June 2011
June 15 2011 Paint discarded plastic bags
flying around the city.
June 13 2011 Print on everyday cheap plastic bags. Litter as much as possible. Also
print on 1000 bags for an exhibition that anyone can take for free. Next to the bags frame and hang
the original drawing used for the bags.
June 3 2011 Place the positive and negative portion of the same piece on the same wall.
June 2 2011 Paint opening doors on the side of walls or trucks using the
shader paint for the fill of the door area.
May 2011
May 29 2011 Why hasn't anyone designed mp3 cigarettes?!? Since a cigarette
lasts about as long as a song why not make cigarettes that play music. There has got to be
some sort of cheap technology small enough that can be embedded in the filter of each cigarette.
Quick, buy the limited edition American Spirits feat. the new Lil Wayne album.
May 18 2011 Experiment with a tarp to frame out a piece.
May 18 2011 Make a text painting reading, "You Can't Spell America without Ice Cream".
May 13 2011 Use wheat paste as a masking or stencil and spray around it.
Use it in such a way to anticipate it's disintegration so that the wall will become the fill
over time.
May 3 2011 Make a sequence of mundane seeming paintings. At the end place a monitor
playing an animated gif of all the images. Make the monitor on a specific URL for the animation
with a button to download the .gif, maybe even a QR code or web address printed at the end of the
sequence of paintings or as the title of the piece.
May 2 2011 Make an app for street art photographers that allows them to green screen
random and oblivious pedestrians in front of their photos of street art.
April 2011
Apr 28 2011 Connect two windows with a painting
of a cloth or flag. Or use
2 different flags and tie them together in a knot, i.e. US & Pakistan.
Apr 15 2011 Paint
hand coming out of actual window in monumental context.
Apr 13 2011 Design architecture features to wheat paste around derelict featrureless buildings.
Apr 9 2011 Use she loves me, she loves me not on two nearby gates.
Apr 8 2011 String and strand patterns for paper.
Apr 7 2011 Use cardboard to make my own awnings and release Open Source template.
March 2011
Mar 30 2011 Release all my work as handmade books (zines more or less)
in the NYC Public Library. Create my own barcodes and shelving numbers so that they can be
checked out by anone with a library card and more importantly be reshelved by the library.
Mar 27 2011 Use a roll-up gate as a washboard in a painting.
Mar 26 2011 Use a roll-up gate as a guillotine in a painting or sculpture.
Mar 24 2011 Helium balloons holding up huge garland on bridge like the
Wburg or Golden Gate to make image.
Mar 22 2011 Place half of a message on an object and the other half on
a simliar object that are known to come back together after leaving eachother. I.E. elevator,
delivery trucks, plane, boat, etc. Possible messages, 'It's so good / to see you again.'
'It's just not the / same without you.'
Mar 11 2011 Make a painting that says, 'ReTweet, ReTweet, ReTweet, the
content is coming.' Make soldiers running through a field holding cell phones like weapons.
Mar 10 2011 Paint three roll-up gates with three pairings, i.e.
paper, rock, scissors. Too hot, too cold, just right. Small, medium, large.
Mar 9 2011 Make a painting of bolt cutters in a guitar case.
Mar 8 2011 Make a painting of Antoinette's beheaded head on a cake that
says, 'let the writers eat beef.'
Mar 1 2011 Collect old forty bottles from residents of a city to use
for a stain glass window at a church.
February 2011
Feb 18 2011 Sunset home.
January 2011
2011
2010
December 2010
Dec,12 2010 The use of physical space to effect writing.
Rules...
I. One arcing line
II. A connection of the ends with a curved line divided with one point of redirection.
III. Another smaller curved line divided with one point of redirection on one of the
initial line's halfs.
Dec 2, 2010 Screenprint the imagery from a Tootsie Pop onto a bandana. Don't forget
the indian shooting the star.
November 2010
Nov 29, 2010 Why do we call video logs "vlogs" when we should be calling
them blideos? How else is someone supposed to get blideo blasted?! This idea was used by
my good friend Ellie on her new site entitled
the-blideoist.com
Nov 28, 2010 Stools with artists sitting on them throughout a gallery. Each artists
tattoos throughout the exhibition and a photograph goes on the wall behind their corresponding stool.
The closing exhibition is the empty stool with an assemblage of photos of the tattoos they gave during the exhibition.
Nov 24, 2010 Two walls facing eachother. One wall has reproductions of the
worlds most famous paintings. The opposite wall has the backs of those same painting.
(updateVik Muniz did a similar piece.)
Nov 9, 2010 Fill a small gap
like this with a concoction of
concrete and various materials that will solidify but not bind with the opposite
two walls. Over time the two structures may come or go revealing the time
capsule sliver.
Nov 8, 2010
Introduce Vertical Cooking to the culinary world by using the energy
that is wasted out of the
top of pans, pots, etc. For example while making a grilled cheese, place a pan
with enough water on top of the grilled cheese in order to steam broccoli. The
weight of the pan of water will put pressure on the sandwich, seal the pan, and
create more heat on both ends.
