I visited the Ron Mueck exhibit at the Warhol last night with the local Arthouse Meetup Group. I had a great time talking with the local members and touring the work.

Mueck has a real command of his craft. It was interesting to see the process in an informational video. He seemed almost as alien as his work, speaking just about as much. I went in liking “Mask II”, a self portrait, but I left with my favorite piece being “Wild Man”. It almost felt as I crouched down and examined his feet that the giant man would hop up and curbstomp me.

The “Spooning Couple” was also quite impacting along with any of the smaller works. The level of detail on such a small area was intense.

Examining all of the pieces, I could see a resemblance between all the pieces of the artist himself. The depth of the eyes were all very akin.

There were seven works in total that were shown: “In Bed”, “A Girl”, “Wild Man”, “Spooning Couple”, “Man in a Boat”, “Mask II” and “Mask III”.

Truly impressive work.

Like a streaking phoenix, I aim to retake the hopeless shell of a temporary design that had previously tarnished the web. I launched the new site yesterday, and plan to start populating content and clearing away the cobwebs of CMS conversion. So if you are seeing some out of place elements, have no fears… those will soon be remedied.

Its been somewhere over a month since I switched over to an apple. I picked up the MacbookPro flavor and I have to say that it tastes pretty good.

Here are a few of my opinions on it so far…

• The font management on OSX is far superior to Windows… basically Windows has none.
• Automator: After seeing this demonstration is about the point that a Mac’s silvery glow started calling to me. It was just one of those apps that I couldn’t see Microsoft ever including in its OS.
• The UI is far superior. I actually use the finder. Searching on a Windows machine was such an arduous task.
• No viruses yet.
• I am still getting used to all of the new key commands and key symbols.
• I dig dual booting. OSX plays well will the Windows Partition.
• I have not yet even begun to learn about the guts of the OS. After having so much experience with the Windows registry and utilities it was a little ominous leaving that for something new, but so far it has been great.
• I am also looking forward to popping FinalCut Pro Studio 2 on here and taking it for a spin.
• Some of the Adobe line are still being developed for Windows only, which is a little frustrating for workflow. I don’t know how many times in a row I have restarted the machine only to forget to press the option key for bootcamp. ID10-T Errors, gotta love ‘em.
• I love being able to drag a file to the taskbar to open it with a program.

I will probably be cross platform for quite some time to come. PCs have their upside, as I will be able to upgrade my 4 or so other machines with whatever Frankenstein pieces I can pick up along the way. They make great render nodes for larger 3D projects, every cycle counts. It seems like people like to throw them away after they get a new one… to which I say: send them to me!

It is upon us again…

DnA had a great turnout and DnA 2.0 looks like it will be even better!

Performances by: Doughnuts in November, Pfunkt, and Apefight.
More artists than you can shake a stick at(Depending on the size of stick).
Pance Darty afterwards.

Get all of the details at:
doughnutsandart.com

Dont forget to come… thats the important part.

Doughnuts in November is kicking off an art/music experience come April 23rd, 2007…

Why should you attend you might ask?

FREE DONUTS! (And to check out the bands and local artists of course.)

Besides, I’ll be there. Isn’t that reason enough? … Don’t answer that.

The event will be held at the Creative Treehouse in Bellevue, PA.
For more details, go to DoughnutsAndArt.com!