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July 19th, 2008 by admin | Posted in Brooklyn, Gowanus | Comments Off

… BRAND NEW !!! SMS enabled freestyle rap! Sneak Preview from my studio!
Working with The 1shanti, we gathered together some of New Yorks finest MC’s to take your input live on the fly and kick it out in their voice. MC’s are fed a text message then they freestyle, then they are fed another message and so on, eventually handing off the mic to another MC keeping the flow fresh. Think about it, how much would McCain love to deliver his speeches with Obama’s charisma and voice. Well come see your message dropped on the crowd in the voice of some of NYC’s bravest MC’s.

This is just the beginning! Come check out the FIRST LIVE event at BLVD on Friday July 25th, 10 pm.

MC’s involved: NYC, Jah-C, Folk Lore, and Baldi.

London’s TXTing

June 28th, 2008 by admin | Posted in London | Comments Off

I was invited to London by Channel 4 to get people texting about street crime in support for their series Disarming Britain. Besides the interactive projections I brought in film maker Shola Amoo to help capture some of the conversations happening in the streets about crime. Check out Shola’s piece on knife crime. It all went down June 25-26 2008. Special thanks to Profero for putting this together.

View larger format video here.

Brooklyn Museum

May 20th, 2008 by admin | Posted in Brooklyn | Comments Off

I was invited by the Brooklyn Museum to update some Utagawa prints with some interactive speech bubbles. I set up my new urban projection cart in the lobby of the museum and projected the prints with an interactive make over during the Museum’s First Saturday event. Ben Roth helped work the install.

Special thanks to Brklyn Muse Crew: Traslin Ong, Erin Silverstein, Shelley Bernstein, and Bobby Nardi.

video and music by Bobby Nardi…

Austin, Texas - The Animation Show

April 24th, 2008 by admin | Posted in Texas, austin | Comments Off

Went out projecting with the crew from Mike Judge’s The Animation Show. We started off with an interactive american flag on the University of Texas’ campus. The piece was going well when a few fellows wrote the ‘n’ word along with some asian slurs. The UT police proceeded to shut the event down, I don’t blame them. When given the chance to write something spontaneous and anonymous, you are going to write the ‘n’ word? I’m not surprised, since I see a lot of ’silliness,’ but I wonder what’s going through someone’s mind to decide to write that. On the other side, given today’s politics, seeing the ‘n’ word being said by the american flag is somewhat appropriate and telling. But I don’t think the fellas that sent in the hate were trying to comment on societal belief’s. We then biked down to The Alamo theater and put up some more speech bubbles. Special thanks to Robert and Rebecca from the animation show and Sheldon and Bridget along for the ride.

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Cell Phone Photo Pieces

April 20th, 2008 by admin | Posted in Brooklyn, New York City | Comments Off

Hey, so I’m throwing a couple photos that I took using the camera on my cell phone. Besides the text messaging projects, I’ve been doing a lot cell phone photography and video. I’m finally getting around to sorting through some of them to post on the site. I fell in love with the color and grainy results when you open them to a larger size.

The First Casualty of War is Truth.

Think about how many ‘moments’ are being captured in such a low resolution. The “poor” quality of the images compared to the hi quality of where camera technology is, represents a desire to accept anything as the truth. Why is it that the ‘truth’ can be sold these days with such little effort? It’s similar to the shrinking language enabled by communication technology (ie. text messaging, instant messaging, tv, etc.) to deliver what’s going on in the world. The cell photo is a dotted on representation of a photo. The challenge is to figure out what the quickest way to convey or say ’something’? And these grainy pixellated beauties will represent a style treatment for the early years of the 2000’s.

Anyway, I also think they are pretty to look at and these are not manipulated after being taken from the camera.

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Milan, Italy. Design Week (night 1)

April 12th, 2008 by admin | Posted in Italy, Milan | Comments Off

Invited by my friends at the Esterni in Milan Italy, we went out projecting a few nights before the big party for the opening of Design Week. A drunked rowdy crowd was out and about. There was a lot political emotion in the air, what with Berlusconi’s come back.

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TXT on the mind - video with speech bubbles.

April 8th, 2008 by admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Full motion video captured during a cab ride from 26th st. in Manhattan back to where I live in Brooklyn. Tracey was kind enough to let me videotape her on a ride through the city. After bringing the video through after effects to give it some texture, I through an interactive thought bubble over her head. What do you think about as you watch it all go by? This piece was will be showing in Milan for Design Week.

The Creation of TXT, Rome

February 23rd, 2008 by admin | Posted in Rialto Santambrogio, Rome | Comments Off

Projected in the Rialto Santambrogio in Rome. The Rialto had just done a renovation and the vaulted ceiling in the main room was restored to it’s previous height. I had just visited the Sistine Chapel and was blown away by Michelangelo’s work. When Fabio Compagna, curator and friend, showed me the space I couldn’t help but do a new twist in the ‘The Creation of Adam’ from the Sistine. So as you see, you send a text message to the number displayed and it appears in Adam’s speech bubble. It’s all automatic and unfiltered.

Halloween, Smith St.

October 31st, 2007 by admin | Posted in Brooklyn, Smith Street | No Comments »

It was Halloween and time for TXT of the Living Dead to hit the streets of the US, why not start in Brooklyn. It works by sending the next line of dialogue in the form of a text message and it trips the movie to play forward dropping you message into the next speech frame.

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TXTing Isn’t Free, Philadelphia

October 25th, 2007 by admin | Posted in Philadelphia | No Comments »

After giving a talk at the Kelly Writer’s House at the University of Pennsylvania I went out and put up a projection on the Penn Campus. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Special thanks to Jessica Lowenthal and Steve McLaughlin.

All photos from the Penn sessions below by Steve McLaughlin

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