Nov 7, 2010 Enlarge the
images of houses to a scale that can be worn.
Nov 6, 2010
Build a house and put peepholes every 8" circling around it at eye level.
Nov 5, 2010
Shoot a photo of a street piece making a complete 180 degree semi-circle along
the perimeter from one wall side to the other. Maybe shoot 27 frames and edit a
lot of various spaces into a video of 1" shots at each location.
Update It may have taken 6 months but it is damn worth it. Awesome photo, edit, and
work by Dan Gingold.
Nov 4, 2010
Do the same but only of vans in the city. During
editing try and synchronize similar colors.
Nov 3, 2010 Buy one of those small one-seater parking ticket
cop cars and convert it into a food cart. Change the NYPD logo to NYDD for
New York Double D's which is a remix of the double decker donut van.
Nov 1, 2010 Laser
etch my drawings on the roofs of houses to tell the story of Derek and my
bike trip across Europe.
October 2010
Oct 2, 2010 Write over roll up gates in a way to make permutations of the text
during the day when the gate is up.
Oct 1, 2010 Eliminate
the top line of the bird and re-enstate it with the writing.
September 2010
Brain full of dust from Burning Man
Sept 20, 2010 Make a remix of the Jan Van Eyck piece
'The Marriage of the Arnolfini's'.
Sept 15, 2010 Start addding homages to some of my favorite
writers on the buildings in the wheat pastes.
Sept 1, 2010 Make an extension
for a can of spray paint so you can have can control on something over 20 feet away.
August 2010
August 7, 2010 Choose a particular object to paint and experiment with it's ability
to altar the object as well as
altar the content being placed on the object.
August 5, 2010 Paint a mural of buildings unhinging from the wall and passing
eachother typical kitchen goods that neighbors share.
July 2010
July 24, 2010 Make a BBQ grill using the laser cutter so that
I can grill logos of my choosing into meet. Such as...Pictures of the animal you
are eating. The sound the animal makes (moo for cows, oink for pigs, bubble for
fish, etc.). Make one that says "snacks and shit". Make one with images of Hulk
Hogan, Rocky Balboa or Indiana Jones. Or make a logo for Blog Cabin Brooklyn and
use it as one of the projects for the site.
July 23,
2010 Make a folding and suspended dining room table for the Cabin that
hinges down from the ceiling. And, of course, throw a big dinner party!
July 18, 2010 Use huge ornate gold frames as bicycle frames
and reinforce with metal. Attach a seat, handle bars, bottom bracket, cranks and
wheels.
July 17, 2010 Laser cut a stencil that reads "If
lost please return to...(and insert my address here)". Now go to the beach and
lay with the stencil on my back or chest until the image is burned in.
July 16, 2010 Use the purple paper that lacks the UV coating
and fades in the sun. Mix the exact same color of purple and paint a picture on
the paper. Wheat paste it somewhere and document how the image goes from being
invisible to visible as the dye leaves the paper.
July 15,
2010 Use the same idea as above except mix ink that is the same color
as the paper after if fades so that the wheat paste loses all of its image over
time.
July 13, 2010 Weld a bbq to a bicycle and get
grillin. Barbebike.
July 12, 2010 Laser cut the stories
from the bike ride into wood that I'll build into small houses. Their should be
49 houses to represent the 49 days it took to ride across Europe. Also, install
peepholes on the front door of the house and embed my
drawings of our temporary homes on the inside.
July 2,
2010 Create the game of featherball using a typical teatherball setup
but replacing the ball with a ball of feathers.
April-June 2010
Not one single, lousy idea!
March 2010
Mar 1, 2009 Make a portrait
using bicycle skid marks. Film the "painting" of it aerially.
Febuary 2010
Feb 27, 2009 Make a portrait
using bicycle skid mark images through Evan
Roth's 'Typographic
Illustration' source code.
Feb 25, 2009 Try converting
the bird illustration into an infinite file using the 3 strokes broken by the
two strokes.
Feb 25, 2009 Save the negative scraps from
wheat paste cut outs as artifacts of its existence.
Feb 5,
2009 Make a website that mirrors physical space. For example make a
site about a trip where its width in pixels is related to its length in
miles.
Feb 1, 2009 Make Mayan website that starts when the
Mayan calendar ends.
January 2010
Jan 27, 2009 Put pictures of
city workers cleaning graffiti off the wall so that when they have to come and
clean the work off the wall it creates a mirrored image...And, just perhaps,
blows their mind!
Jan 26, 2009 Buy a diesil double-decker
bus, gut it, and convert it into a mobile donut
and coffee shop. Place seating upstairs and a glass display window for the
donuts in the lower portion of the bus. Use the used vegetable oil from the
donuts for bio-diesil and maybe even add a chicken coup for super locally grown
eggs. And of course give it a catchy name like Double D's Nuts. Mock-up
courtesy of Yale Wolf
Jan
21, 2009 Take pictures of the wide variety of steel gates covering
doors in SF and isolate only the gates into .png files that can be overlapped.
