Portfolio and Blog for Antonio Roberts
Project planning can get really tiresome and boring, so I spent the bulk of my evening learning how to use LSDJ better, with help from a tutorial on 8BitCollective. Here are the results:
I’m having a few problems with the volume at the mo. You can probably hear a very quiet noise in the background, and I have no idea how to turn it up… yet.
More to come
From the beginning of this blog I’ve used Gallery2 to handle the portfolio side of things. I’m now ditching it in favor of NextGen Gallery. Gallery 2 is great and all, but integrating it properly with Wordpress is more trouble than it’s worth. Expect some disruption during the transition
Now that I have the Gameboy Camera and Printer, LSDJ and will soon have the Transferer and 32M Cartridges I’m hoping to make something like this
One thing I also really like is this dance piece:
I would’ve like to have seen the dancers incorporate more erratic movement and even some sort of costumes (Princess Peach and Mario perhaps), but overall I think it shows that Gameboy Music isn’t just for the hobbyist
25 Photoshop Postwork Actions by ^manicho on deviantART
For anyone who manipulates their photos I absolutely reccommend this set of Photoshop Actions. I’ve used them for the past year with great results. A quick search on DeviantArt reveals that Birmingham-based photographer Lara Jade (who can haz an blog (thanks D’log) also has a good set of actions. Download ‘em!
There’s something about this current exhibition at the Ikon that made me want to go back to it twice. The way that the light hits all of the balls scattered across the floor reminded me of marbles or Dragon Egg Fractals. Here’s one a I made earlier
For anyone not familiar with Fractals, they’re usually created with programs like Apophysis (free/open source) or Ultra Fractal (paid) More fractals in the gallery.
The exhibition’s only on until 24th March, so get your running shoes on and see it!
It looks like I’m now part of/somewhat involved with Birmingham Visual Arts Coalition that was advertised this time last month. A couple of the artists had a bit of a meeting on Saturday and, well, lets just say I’m very interested in seeing where this is all going to go. It’s all very exciting, especially as I’m relatively new to collaborating with many artists at one time (although a.a.s. thrive on this)
I know, this is all vague, but once we’re all more involved I suspect you will be, if you know what I’m sayin’!
A followup to the last post. Here’s the blurb from the video caption:
Insectoid went to Earlswood and engaged in a silent, collaborative painting experiment.
We decided the basic plan beforehand, but no verbal communication took place during the 2.5 hours of painting.
The process of carrying back to the studio had an effect on some sections of the painting
I’ve been having a lot of problems with my computer recently. To add to the fact that it kept crashing my DVD writer wasn’t working, so I couldn’t back up anything! Oh noes! After a very lengthy process involving using my iPod to transfer 100GB to a computer with a working writer I thought I was in the clear to reinstall Windows. Or so I thought. I restarted my computer one day and, after checking for errors, it deleted my ‘Unfinished Projects’ folder, which included some collaboration work. Unfortunately for me this is the one folder I forgot to backup! D’oh!
So now I present to you unfinished versions of my collaborative work with Nahshon McPherson that will unfortunately never be finished.
Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle & Dick, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.
Sunday saw me, after snapping pictures of the demolition, cycling on to the Crescent Theatre to help with the set building for Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle & Dick. Here’s the blurb:
Carrying on in the great British comedy tradition , this play takes some familiar faces and gets a bit familiar with them. It premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 1998 starring Geoffrey Hutchings as Sid, Adam Godley as Kenneth and Samantha Spiro as Barbara and was produced on TV under the title ‘Cor Blimey!’
It’s the first time I’ve done set building but it really was enjoyable. All the pieces of the caravan , just like a game of Tetris, except they didn’t disappear once they were all in a line…
I was on my way to the Crescent Theatre when I noticed a large group of people congregating just off of Five Ways Island. As I now know from looking at the Birmingham Flickr group a demolition was taking place. I hastily got out my camera and snapped a few shots of the demolition! It was a amazing, if slightly disturbing sight. Within about two seconds a whole building went from being there to not being there…
Stephen Cooper has some better photos of the whole event.
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