well Heloooooo intewebs I'm back.

as the title says the Mad Artisan returns with a vengeance, the end of my last quarter coupled with the beginning of my current one has put me more than a little behind on updating well... anything. Seriously I had to actually Look at my last post to figure out where I need to pick back up. There's SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH for me to post I don't even know where to start. So I'm just going to talk about what I've done and post pictures later when I have the time.

I've made some rad things like a Muppet-esque version of myself. somehow managed to recover many of my what I though was lost photographs from Intermediate Sculpture, been working on a cavalcade of plush monsters as well as some experiments in Creature-y things that can hold stuff. I'm long over due for posting the Final Version of GRANDUJ (Redux) to the interwebs, but that is coming soon too.  I'm Working on A Video Project, some performance-y things and a like 16-page Graphic Novel this quarter, plus I have another Research-driven class... I'm pretty busy.

So, without further delay, Pics:

Last quarter I shaved off my 'stache for the sake of a character I was performing, thus puppetnate reflects that fact.

I've been expanding on the Idea that started with the Nomsters, making some various types of Nonsense Monster "Bags" with either drawstring pulls or zipper mouths. My protoypes here, are used as Dicebags:

Voodoo Head Drawstring bag:

Zippermouth Nomster:

There's a couple more of these guys I'll post pictures when I get the chance.

I've also made 5 more nomsters on commission:

Also I recently finished The First of 8 new Pyramidsaurs, This is Slunk Muhwunk.

Fun Fact: this was the last one that I started of this set, but the first that I finished.

I should have the rest of these guys as well as like 3 other plush projects in the works and updated soon, and speaking of plushies I totally just noticed that pretty much my entire stock in my Etsy Store has timed out, I'm going to re-list everthing at lower prices as well as put up some new stuff, tell your friends and family help support my time-wasting monster making!

Also I want to once again Plug my current Video Project AMASS MEDIA I'm looking to collect as many submissions as I can.

-MadArtisan

Amass Media

This is my open call to all my Video-minded Comrades in Arts and the interwebs. I'm working on a video project right now that requires Collaborators/contributors.

The Amass Media project is a critique/study of Mass Media , (i.e. television, internet, advertising, shows, news ect...) That will use a collection of New Videos that  are “a reaction to” or “Critique of” Mass Media.

A wide collection of Video Art falls in to this field including works like Dara Birnbaum's Technology Transformation, Ant Farm's Media Burn, and Richard Serra's Television Delivers people, or in a modern sense you can look at Auto-tune the News. I'll add links to them at the end of this post.

What I'm looking for are short 30 second to 1 and a half min long videos that are your personal reaction to Mass Media.

I personally plan on producing a minimum of 5+ different style videos(in addition to using a couple I've already made) for this on my own so that even if I don't receive many submissions I can get the feeling I'm aiming for, but I'm hoping to get videos from as many people as possible.

I intend to compile the videos I receive together into a single final Video that I'm turning in for my final project for my Video History and Critique class, and I'll also post it to the internet.

all contributors will be credited as Collaborators on the final work, and I'll do something to produce a digital public Archive the individual Videos as well. This is an Open Call for ideas, if you have any friends you think would enjoy contributing to this, Feel Free to Share!

The Thing is If you'd like to submit a video to this, I will need it by May 28th at the latest. I'm only looking for short submissions so I'm hoping that will make it something you guys are able to do in such short notice.

In terms of how to submit your video if it's small enough you can E-mail it to N8@madartisanlabs.com or  people I see on a regular basis, can give me it as a digital file in person. If you want to post it to youtube or something I don't currently have a decent way to download it and convert it into something I can edit.


-Nate

Links:

Technology Transformation: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4y5e5_dara-birnbaum-technologytransformat_shortfilms

Media Burn: http://www.ubu.com/film/ant_farm_media.html

Television Delivers People: http://www.ubu.com/film/serra_television.html

Auto-tune the news: http://www.youtube.com/show/autotunethenews?s=1