Create an app that takes these files and creates permutations of the infinite
amount of combinations using, color, opacity, scale, etc. and make accessible
for textile artists.
Jan 16, 2009 Take pictures showing
the space between buildings where one style merges with another. Stitch all
these pictures together to create a huge panorama.
Jan 15,
2009 Try to erase one's on-line presence. Ok, maybe this is too
ambitious and degenerative but perhaps attempt to erase one's identity from one
social networking site completely such as flickr, facebook, or twitter. The
best would be to create a real world type show where you enlist people to build
their network as large as possible and then try to erase all traces of it. If a
similar show comes out in the next year called "Cybercidal" i'm claiming dibs on
it.
Jan 14, 2009 Use one of those A-Frame orange and white
construction signs to build a chair. I think a nice rule would be to try and
reconstruct it using only the same materials-nothing new. Influence on this
one, Sol Lewitt permutations.
Jan 12, 2009 Start
collecting autographs from all my favorite famous folk. The only catch being,
only autographs on checks endorsed to me.
Jan 9, 2009 Tie
about a bazillion balloons on the panhandling dude on the Octavia freeway exit
and hope that it helps him make a couple extra bucks.
Jan 6,
2009 Build shelves that are in the shape of Tetris pieces.
Jan 2, 2009 Make a painting of the word 'Moment' wrapped around the
word 'Be'
Jan 1, 2009 Use the idea of cover songs in
artwork to create a cover of an original art work. I would love to cover MOMO's
Tag Manhattan in SF and
instead of writing a name i'd like to do the alphabet.
2010
2009
December 2009
Dec 29, 2009 Paint skiis with wood grain to look like
2"x4"s
Dec 28, 2009 Spray paint points on snow piles in plowed parking lots and create some sort
of game out of it.
Dec 23, 2009 Use the old penny-loafer
shoes to introduce the hard drive loafer or shuffle loafer.
Dec 22,
2009 Make a short film of a boy biking around on christmas day with a
basket full of ornmanents. Film it from the POV of the basket and do it all in
just one shot and put it in slow motion. Fill the basket to the top and bike
around until all the ornaments have bounced out of the basket.
Dec
14, 2009 Make a mural of houses unhinging from the wall with arms
coming out from behind them and passing flour, sugar, eggs, etc.
Dec 12, 2009 Sew a sweet shirt for Mike G that says 'And How'
Dec 2, 2009 Make an i
love SF shirt but replace the heart with a slideshow
of 'No Parking' signs scraped from the api of flickr.
Dec 1,
2009 Make an I love NY shirt but replace
the heart with a symbol of an I Love NY T-shirt.
November 2009
Nov 21, 2009 Make a font of my step dad's handwriting which
looks pretty much like a doctor's handwriting. It's called Tkettle. Download it! (Since he only writes in weird capital
letters they are the only thing available. So caps lock on. Go Kanye!
Nov 20, 2009 On the next rainy day go to the top of any of the
hills with cable cars on them in SF and bring a LITTLE tiny boat. Two of them
actually. Now send someone to the very bottom of the street (down by the ferry
buildings) and have them be the judge. With your boat competitor drop your
boats into the cable car tracks and let the rain water take them down the hill.
First boat cross the finish line wins.
Nov 19, 2009 Make
an iPhone app that turns your phone into a stereoscope. Basically all it will do
is take any picture and make two of them. It places one on the left side and
one on the right. Each is slightly shifted to make the stereoscopic effect
possible. Slide your finger across the screen to view the next and voila, I'm a
gabillionaire. Unless you just stole this idea!
Nov 18,
2009 Print cards that say
'opposites attract' with an image of a bike seat with antlers next to a deer
skull with bike handlebars.
Nov 17, 2009 Invent some
anti-aging topical gel that can be applied all over one's body in small
counter-clockwise circular motions.
Nov 16, 2009 Make a
oujii board like the old school ones but usiing a Nintendo Wii that vibrates and
moves based off of "paranormal activity". Wiiji board, duh.
Nov 14,
2009 Make a drawing that says 'future
tents' with hellllllla gadgets all up in a tents biznass.
October 2009
Oct 16, 2009 Start 'Paper Blog' which is a service that can
scrape your entire content from blogs, comments on facebook, and tweets into a
printed book of your choice. Provide numerous templates to the client or let
them customize their own layout.
Oct 15, 2009 Buy a house
boat and start a late night, last call, ferry service to the east bay. Leaves
at 3, 4, and 5am from Mission Bay son.
Oct 14, 2009 Start
a mini-golf/bar in the Tenderloing called Tender Put. You can play all the golf
you want for free, as long as you buy a drink. Hella expensive drinks is the
catch, aha!!! Of course each club will come with a built-in cup holder.
Update Each club will actually hold the beer inside of it. The handle
will come off and reveal an ice cold stream of brewski. Above par.
Oct 10, 2009 Get a shiny red ribbon to wrap cars up like presents on
Christmas Eve. Place a note that reads... "Santa forgot about you but I still
have feelings for you.
