I am a multimedia developer for ARTS Lab. I may be able to help you with questions about the internet, gaming, interface design, flash, motion capture, print, video, and other media stuff.
I am a native New Mexican that can't speak spanish.
I hope you find what you are looking for here. If not - just ask - there is a good chance I can find an answer for you.
I'm Eric. I help get people from a variety of backgrounds together and work at developing projects. If you need to find someone who does X or Y, I'll be glad to help.
I'm also a writer. I've written screenplays, some plays that have been staged locally, as well as some published short stories and poetry.
I'm a sucker for discussions about consciousness, free will and the creative impulse.
I'm Marcos. I'm a Media Specialist at YDI right now and I do a lot of arts in the community projects that involve youth from economically challenged areas of town, and I also take care of the entire agency's media needs.
YDI is New Mexico's largest non-profit social services agency, and it provides a ton of services such as Head Start, homeless outreach, syringe exchange, mentoring, tutoring, so and and so forth.
I'm also a UNM Media Arts grad (2003).
I have 5 years experience producing, writing, directing, shooting, and editing digital video. I also write poetry and mess around with some photography (still learning).
Some of you may remember me from either the UNM maya class or Digital Pueblo. Im still working over here at Boeing doing all kinds of multimedia stuff. Mostly maya and after effects work, But I have been recently building a new rendering pipeline to integrate distributed rendering for both renderman renders and maya renders. Lots of fun. Anyways Ive finally got my bachelors degree in Art and am working towards a masters in CS now.
I thought I would drop by and see how y'all were doing, and it seems very well. Id love to find out more about all the fun and exciting things happening around here.
Anyways anyone can email me at musicraker@hotmail.com if you want to talk personally, other than that Ill be stopping it periodically to check things out.
I've been interested in the ARTS Lab since I became aware of it last year at Siggraph. I've been interested in New Mexico after I drove through it once many years ago. I'm currently living in L.A. doing various types of multimedia, A/V, etc. I'm sort of interested in a location change, though.
I have a lot of general (very dumb) questions. Are most participants in the ARTS Lab Fine Arts majors? Undergrad or graduate? And I have more general questions like, how is the employment scene in New Mexico for the tech and multimedia-savy?
I'd like to introduce myself by way of my reaction to Hue Walker's grand domey winner at Domefest. My hope is that others on the list will share their insight and reactions - especially Ed who might be able to share what the spot-on judges thought about it.
Hue's political, pyscho-spiritual, shamanistic, and so eternally relevant master work "Our Time to Walk" has pushed the science and art of dome film to a new level.
As an indy graphics and video software coding geek for the last 20 years (http://www.stone.com), I'm interested in learning more about how those seamless interwoven morphing image transitions were done.
As a druish hin-jew and lifelong pursuer of mystical states using sacred technologies ( techgnosis ), fasting, and generally anything in the seeker's bag o' tricks, I was propelled into sacred timespace and was immediately transformed by the powerful and transcendental message which in part contained from my perspective: "we're in an evolviing chain of life that is ancient, it's up to each of us to choose peace and beauty in every day and moment - and most importantly, it's each individual's responsibility to be aware of and guide what they create, and quite simply each of us not only can but must choose what to add to the wheel of life now that it's our turn!"
I'm a zomefest newbie and I've been helping Spot Draves with the mac port of electric sheep for a few years, so my perceptions are the view of an outsider - and possibly akin to the intended audience.
That said, I surely don't mean to step on anyone's toes, but: Some of the entries after seeing her piece felt basically soulless - sure, state of the entertainment world art, techno-whizzy but machine-made without consciousness - or trite or ads for NASA - or plain vertigo-inducing eye candy, all of which have their place no doubt, but pale to a bona fide spiritual experience that has the power to teach and heal.
Truly inspiring film! My second favorite was the Lunar one, that also touched a special place to awaken the deeper meaning of existence.