Production for my ITP thesis project is well underway! I will be posting details later this week.

This week I performed my new interactive comedy project “Rusty Business” at the ITP New Interfaces for Musical Expression Concert 2009 in Brooklyn at Southpaw. My project is a video sequencer that produces electronically controlled cartoon antics when large inflatable hammers hit jumbo push button switches. My performance also featured a guest appearance by Elie Zananiri who played the role as my character’s boss.

Click here to view more photos from the show. (Courtesy of LEESEAN)

The web site I designed for the University of South Carolina Aiken’s online student magazine was recently launched. The site’s overall purpose is to provide a news resource for student’s studying at the University. My focus on their redesign was to create a more youthful and fun look to help students become more interested to engage in on campus social life, take a look.

The past few weeks have been busy. Aside from interning at MTV, I am hard at work planning and preparing an array of fun interactive projects that I will be developing at ITP over the next year. I will be writing plenty about them shortly. Also, I am currently in the process of re-designing my website for the first time in three years. The preparation process is always difficult for me. I just want to be creating. A wise man once told me that patience is a virtue!

I was recently hired by MTV to help assist in the daily production and development of MTV online sites. Work commences in two weeks!

I will be showcasing my new sustainable project A Simple Cup at this Spring’s ITP Show in New York City at the Tisch School of the Arts. Come and check out everyone’s amazing projects! Lot’s of really cool and innovative projects have been developed over the past few months. The dates of the exhibit are …

May 10th, 2pm to 6pm
May 11th, 5pm to 9pm

The address is 721 Broadway on the fourth floor.

See you there!

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Modern Living is a series of fifteen television parodies that mock various perspectives of television culture. The five-minute compilation pokes fun at our TV-addicted age by presenting a variety of imitated television programming and advertisements. These segments center around issues and themes that is relevant in our modern times including mass-consumption, obsession with stardom and ubiquitous technology. Each parody is presented with the same recognizable character throughout, who is placed in different mediated contexts. The performer also acts as the viewer of his own programming, revealing a perspective of television we don’t see when sitting on our couch.

Modern Living advances on my continuous interest in mocking television culture. These parodies are meaningful to me because they reveal the deceptiveness behind media corporations in a fun and creative way. The work also illustrates the damaging effects television can place on a viewer’s impression of the world.