Passionately,
Jesus"
Oct 6,
2009 Customizable ski graphics through uploadable web site for ski
company.
Oct 2, 2009 Paint houses with personally
significant minimal graphics using shadows. Trace shadow marks of either
significant days or seasons or various times of day so that the house works as a
time piece.
September 2009
Sept 27, 2009 Collect brown bags found on the street and make
molds of them to turn into ceramic beer cozy's and flower vases. Or make a mold
of a 40 in a brown bag to make into a ceramic cup. Booya!
Sept 26,
2009 Place freshly painted white "canvases" atop quarter pipes and film
people skating ramps. Remove the quarter pipes and project the video back atop
the same place (think Michael Naimark). The artifacts left on the canvases have
a bigger meaning once in context.
Sept 25, 2009 In the
same way that a house has a neighbor imagine
if a website could have a neighbor. Would they be based on time stamps,
alphabetical, isp addresses, content, geography? Apply my neighborhood of sites
I regularly visit on the web to my own physical neighborhood.
Sept 25, 2009 Start a small Sf-based company called "Miss Franny" that sells only fannypacks to test
the power of memes through social networks. Of course they will be called,
frannypacks and be hella cool!
Sept 24, 2009 Make a
series of palindrome paintings near windows/mirrors where I only need to paint
half of the word to make complete
statements. Entitle it "half truths".
Sept 21, 2009
Make an alteration to the old board game "Operation" so that the patient is MC
Hammer. Change the design to mimic the title "can't touch this".
Sept 14, 2009 Collect wood from rural Nevadan ghost towns to
reassemble into larger works.
August 2009
August 11, 2009 Use the glass lit poster areas in the new bus
stops to make visual palendromes. The posters will only work at night when the
reflection of the poster is reflected in the glass making the poster double
itself over and become complete. Some ex's: dad, mom, racecar
August 8, 2009 Tape a spray can to a drill and paint similar to a
spiro-graph.
August 7, 2009 Inspired by my bicycle
delivery job at the restaurant. Everytime I deliver food to an apt. leave a
tally mark on their front door indicating the tip. The next time I, or any
other delivery person delivers to that house they will see the tally and know
and expect the same amount of a tip. This would be a utilitarian use of graffiti
markings.
August 2, 2009 Search the internet for the
phrase 'Back in the day' along with it's corresponding date to make an average
of when 'Back in the Day' actually is. (similar site i
just found)
July 2009
July 23, 2009 Collab with Tae on letterpress prints of tombstones
with varying epitaphs. The first one - "Damn, that shit was stupid"
July 21, 2009 Make an illustration of a miner panning for
gold directly behing another miner panning for gold. Continue this in a
mobius loop and replace gold with cellphones, poop, etc.
July 20,
2009 Do a residency at St. Mary's in Virginia City and add serifs to
the 'V' on the hillside.
July 19, 2009 Make a painting of
the Green Bay Packers throwing a slab of cheese at an Oakland Raider that is in
turn shooting a bullet at the Packer. sketch
July
16, 2009 Make a drawing of a woman sitting
on top of Michael Jackson as she tries to recucitate him that says 'Beat
It'.
July 14, 2009 Write two stories. The first story is
composed entirely of paint names. The second story is composed entirely of the
color that the paint names represent.
July 6, 2009 Make
GPiS, an iPhone app that tells you where is the nearest restroom.
July 5, 2009 Make a light bulb
pinata so that when people are taking turns beating the crap out of it it
appears as if they are destroying their great idea.
June 2009
June 23, 2009 Use pattern recognition software to locate the
center point of specific tags and then create animated gifs that stack this
center point on top of one another creating localized tags.
June
22, 2009 Bind my thesis paper into a small book for my Thesis
Instructors.
June 21, 2009 Study various forms of mark-making that
involve large spatial distancing
from the mark-maker.
June 20, 2009 Hang a show of prints
using nothing but clotheshangers
June 15, 2009 Create
alignment books using historic locations for huge crowds. The book would show
abstractions of crowds on transparent overlays. When the overlays are aligned
using architectural registration marks the crowd is put into context by that
specific location.
June 12, 2009 Create alignment/overlay
books for street artists. Would show their work on overlays that have the
architectural alignments to help with aligning when the book is used on the
street. The book would make the work and the location be inextricable from one
another. Lastly it would make books relevant again. Yes!
June
7, 2009 Adwords Revolution. Get tens of thousands, millions,
billions of people to all google the same word at the same time in order to
cause a financial catastrophe for the #1 retrievable ad for such word. Make the
word a company or entity worth protesting (i.e. evil, corrupt, bad hair, etc) so
they have an instantaneous economic catastrophe. Actually would this work?
Inspired by Stephen Levy's article Googleconomics from
Wired 6.09
June 5,
2009 Make a Constructionhenge using concrete street dividers to
reconstruct and urban automotive inspired Stonehengs.
June 2,
2009 Do a mobile art show using bicycles to promenade the artworks
through town. The pieces will be shaped like pizza slices and worn in between
the bicycle spokes. The intent being to place a larger story into the works.
