Artomatic 2012 Installed

Art, Projects

I finished installing my show for the 2012 Artomatic in Crystal City. I am happy with most of the work, I got really stressed the final weekend because I had to finish making about 12 of the door knockers in the last weekend. I wasn’t able to be as creative with the painting because I wanted to have one rusty one, one silver one, and one copper one for each design.  So that one left one each for the creative designs.

But I really learned a lot in the process, I learned that if I’m going to get complicated with the painting I should probably paint them first and then glue them on. I learned that I should probably test the hanging mechanism before I get to the show.  I also learned that paint drys out if you don’t use it for 2 years.

As much as I can relax a little from creating these guys every free minute I have I can’t really take too much time off. I need to have some ready because I think people are going to want custom colors and I’m going to be selling ‘blanks’ so that other artists can design their own.  Which is fine with me because I really like the construction part better anyway.  That would free me up to create more sculptures and worry less about finishing them.

I need to re-evaluate the construction process. I have it pretty much down to a science now, I can order all the parts from McMaster-Carr. But there are two steps that I need to improve, its really annoying to cut the u-bolts shorter with a dremel and I know there has to be a better way to make the knocker hinge then bending a screw eye.  Also I haven’t perfected the attaching it to the door part… which would seem like a major part right?

 

 

Zazzle Strikes again

Art, Projects

I try. But I guess I’ll never understand intelectual property rights. First Zazzle wouldn’t sell my “Rad” poster because I didn’t own the rights to the movie. I get that, OK so I don’t own the rights to the movie, even though I drew everything in that picture from scenes in the movie, I guess I can see that I didn’t provide any new content.

I just finished some new pieces for Artomatic and I thought while I was getting them printed I would put them up on Zazzle so I could have the possibility of selling them. But yet again I apparently don’t own the property rights to pieces of Transformers. Not the whole thing.  I was led to believe in art school that If you changed the image 70% then it was a new piece of Art.  I would think that drawing a transformer from a picture and then combining it with another picture would be enough. Add the fact that I don’t think that anyone would reasonably think that this is an official hasbro product, it’s called PARODY.

What makes things weirder is that they claim it’s because of a copyright claim from the rights holder, but not for the Lincoln one, that’s either because it uses the Lincoln navigator grill, or because I didn’t put Transformers in the keywords.

I love it when things just work out

Projects, Stuff and Things

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Hey Internet,
Just so you know… if you plug in a $9 trendnet wifi dongle to the Patriot BoxOffice it will wirelessly stream video’s with minimal configuration. I think this is awesome because this is not how cheap electronics worked in the past. It’s pretty great that things just work.

Patriot Box Office

Trendnet WIFI Adaptor

 

Schu-Review : The FP

Entertainment, Movies
I was excited when I first saw the Tyler Stout poster for this movie, then I was really excited when I saw the trailer. Now I am amazed by the final product.  The first thing someone says when you show them the trailer is “are you serious?” because how could someone in their right mind have put so much effort into something so clearly insane.
It’s a movie about rival gangs who compete in dance battles for control of turf in the small town of Fraiser Park (The FP)
If you don’t instantly know why that would be funny then you should just stop now and slowly walk away.

the Analog Hole in my basement

Randomness

I feel like my dad a lot more now that I have a house. When you’re moving every few years its hard to amass the amount of junk you need to feel like a real Schumaker. Now that I have a basement to store scraps of wood and outdated technology I’m really feeling like I belong.

I was relegated to the basement most of the day on Saturday so after I had cleaned everything, then reorganized the dvd racks, then fixed my scion key I was really running out of things to do, so I decided to re-organize some storage bins. The  picture in the top of this post is part of what I ended up with.  The good about this picture is that I’ll never have to buy an RCA cable again!