BECOMING ROBOT

Why I’m not actively maintaining several sketchbooks is unbeknownst to me. This shit needs to change ASAP. I think things will seriously come together when I begin to realize the shrinking distance between my art and design practice. I’ll need to begin asserting this as my main goal, thereby possibly requiring some serious collaborations/mergers real soon.

Is complete (for now). It’s crude. It requires manual updates across interior Flash files and XML functionality. It’s totally hacked together, but it serves its purpose quite well. Oh, and I just discovered the wonderful world of website-widget creation. Word.

Here’s a some random output (color palettes withheld):

- In any style of your choosing, create some print collateral material about kids and camouflage.

- In any media of your choosing, create something that is vintage in style and about kittens and plateaus.

- Create a weathered paper style T-shirt design about the occult and medical operations.

- Create a vintage style animation of sexy girls.

And here’s a preview pic of that last one:

(”undefined” means that category didn’t hit.  I have sub-categories with a 50% and 25% chance of reporting something back)

For the past couple weeks I’ve been in some awesome meetings with local business-architects, consultants, start ups, and young ad agency/marketing firms… very promising! Anyways, I’ve updated the design portion of the site with a couple new quickies.

So… the architecture of the site is sound (I think). At some point later, if I’m feeling super obsessive, I may rebuild some things in order to get the menu navs, typography, and logo placements exactly the same across each portion of the site. For now, I think it is best to just get new content up ASAP.

Yeah…. GIDGET.  About that.  Well, let’s just say that name is most likely not permanent.  I’m not sure it needs a “codename” to be honest.  So, what is this GIDGET thing I speak of ?

The plan is to create an XML driven Flash applet that can receive uploaded text populating several predetermined categories.  I’m thinking its going to be a text-based exquisite corpse of sorts.  As I previously mentioned, its a “generative” (more so random) idea generator.   I hit a button and it tells me what project I am working on that week.

Once it is completed, the plan is to update the Design content of this site with whatever it tells me to do.