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Remember last year when the Chipstone Foundation issued the Tool at Hand Challenge and I created a piece called Plastic Sun? Well, during the event I was interviewed by WUWM and the story aired on Lake Effect this past weekend.
You can check out the archive and if you want to hear my segment, here’s an MP3.
Enjoy!
Mark Lindquist, Dowel Bowl, Hardwood Dowels, Glue, 5 1/2″ H x 36″ D, 2011. Copyright © 2011 Lindquist Studios – All Rights Reserved
If I haven’t bugged you about it yet, I’ll be at The Tool at Hand Milwaukee Challenge with a piece I created using just one tool.
There’s a little background on it here, and a post about it here, and you can RSVP on Facebook.
But besides all that, it’s at Sweet Water Organics, 2151 S. Robinson Avenue in Milwaukee, from 1pm to 5pm on March 17th, 2012. I hope to see you there.
And here’s a sneak peek at my piece:
Update: Enough waiting… you can see it here: rasterweb.net/raster/projects/plasticsun/
For the Web414 March 2009 Meeting we’ll be discussing Creativity Challenges on the web.
Have you taken part in National Novel Writing Month, or the RPM Challenge (record an entire album in a month) or maybe taken a photo every single day for a year for the 365 Days Project?
These are challenges (not contests) and there isn’t a winner or a loser (unless you beat yourself up about not finishing) but if all goes well, attempting to “meet the challenge” will force you to be creative when it’s so easy not to be. It’s too simple to come home from work, plop down on the couch and consume the latest piece of “entertainment” that someone else created, but if you like writing, making music, or photography, why not step it up and see what you can really do by giving yourself a challenge to be met?
It can be difficult… most of the people I know involved in these challenges have day jobs, friends and family, and other responsibilities. And often, things just “get in the way” or go haywire and you just can’t do it. Equipment breaks, computers crash, files get lost. I saw a post in the RPM Challenge forums from a guy who said he couldn’t finish due to the fact that he had to get divorced. Life can get in the way of things, and that’s all part of the challenge.
If everything goes right, you complete the challenge, you’re proud of what you’ve created, and hopefully you’ve learned something in the process, had some fun, and make plans to continue creating things and being creative.
If discussing this further sounds interesting, please stop by Bucketworks Thursday, March 12th, 2009 at 7pm and join in…
We are half way there… and when I say “half way” I’m referring to the fact that the month is half over as well as the fact that I’ve got half of my material recorded.
Though “half done” may not exactly be the right thing to say. While I do have 22 minutes of music recorded and roughly mixed, I still have not added vocals, and I’m sick right now, so I can’t record vocals.
It’s been a challenge this year, that’s for sure, as it should be. Last year I didn’t really have a plan other than “record 10 songs” which I did, but this year I had larger ambitions, which included doing some of the drums (did a little of that) but also sequencing my own beats (didn’t do that yet) but I also had in mind a concept album, which tells a story… I’m still not sure how that will turn out. Overall, I’m happy with the sound I am getting, and learning a lot more about engineering using Logic, which was a major goal this time.
I still have two weeks, and in that time I need to produce another 13 minutes of music, as well as design and produce the album art. I have a few ideas for the artwork, but I haven’t nailed anything down yet. I am pretty excited to see what people think of this release, as it’s a departure from the other things I’ve recorded lately. I honestly don’t expect most of the people I know to like it, but that has much to do with the style and genre of the music I’m creating, and I’m fine with that.
All said and done, I’m glad I’m doing this again. It really is a good challenge to get your mind (and fingers) working towards creating music. I can’t wait for it to be done though…
Some of the Web414 members will be trekking up to Minneapolis to compete in the F1 Website Challenge, which is a (friendly?) competition between web-builders to create web sites for Minnesota non-profit organizations.
The team from Web414 consists of Matt Gauger, Jeramey Jannene, Kevin Ciesielski, Blake Hall, Abraham Williams, Ashe Dryden, Sam Nobiensky, and Tracy Apps.
A few members of this team were responsible for kicking out ihatetreehouses.info in a matter of hours, in a late night session at BarCampMilwaukee2. Just imagine what they can do when they have an actual real-world project to focus on.
Sadly, I can’t take part, as I have to play soccer that weekend, but I look forward to seeing what they can do. And hey, it’s all for a good cause. In fact, I’ve already heard talk that a similar event for helping Wisconsin non-profit organizations may take place in Milwaukee in 2008. How’s that for cool?
I can’t help but guess that Web414 may end up using Drupal cuz most of us are fans of it. It’ll be interesting to see how they do against the other teams, who are listing things like .Net and Ruby as their platforms of choice.
Good luck Team Web414!