Housekeeping, etc

Well tomorrow I’m off to the greenhouse to pick up some plants, do some packing and cleaning. Today I’ve did some virtual cleaning. I finally got the Kinder/Garden videos onto their own Vimeo account so they don’t get mixed up with my other work. I’ve updated all the video links and added a direct link [...]

Timelapse

Yesterday I was showing Napoleon, one of our Kinder/Garden computer donors, the soon-to-be-released music video done to document the K/G project. I am using Napoleon’s old computer (and Frank’s and Cecilia’s) to control web cameras to capture timelapse footage in the greenhouse – a low res, low cost technique to compress time to make plant [...]

Squash and Stretch

Here is a short clip from a 5-minute music video using all kinds of Kinder/Garden documentation. The song is Hear the Wind by opositive (aka Owen Chapman) and the title of this video is Squash and Stretch referring to a basic principle of animation and of course our primary subjects. Not sure if and when [...]

A productive week!

This was an extremely busy and productive week for Kinder/Garden. Above is a (sorry about the poor quality – I’ll take more) photograph of my 3d models. After the first aborted (pun-intended) attempt, there they are! They were printed from STL (stereolithography) files made from the modified $10 3d baby model using Zcorp printer, which [...]

Rapid Prototyping…tonight?

This evening will be the first step (hopefully) in the physical part of the mould-making process. Using a CNC machine at the CTC (Core Technical Centre workshhop) of the Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts, we will mill negative moulds out of styrofoam. These moulds will be used to create plaster cast positives which will then [...]

Fetal imaging

When I began “baby shopping” this is the first link that appears when I google “3d baby.” 3D Baby Fetal Imaging Creepy, huh? Living foetuses imaged to imitate virtual models… and like their CG counterparts, all spray-tanned, homogenized, and isolated from their de-humanized, maternal environment. As subjects of surveillance, foetuses gain personhood at the expense [...]