I’ve put together some images to create a 360 view of the helmet I worked on for the TK Project.

Here are a couple of images of the helmet I made for the Charity Auction at the Star Wars Celebration in Florida.  When I started to see all of the wonderful art work on the helmet, I started to feel like my work would not stand out much.  The long and short of it is that I was working to create a helmet that looked like a plausible space helmet with the design elements of the Stormtrooper helmet.  I started to feel a little better about my work when I put the images up against the concept art of the Stormtroopers.

Here it is, video #5 for the TK Project. The Star Wars costuming group the 501st Stormtooper Legion is inviting Honorary Members, Friends Of the Legion and a few 501st troopers to create one of a kind Stormtrooper helmets to auction off in a charity event to benefit the Make A Wish Foundation. This project is similar to the Vader Project that Sarah Jo Marks and Dov Kelemer completed. The auction will take place at the Star Wars Celebration on Sunday August 15th from 2-5 PM in Orlando Florida. Be sure to check out the site to see the other helmets in the series and become a friend on Facebook.

All things said and done, I really enjoyed working on the helmet. There are so many wonderful and creative helmets that have been done, I feel that this one may get lost in the crowd, but I had a blast working on it and making the videos. I hope that you’ve enjoyed them.

Almost there! Stay on Target! I just put together some images for the helmet and I’m pretty happy seeing it right up next to some of the concept drawings. It’s not a copy of those designs, but it’s got a good feel to it. Here is video #4 for the TK Project. The Star Wars costuming group the 501st Stormtooper Legion is inviting Honorary Members, Friends Of the Legion and a few 501st troopers to create one of a kind Stormtrooper helmets to auction off in a charity event to benefit the Make A Wish Foundation. This project is similar to the Vader Project that Sarah Jo Marks and Dov Kelemer completed. The auction will take place at the Star Wars Celebration on Sunday August 15th from 2-5 PM in Orlando Florida. Be sure to check out the site to see the other helmets in the series and become a friend on Facebook. I’ll be posting a new video everyday this week to document the build of my helmet leading up to the final images.

Here is video #3 for the TK Project.  The Star Wars costuming group the 501st Stormtooper Legion is inviting Honorary Members, Friends Of the Legion and a few 501st troopers to create one of a kind Stormtrooper helmets to auction off in a charity event to benefit the Make A Wish Foundation. This project is similar to the Vader Project that Sarah Jo Marks and Dov Kelemer completed.  The auction will take place at the Star Wars Celebration on Sunday August 15th from 2-5 PM in Orlando Florida.  Be sure to check out the site to see the other helmets in the series and become a friend on Facebook.  I’ll be posting a new video everyday this week to document the build of my helmet leading up to the final images.

Here is video #2 for the TK Project.  The Star Wars costuming group the 501st Stormtooper Legion is inviting Honorary Members, Friends Of the Legion and a few 501st troopers to create one of a kind Stormtrooper helmets to auction off in a charity event to benefit the Make A Wish Foundation. This project is similar to the Vader Project that Sarah Jo Marks and Dov Kelemer completed.  The auction will take place at the Star Wars Celebration on Sunday August 15th from 2-5 PM in Orlando Florida.  Be sure to check out the site to see the other helmets in the series and become a friend on Facebook.  I’ll be posting a new video everyday this week to document the build of my helmet leading up to the final images.

I have been asked to participate in the TK Project.  The Star Wars costuming group the 501st Stormtooper Legion is inviting Honorary Members, Friends Of the Legion and a few 501st troopers to create one of a kind Stormtrooper helmets to auction off in a charity event to benefit the Make A Wish Foundation. This project is similar to the Vader Project that Sarah Jo Marks and Dov Kelemer completed.  The auction will take place at the Star Wars Celebration on Sunday August 15th from 2-5 PM in Orlando Florida.  Be sure to check out the site to see the other helmets in the series and become a friend on Facebook.  I’ll be posting a new video everyday this week to document the build of my helmet leading up to the final images.

Computing in the cloud is not a new concept, but it seems to be more relevant today then ever before.  Cloud computing is internet based computing.  So instead of having a single computer filled with all of you files, you store things remote servers and access them through the internet.  When I transitioned from a IBM to a Mac computer, I started to use Google documents to replace my WORD and EXCEL documents.

Another common way that we a using cloud computing is through uploading and sharing videos.  I recently submitted an audition video to be a host on Oprah Winfrey’s network.  I didn’t get the forms all turned in before the deadline, so I didn’t even make it to round one.  (Watch the video below and then call Oprah and tell her to put me on the show).  As I was finishing my audition video, I noticed that the contest submission site had an online video editor.  You could upload your videos, trim them up, combine them and then submit.  Instead of simply uploading your videos to the cloud, you could now do something with them.  It’s not as fancy as other video editing tools, but its free and it’s pretty easy to use.  Shortly after I DIDN’T make it into the contest, I heard that YouTube had introduced on online video editor.  YouTube.com/editor   It will pull all of your uploaded videos and let you trim and combine them and make an new video.  Pretty cool stuff. Here’s the audition video…

Here’s an overview of the new video editor on YouTube…

So I’m thinking that it would be a great idea to set up a user name to share with some of the other dad’s in the neighborhood. That way, when we are all standing around video taping our kids at their concert or other school functions, we can upload to a common area and then we can edit the videos down to one new video.

I was first introduced to the band through their video for “Here we go again” where they were Dancing on treadmills. The video has been viewed over 51 million times. After it was released and started to gain in popularity, the band’s record label, EMI, disabled YouTube’s embedding feature for the video. I suppose they were trying to regain some sort of control over their property. It used to be a big deal to get your song onto the radio station. Having a super creative video is the new radio airtime.

They broke ties with EMI over this issue and formed their own label called Paracadute Recordings. Under this new label and with the sponsorship of State Farm Insurance, they created a gigantic rube goldberg machine for their video “This Too Shall Pass“.

Well they’re at it again for their new video “End Love” that I have EMBEDDED below!  If you really like the video, you can even go and download it. So creative videos + the internet = independence.

When I jump into making a new print I really LOVE to study out the characters, the location and the scene.  Shortly I’ll be making a video that describes the the depth of research and obsession that over took me when I was making my “Lost Shakespearian Ballads” prints.  Until then, let us bask in the art of Obsession as explained by Adam Savage from the Mythbusters.  This video comes from the Entertainment Gathering conference curated by MIT’s Michael Hawley and takes a broad look at entertainment, technology, and ideas.  It’s a pretty cool video, and I really relate to his process.