June 1, 2009 Attach secret notes in small bottles around
baby trees so that over time the tree will grow around the objects.
May 2009
May 27, 2009 start using big holes as
repositories for blog entries, grocery lists, love letters, hate mail, etc...
May 26, 2009 fill a bike basket with christmas
ornaments and film a movie biking down a bumpy brooklyn street. -or- same but
fill the ornaments with an assortment of paints.
May 25,
2009 use celebratory materials to make a new body of
work on the streets
May 24, 2009 turn an ice cream truck
into a mobile art gallery
May 4, 2009 film a video of me
writing my thesis using KGB Disappearing Ink. The ink I found disappears in
24-48 hours making it so that by the time I get to the end of writing the
document the beginning will begin to disappear.
April is Vacation from
Ideas, YES!
March 2009
March 26, 2009 create a virtual garden for the Lefferts
Historical house so visiting kids can monitor the growth of their plant. the
health meter of their plant would be based on an algorithm calculated from the
daily moisture and sunlight. This data would be scraped from weather.com and
fed into stats on your plant and a calendar of events for the house.
March 23, 2009 stack monitors in obelisk form and/or lay obelisk on side with
monitors.
March 13, 2009 learn how to play chariots of fire
and add it to a herbie hancock hiphop beat.
February 2009
Feb. 10, 2009 buy the krylon reflective paint and following tu's method make a billboard sized
installation of subway trains that have graffiti pieces that only show up with
the ir from digital cameras.
Feb. 8, 2009 or use the
shell of pay phones to make a small installation that would then be sealed up
and only seen through the door peephole stereoscope i made.
Feb. 6, 2009 use the shell of old public telephones to make pinhole
cameras.
Feb. 5, 2009, 2009 have a plaque made to honor
and remember the writers bench at 149th st. station. Sew the plaque onto my
pants. Place epoxy on other side of the plaque (the bottoms side of the plaque
which is facing outward). Walk into the station, sit on the bench for 5 or so minutes. Get up and walk away.
Feb. 4, 2009, 2009 make a location-based game called 'I Found
/ You Found / Profound' which requirs players to send a picture of random items
they find in the street to a site using their cell phone. These images battle
against other users uploading images to create narratives that online members
connect through creative storytelling.
January 2009
January 27, 2009 do a performance called 'I am Erik / I AmErik' where I hold myself
parallel to the ground with the assistance of a long pipe trying to recreate a
wavering flag.
January 26, 2009 make a double sided kinetic
sculpture that uses subway wind to rotate. Place half the imagery on one
side and the other half on the opposite side so that the image only reveals
itself when spinning with the assistance of wind.
January 26,
2009 create a showdown through the personification of architecture
using desperado figures. either wheatpaste or project john wayne and lil' wayne on two adjacent buildings
on myrtle and have them make eye contact for a long duration of time.
January 22, 2009 make a scrabbilized rendition of the train
stop names in similiar tile for a bathroom or kitchen splash area
January 20, 2009 take billboard ads and repaste to create ambiguous and
pretty art objects. oh yeah. art objects
baby!
January 18, 2009 use an iNap-like application
to tell you names of writers on an above ground train line. other facts could
be cool too....i guess. sigh
January 12, 2009 make a
graph representing baggyness vs. tightness in pants to show how tight pants
represent more righteous peeps (think robin hood, prince charming, etc.) and the
baggier the more immodest.
2009
2008
December 2008
Dec 8, 2008 use 2 doorveiwers and a 2 mirrors to create a
stereoscopic effect on 2 different objects in this case 2 separate zoetropes
that are spinning at the same speed and have imagery at similiar dimensions.
one will have trains and the other graffiti. in this separation once can make a
comparison to right brain vs. left brain and other didactic analogies.
November 2008
November 29, 2008 do the same thing but on double sided spinny
boards that have the fill on one side and the shadow on the other so while
spinning (due to the wind caused from the passing train) it creates a unified
image.
November 28, 2008 paint or print on about two
dozen consecutive
t-shirts to re-create a graffiti piece. give shirts to a group of people to
run along side passsing trains to simulater
graffiti. film from an angle to make the effect look comical, believable, and
authentic.
September 2008
Sept 22, 2008 place doorviewer in street pylon that looks at
built-in diorama. use the doorviewer on other objects such as bottles and books
to create imagined worlds for showing work.
Sept 21,
2008 make a rust print by cutting metal to the print and placing
outside with paper on top and occasional water. peel off paper after several
days.
Sept 18, 2008 lowjack the gallery at parsons with
proper signage and pre-made invitational cards
Sept 12,
2008Make my own stereoscope using
readily available tools.
May 2008
May 26, 2008 use transparent plaques to make viewing locations
of scenic historical locations.
May 20, 2008 mark
intersections of construction sites illegaly to get the engineered sesults i
want.
May 18, 2008 give a location a blog. blog on
behalf of an inanimate object. what would the corner of ave A. and 6th st.
say?
