GLITTERPOINT, Brooklyn

This was done last night for the glitter competition. Click image for large version.

Overall I’m very glad I took the time to do it because once it got going it was pretty fun. Glitter is a ridiculous material to use on any kind of rendering of anything. The general degeneration of my concept in the days prior was a good exercise as well. I generally ask the question of “How retarded can this become so it may possibly become the opposite of retarded?”

Another funny aspect was trying to scan/photo document the thing. I eventually settled on scanning and stitching it up in photoshop, because the text was completely illegible in photos. It looks much better in person, which is probably the case with all the entries to this competition.

Note to self, do not start working @ 6pm on a Sunday night on a spring forward weekend, especially if you have to wait for glitter glue to dry before scanning, because the next day at work will be brutal. Yesterday was brutal.

Thanks to everyone I talked to about the bad ideas I had, and even bigger thanks to everyone who somehow made them badder. I’d say I got it to about 50% of what I wanted to do. But given the outside factors involved, is a pretty good amount. I wanted to make a much more involved where’s waldo-esque drafted drawing, but it kind of ended up looking like a info pamplet or something, which is ok especially considering the time.

Update 08.11.2010: Winners

Random quick recap of the past. Probably from February to July. OH GOD.

In no particular order, this is a doublebow that hannah and I saw from the top of our apartment building a while ago. This was right after a storm, I actually think it was raining. June and May were really rainy, like seattle, like 25 out of 30 days were raining. July was sunny.

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AXON

Behind the scenes of the putt-putt competiton. Above was part of our submission for the competition, as you can see, it changed a bit during construction. I hope to actually put some real pictures up soon too, sorry I’m a slacker.

THE PUTTING LOT


This image is already old, but great.

Soooo the putting lot should be open this weekend, our hole works, just needs a few minor things to finish it. Unfortunately for us it’s been raining all week, and you can’t paint things or use carpet glue in the rain. It works mechanically pretty well though, we were on site pretty late enjoying a testing session.

THE PUTTING LOT

FYI PUTT PUTT

the temporary website: the putting lot dot org

New Apartment

so, new year, new stop.  we’re off the myrtle stop now.  I like the JMZ because the L is so crowded, but we are a bit farther from some ppl now.  anyways this was yesterday, brooklyn is pretty cold, but looks nice.  Brief apt pics after the cut.

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