ROLLING IN THE SNOW

My friend Elliot(one of the woodworking residents here at Anderson) took so many pics of me during the first part of installing my 2nd outdoor heat lamp piece that I was able to make several humorous “somewhat” illustrative animations of the event. The snow was too deep to properly walk through so there’s a great deal of stumbling, falling, and rolling about. Within the videos I’m tying off one end of the cable that would eventually end up suspending a cluster of heat lamps over the snow path between the painting and woodshop buildings. I’m also futzing with an extension cord for a bit which yielded a couple pretty amazing mid-air pics of me and Justin(another woodworking resident) tossing the cord back and forth. The pics are a bit over-exposed, but they still do a pretty good job recording the zaniness.

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FINGERSPINS(AN EXPLANATION)

I’ve been doing a number of different types of spinning performances for a few years now. Tripod spins, pole spins, yarn spins, and finger spins. In general most of my spinning performances yield both a time lapse animation and a number of documentation pictures of the circular markings left by the aftermath of the spin. I’m not going to explain the logistics of each different type of spinning performance within this blog entry, but I will attempt to as logically as possible explain the finger spin. Below I have posted an example of a fingerspin animation as well as two examples of the type of aftermath documentation I take.

In the manner of a compass using my index finger and pinky stretched as far apart as possible to form the radius of the circle I drew this circle on the side of a building at the Ridges complex in Athens, Ohio. The time-lapse animation documents the several hundred revolutions of my finger-compass that  it took to mark the wall(the animation is 10 frames a second). The aftermath pictures document alternate pulled-back views of the same section of wall in order to better demonstrate the scale of the circle as well as it’s relationship to the larger architectural forms. The only things making the marks on the wall are the oils pre-existing on my fingers, the dirt on the wall, and the slight pressure that I’m applying as my finger brushes along the surface of the wall.

MISSION STATEMENTS SUCK ASS

The formality of my original inaugural post on this blog made me vomit a little bit in my mouth after reading it a day later(the post to which I am referring was deleted by me just moments ago, so you’ll hafta take my word on its craptastatude). I think I have a bit of a problem with my voice as a writer when it comes to making a point about the things that matter. I really don’t want to be writing hardcore, introspective, bullshit at the end of each day(yes, I’m going to try to do this daily). Let us start over.

Recently I’ve been doing lots of site visits to locations around Aspen and Snowmass Colorado(for those who aren’t aware I’m living in Snowmass for the next 10 weeks for the Anderson Ranch Residency). Two weeks ago myself and several of the wood working residents went to the Pitkin County Landfill. I shot several animations during our time there. Here are my two favorites.