For the next few days I’ll be live-blogging the Art Center conference over at Core77. The theme is Serious Play and last night’s opening was pretty seriously fun. Should be a good time; as you can see from this illustration Jeff Decoster drew of me at the last Art Center conference, I just kick back, relax, and type 1456 words a minute for twelve hours at a time until my fingernails pop off.

While you’re at Core77, check out “La Tour Awful: The Truth Is Rendered” a piece I wrote about that Eiffel Tower proposal that got everyone buzzing a few months ago.

Okay, back to raking my bloody fingers over the keyboard.

After recording plenty of audio interviews, my first Straight to Video production for my good friends at Core77 features the delightful Elena Manferdini and her elegant MERLETTI<inter>LACE installation at SCI-Arc. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s up until May 11 and definitely worth the trip downtown.

I shot this with my new Flip Ultra, which I highly recommend (Mac users need to install this free plug-in, but otherwise, no issues whatsoever). Still working on improving the sound quality (I’m gluing acoustic tiles to my closet walls right now) and optimizing the export from iMovie, but overall, I think it turned out great. Thanks to Elena and everyone at SCI-Arc who shot my b-roll for me. See, that’s one of the benefits of having such a cool little camera: Everyone wants to play with it!