A great video

Today I found this video on Hello Sandwich's blog, and I thought it was so great that I should share:This is a video about a gift wrapping workshop being held in Japan by the blog writer of Hello Sandwich. I thought that this would be a pretty great thing to do!

All photos are from Hello Sandwich

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Jen holding our gelatos in from of a very cool store front.

Zoe wanted her picture taken in front of the dog-bunnies too! (Photo credit Jen!)

Zoe just got back from a trip to San Francisco, where she was accepted into the graduate printmaking department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Zoe loved the school and the city, so she accepted and will be moving to her new home in July. Blake and Zoe will continue to collaborate on projects, and hopefully there will be a few collaborate shows held on the two coasts. Even though Zoe will miss Glasgow a lot, and a few cool people there, San Francisco seems like a good direction.

Photo credit: Jen!

Zoe standing upright next to a happy looking car.  Zoe's testing out the manimals scarf
in this image. (Photo credit: Jen Anderson!)

A content sea found down by the piers.

One of the passageways on the roof at SFAI

Main courtyard at the art school. This is a cool area, where work is displayed between the archways...you can kind of see a tiny piece displayed in this picture. 

View from some corner of the roof, you can see colt tower, which was by the same designer who made the SFAI building originally. 

diego rivera gallery, here the three other walls in this gallery are reserved a weekly show, which includes work by 1 undergraduate, one graduate student, and one post graduate or local artist. Pretty cool

Light capturing objects on the roof, they let light go straight into the studios below.

My beautiful and tall travel companion over the weekend, Jen Anderson!

Some works in progress...

Blake is nearing the completion of the "Truck Driver Prints" (still not officially titled) - which form a significant portion of his "Truck Driver Project" (also - not the final title)


The entire project includes audio, video, and a large selection of photographs Blake took while driving across the Midwest.  In the near future, a small sampling of the photographs will be presented here on the blog.  He is still sorting through the 500+ pictures he took while visiting the US this past March.  


Without giving away too many of the details, the project is a narrative where the lead character is put in a situation where they are forced to drive a semi-truck across the United States.  Each print is a moment in time within the narrative, giving the viewer just glimpses into the entire story.


Below are two images he has been working on over the past week.  Each of them concern the same "scene" in the overall narrative, although the bottom one will not be included in the project. 


The (still in progress) image is a follow-up from the "Birdman of Athens, OH (2011)" giclee print he posted here not too long ago.  


Originally, he was going to show what the man's face looked like, and place the figure within one of the photographs Blake took while in Athens... For a number of different reasons Blake thought that the image "just didn't work out" the way he wanted it to... although it might get recycled into something else in the future.


Now - the scene is the main character (of the narrative) interacting with some of the birds that managed to get loose.  Blake is still tweaking the image; the figure will definitely stay in that awkward angle with birds flying overhead - although the sky and details of the birds might be edited / revised, and he needs to make sure all the color values are identical with the other prints that feature that person (especially details like the hair and the tones of blue in the coat)

[Incomplete/ Early Draft] Birdman of Athens, OH Part Two - Blake Peterson (2011)

[In Progress] Birds Overhead (2011) - Blake Peterson

BACK IN GLASGOW

"Winning" (2011) Photograph taken by Blake Peterson while in Chicago, IL

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, it has been a hectic time for both Blake and Zoe and there have been a lot of new developments:


Due to her visa expiring - Zoe had to move back to the States.  However, this shouldn't adversely effect her work or her collaborations with Blake to any great extent.  They have already set up a process for current / future collabs.  Essentially, instead of B+Z physically handing back and forth drawings and/or digital files - they will use email and video chat.


Using this process has already initiated a few new scarves which will be posted on the blog once they have been printed - hopefully no later than next Friday.


Right now - Zoe is finishing the hemming for the scarves (that have already been shown on the blog) and working on a few different illustrations (many of them following on from the "envelope drawings" posted here).  


Speaking of the scarves... we've had a lot of questions about where/ how to buy them.  They are currently not for sale, but will be in the near future.  At this moment we have five designs printed (each design is printed four times on the roll of silk) but they (20 scarves total) aren't all hemmed yet.   We also want to print at least one more design (so there will be a complete set of six).  Once all the scarves are hemmed & ready - a paypal widget will be added - so purchases can be made directly to us, instead of going through a third party.


Blake has also been quite busy.  He just returned from a month-long trip back to the States to see family, Zoe, and of course - do more research / take photographs for the "truckdriver series."  The photograph above was taken by Blake while on a walk with his sister and Zoe while in Chicago.  


Currently - he's nearing completion of the 'truckdriver' series ...which hopefully will be finished before the end of the month, in time for the MFA Interim Show in Glasgow.  The opening is on Friday the 6th of May from 6-8 pm at the Glasgow School of Art.  It runs from the 7th to the 14th of May.


What Blake will actually be including for it is still in a state of flux.  As it is a group show with 28 other artists, he won't be able to include both the truck driver pieces and "Lost Sheep in Glasgow" - and either project will have to go through some tweaking/editing simply due to space limitations where the pieces will be viewed.  


More details on that later...