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.

Interactive Guestbook

One of the guys at work showed me this link where a guy uses a wiimote and a laserpointer to create a giant tablet pc. I was thinking it would make a great guestbook! You have to first watch the video.

Interactive pen

Want to do some character study illustrations?

Hi peeps,

I'm interested in doing a series of 3-6 character studies. I thought for each character study, one person starts it off by doing the basic sketch plus any "inking" they want to do...then they hand it off to the 2nd person, who adds color and whatever else they want. That 2nd person would then turn around and do the original sketch + inking for the 2nd character study, "springboarding" off of the 1st character study. The end result should be a collection of character studies with an overall unifying "theme" of some kind (whether it be the colors used, or whatever, just...something), but with each of the collaborating pair being able to bring their own unique "take" to each facet of the process--whether it's the originating process of coming up w/the character and basic feel of the drawing, or the process of clarifying and interpreting the original drawing.

Let me share with you some of my inspiration for this idea (I'm not going to lie; I'm a fan of comic books/graphic novels; you'll see that in these links):

http://community.livejournal.com/killthehubble/
http://irtroit.com/category/art/
http://jou.livejournal.com/
http://dryponder.livejournal.com/

...

The above is inspiration only. We can go in crazier directions.

I'm also cool with doing all of the original drawings if someone feels like only adding the "extras"--which could be photo scans, texture, layers of images, watercolor, ANYTHING! You can go traditional, far-out, or anything inbetween. I'm open.

When is the next C0-lab show, btw?

Pecha Kucha

Hey everyone,
After the meeting last night here's some info on the nest Pcha Kucha night in SF. '[It], Vol. 20 will be hosted on December 18th at 330 Ritch.Theme is "Threshold".' Here's the link if you want more info. I think we should go as it's after finals and would get everyone on the same page as to what some of the ideas were.