Updates

Classes I am taking this quarter: intaglio printmaking (again), intermediate digital photography (again). Graphic novels (literature, not studio). Japanese. Thesis.

I am in the process of creating a comics collective (if it can be called that when it's just two people) with my friend Alex Hananel. It's called The Order of the Golden Bear and there's nothing on the site just yet but we're working on it. We're looking to book a table at SPACE in Columbus in April, too.

Comic I just finished: Third Culture Kid.

Comic I am starting: a Rocky Horror infographic, sort of.

Schooool's out!

Alice Cooper isn't quite right on this one, I've got a year left... but hey. Summer.

Things that will be happening this summer: I will continue making comics (albeit more sketchy, journal-y ones). I will maybe do some Japanese tutoring. My sister will be in a production of Rigoletto as a supernumerary actor. I will be co-curating a show with David Rosenthal of Prairie Gallery. I will be in a shadow cast for John Waters' Cry-Baby (I'm playing Dupree) in August.

DAAPworks this year was pretty spectacular. I'll just let you see for yourself. I tried to document as much as I could. (I'm so proud of the people who had comics, my friends Alex and David, as well as Dan--there have been comics as thesis projects in the past and these were by far the best I've seen).

Mike about to grope the comics display.

Carol Tyler (in the pink) organizing things.

Amanda reading our kramer's ergot pages.

Performance.

Work by Alex Hananel (in the black frames).

Work by Laura Fisher.

Laura Fisher's photo booth.

Work by Dan Wolff.

Work by David Miranda-Klein.

Work by Jacob Riddle.

Work by Michelle Ulmer.

Work by Caitlin Robinson.

Work by Chris Thompson.

And of course there was so much more. I just didn't get pictures of it all.

Collaboration

So on Thursday internet artist Chris Collins came to DAAP to lead a collaborative workshop and to give a lecture. I attended both. For the workshop we used google sketchup to create virtual sculptures (mine is the gigantic pink thing with the cat head in the back):

Which we then sent to Chris to insert into a program called Unity which is used to create virtual spaces within games. While he was doing that, we created two google draw documents: one for the floor, and one for the sky. And we recorded some audio. I'm not going to tell you what song we sang, I'll leave that to you to figure out. The result is a virtual sculpture garden, complete with setting and ambiance. The download is available here for both PC and Mac.

A group of us went to lunch afterwards, and getting to sit around, eat sushi, and hear Chris describe his resume to Jordan Tate (who was to introduce him at the lecture later) was pretty sweet.

At the lecture Chris went through his work, all of which can be found here. I think I like this one best:

Just for the sheer ridiculousness. The Lion King one is pretty fantastic, too.

Click on all the links I've provided, each one leads to something amazing, I promise.