement of the space. We only wish we had more funds to get the rest of it done.

The project started because the “stars were aligned”. We can say they were not that way for long! When a project like this begins… it can never be done fast enough!

Note: the boys were “troopers” through all the people in and out of the house and all the dust. It was a very good thing when the dust settle and they got their bath!

Thursday, August 28th @ The Little Theatre in Rochester’s East End.

This is the first collaboration between AIGA Upstate New York and the Rochester Ad Federation.

It is an attempt to pull people from the creative community together for a social evening out and to shine some light on the Little.

Thanks for coming to my talk.

I had a blast. Talk soon.

Here is my PDF of the presentation:
DOWNLOAD LECTURE PDF

A list of links mentioned in lecture at Glass Art Society Conference in Portland, Oregon.

VOCABULARY

CODEX APPARITION - HTML Web Site of Michael Rogers
ROBIN CASS - FLASH web site of Robin Cass
MOMA - NON-CONCEPTUAL Web site
HBO VOYEUR - CONCEPTUAL Web site made by BIG SPACESHIP
NATIONAL POSTAGE MUSEUM - INFORMATIONAL Web site made by Second Story Interactive Portland, OR
ETSY - : Your place to buy and sell all things handmade Brooklyn, NY

BUILDING

Learn HTML: Web Monkey, A List Apart
Other Peoples Pixels - An online community of artists.
ETSY - : Your place to buy and sell all things handmade Brooklyn, NY
WORDPRESS - Open source blogging software.

MEDIA TEMPLE - The best web services company. It is keeping this site running.
AIGA - the professional association for design, is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice.

LAUNCH

Add/Register URL/Domain with: Google, Yahoo
GOOGLE Ad words
Organic Search
GOOGLE Analytics
WEB CRAWLERS / SPIDERS

PRINT STUFF

(If you use them please mention MYDARNDEST, Thx)
Post cards and Business Cards Zoo Printing or PS Print

Mini-Photobooks
Qoop

Print on Demand Catalogues/Books
LuLu

GLASS FORUMS/BLOGS

Glass Art Society
Craft Web

Glassline Forum
Etsy Garden
Master Glass Art
Lamp Work Art
Friends of Pilchuck - Myspace
Museum of Glass - Docents Blog
Bunny with an Art Blog : Hilary Pfeifer-Portland, Oregon
Hotel Murano Tacoma Blog
Art talk with Sheila Morley

I will be catching up on my site and adding a good chunk of content about “Web Design for Artists”. I will be giving a talk at the Glass Art Society Annual conference. Very exciting stuff. I promise to practice (about) everything I preach!