A new book proposal

I just sent a new book proposal to the publisher.  Art and Technology- Exploration of resources and advancements in digital sculpting, printing, milling and scanning. I know, I am just able to breath after fishing Digital Sculpting with Mudbox Essential Tools and Techniques for Artists.

I”m also knee deep in the Art and Technology podcast and the new website at http://www.digitalsculpting.net

The new book project is terribly exciting.  It will feature a great deal of the research I am doing on this subject for my graduate studies.  As I stated in the book proposal.

Art and Technology- Exploration of resources and advancements in digital sculpting, printing, milling and scanning. Finally, a resource guide for understanding and accessing tools in digital printing, milling and scanning. This technology is not just for manufacturing or engineering but can be embraced by designers, traditional and graphic artists who want to utilize these technologies in their creativity and in their workflow. This resource breaks down the process and possibilities for artists.

This book helps to inspire, as artists can see what others have created and push their imagination utilizing new technology. The technology can help save artists time and help artists create in ways that have never been conceivable until this time. Inspiration- strengthens your creativity and enlarges your artistic tool set.

I should know something in two – three weeks.

May 26, 2010 | No Comments »

Art and Technology Podcast- Digital Scanning and Traditional Sculpture

An Interview with Dan Gustafson Next Engine Scanner and Traditional Sculptor Mark ByrdArt and Technology 0006

Marketing Director at NextEngine 3d Scanners

Dan Gustafson- Marketing Director at NextEngine-3d Scanners

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Using digital technology such as scanning and milling in the traditional art studio is what I refer to as Tra-digi art. Dan Gustafson of the NextEngine Scanner and Traditional Sculptor Mark Byrd spend time with me talking about using the NextEngine scanner in the creating of life size traditional bronze sculptures. What are the advantages of using the scanner? What are the pitfalls to watch out for when incorporating this technology in your own studio?
Some of these concepts of digital scanning and printing were featured in chapter 7 of the Mudbox book.

* Listen to the podcast from our podcast player on the nav bar at Digital Sculpting.net
* The forum for this topic. You may add your comments and thoughts
* The direct link to this podcast segment- should you want to put it on your website or blog http://media.libsyn.com/media/artandtechnology/Art_Technology_006_Scanning_and_Milling_in_the_Tradtitional_Studio.mp3

More photographs to come

The Art and Technology Podcast listen from the Digital Sculpting.net website or Subscribe to the podcast in itunes

If you are reading this blog post from facebook and do not see the videos and or photographs visit http://www.creativesculpture.com/blog

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May 23, 2010 | No Comments »

Major Panic-but it is over now.

Major panic this morning.  I noticed that none of the links that I had been sending out on my blog were correct. In fact, they were all broken! I freaked.  My blog is a major way of my promoting my work.  My husband saw the terror in my eyes as I realized this affected

1. All outgoing blog posts anywhere linking to my site from present or past

2. All of my twitters posts

3. My work that I had sent to my instructor for graduate school.

My husband, who is not into social marketing, rolled his eyes and said, “Oh, it is the end of the world.”

For someone who works hard at social marketing it means a lot, plus it is wasted effort if the links no longer work, and I hate that.  If I send someone a link on a blog post I would expect that it would work!

Now, if you remember, I had to change my blog from blogger to WordPress about a month ago. ( Notice this link that I just posted will work now that this problem is fixed.)

FYI the reason I had to move was The blog I had through blogger was an ftp blog, which basically means it was not a creativeendeavors.blogspot.com blog
but instead my links were linked from my website http://www.creativesculpture.com/blog. I moved becasue blogger would no longer support these ftp blogs. This change infuriated many, me included. Howeve, I have really liked the transition and the Word Press blog.

When the problem of broken links to my blog appeared, it was hard to notice. After all, how many times do I go back to the internet and try and see how my links are doing?

When it hit me today I looked around and sure enough broken, broken, BROKEN!
I contacted web designer Shawn Hesketh, who by the way has wonderful tutorials on how to put up a WordPress site at http://wp101.com/

The problem was all about my permalink structure that can be set up in the settings in the admin panel on the WordPress blog.  Shawn said I could read about it in
Part 2: Creating a New Post – covers how to create a custom permalink for an individual post.
Part 17: Configuration Settings – covers how to set up the Custom Permalink Structure.

But basically if I had the same settings as my old blog which was creativesculpture.com/blog/Yearofarticle/dateofarticle/nameofarticle.html I would be fine. I set this up as custom permalink structure with this code. /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

He also said he might create an individual topic on this tricky subject. for  http://wp101.com/

Oh , and Shawn said his WordPress 101 site is a membership site, but if you use this coupon code CREATIVESCULPTURE  during signup he will discount the cost of a lifetime membership by 50%.

Thanks Shawn.

May 19, 2010 | No Comments »
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