Milan, Semar, and potential others - Installation in the works...

So Milan and I figured that since we are unable to frequent the meetings as much as we want to, we wanted to be able to make work still regardless of that fact. We are actually in a very convenient living situation, so why not work on a major project together.

What we are thinking of doing is working on a window installation with an emphasis on an oriental aesthetic and subtle details. We are primarily using wood contructions and paper. Generally, it will be a very very fancy frame that surrounds an image yet to be discussed, but definitely the actual window will be the main focus. We have talked about how we like white on white paintings and want to simulate that on the window panels via seperate, intricate folds and patterns.

Milan and I are still fleshing out the project, so hopefully construction will start very soon once the concept is solid. We'll keep you guys posted.

Project Updates: Post a Comment!

Hey All,

Let this be our project check-in post. Leave a comment giving your status; it can be a description of your idea/concept, a status report of where you are on your project, or even "I'm stumped"/"Help me". This helps us all to organize and see each others' work as well as let me know where people are, and who needs some guidance. If you are planning to do a project but haven't a clue where to start, please let us know in a comment.

-Cory

$100 grid

http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2008/04/ten-thousand-ce.html

I saw this and it reminded me of Sam's poster thing last year where everyone took a particular square and filled it according to the given colors and within the lines.

Project Updates and ideas

Hey guys, Justin here. So here are my ideas:

Exquisite Chain - a chain reaction style poster based on the idea of exquisite corpse. 

Rusting Statue - Using metal and it's ability to rust to create an interesting sculpture.

Album Covers - Create a series of album covers for fun.

Second Saturday promo - Make a scavenger hunt style game so second saturday people explore the area to find us so they can get a free tshirt.

This is the status of each project:

Exquisite Chain - being slow, need to get the first segment out soon, but don't know how to start. (creators block)

Rusting statue - Drawing and design phase, working with Me, Tracy, and Lex.

Album Covers - New idea, need to find people who want to work on this.

Second Saturday Promo - Need to talk to people about it, but I think it should be easy to pull off. 

So there you go. A very brief and confusing status update for you all. Any questions feel free to ask, but no guarantees my answer will be any better.

- Justin

Telephone Pictionary & The Co/LAB Flickr Group

Last week we were talking about telephone pictionary. Yukiko uploaded the pictures from last years round of telephone pictionary to the Col+lab group on Flickr. Check it out and feel free to post any and all Co/LAB related work there!

Flier & T-Shirt Graphics

Hey All,
Just posting my flier and t-shirt graphics for all to see, critique, enjoy, etc.

Flier—I put Walker 135 just as a filler location since I made this back in January. This version here is letter size, but I did originally make it in a tabloid size.



















A couple t-shirt graphics I came up with. It's a flexible design so the star shape could be either way. And yes, they look a bit like Shepard Fairey's 'Obey Giant' since I've really been interested in his work/style as of late.




I chose not to use to use the normal Din font that you usually see Co/LAB written in as these aren't as much of a logo and just a graphic. And I tend to get bored with the same typeface all of the time.

Alright, that's my $.02.
-Tracy

Wii Wipeboard- take 2

Hey,
Justin and I finally got the wii wipeboard program to work. We had to go to radio shack to buy an IR LED and a switch. Drawing works well as long as your hand is not in-between the pen tip and the wiimote. We might try tweaking the program to use 2 wiimotes so that there's not a problem of blocking the light. Here's some pics.