make&do studio blog

imagine the night sky

george — Sun, 09 May 2010 06:33:11 +0000

Our latest work is a pair of interactive projections commissioned by the Adelaide Festival Centre for an exhibition named ‘Imagine the Night Sky’ held in the Artspace Gallery. The exhibition is aimed at primary school children and explores stories from around the world relating to night and day, the sun, the moon and the stars.

The first projection was shadow-interactive and let viewers use their shadows to play a harp and jiggle the strings of two baboon ‘puppets’. The second projection was sound-interactive and let viewers control the flight of a bee or wake an owl by whistling or blowing into a microphone.

Imagine the Night Sky is open Tues-Sat 10am-3pm from 1st - 29th May 2010 at Artspace Gallery at the Adelaide Festival Centre. Free entry.

More info coming soon!

‘botanical’ preview

george — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:18:13 +0000

here’s a preview of kirstin’s beautiful designs for our new ’botanical’ range of hand made, hand printed products featuring native Australian flora.

Kirstin is ehibiting the framed prints below as part of Fringe 09 mini art.

lantern la lumiere

george — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:37:22 +0000

On Friday night we finally got to see our two animations in the ‘Lantern La Lumiere’ project commissioned by Adelaide Fringe 09. Unfortunately the Rundle Lantern crashed soon after the launch of the project - and took 2 weeks to be fixed! But it was a big thrill to see our work on the huge digital canvas.

The ‘Lantern La Lumiere’ project asked 16 local Adelaide animators to create short works (up to 60secs) that attempted to convey narrative using the Rundle Lantern’s 68×21 pixels. This was a huge challenge! We were happy with our efforts (especially given that we had no way to test or fine-tune our work) and we learnt many lessons for future Rundle Lantern projects. Both animations suffered a loss of clarity and color - you can see the original input animation for ‘chase’ below.

‘the coded wall’ at Fringe09

george — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:15:17 +0000

We’re now past the half-way point of Fringe 09 and our exhibition of ‘the coded wall’ has attracted many visitors, some from as far away as France and Belgium. The small space in our studio is less than ideal for showing the work, but viewers are still having a lot of fun! Here are some photos of us setting up and testing the exhibition…

a bit of fun

george — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:42:38 +0000

our very first stop frame animation! ok - we’ve got a loooong way to go:)

Animation for the El Perro del Mar song God Knows (You gotta give to get)

kirstin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:31:49 +0000

This is the best animation I have seen in ages!

Directed by Åsa Arnehed. Animated by Åsa Arnehed, Olle Söderström and Malin Rosenqvist.

fringe09 wanderings

george — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:02:35 +0000

here are a couple of shots taken while wandering around Fringe 09 at the Garden of Unearthly Delights and Fringe Artists Bar…

The Coded Wall at Adelaide Fringe 09

george — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:21:20 +0000

Great news - we’ll be exhibiting ‘the coded wall’ every Friday during Fringe 09!

Venue: Make & Do Studio, Shop 111 Balcony Level, Adelaide Arcade, Adelaide.
Dates: Friday the 6th, 13th and 20th March from 10am- 9pm.
Cost: Free.

As a special treat there’ll even be one or two new scenes added to the work. For Fringe event details see the following link:

http://tix.adelaidefringe.com.au/ticketing/EventDetails.aspx?EventGuid=2f80ee36-e1ba-4468-ba4f-e7a159a61863

‘voronoi’ work-in-progress

george — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:37:42 +0000

we’re currently developing a new interactive projection using processing software. the piece uses adaptive ’voronoi’ meshing and bezier curves. here’s some footage of our early testing…

publisher textiles

george — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:24:52 +0000

this sydney studio screen prints its own fabrics and wallpapers by hand (on a large scale). there’s a video on their ‘who’ page showing the hand printing process and the studio is open to the public too…