Something so simple...

as a resume and portfolio seems to require a great ammount of time and work. I heard once that creating a good portfolio doesn't happen overnight,  but I've been working (and re-working) on my portfolio for over 9 months now and I still have very little to show for it.

One of the things I'm learning is that I am absolutely HORRIBLE at documentation. Over the ciurse of my year-long BFA progam I ammased a great deal of writtings, sketches, scans, drawing, prints, photos and stickers of my work. Yet now, a mere 6 months later I can find vurtually nothing. In my own defence, it has also been two moves later and moving has an uncanny ability to make things dissapear. On top of that my laptop had a complete harddrive failure and all of my data from previous years was lost... no I hadn't backed up. (Bad digital artist! Bad!)

That being said, as I try to actually organize all of my relavant digital art and design work I'm finding myself at a loss and this is creating a lot of frustration and a bit of discouragement. What should take a hi hr now takes three as I scoure throhgh old blogs, websites, disk drives. Thumb drives, SD cards, boxes and sketch books to find visual and written examples of my work. There's an old saying that keeps popping in to my head right now... something about a stich in time...
I guess next time I'll be sure to take 20 min and upload and doccument any of my noteworthy projects at that time so that I can save spending two hours trying to recover it in the future.

Dual (sound art for dancer exhibit space)

Sound art I created for the dancer exhibit space for the "Dual" exhibit at the UO LK gallery this summer. The dancers and I collaborated to create a soundscape that embodied the essence of not only the collaborative exhibit of "Dual" as a whole, but also the creative and creation process in it's various parts. The dancer's exhibit was about time, movement and manipulation. I had a great time and this was my first time working with dancers. I hope to do it again one day.

University of Oregon Laverne Krause Gallery Summer 2011

Generated Soundscapes

So, just a quick post here because I suck at documentation with my work and I want to make note of what I'm doing for Craig Hickman's Gizmos workshop this summer and also want to get some creative and thoughtful juices flowing .

I have two elements in my interactive work that come up a lot. Well, there are more than two elements in reality, but these are perhaps my two favorites... for now. Anyway! Two elements in my interactive work: music and motion. I love making a physical connection between the creation and experience of sound, in particular music. Dance is a powerful expressive tool (that I only use in the privacy of my own home or at clubs under the influence of much obligatory drink) and music has shown to evoke strong physical and emotional reaction on small and large scales, but I feel like a simpler, more direct form of physical interaction with sound and creation of sound could be extremely impressive and perhaps even elevate and merge the two for the average person. I've been musing over such a thing for years and keep finding little bits and pieces here and there, like kindling in my mind, threatening to spark an idea I can actually flesh out and bring together as a polished, effect whole. For now, I'll settle with baby steps toward a developing idea that's still out of my reach: How can I merge movement and sound to create a simple, elegant and potent environment for the average person? How can I take body and rhythm and combine them in a new way that might get others to revaluate their understanding of sound art and artistic expression through movement? This sounds all fancy, but maybe it's just madness and nonsense.

Blue (Da Ba Dee) a la Death Metal

Everyone who knows me knows I have a very open minded and eclectic sense of musical and artistic tastes. I can get down with just about anything and the more outlandish and strange, the better. I also love repetition and variation and therefore, I love remixes, mash-up, appropriations, sampling, and so on and so forth...

That said, I found this today, and I feel my life is a little more complete now. So here you go, a death metal cover by Ten Masked Men of Eifel65's "Blue(Da Ba Dee)". May your life be that much more complete as well.

My New Hobby, The Garden

So I've started taking an interest in the garden in the back yard. It's not really my garden--in fact, it's been passed down two generations of past roommates--but I have kind of decided to adopt it. I can't claim to have any green thumb to speak of, but I do have to admit the more I get involved, the more I find myself enjoying it all.

So far we have a few interesting crops: strawberries, rhubarb, eggplant, zucchini squash, two kinds of apple trees, and a few others I'm not remembering. All of these are the product of the previous roommates who started the garden. My contribution thus far are the newly established pumpkin plants and the reviving lilies. Oh yes, and I can't forget to give credit to good ol' mother nature for providing the blackberries that grow... so plentifully... along the back fence line.

For the most part my ignorance and interests have limited me to tending to only the strawberries, Zucchini, pumpkins, apple tree and lilies, however, as time is passing and I'm beginning to take more deep rooted interest in all of this, I am finding that I'd like to actually take the time to get to know all the plants and tend to them properly. I think however, my pride and joy will always remain with the pumpkins and strawberries.

Here's a little peek at the new life currently:

(I've got my fingers crossed this little baby will make it through the winter.)

Baby Pumpkin!

Currently walking down 7th Av in NYC. Shit this place is surreal.

So I made my flight & arrived on time. Now just looking for a shuttle and letting people know I landed before grabbing my bags and heading to Leo House.

In the car and on the way to PDX for a 9 day trip to NYC. Feeling good and really looking forward to it! I'll be updating here & on twitter while gone. <3

True Blood is my new obsession <3

I always feel so inspired artistically after walking through art and hobby stores. Now i want to build a robotic wolf.