Stalking in Hamilton.

Here’s a few images showing some of the process behind the creation of the Cubes I made for the recent Splore festival 2010 (see previous post). The brief and concept was all about creating something for festival goers to enjoy, interact, have fun and tie in with the theme of Midsummer Nights Dream 2050. An added essential was that it had to be able to survive 3 days with 7,000 people…

The concept I came up with was to build sixteen 40cm squared cubes with letters on several sides, patterns on another and one side that when fitted together correctly, formed a complete image.

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Happy to say the New Zealand based web host I used is doing a bit towards going green.

Open Host has become part of the United Nations Environment Program and partnered with MokuGift for this project.

The Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign is a worldwide tree planting initiative facilitated by the United Nations Environment Programme. Mokugift enables consumers and organizations to plant trees with a simple click of a mouse for $1/tree. Plant one for yourself or a friend

“The Navigators” wonderful aerial display by Fuse Circus taken at the Splore festival 2010. Just one of the awesome sites and sounds of the festival!

An abstract fishun.

Wow it’s almost time! I’ve been working away like mad the last while preparing my art installation for the great event that is Splore 2010. Was really excited to be one of the artists selected to create an install for this combined music and arts 3 day long festival extravaganza. And it’s got a pretty cool name too..

What have I come up with? Well soon all will be revealed… what I can tell you is that it’s an interactive piece(s), it let’s the viewer create the end result and it took a whole lot longer to create than anticipated!  (hidden sneak peak was posted on Friday fav photo 2) Can’t wait to see how it goes, of course check back and I’ll get some photos up of people at play. Or if you’re there and take a pic then please do post it up.

There’s a great music line up this year at Splore with Basement Jaxx, Jamie Lidell and awesome NZ acts like Pitch Black and Tahuna Breaks and a whole lot more.

Check out the official site for the full list of artists both audio and visual: Splore.net (cool site by Salted Herring by the way). And if you’re interested about it’s beginnings there’s an interview with Splore Director Amanda Wright and some more about the art trail over at the Big Idea.

(A huge thank you to James & Lars for their assistance on this project, not sure how I would have done it otherwise with my broken ankle!)

Just had to share the latest interview up over at Grain Edit at the moment. The site itself is one of my regular haunts, it features a lot of really great work from super amazing illustrators & designers around the world with a 50’s-70’s slant.

So this week they have posted up an interview with S. Britt, an illustrator that (may or may not?) resides in Pickleton USA. His work has that classic style,  but he definately stamps his own uniqueness to it all and wields his skills in a masterful manner. Personally I found the interview entertaining, enlightening and above all his responses where a refreshing change to the usual 1+1=2 interviews you normally read…head on over and check it out, make sure you have  few minutes to sit back and enjoy and be sure to stick around for the guaranteed succesfull recipe to  creative process!

Check out the interview here!

More of S.Britt’s work on his website.

And be sure to keep enjoying the ever enjoyable Grain Edit site!

Still fairly house bound with the broken ankle but enjoyed a lovely picnic with the family at Brooklands Zoo in New Plymouth this week. Managed to capture this shot of a Zebra before it ran off again with some kids on it’s back

The second shot is my hand after a day of grafting today. Working away on a project for the Splore music/arts festival. The project is in the background…more will be posted sooon…