May 16, 2008 make locks that have the look of a
plaque and place over gaspumps so that they are unusable.
May 14,
2008 dog
ear building corners. or like this.
May 13, 2008 take signatures of famous people from famous
events and enlarge. print or paint on canvas.
May 10,
2008 place the image of two hands coming together from the sistine
chapel between two objects that almost but never touch one another like two
subway cars.
May 13, 2008 make a painting that says
rendering with the timeline icon with an old man sitting at the sea in the
background.
May 9, 2009 make a jesus fountain that has
wine on tap that is shot out of it's stigmata marks.
May 8,
2008 print a cake within a cake within a cake using Rapid Prototyping,
following the russian doll technique.
May 7, 2008 throw
candle wax on doors to preserve the tags in hopes that others will tag over the
wax and establish a past, present, and future plane for the door.
May 6, 2009 make secondlife Greek Gods using real celebrities
names, images, etc.
May 4, 2009 put padlocks on all the
pumps at gas stations then sell the keys for afore-mentioned locks on ebay. who
wants to hold the power?
May 3, 2008 print Candalism,
the book and have a print on demand version.
April 2008
April 29, 2008 work with Elizabeth Devlin on the temple door project. oh my god
that would be awesome!!
April 27, 2008 use google maps api to send information to
cyclists about safe bicycle routes.
April 27, 2008
start making recycled messenger bags out of the
flour, sugar, and sesame seed bags that the bakery down the street through
out.
April 19, 2008 bless defaced doors by reciting defaced biblical versus in honor of the names
at that door.
April 18, 2008 make one of those claw
toys that grabs stuffed animals into an instrument so that when it grabs a
stuffed animal it represents a sample. From the point it grabs the stuffend
animal and navigates its way back to drop the animal becomes the length of that
sample. As soon as the stuffed animal hits the ground that sample will begin
looping at the interval of time previously determined. This continues for as
long as there are stuffed animals to grab creating a multi-layered soundtrack
for the game.
April 16, 2008 stencil huge lock on edge
between things like buildings, doors, sleeping people (not bums, oh no).
April 15, 2008 cut new
stencil for candalism combining an open envelope and the free mason
symbol.
April 14, 2008 give others basic instructional
to make map of their own design.
April 13, 2008 write code for vibrators to play various pop
songs.
April 11, 2008 start b.o.b.y (buy our back yard)
website and sell off pieces of an authentic brooklyn backyard in small
fragments. make sure to include real tidbits such as garbage, cat poo,
syringes, worms, cigarette butts. use the money to pay rent.
April 9, 2008 interview gaia about wheatpasting through wheatpasting.
April 7,
2008 create mini cubist environments at larger environments.
April 3, 2008 carry tools with me to take
apart abandoned bikes around town to build new bikes.
March 2008
Mar 30, 2008 draw keychaines on carabeaner things and wheatpaste on hooks,
loops, and holes of buildings to show the gentrification of neighborhoods.
Mar 28, 2008 use tubing of bike to hold paint and make a drip system out base of down tube
before the bottom bracket. then get slick rear tire and carve into the rubber
as you would a lino or wood block. top it all off by inserting the paint,
opening the floodgate, and printing via the bicycle all over the street.
Mar 26, 2008 paint or paste bottom corner of buildings to
look like dog-eared pages from a book. underneath the page place a hint of what
could be happening behind the wall. place at strategic places to allow for
transparency of social, political, and consumer unjustices. or just show cool
stuff. yeah people like seeing cool stuff. quit making them think too hard.
yeah. cool.
Mar 25, 2008 plasma cut stencil of "is it art or candalism". Use candal wax to drip
through stencil and onto ground.
Mar 24, 2008 make map
of my personal triangle and track a day of derive withing. look for
correlations and migrational patterns. where is my happiness? where in the
triangle is serendipity?
Mar 23, 2008 wheatpaste photos
of doors back on doors.
Mar 21, 2008 collection of
spraycans with photos of crushed doors pasted
to them. research fuda's more and try to make correlation of role call on
nyc doors to asian migratinal temples. door as literal representation of a
metaphysical concept.
Mar 18, 2008 make a book and have
the cover just say judge me
Mar 09, 2008 make
inflatable graffiti that fills entire vacant spaces between buildings.
Mar 08, 2008 use waffle iron to singe fabric making illsane
t-shirts.
Mar 06, 2008 thread video camera into extensh
and video tape rolling a wall. use video to embed in mural using QR codes.
sketch here.
Mar 05, 2008 i think it would
be an awesome idea to join a cult of some sort. or perhaps pioneer one. it could
be called "dudes in hats with glasses" and it will be sweet. or
chouette. that is french. which i have recently learned.
Mar 04,
2008 create public "stencil" diary, encapsulating every idea
ever but create all the stencils to be written along the lines of cheesy 80s
power ballads. from the time of my youth. -alia - note i am referring to
erik's youth. not my own.
Mar 02, 2008 what the pluck?
make video of playing pigeon spikes so that it sounds like the song 'hit the
road jack'.
