Event Spotlight: Songs and Dances of Imaginary Lands

Source: LA Times ‘Songs and Dances of Imaginary Lands’, an opera the LA Times calls “ambitious, possibly groundbreaking,” features over 10 scenes that the audience must walk to throughout the show (or if you want to pay extra, you can sit in a cart that gets towed). It’s located in a vacant car dealership in […]

Artist Spotlight: Mark Pernice

Source: Matic Design Mark Pernice, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, created a mask of his own face for a self promotional poster. He used Apple’s Photo Booth as inspiration to create a tangible face in a real environment. He says, “Using Photo Booth on the mask itself may create some sort of paradoxal […]

Transparent Specimen

Source: Design Blog Bird Yard In a process that can take up to a year, the specimen’s body is bleached, then a chemical is applied to make the proteins transparent. The bones and cartilage are then dyed magenta and blue. These animals have become popular as interior design and art collections.

Artist Spotlight: Shy the Sun

Source: http://shythesun.tv Shy the Sun combines hand-made and computer generated artwork to create detailed, imaginative videos. They post how they made each video so you can see their process from start to finish. You can check out their videos here or on their website.

Video on the Loose

LA Freewaves, an LA-Based new media arts organization celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Lacma on June 26, 2010. The arts festival featured over 20 artists’ videos that “move, amuse and bewilder”, produced over the past two decades. Lacma’s towering palm trees and Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” sculpture, and provided a nice ambiance to the […]

Eyewriter

Sources: http://eyewriter.org, http://www.alsa.org The EyeWriter is an awesome, inspirational research collaboration between Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, the Ebeling Group, and Tony Quan, an LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist. Together, they are building an open-source, low-cost eye tracking system that will allow patients with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis […]

Good morning, have a waffle!

The Hooky team held its first-ever waffle breakfast. Will prepared the batter overnight, April prepared a fantastic fruit platter and I baked some banana-crumb-muffins. What a delicious way to start a Friday morning!