Fractured Thoughts from Buckyben

My work is in general returning to the principals preached by my old print making teacher at Alfred University, Jesse Shefrin: Process is central. Not sure those were her exact words, but she took a deep appreciation for process and shared it with the class I attened with her, and she spoke of it often, and even though at the time Imay not have fully absorbed what she was getting at, it stuck to me. And with time, My work continues to be process orientated and with time my thought’s are of process and how to approach situations efficiently and in process orientated manors. I look at subway posters and think about the process. Books and movies, new construction, old buildings… I am increasingly seeing process in my daily life as well. How did that get made, why is the layout like so, but mostly, it is seeing improvement and potential in using the processes I reconstruct, in a meaningful way for my own art and the commercial work i am engaged in.

Where do you go everyday/? Is it the same places? How does your daily activities affect your art work or reduce the artwork u produce or affect the medium you use. My day is encouraging photo and video more lately. Thinking my new site design should reflect this. Buit still drawing resolves as my passion of passions, and will maintain a central role in the site redesign.

Vaca returns a refreshing perspective. Throughly enjoyed the landscape of Maine once again and traveled further north. Love the pentagoet inn and checked out Owen House in Canada. Shot great photos and videos to soon be posted online via flicker and itunes. Working on a series of 1:10 video edits and will create a podcast to share. Been into the itunes podcasts lately. The video content podcasts have blossomed as of late. Feel the need to contribute. Also has resurrected a desire to recut a number of unfinished projects that contain great footage, but were just too long.

Just like the broken string. Broken sting. oooo, BrokenToken. BrokenPlace. BrokenUX. Brokenface. brokenthoughts. brokenbrain

much of why user experience { UX } is not tracking much above .03 % may be due to not providing the type of UX that users interact with and will willingly engage with in advertising. Why does the industry still go to the old model of 15sec animation, slowly deliver messaging, yada yada, menu comes up, and user is now not even there to see the menu load? Advertisers and agencies at large are going through the motions and not putting UX enough in the for front for interactive advertising and web interactivity at large. What is the next model then? Is it interface first, messaging second? Perhaps, but this is just a part of really listening to how users interact and working within that frame work, and not just going through the motions.

It was a great experience to teach this class. We made some great work. Te student Blog is here:: It was wonderful to see the students grow from the experience of a agency setting and to see the work they produced. I’ll have a follow up added shortly.

Elise and I kicked it in vegas for the weekend. She had a work trip and I joined here for research on the new Las Vegas Experience. And WOW, what a overload on visial candy and sound and bangaboomboom, from people and billboards that are of video to sound pollution to wowowo chicks with like almost nothing on, it is a sensory parade, with a range of restaurants and entertainment shows from cirque de soleileile to strip parades to movies and shows on the street, there is so much to do, and it is really so wasteful. So much water is wasted - so much food wasted, such an energy sucker. It is truly a city of excess. Fascinating from an entertainment perspective. Sad from an environmental perspective. This city stimulates discussion and architectural wonders. It definitely deems further research and discussion from the perspective as some philosophers have addressed as simulacrum and from the perspective of environmental and energy wastefulness. It is a strange and wonderful place, that regardless of your perspective of the city, it stimulates thoughtfulness and meditation on what it is and what it stands for. How will history describe this place?