March 26
-Because when a can of compressed air leaks, covering the insanely cold liquid spraying out with your hands might be the first reaction, however, it’s also the wrong one.
My hand hurts. I think the skin is dead.

-Cast and airbrushed prosthetic for Angela’s thesis.

March 25
Programming
-Got the heart monitor programmed. Some problems with the reset to the sequencer, but that’s all cleared up now. Evened out the power, and used a different pin from the microchip.

-Sculpted and moulded the slit neck prosthetic for Angela’s thesis. It also hides a tube, so that blood will pump out of the neck.

March 22 -24
-Finished sculpting / moulding /casting the second mould for the second piece of plastic.
-2 days of sanding it down ahead to get it smooth, then I’ll vacuum form clear plastic over it. Fell behind schedual…
-Registered genpets.com

March 20
Finished text and layout for thesis paper. It’s a product catalogue for the genpets. I’ll have it up on this site for download as a PDF later; it still needs photos and misc graphics.

The_Genpets thing has me working endlessly, but without actually getting anywhere. It’s amazing how you can work for 8 hours and be exactly where you were when you started. The graphic design is done, but I just can’t get a good sculpture of the animals. Right now it’s holding up everything else. Tho Rob has convinced me to use Dragan servos. I cracked. Servos and foam latex.. I’m going pro.. the world is falling apart. (Things have gotta be bad when I drink coke)

Came home to London for the weekend to see my pretty girl. The girl doesn’t scare me (*cough* alright, maybe sometimes she can), the city did though!

I went to her classes with her on Monday, I was really interested in seeing where she went everyday, and also seeing what she does. I like her, so I want to see little bits of her life.
I respect her for being able to consume and memorize such shear volumes of information. It’s quite different

From what I do. The thing that scared me though were the white people! They were everywhere! UWO scares me. Even those not white, dressed white. Everyone in gap (or old navy) quite literally. After being in a culturally diverse city like Toronto it was a shock, it was odd (VERY) to look at, and I also felt less important. I was just one of them, part of the mass. I was white, V was White, we were all white. Except I was dressed in my Toronto fashion as V had fun pointing out. She didn’t fit in either in her black leather jacket, thank god.
It’s an odd thing to think of, but I’m a visual person, and the 2 places are just SO freaking different. Even the buildings match at UWO, all just borning grey. There’s no diversity anywhere. (sorry for insulting your school… ya.. I’m a prick).

The rest of the weekend was spent with Homework, snuggling and talking. We watched Gattaca. Both of us have apparently been wanting to see it. And it deals with some of the issues in my thesis, so I was all for it. We also watched the Craft and shut it off near the end because we both hate the ending.

Also got more inspiration for thesis, and got most of the rough draft of my interim Report completed ahead of time.

Got my circuit schematics done for my media installation piece involving ‘space’. (As in volume). Now I just need to build, solder and pay for the $60 worth of materials; Cables, photo-resisters, etc. (I built the metal pillars on Friday morning, just need to pour the cement bases next Thursday. The room is lighted and the lights react with interaction of the user. Dimming or brightening with the motion of the users hands. More later…

I know, I’ve been neglecting the site. I’ve just been working on personal projects as well as school projects, as well as OTHER PEOPLES school projects. *cough*. Maybe one day I’ll update the portfolio with my new stuff… one day..

Also! Sorry to my friends, I know I’ve been neglecting you all as of late, declining party requests and hang outs, especially joni (sorry) I’m just busy…


(Very_slop py_image of what I envision for thesis. See Oct 13th for text)

//V didn’t come this weekend as planned. I was sad. She thought she’d get more work done without me distracting her. Hah. She was wrong.

Servo programming. I like doing things with ghetto electronics. But servos have their purpose and have more torque than what I’m used to using. Enough to move latex skins. Let’s all breath in a sigh of relief.

Research. Been in research mode and I’ve been researching latex, latex moulding and a lot of other things to do with sculpture and the SFX industry. It’s amazing how much you can find online if you look. Lucky me.

Thus, solved some problems with latex shrinkage and slush casting. Yay for that one! About freakin time.

I’ve been reading a lot of stuff on the FX industry. It just comes as a side effect of looking through THEIR specific moulding practices. I cam across this, which confirmed to me something I’ve been suspecting.

