Media for the FluCoMa project

November 2019:

The FluCoMa project put on an amazing performance at HCMF this year. The artists involved were: Olivier Pasquet, Owen Green, Lauren Sarah Hayes, Leafcutter John, and my long-time collaborator, Rodrigo Constanzo.

I made this video about them:

February 2019:

I’ve made the logo and video bumper for FluCoMa

What is FluCoMa?
The Fluid Corpus Manipulation project (FluCoMA) instigates new musical ways of exploiting ever-growing banks of sound and gestures within the digital composition process, by bringing breakthroughs of signal decomposition DSP and machine learning to the toolset of techno-fluent computer composers, creative coders and digital artists.

To create these I:

1) Used Affinity Designer – this was the first time I made something for someone else using vectors. I normally draw using traditional media (and I’ll occasionally color using Photoshop)
2) Created and filmed many different types of ink behavior, on paper and in water
3) Revisited my aviglitch library scripts from when I made Its Fleece Electrostatic, to create the glitch effects found in the video bumper
4) Used Final Cut to animate the different elements of the logo for the bumper
5) And of course just sketched a lot using pencil and paper to get initial ideas down, or to try to change the direction of the design. 

Here are some key moments in the logo’s evolution (Though it wasn’t exactly as linear as this and I’ve left out some things.)
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That’s So Julian

Julian Assange spent nearly 7 years at the Ecuadorean embassy…and boy did things get wacky*! Friends, I obviously had to make a comic book about some of those silly* moments. The book is mine from snout to tail, as I am both the writer and artist. I also got it professionally printed, and I’m self-releasing it.

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That’s So Julian is made up of 16 black and white interior pages and a full color cover, printed professionally on good quality paper. Here are a few pics, and a few pages from inside the comic itself. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed making it. And do let me know what you think! Continue reading »

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I’ve never liked wearing rings. 
But recently, I really wanted to make one in this style out of pink plastic (resin, really)–so here it is.

It’s handmade at each step of the process. From the carving, to the mold making, to the shaping.

Here’s what I did:

I carved the positive out of niupika carving wax. It took me a few tries to understand just what tools I needed to use, and how slowly I needed to go to not crack the surface or remove too much wax by mistake. Then I created a mold using Polycraft GP-3481-F silcone rubber. I’ve done this before (here and here) but it always takes me a few tries to figure out how to minimize bubbles, and also how to best bisect the mold to minimize the occurrence of registration errors. Then I cast a few using polytek easyflo 60 resin, that I tinted pink. 

Each one has it’s own little errors. But as The Narrator in Fight Club (Edward Norton) explained, it’s these little blemishes that can form your whole identity if you’re not a jerk. That was the message of the movie, wasn’t it?

Study for three figures at the base of the internet

An homage/an update to Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. I drew this the day after the Marjory Stoneman Douglass school shooting, which took place on Valentines Day 2018.

But I Guess, In The End, We Just Moved Furniture Around (Video Version)

This is a collaboration with David Pocknee and Richard Craig. It’s definitely David’s piece but he invited us into the compositional process with him. We met several times over the span of two years to come up with what this work ultimately became. It was just a lot of trying things out; a lot of looking at stuff and a lot of moving stuff around. David is good at combinations. I just love him. We You can find the score here (on David’s website).