Random Words Pictures: Shark Rocket

Too many projects, not enough time

Projects in the works:

• Secret stop-motion animation project, maybe even two?
• Continuing 'ring series' until it seems coherent
• Random-word drawings (will be posted here in the next few days)
• Reworked large-scale abstract painting

Also, I'm trying to exercise a lot more, which takes 45 minutes or so each work-out day.  Plus Autumn Quarter is starting up.  All-in-all, I'm cramped for time!  I already informed the family that I will be attending Thanksgiving, but the long Christmas break is mine.  Hopefully I can finish I project by then.  Oh, and see Tron Legacy a few times.

New video

New video test. This is a conceptual continuation of the previous energy video experiment, but much longer and not as "energetic". I'm not sure I like the direction this one took, but it's not bad. I think I might use this combine the two techniques to make a longer version of the previous experiment.

Ring Experiment III from Atari Whittington on Vimeo.

Update and newest video

It's been a very long time. Here's what's happening:

I'm leaving Facebook. It's over. It's not me, it's them. It was a great way to share videos and pictures, but over time I realized that if I can't convince my friends and family to go to my website for my updates, then they aren't that interested. Also, my updates are always pushed to the "bottom of the pile" with application updates, personal updates, FarmVille requests, blah blah blah. If someone with 300+ friends (easily achieved by even moderately connected people on FB) gets a single update from each friend, where would my update sit? All in all, it's not the best place to keep people informed, plus I have no creative control over how my posts appear.

I'll be starting to tag my posts with newer tags to categorize the content. Videos, art, and concepts will be posting into separate categories, as well as into broader categories such as the ubiquitous #art tag. This will allow for much finer detail in checking my latest posts.

All previous work posted on Facebook will be posted here. My drawings will be posted here in a much higher quality, and will be easier to navigate. Hopefully this will be a better forum for comments than Facebook. I will make all relevant posts back-dated to keep this post on top and current until I begin making new updates.

This is an art blog. This is not my personal blog. Perhaps, in the future, I will create a blog that will feature my personal thoughts. I'm still on the fence about that one.

Okay, without further ado, here is my latest (silent, experimental) video:

Seething Energy Experiment #2 from Atari Whittington on Vimeo.

Been a while

It's been a long long time since I have updated. I'm still making art, still doing videos. I haven't posted because I kinda forgot all about this blog! Well, I'm going to post some of my more recent work to show that I still got it!

Interchange

Action, exchange, interaction, interchange.

New Video!

It took a lot of hard work and patience, but Carter and I finally pulled through with another A+ video! Look for cameo appearances by your favorite hollywood actors.

Peter Cetera

Peter Cetera discovers his true love: bats.

Almost complete!

This is the enclosure for the final project in my New Media class. I still have to add a few holes for the microphone and tighten the lines in a few places. I might still paint some glyphs in a few spots, but I don't want to detract from the simplicity it has right now.

This is the first time I've really messed with acrylics. I really like the texture and how easy it is to mix. The buttery quality makes it very smooth to apply. I've used acrylics to paint on boards, but never on a gesso'd surface. It's pretty nice.

Overall I like how this project has come about, but I'm at a loss for what to do with it once it's all done. I can't really put it anywhere in my house, so that makes me a little disappointed. I don't want it to just sit in the corner of the basement or in the garage, but I fear that's all that's going to happen to it. My friend Kevin might want to use it an installation he's working on, so we'll see about that.

Had we used a circuit board called the "basic stamp", I'd be able to continue showing the completed work, but as it is I have to have a dedicated computer running the software to present it. Oh well, it's definitely a learning experience.

So proud!

Carter is so proud of his guitar! Maggie seems very excited about it, too! Great Job!

I have funs.

I saw a picture of some of my friends on Facebook. One of them said it looked like they had been photoshopped into another photo, even though they were actually there. Sooo... I decided to make it look like they actually were photoshopped in.

Zap!

Artifacts

I've moved!

So I moved into a new place down the street. I live on Pacemont now, just down from Wholly Craft. It's a nice apartment with plenty of room for a little art desk or painting studio in the basement.

Within a few weeks school will be starting again and I'll be building a new desk with the help of my father. I'll be working mainly on videos this upcoming season, but with a little work here and there I might get a painting or two done or perhaps even a bound art book.

Old experiment

Here is a visual documentation of a "taste test" for a drink called "Crunk" that my buddy Carter bought for me. I think the pictures speak for themselves.

The stars are bright tonight

Another mash-up putting a classic 1980s progressive electronic song (Rockit by Herbie Hancock) against a crappy Star Wars ripoff called Star Crash. Before you ask: yes, that is David Hasselhoff near the end.

I thought I lost my soul...

I thought I lost my soul, turns out that this dude took it.

Take a look-see

I just discovered this fella by the name of Anatoly Fomenko. He's a a Russian mathematician who works on topology and is pretty well known in his field. In recent years he's started debating history and has even written a series of pseudoscience books about how our currently accepted version of modern history is all a sham...

Well, I discovered his video about the books on Youtube, then was directed to his page on wikipedia via the comments about his crackpot books, read the wiki entry and found out he's an artist, and then went to his art page. His drawings and paintings are very stark, minimalist, and bleak... but damn they are fascinating.

Loce Redux

Renew

I've begun work on reconstructing a hand-made book that was done for a class last quarter. The binding on it had become severely damaged due to a few small errors in constructing it previously, so I had to completely rebind it. The work is tedious and slow, but in the end it'll be a very solid work.

The summer is drawing to a close and I'm not anywhere close to my goal for submitting my graduate package. I'm a little angry at myself for not working more on my art, but I've been strapped for time and space to work. This quarter will have to be very intense in the artwork department, something I'm not totally confident can be accomplished. Still, I can always apply in 2009...