I’m prepping to do a 1024 LED sculpture, and the suggestion came up of scaling it from 2′ x 2′ to 4′ x 4′. I was concerned that this new size without an equivalent increase in LEDs (which I really am not prepared to do) so I built a sample square foot panel to try the spacing. Of course, I don’t have a square foot protoboard (does anyone?) so instead I built it on a piece of cork board. What I really liked about this method was that it allowed me to prototype it as a 2 layer board.

The larger scale actually works a lot better than I anticipated.

I’m moving to Portland (the one in Oregon) tomorrow. But TV and Internet won’t be set up at my place until a week from Monday.

I’ll see you then. To keep yourself entertained watch The Middle Man while I’m gone. It’s a good show.

No, I’m not dead. I’ve just been away from internet.

I’ve spent the last 2 weeks galavanting around the country. Well, a few key spots around the country any way. I spent a week in New York, checking out museums and lounging in the park (As hot and humid as it was, park lounging was a daily activity.) and then a week driving between California and Oregon taking care of things and catching up with friends.

This is hardly a report. Merely a heart beat.

So, I just rebuilt my website ( as you can probably tell, assuming you’re reading this blog at http://www.andrewparnell.com ) but unfortunately, where I currently am, I have no practical way of doing more cross browser/platform testing than just Safari and Firefox 3. It seems to work perfectly in both of those, but if you’re on something else, or something just seems wrong for that matter, please let me know. Thanks!

I came across this piece shortly after I made my eye, and I absolutely love it. I really wish I could figure out how to do eye tracking, there are so many great possibilities.

Also: opto-isolators happen to be my favorite electronic part. Just saying.

Came across another cool piece of device art today:

iamclean.org lets you know every time the proprietor has put on deodorant since December 2007.

Personally I think it should be hooked up to a twitter feed.

(Side note, since I’m having a slow day at work: if you look at their code for going from the device to xml, their use of MySQL is totally extraneous. You can actually use PHP to directly write/maintain XML databases. Just use the DOM structures. DOM for php 5+ DOM XML for php 4.)

As part of my daily blog crawl I came across the work of Moritz Waldemeyer.

I’d seen some of his work before, namely the LED Jackets he did for OK Go, but I really had not seen the rest of his portfolio, which I’ve got to say is a lot more impressive.

A few pieces I’m really digging:

Twilight

By Royal Appointment

And Step by Step, which photos just don’t do justice for.

I also really like his collaborative projects, especially his ones with Chalayan like One Hundred and One. Simply amazing.

Just came across Yuri Suzuki. Yuri does some really cool sound informed work. Really neat stuff.

As an artist it’s good, if not vital, to be aware of what other people are doing. What I find tough is to see the cool work other people are doing and not feel stifled by it. Really, I just need to get past my initial “why didn’t I think of that first moment” (see Yuri Suzuki’s Lemon Light) but sometimes that’s really hard.

“The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.”

This thing is brilliant, especially when his stated purpose is taken into consideration “People