woe is me; the fix is in, 2008

Co-worker/Homie Jamie Banes made this at work. An interactive sculpture that shivers when you blow into its fan. You can see more at jamiebanes.com

Preview for the new book

A sneak peak of my new book project. coming soon.

Porch light show

Bush T, Colby and I were chillin on the porch last night and we made some light drawings.

Jaiv1 Book First Editions

The First Edition has an dark olive green card stock cover and 36 pages of collected illustrations done by me over the last 5 years. Limited stock, for more info contact jaivset1@gmail.com

First Book Prototypes

This is a current project I'm working on. Self published documents of ongoing studies and projects.

News We Want to See

Old classmate Steve Lambert joins up with the Yes Men to publish a Hoax on Hope.

New Watchmen Trailer

So Far So Good!

Hexapod Dance Off

Check out the dance moves by these hexapod bots! Several designs of these crab-like robots were entered for the 2008 Austrian Hexapod Championship. But the Sony QRios blow these away.

Snickers!? Are you kidding me?

This Commercials way too cool!!

Evolution of Technology

“Evolution of Technology” is a brilliant promotional campaign by the German electronics retailer, Saturn, which presents a Darwinian-like evolutionary struggle for survival among different species.

Whiteboard Pong

Take a regular Whiteboard, regular Whiteboard markers and play PONG irregularly. What you are seeing is a real live demonstration of our physics based engine responding to it’s real life surroundings, the computer sees and recognises the black shapes on the whiteboard and the virtual ball behaves accordingly. From ENESS.

Fly Drawing Device

This installation made by David Bowen, it produces drawings based on the subtle movements of houseflies.

Monkey, Journey to the West

Monkey: Journey to the west is a stage adaptation of the 16th Century Chinese novel Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en. It was conceived and created by the Chinese actor and director Chen Shi-zheng, together with the British musician Damon Albarn and British artist Jamie Hewlett (the man Behind Tank Girl and Gorillaz). However, the original idea came from Jean-Luc Choplin, head of the Chatelet Theatre in Paris



I know its for the 2008 Olympics but its always great to see Jamie Hewlett's work come to life with out having to wait for a Gorillaz album to drop. Plus: try to count all the sport events that the all the character reenact.

The Transformer-Shelf

Great shelf design by Amsterdam based product designer Martin Sämmer. So sick i wanna copy it and make my own.

Opto-Isolator, Interactive art

Opto-Isolator 2007 By Golan Levin with Greg Baltus / Standard Robot Company.
"What if artworks could know how we were looking at them? And, given this knowledge, how might they respond to us?" The Eyeball responds and mimics the viewer by making eye contact and blinking when they blink.

Bike Kung-fu

I Found this on Urban Velo, so sick! Kara Hui Ying Hung and her minions fight off some men with bikes in this classic Shaw Brothers movie, directed by Lau Kar Leung.
Movie also starring Gordon Liu, Johnny Wang Lung Wei, Hsiao Ho, Robert Mak, Wong Yu and Ku Feng.

Not on the trian please...

New Tokyo Metro manner posters. They Funny

Plantbot

"Solar seeking botanical augmentation" made by The Play Coalition.

Kill and Kill Again (1981) - Bullet Scene

so funny its sick!

Cutting Out the Middleman

Imbue installs the "Drug Vend" at Brighton Pier. Which is nice cuz you won't have to deal with shady ass drug dealers anymore.

Bend Panel Laptop case

laptop case from designer Brian Kelly. I've been obsessed with bend panels, I gotta jump on that shit.

Game Over at Giant Robot

Giant Robot presents “Game Over”, Art of the Gamer Generation. opening Oct. 11th.
Opening Reception: 6:30pm to 10pm, Oct. 11, 2008.
Address: 618 Shrader St., San Francisco, CA 94117

Fleet Week

The Galactic Empire decided to show up this year.

Banksy's Petshop

Banksy opened the "Village Pet store and Charcoal Grill" in NYC. its gonna be up till Oct 31.

“New Yorkers don’t care about art, they care about pets. So I’m exhibiting them instead. I wanted to make art that questioned our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming, but it ended up as chicken nuggets singing. I took all the money I made exploiting an animal in my last show and used it to fund a new show about the exploitation of animals. If its art and you can see it from the street, I guess it could still be considered street art."

-Banksy

Compghost Conversation

Dude I got a new tool today.

Clever pipes

Seen somewhere on 24th street SF

Throwback sculpture from 06

"Sibyl" ceramic and acrylic

The word sibyl probably comes (via Latin) from the Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. (Other schools of thought suggest that the word may have come from Arabic.) The earlier oracular seeresses known as the sibyls of antiquity, "who admittedly are known only through legend" (Burkert 1985 p 117) prophesied at certain holy sites, probably all of pre-Indo-European origin, under the divine influence of a deity, originally one of the chthonic earth-goddesses. Later in antiquity, sibyls wandered from place to place.

BoomTables

The Genesis to a whole new series of functional furniture.

Sloth Crossing

Designer in Caracas made the Baruta Council signs for sloth crossing.
http://www.gabrielgomez.com.ve/yagrumo/index.htm#4

Live Painting

Painted Live at Veni Vidi Vici Juxtapoz issue release party Sep 13th 2008 at club 6 SF on stage with AudioPharmacy.

www.audiopharmacy.com

Seen at 16th and Mission Bart station.

Jaiv Blog Whats Up!

Ethan just showed me how easy it is to do this. where the hell have i been? daaaaaaang! It would probably not be a good idea to break a bottle of Champaign on his computer so we'll just metaphorically break one on this imaginary ship of a blog. 

J1