MetroCAF 2009

It has been a hectic time since I accepted the position of MetroCAF 2009 chair about two years ago, but a week ago all the hard work culminated in a successful screening of the best students animations from the NYC metropolitan area. A good crowd of about 350 came out on that cold night.

Just in time students of mine from Montclair State University completed the opening animation:

It was created using Lightwave. I did also work on it a bit and took care of the postproduction.
I will be posting images from the event on the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH site soon.

DaliDisney Update

The Dali / Disney cooperation I blogged about earlier is back on YouTube, again including the full FBI warning. Let's see how long this one stays up!

Wobulator

I found out about the existance of the wobuator through the announcement of the Forum Lecture Series Fall 2009 from the Department of Art and Design at Montclair State University (Tuesdays 2:30 to 4:20, Calcia Hall Room 135, Admission is Free). On October 13 [dNASAb] will speak. In his bio he claims to have "worked with the “Wobulator” Nam Jun Paik’s pioneering video synthesizer." I guess it is bad practice to retrocactively claim that when I came up with "Wobble TV" in 1984, I was inspired by the Paik Raster Manipulation Unit, right?

Female Dogging

To the left you can see my taped up Macbook power supply which still sort of worked. The bend in the cable is not a very clever design, mine was not the only one to start having problems there. Damage can be worse though. Some time after this initial repair, it only worked if I got it to bend the right way.

Until today. Very inconveniently it completely failed on my first day back at school (=work). Luckily a colleague was willing to help and we split it open. I shortened the cable a bit and duck taped the thing back together. It works. The bit of cable I removed did smell kind of funny, like plastic melted on a barbecue...

It does fit in rather nicely with the state university equipment now, as you can see on the right

Those Canadiens

This post is not about the Canadians whom I met at this years SIGGRAPH Conference, though I should have been blogging from New Orleans but was too busy enjoying the experience. Did post a few photos on Flickr

Just came across this post on Drawn!. "Jue" was created by Georges Schizgebel in 2006. Amazing animation, especially since its hand painted and not computer generated. Wonder if an "ordinateur" was used somewhere in the process...