LMC: How is CGI affecting the creature shops?

VH: In the last couple of years CG has really taken a bite out of what FX shops used to do. I think CG will take care of more of the creature stuff now. FX shops won’t be doing as many creatures as they used to (i.e. suits and puppets). I don’t think makeups on actors will be affected for a while, but who knows…? This past year and a half has been the worst ever for makeup effects. There’s very little work out there. Lots of people have been out of work for a long, long time.…

This is mostly why I want to do creepy sculpture for more commercial purposes, such as creepy toys and Halloween gear. Halloween stuff will never go out, and it’s still undominated. What’s out there right now isn’t too impressive as the best of the best are too busy working for Hollywood and wouldn’t drop to that level.

You’ll be hearing more opinions about this later, but talk is cheap, so I can bore you to death, and you can roll your eyes and think to yourself I have crazy ideas, or I can just build my own massive company and smile to myself.

So,I_had a psych exam to study for, and you know what that means! Procrastination time! Any way I could think of!
So! For a new REAL Adam, we need a new Digital Adam. So these are

= Pixel Adam V2!! =

Upgraded and higher resolution! (get it?) they’re inspired by Capcom Cards. Collect all the Pixels kids!

I feel so omm(d) out... type type type. what can I say? type type type.

I was a bit let down and for awhile I wasn't enjoying myself. OM was exactly as advertised, but I still went in expecting something a bit different. I suppose the problem lied with me. I had fun, I want to go again, I just feel, next year it’ll be better as I’ll know what to expect.

Night shifts sucked, so that definitely added to the problem, though I met a nice girl from OCAD that was working the night shift with me (Riki) and we made a fire (no fires allowed) and got yelled at by our boss.. it was a bonding experience. Haha.

Gotta love the peace, love, respect everywhere. It was a total little tent society of it's own, everyone sharing food, alcohol, drugs, ideas, and everywhere a smile. You could honestly just stop someone and start talking to them, no weirdness, try that in the streets of Toronto... mmm and yet, I didn’t total enjoy. Weird. I must be messed up. Or just, not shallow enough to believe it was reality, in any way, sense, or form. Ya, I guess I was looking to escape the media culture for some good old nature and truth and real people, and instead just got one more fabricated reality. So I felt gypped. Ya.

And we’re off! Me and Eddy shopped for the food, etc, we’re loaded on water, and we’re on our way to OM!
4 Days of hippie Camping goodness! Sidenote; funny visual image of the day? Eddy while he’s driving with 3inches of deep fried squid hanging out of his mouth… ya..

On a side note, my stomach is telling me right now that the hot dogs I ate went bad..
I said this to manaf and he replied “yeah, I thought they smelled strange”.
I have no sense of smell! He knew this! A**hole! I’m going to make you eat your parents.

Also saw the Rodney graham (BC Artist) exhibit today at the AGO. It was cool. Nice abstract new wave art stuff. Video and audio mostly. His music is hard to explain, but I would assume after listening to it that he was the rheostatics inspiration. Must download UJ3RK5.. (U jerks)

Yes I’m an official volunteer at the 2004 OM festival!
www.om festival.ca
What’s the OM festival? Hmmm. How do I explain that.

Well, it’s 4 day of camping up north, with about 4000 people from all over north America.
Everyones real friendly, and just looking to meet new people and have a good time. There’s also a lot of talk about our place in the environment and things we can do to help. Lost of bongos and mellowness..
By volunteering I don’t have to pay $100, just $30. Which is great for 4 days of camping plus food (vegan food no less).
I’ll be volunteering at the art gallery tent thing, 2 shifts of 4 hours and by volunteer I mean, sitting around meeting and talking to people. :). Plus I get a free HEMP shirt! Yay!

Did a paper cast of my skeleton.
> Started researching skin casting for my next project. My ‘shoe series’. 555 timers, flexinol wire, latex and creepiness.
Yes I figured out what my Electronics project will be… stay tuned.
> I saw the light at the end of the tunnel. I may actually finish my table.
For a while I didn’t think I ever would. 2 weeks. What a joke.

> Went to Alexis’s’ for wine and pasta, Run Lola Run, oh and Godzilla Vs the Sea monster. (!)
> Saw the Egyptian sculpture display at the ROM, also enjoyed the Giant T-rex.

>> Redesigned this site.