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This is a header/ Logo graphic I did for ECS, I was told to make somthing about nano scale technology and artificial intellegence. I expressed this through an advanced computer brain metaphor, its the lung looking thing to the right.
An Inconveinient Truth the Academy award winning documentary film about global climate change. Directed by David Guggenhiem starring Vice president Al Gore. If you switch your squint on and look to the lower right on the badge of producer Lesely Chilcott, you can see the logo I created. Also, if you watch the movie in the credits it says : special thanks to ade lun sec.
Identity & Logo
This is the Engineering for Complex Systems logo. Its concept was developed by a senior manager at NASA - I first made the capsule in 3d then composited it in photoshop and last added some bling with with the "cybergold" letters.
San Francisco MUNI posters, these are so not done justice on the web. they are 6' x3.5' and have peoms on them.
3d Modeling and Animation
A proposed set of works for the new E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts being built in Sacramento. The first is a mirror structure which reflects low energy lights on the ceiling creating a soft trailing effect. The second shows a light treament for the exterior tower. The lights are timed and will slowly "pulse" over a period of ten minutes- think Cylons from battlestar galactica- but much slower. Last a set of Laminated overlays that highligh a studio discipline for each floor. Client: Anita Margrill, Public Artist.
These are stills from NASA's IVHM concept video- narrated by Mark Hamill. Pretty cool, as a little kid I always wanted to meet Luke Skywalker! Eating with him in a burbank sound studio was interesting, i didnt know Jedi's liked pizza.
This is a still from the NASA's PSA concept animation. Our little production team: Yuri Gawdiak, Boris Rabin, Giovanni Castillo and myself won an "Best of Catagory" honer from I.D. Mgazine for this animation.
CGI & Retouching
One of the things I found myself doing at NASA was creating custom presentations for scientists based on an over arching idea- I'd often do a concept image paking every element of what they thought was going on with specific technology at the time - think Thomas Hart Benton, micro mural.
A mission control scenario situation, they' re monitoring the where-a-bouts of a serpentine rover on mars. I did the 3d holograms of the serpentine rover and mars as 3d objects then composited them into the scene.
Art
Green Machine - This robot operates in a closed loop system, and over its lifetime decays in a manner that is respectful to its environment. It has both mechanical and organic systems. The organic component would be able to meet its needs while in coexistence with the mechanical, each benefiting the other. The chief organic component is the plant which can also be thought of as the brain since its phototropic path determins the direction of the robot. so its needs or "will" determines its actions.
This is an art piece on ambient information Metaphors.
This art piece took faith more than anything. It could have gone wrong at so many stages. ALS has been posting studio paintings on the streets since 1999 and as a natural consequence of posting, people started collecting them.
I thought to myself hmmm, it would be interesting to put a gps device in one and track it unbeknownced to the "collector" using Goolge Earth - so i did.
Finishing touches
The general public views it as a "free" artifact. Free in the sense that the artist isnt there to jumble up its meaning and free in the sense that it coasts nothing. Its basically just a handpainted, well crafted piece of litter. I like to think that this dude came back with a truck and said: "man, this would be a great door for my study"
Its around 6 pm, the night of it being left in the park.
My friend mike are just pulling up to the computer with burrito in toe we discovered that it's moved across the street. Welcome to the future - lol.
Watched it go all over tarnation for the next couple days.
Until our art show where we projected its real-time where abouts :]
Conclusion: we never did track down the piece. The best we can tell is it ended up indoors somewhere where the signal scattered. the signal is just like your cell phone signal- when its indoors it scatters and is only accurate to within half a city block- this was kindof a kicker becuase whn it was out side we were able to track it with an accuracy of about 3 meters. You can visit here or here (scroll down) for different critical overviews of the piece.