Wrapped up all my commercial projects and final mirror world class, along with working on a new hanging chandelier sculpture with @alifeeney . The stick sculpture runs a #webcam server with GPIO controls so that anyone can view and interact with the sculpture from anywhere in the world.

It's website is down currently, as it's the sculpture is my minivan with me as I drive cross country. I visited some old friends in Corning last night, and am staying with an exceptional neon bender who bent a lot of work for Bruce Nauman in Chicago tonight.

My show, "Embracing Fallibility" opens along with my "Mind Benders" class at FOCI, in Minneapolis in a few days. Until then, I will be driving a bunch listening to radio drama's and chatting with students as a visiting artist at UW Madison.

Oh it's hectic, but it's nice to be on the road again - the voice an stories of Joe Frank keeping me company

#roadtrip #mirror #class #workinprogress #sculpture #glass #neon #serversculpture #visitingartist

I was applying for a lil Art show that goes in conjunction with a Texas glass conference I am presenting at later this year when I realized that I dont actually have any edited photos of the Big Cobalt Sunset Eclipse Sphere I made last year.

A few minutes in GIMP fixed that. Here are two that make it look a little rounder than it really is.

Doubtful that they will have the shipping budget... but also doubtful that they will be able to find something quite like it. Who knows, a Fort Worth business might really like it? The piece is inspired by the eclipse that want through there last year... and those beautiful Texas Sunsets.

This piece can currently be seen (partially) LIVE at this link

alitv.weblink.ooo

As part of a server sculpture I am actively developing for an upcoming show.

#neon #foss #GIMP #glass #handmade #artist #brooklyn #texas #eclipse #line #light #space #sunset #cobalt #blue #sculpture #wip #serversculpture #cloudflaretunnel #livestream #gpio

My latest distraction from the emails I should be sending- a flask server that displays a webcam, has a sqlite database and has GPIO control.

I also have been playing with cloudflare tunnels so I can open this up to anyone who wants to blink it. The idea is to make it so anyone can interact with sculptures and "be" at the gallery without actually being there- so thousands of people could "attend" an art opening.

I wanna one day teach this web blinking neon stuff. Thinking of structuring the class as "WeBlink" and parodying WeWork to market it. I sorta share Adam Neuman's demographic... Except I actually use computers- just not so much for emailing ;)

Planning on bending a "WeBlink" neon that will allow people to vote on "We Blink" or "Web link" styled in your favorite co-working space font.... Just as soon as I ship off a bunch of ponies.... And finish this current wave of bill paying neon work :)

#programming #serversculpture #blink #sculpture #studio #brooklyn #nyc #art #weblink