Backbone

After several weeks of frantic organizational snafus, programming bugs, malfunctions and last minute repairs, I am happy and relieved to say that I have finished more than a year’s worth of work.

With the departure from these projects, I am looking forward to catching up on all the comics I have fallen behind on. More importantly, I am excited to show you the next project from Backbone, which is moving swiftly through the design stage.

Someone recently mentioned to me that I was falling into an illustrative style. I think the statement was meant as a partial warning, but it had a different effect on me.

I think that I will embrace and explore this to see where it takes this new work and me.

In the last post, Alan Rorie is interviewed about the Neuron Chamber – a kinetic sculpture that uses high voltage to express the way neurons work in our brains. Here is a video I grabbed off his blog showing new experiments the Almost Scientific team is conducting with high voltage.

Experiments with conductive glass from Almost Scientific on Vimeo.

Alan Rorie, Jo Slota, David Shulman and myself collaborated to build the Neuron Chamber in 2007.

It was recently shown at the Exploratoruim in San Francisco.

“Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption… We need things consumed, burned up, replaced, and discarded at an ever accelerating rate.”

- Victor LeBeau, US retailing analyst, 1955

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