February 2008
Feb 27, 2008 make a swingset of four swings. each swing is designated a
function such as play, pause, rewing, and fforward. use motion tracking to have
them effect a video that is played in front of the swingset.
Feb
25, 2008 make a S-I-Y site that teaches people how to steal it
yourself.
Feb 24, 2008 wheatpaste a story on a wall. in
the footer give directions to the next bit of the story. have story bring into
account racing the viewer to the end of the story and how the reader is actually
trying to catch the writer, which inadvertently kills the ending from
happening.
Feb 23, 2008 fill bike tube with paint to run
down and out near the bottom bracket. the tire will have a stencil design in the
rubber to stamp over the wet paint and roll onto the ground
Feb
22, 2008 circle potholes with fluorescent paint
Feb 21,
2008 make brochure for cruise about political hacks where you can visit
micronations. check that shit right here, here, and here
Feb 19, 2008
repaint whole sections of buildings with misstinted paint. maybe make a general
shape that only lines up from a certain vantage point.
Feb 17,
2008 make ransom notes. duh...
Feb 16, 2008
hack legs off barricade and put back in the street with hacked legs in pool of
paint.
Feb 14, 2008 add saloon doors to abandoned phone
booths.
Feb 11, 2008 film running rgb shirts on a
clothelines back and forth.
Feb 09, 2008 sol lewitt
bookshelf. make shelfing unit that folds similar to the octa-book that has one
center cut to make the transformations into various shaps. sketch right
huur
Feb 03, 2008 take on multiple identities and
start using them in correspondance
Feb 02, 2008 print
different versions of the bible on toilet paper. print george bushes' face on
t.p. or the u.s. constitution.
Feb 1, 2008 embed a wall
with tons of shotcodes that attach to
notes or colors. when scrolling across the wall sounds or colors are emitted
from a linked website
January 2008
Jan 31, 2008 film 2 movies at the same time. overlay them
and show the 1st and 3rd person central in a composite video.
Jan. 28, 2008 make a digital soup can telephone with BenTedore.
Jan 27,
2008 interview James' workers and neighborhood passerbys. make video.
use imagery in mural on the location. embed QL's into the wall that link to the
videos, process footage, etc.
Jan 26, 2008 find huge
wall that is primarily greyish. paint red design with extinguisher. track the
color and use the x, y, coordinates to output bitmap images for a sweater my
gramma will knit. play a video of each side by side over a teeter tooter built
on a couch with a t.v. and remote control in the middle. put my dad on the
middle of the teeter totter
Jan 25, 2008 go into
shitty corporate restaurant dressed up as a waiter. take as many orders as
possible and then leave.
Jan 24, 2008 film biking from
overhead and project directly down on the ground. i don't know why? might look
cool, geez...gimme a break.
Jan 24, 2008 use thyroid
sonagram to make music. since thyroid cancer runs in my family and i am going
to get a sonogram of my throat i want to use ultra sounds in max to create
sound. especially since the throat is synonomous with sound, singing, and voice
it will be interesting to use an illustration of thyroid cancer which
debilitates the throat to create music which one would equate with a healthy
person.
Jan 23, 2008 use temperature to altar the
colors of a house. maybe in the sheila johnson design center i can use
temperature to create max generated projections on the walls. that way a visual
environment matches a sensation in a way creating nostalgia and realization of
specific moments through a shared experience. try in ones house as well. one
could program there favorite color to be their most comfortable temperature so
when the hue is not right one knows to turn the heat up or down. this could
also be used oppositely.
Jan 22, 2008 make modern day
russian orthodox reliquaries out of the metals found in computers. sketch right
huuuuur
Jan. 19,
2008 project pieces from Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper onto moving
subway cars and have their speed dictated by the speed of the train so it seems
affixed to the train.
Jan. 18, 2008 buy a fire
extinguisher and fill it with champagne. spray it at an orange tree around noon
on a sunday. Mimosa's for everyone!
Jan 17, 2008 make
gold basketball nets to put on courts throughout brooklyn.
Jan.
5, 2008 mad lib mural. paint large wall with fillin the blanks. place
console far away but in view of where people can type in the fill'ins. project
into spaces allotted and have the words slowly dissolve away after several
minutes.
2008
2007
December 2007
Dec. 29, 2007 place a stuffed dog around a paint roller so i
can paint the ground as it looks like i am walking my dog. use this prop to
paint curbs red to eliminate parking and congest streets. "Paint the town
Red"
Dec. 19, 2007outdue the listing capabilites of
Harrell Fletcher
Dec. 18,2007 drive a huge nail through
my temple
November 2007
Nov. 19,
2007 paint Max patch on wall that is literally built and effected by
the painting process.
Nov. 15, 2007 place white
surrender flags in the hands of statues and monuments.
Nov. 10,
2007 start mailing the US Embassy in Iraq with 'i'm sorry...' postcards
from citizens of America.
Nov. 07, 2007 place a mailbox
on a deserted building and mail letters to names of illegal immigrants in order
to give them legal living status via the governement.
