Thursday, October 25, 2007
google street view in indy
You heard it here first.
I caught the google van today on Ohio street in Indianapolis. Look for me at 735 W Ohio when it rolls out, don't know when that'll be.
I'm such a geek that this made my day!
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Timed Exposure
I have a public art piece in a window at 31 South Meridian St, Indianapolis, IN. If you are around, stop and check it out.
The work consists of two prints (far right and left) along with two computers. The computers have web-cams and monitors. They snap a picture every 30 seconds and display them in grid format on the screen. The work is up until April 2008.
Funded by the Indy Arts Council.
The work consists of two prints (far right and left) along with two computers. The computers have web-cams and monitors. They snap a picture every 30 seconds and display them in grid format on the screen. The work is up until April 2008.
Funded by the Indy Arts Council.
142 Treaty
This is test from my new work as yet untitled. I'm photographing the borders around historical Indian treaty sites, both cessations and reservations, often the sites will overlap. I plot the points in Google Earth and then find them on the real Earth with GPS and photograph N,S,E,W at each point. These are two possible ways of printing it.
The text of the treaty: Description of cession or reservation: The Eel river or Thorntown party of Miami Indians cede to the U. S. all claim to a reservation of land about 10 miles square at their village on Sugar Tree creek in Indiana, reserved to them by article 2, of the treaty of Oct. 6, 1818.
The text of the treaty: Description of cession or reservation: The Eel river or Thorntown party of Miami Indians cede to the U. S. all claim to a reservation of land about 10 miles square at their village on Sugar Tree creek in Indiana, reserved to them by article 2, of the treaty of Oct. 6, 1818.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Packets for Artists
Art Fag City has a great resource for artists trying to put together packets for galleries, press, and curators.
- Be professional. Get help from someone not in art if needed. Befriend a PR person and get them to proofread your stuff. Look for spelling/grammar errors.
- IMAGES! If you are a visual artist, you want to make your impact that way. Everyone that reviews packets I've ever talked to won't even read it or put in a CD unless your printed images are rockin'.
- IMAGES, images, Images!!! Seriously.
- Make sure your CD works in multiple computers and multiple platforms.
- Cover your bases with regards to file formats. I send a PDF that is preferred as well as a folder of plain ol' simple jpegs. (speaking of spell check PDF and jpegs aren't words according to mine.)
- With your slide list, put thumbnails if you can. They don't have to look great but will really help people if they pull them out of order for any reason.
- Did I mention great big good printed IMAGES?!! Installation shots, details, etc.
PS: the photo is just a random shot from the ave maria grotto (amazing place btw) but couldn't have a post about the importance of images and not include one!
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