Sam Brubaker was kind enough to send me a scan of this April’s copy of Mechanical Engineering magazine. Shapeways once again made the news, and the magazine put Petunia on the page rather prominently. Once again there’s proof that giving away things is cool!
Petunia spotted in mechanical engineering magazine!
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Photos of my oil paintings published online
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Right after I finished my stint at the art academy in 1999, I spent a few years in my studio working on a first series of oil paintings. A number of them have been sold in the meantime, but I still have a few. Since the light was quite nice in my appartment today I decided to take some photos, and put them here on my website.
Four albums released on Jamedo
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
A while ago I put a selection of my old music recordings online at alienhelpdesk.com as mp3′s. Since quite a few people seem to enjoy the tracks I decided to upload all my albums to Jamendo.com. So now the songs can be downloaded more easily as well.
Naturally the license is also Creative Commons By 3.0 just like everything on this website. That means that you can use the tracks for whatever you want, as long as you give me credit for creating them.
A workshop in Cologne
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
I will lead a two day workshop at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne Germany. On thursday and friday we will explore character modelling, rigging, and the basics of animation. As a special treat we’ll spend saturday having an open lab experimenting with the institute’s new motion capture equipment.
Petunia spotted
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Once again shapeways has made it into the news. This time on the rather well known dutch website nuzakelijk.nl. On the page is a small video, and if you really pay attention you can see Petunia standing in the background in a couple of shots.
First two Escherisms released
Monday, January 26th, 2009
At this point in time I am studying the life, and work of MC Escher. To really understand what he did, and learn the lessons he learnt I am not just reading books, but also creating a series of works using his techniques, and ideas. Hopefully I can find the time to also visit a few of the places that inspired him. It is not my goal to copy what he has done, but to learn, improve my skills, knowledge, and take pattern design as a whole to a new level.
You can find the first two designs of the new series amongst my patterns.
Release a great succes!
Monday, December 29th, 2008
A week ago I released all my design files. Or at least, those that I could find. I have to say how incredible the response has been! Within the first 24 hours after the news hit blendernation, and the blenderartists forums this site logged over 2000 downloads. In a week it’s grown to over 4000! I had expected perhaps a few hundred. It proves to me that my choice was the right one.
Thank you everyone! Don’t forget to let me know what you’ve done with my work.
Releasing my designs
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
After having a long deep think I finally decided to release the design files for all my published works. Since I’ve always been taught to protect my copyrights and source files it was a big step, but I’m confident it’s the right way to go.
You can read a bit more about it on blendernation and my post at the blenderartists forum.
I chose to release under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. This means that anyone can use my works for anything they want, as long as they mention me as the creator/source of the design.
Petunia in paper
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Emu made this wonderfull paper version of Petunia. This really is the reason I love giving things away for free. It’s incredibly motivating to see what people come up with.
For the full post with more images, and an explanation of how he did it go here.
Exhibit in Kingsport
Sunday, December 7th, 2008For the second year running a design of mine is shown at the International Digital Art Show in Kingsport Tennessee. See the website of organiser Byron Kindig for some more information.