Nov. 05,
2007 ellaborate the frame of a shopping cart to resemble historical
buildings from antiquity. use the mesh similiarly to columns in the corinthian,
doric, or ionic style.
Nov. 04, 2007 make detachable
component for cartcycle similiar to Peter Messerschmidt's Rollifiets that was
designed in W. Germany some two decades ago.
Nov. 03, 2007 play sounds from the destruction of baghdad throughout
central park via the GRL trike.
Nov. 01, 2007 make a
painting and then write the code in MAX or processing to duplicate the process.
also write a code and make a painting following those same rules.
October 2007
Oct. 30, 2007 run led xmas
lights using processing or max that are affected by snowfall, eggnog intake, or
present unwrapping.
Oct. 2, 2007
Pareidolia. real-time powerpoint presentation with David Elliot using 6 images
at random selected by the other person and sent one minute before presentation
Oct. 29, 2007 make cellphone program that records the
movement of your phone and converts it into an image.
Oct 27,
2007 (i)Use power drill with MSP so certain frequencies send bangs of
various frames of an animation so the drill controls the speed of the movie.
Oct. 26, 2007 (n)Place bizarre items with a phone number
written on them in back seat of taxi cab. Record the messages that people leave
on the phone reporting the lost item. Embed these messages in the item.
Oct. 25, 2007 start freedombicycle.com, a website based off of
stealing bicycles and leaving notes at the scene of the crime that have the web
address to find out what happened to their bike. In most cases their bicycle
will be given to a young kid who the victim will then have to make a valid
argument as to why they deserve their bike which seemed to have been abandoned
for some time.
Oct. 21, 2007 make my own wacky wally
thing and put on a heater vent.
Oct. 20, 2007 attach
wireless speakers to my tragis earrings
Oct. 19, 2007
learn how to build a freakin website
Oct. 18, 2007 make
che wearing a che shirt
Oct. 22, 2007 change mount rushmore to have teepees on the
presidents heads resembling party hats. send to local paper to start
controversy about native american rights.
Oct. 17, 2007
use QL to create stencils that can be affixed to murals that then link to a
podcast showing an animation with information about that particular space. Apply
this in other space specific ways.
Oct. 14, 2007 weld a
bicycle to a shopping cart
Oct. 12, 2007 bring back the soup-can telephone
Oct. 6, 2007 use hinges and a snake-like shape to create a
fold-out bed similar to how an ironing board works
Oct. 11,
2007 bake cookies and eat them all
Oct. 10,
2007 make etching for Julia's show in Minneapolis
Oct.
09, 2007 create podcasts that are all bicycle oriented and call it
'This American Bike' ripping off the technique used by Ira Glass on 'This
American Life'.
Oct. 08, 2007 afix sculptures next to
light sources to cast shadows depicting imagery
Oct. 07,
2007 flatten every frame of movies like 'Gone With the Wind' and
"Casablanca' into one image.
Do the same with 'Ghostbusters', 'Matrix', 'Kindergarten Cop'. Are there any
similarities
Oct. 05, 2007 make poster that reads: civil
civilians villainized over an iraq american hybrid flag
Oct. 05,
2007 interview the recyclers on Meserole st. with an interpreter
September 2007
Sept. 29, 2007 spray
Condon't across a condo being built as a protest against gentrification (you
know, like protesting myself...)
Sept. 28, 2007
graffiti preservation, treat it scientific, get interns, take samples in petri
dishes, etc...
Sept. 27, 2007
cyber-vandalism...photoshop the Hollywood sign to say 'like hollywood'. make
fake newsclippings and try to circulate them amongst adbustery type people till
it really does make the news.
Sept. 26, 2007 make the
'urban voice' using a pylon cone and a handle
Sept. 25,
2007 go panhandle in the financial district for one hour using a
cast-iron pan
Sept. 24, 2007 interview homeless on the
street and make them a t-shirt that has their resume printed on the front of it
to use in job interviews.
Sept. 23, 2007 make a
cardboard picket fence
Sept. 20, 2007 use your
audience, Victor Alimpiev
Sept. 19, 2007
shopleave...leave garbage, porn, bibles, etc. in stores
Sept.
17, 2007 reinvent history by painting pieces in an oldschool style and
dating them from the 80's.
Sept. 15, 2007 use reamweaver
for Turban Outfitters website 'jihad needs to look good too'
Sept. 14, 2007 open pho restaurrant called Pho Sho'
Sept. 13, 2007 centipedestrian
Sept. 11, 2007
Holevertisement, remember the chinese artist that cuts...
Sept.
10, 2007 Illuminate the invisible. Matta Clark
Sept.
8, 2007 graffitification of the commodity...program that adds
dropshadow and forcefield to any logo
Sept. 4, 2007
treat a relationship as a collaboratvie project
Sept. 2,
2007 txt blanket. a way to txt to the nearest thrift store so a
blanket can be sent to the locaiton of anyone homeless.
Sept 5,
2007 Play with processing and make an app that draws using onmouseover.
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