As you may have noticed, things have changed around here.
This new version of the site comes after a good two years with the old one, equaling about twenty in internet-years. This time around, things are cleaner, the grids are more clear, and the whole content hierarchy has been cleaned up. Oh, and the new one loads four times faster than the old. I have some additional speed improvements coming up shortly too, so hang tight.
Oddly, the hardest part was getting the footer just right. So scroll all the way down and feast your eyes on that beauty, eh? Too bad it’s the last thing people see in here.
The shop have also gotten an overhaul, with nice new photos of all the prints, and some other minor improvements here and there. For new readers, this is how this place used to look(yuck!):
How do you like the new looks? Feedback is appreciated!
I just started the first work on my final exam project, and I’ll post regularly about it as it moves forward.
In the project, I try to explore ways to bring the audience of an electronic concert closer to an understanding of the music, through visualizing and interpreting the performance.
In electronic music, most artist stand on stage (many even sit on chairs while playing, what kind of signal is that) look like they’re checking their email. Electronic instruments are ubiquitous objects, usually incomprehensible to the audience. So I try to engage the audience more, and give them a larger understanding of what happens, through visual communications.
Right now I’m kind of stressed out, since the definitions of the product itself is still completely unknown to me, and I have a mountain of work to do. But it’s fun work, so I’m not really worried. Here are some of my initial inspiration, if you would like to watch where my head is at right now. I’ve also set up a process reference blog at javalightmagic.tumblr.com, and I’ll post my own sketches and further work right here. See you soon!
With this new site layout, I can write these little bits on all sorts of stuff, and put them in the sidebar. Expect tour dates and links to current projects to pop up.
The project represents the fruits of my 3-week stay in Copenhagen, being a guest at her photography business, and was finished in exactly one week (that’s fast!). When Hanne and myself are working together, we use the name JAHA, as it is a composite of both our names, and more projects will undoubtly come in the future (you better watch out).
One of my very best friends, Jørgen Håland, who just happens to be a prodigy with a mouse and a wacom pad, just finished another of his short films, working in Cinema4D and After effects to make this beautiful room of classic furniture pieces. If you like what you see, have a look at his Vimeo page, which has plenty of nice things of all genres.
I asked him what the idea behind whas, and this is what he said:
The thought was to create a room, using natural light opposed to global illumination, with ambient occlution. After some research and modeling, it seemed classic furniture pieces would be a nice way to go. It became a bit “twin peaks”-like, with the dark drapes in the background.
When I started my own web store a little while back, I tried to do my fair bit of homework beforehand, trying to find out how to do this thing right. There are plenty of solutions and services available, some great, some bad, some cheap, some free, some stupendously overpriced. In this post, I’ll try to share what I have learned, making my own shop.
In my case, I had spent the last year designing and printing art posters, some for clients, other just for myself. I got a lot of great feedback on them, and I had sold some to people I know directly, but I didn’t really have a big plan about them. I was running out of storage space and needed to defend paying so much for paper and art supplies, so the idea of selling the prints though my website emerged. And here we are!
How do you like the new looks? Feedback is appreciated!
