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Portland State has yet another great Monday Night free lecture with Daniel Bozhkov. Not only is Daniel a renowned artist, he apparently has a sweet day job at Walmart.

From PSU:

Jan . 12 : Daniel Bozhkov
Daniel Bozhkov employs variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals from different fields, using different strategies to activate the public space. He enters the worlds of genetic science, department mega-stores, world-famous tourist-sites, as an amateur intruder/visitor who also functions as a producer of new strains of meaning into seemingly closed systems.

Daniel Bozhkov is a recipient of 2007 Chuck Close Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, and of Read the rest of this entry »

This looks like a promising Wednesday Night. You “tweeps”can also follow Drinking and Drawing on Twitter: DrinknDrawPDX.

From SIGGRAPH:
Drinking and Drawing: An Evening of Collaborative Animation

Drinking and Drawing is a super-fun animated jam session where animators and animation fans get together and do a little drinking, do a little drawing. Those who join in the drawing fun participate in the creation of an animated film in just one night!

How Does It Work?

Each animator receives a set of 8 blank cards in addition to the last card from the previous animator. This last card is the first frame for the next set of cards. Animators continue the animation. When they finish drawing, the animator vacates their seat, no dilly-dallying, and a new animator with blank cards is called to the table.

Repeat all evening and have some Fun! It ends up being a musical chairs way of producing a short animated film created by Read the rest of this entry »