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concept for rudy’s party

another hard one – eostre has felt like a struggle for me. even though we took last year off, i don’t feel a lot of joy in what i’m doing; mostly i want to support my gf. ppl gave me a few directions and i tried to go with those and it turned out those weren’t very clear concepts (even for those that suggested it). i reviewed past moodboards about birth and was inspired by a few midwife lithographs, which often had fanciful representations of the inside of the uterus, or sometimes just a dismbodied pelvis, and hands reaching into pull a fetus out, or sometimes a baby pushing its hand out through the vaginal aperture. ...

we love a gradient map. image and tie taken by me of a. at ropeburnsf.

started this salon format where folks get together and work on their a/v projects. right now it’s very small/word of mouth and people work on track production or visuals (touchdesigner, hydra, processing). i do minor facilitation around coaxing people into sharing but other than that it’s pretty informal; a lot of sitting around on one’s laptop. we do a show-and-tell via projector at 9:30p and then people are welcome to hang out and work further on their projects. ...

Played more with smart objects (making an ink bleed effect) for the side text here, as well as applying color as adjustment layers instead of adding them in the image. Also quantitatively measured contrast and adjusted to meet minimum WCAG guidelines.

tried a lighter format based on this illustration of j. and l.

Rope Lab 8 I rarely go to the “segregate all text in a text box” route but tried it this time. The image of the back of an Akechi Denki 3-TK is done by me.

ASCII Dwarf Fortress Y2K handdrawn.

Dark Dawn Day The prompt for this was a dark caverous place where queer characters move from the lower levels to the lighted exits. This is ofc a Monument Valley screengrab that I vectorized. I then hand-illustrated different characters who would be in the dark in this Escherian space, ascending or descending into the light. The speakers are real models of the Paraflex subs and SynTripP tops that we were going to bring to the party. ...

Flyer for an edition of rope lab hosted at NaE. Image is from a test of floating hashira suspension on W. This formerly has been just a lab for close friends who I wanted to teach how to tie when they couldn’t afford bay area prices, but after seeing a few DIY jams in Manila and in the bay, I’m trying to think about how to open up this lab to the broader community. ...