Holy “Grow a new eye” project launch!! It’s a go!
June 4th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Sitting here at the TEDXSF Alive! event at Yerba Buena Center for the arts and with minutes to spare before “Grow a new eye” Directed by Phoebe Tooke about my eye-camera project screens before an audience of 700+, I just pushed the kickstarter launch button from my iPhone.
Hello TEDsters if you’re reading – please leave me a note!
Without further ado please check out our Kickstarter and donate!:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/growaneweye/grow-a-new-eye
Welcome EyeTanya Team Members Kathryn and Phoebe!
June 1st, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I want to officially welcome Kathryn Robinson and Phoebe Tooke to the Eye Tanya team.
I’ve know Kathryn now for a few years, meeting in a Directing class which is where I became her fan. We ran into each other over time and I’ve always been inspired by her path and projects she works on. So I’m happy to say her spirit and strength is well needed at Eye Tanya! Bienvenidos Kathryn!
Phoebe came as a gift to me through some dear filmmaking friends of mine Natalijia Vejik and Christian Bruno. Phoebe, a documentary filmmaker with a unique vision and sense of storytelling was researching technology and the body and was recommended to check out my blog / story. She approached me about doing a documentary about my Eye-Camera project and I was relieved to have someone as grounded and focused as Phoebe. She brings her vision to the project and I’m grateful for her artistry and commitment to the project!
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“Grow A New Eye” at TEDxSF Alive!
May 31st, 2011 § 2 Comments
Grow A New Eye screening at TEDxSF Event
short piece Directed by Phoebe Tooke about the Eye-Camera project will be screened at the upcoming TEDxSF event ALIVE! Maximum Living as a Human this Saturday June 4th at YBCA in SF. I AM incredibly honored to be amongst the incredible minds of the TEDsters. I hope to be inspired, learn, provoked — as well as excite TEDxSF about my super eyedea!
ALSO …
we are launching our KICKSTARTER campaign!
When: on the same day, June 4th
Operation: Engineer Eye-Camera
Deadline: Winter of 2011 … If the end of the world is truly going to happen in 2012 I want to record it with my brand spanking new eye.
If you are a twitterer, keep a look out for #growaneweye !
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TEDxSF Event: ALIVE! Maximum Living as a Human
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“If you see something that’s not possible, make it possible”
April 12th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Thanks Mick Ebeling for this (I’m a huge fan of the remarkable EyeWriter Project) … gearing up for my Kickstarter video fundraising pitch for my Eye-Camera. Working on the structure, trying not to be afraid, tapping into my passion and creativity. Editing, Editing, Editing. Looking for inspiration where I can get it —- Battle Cry!
Eye on the Fourth Estate – Gonzo Futurist Reporting
March 22nd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
*Gonzo Futurism (a merging of gonzo journalism and Futurism): the act of participating/ documenting future trends via self-experimentation.
Checked in to the Crossing Boundaries Conference at UCB last Thursday. Nerding out in Academia Land (UC Berkeley) hearing presenters wax on about the state of media and its forced democratization through new media technology and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. You can tell there are some old guards of the Fourth Estate here that won’t go down without kicking and screaming.
I won free tickets to the conference because I responded to the email with my “Global News Word of the Day.” At first I googled it thinking there was an actual site where you could find the Global Word for each day. Then I realized that I had to think for myself! This was last Monday, so I responded with “MELTDOWN.”
In reflecting on what would be resounding in the global consciousness – that I determined would be potential impending Nuclear Meltdown in Japan. But meltdown has multiple meanings some negative, some positive, some neutral. Global warming, personal meltdown crisis, a melting of something rigid.
I’m drifting into a light food conference coma from post Cobb Salad and too many hours of listening to talk talk talk. I do love the Aussie accents though.
I’m trying to imagine what a futuristic journalist would be like. If I am a cyborg journalist, am I freelance? Do I work with a larger cyborg news force – like “the Borg“? Or an assemblage new media form something open source and evolving?
In terms of performative reporting, I’m interested in invoking characters and personalities to draw out programmed reactions, truth, and to entertain. More thoughts later!
Highlights of the conference was Jane Singer’s presentation (University of Iowa) and meeting Kara Andrate and hearing her thoughts on the role of the journalist as trickster.
Ken Goldberg (Berkeley Center for New Media) presenting about “Opinion Space.”
Lady Gaga is wearing an eyeball on her chin.
March 1st, 2011 § 1 Comment
She just wants it all. … Apparently I should be working with Nick Knight, fashion photographer who is not unfamiliar to prostheses photographed Aimee Mullins in her famous Dazed and Confused cover. Mr. Knight recently directed Lady Gaga’s latest video Born This Way. The song is predictably generic pop. But Lady Gaga has certainly pushed the limits in superstar performance art. I dig the sci-fi style, – you say the word “manifesto” in this context, (Donna Harraway reference) and I’m hooked even though it doesn’t make any sense, and the mash up with reference to pop / fashion icons and dia de los muertos make-up; while mesmerizing was a bit hokey, random, and slapped on. In any case if any of you know Mr. Knight – please send him my way!
Blogapathy be gone!
February 27th, 2011 § 2 Comments
I bet you’re wondering whatever happened to that one-eyed loca? Did she get lost on the subway of social networking sites and couldn’t find her way back? Did she get overwhelmed with taking on a zillion other projects, laboring over grants, art exhibitions, and life struggles? Did her heart flutter and get seduced? Did she live so hard that all she could do for days was play scrabble and watch Swedish films on her Netflix queue? Was she in Egypt and with her Eye of Horus helping the revolution along in the Arab World? Yes, but only in spirit!
All the while I’m sure what you really want to know is there any progress on putting that camera in her fake eye!!!! Where are all the posts about “One-Eyed Femme Fatales and Sci-Fi Vixens,” which won by the way in the poll that you monoculars voted on last year: What does your non-seeing eye desire? “The ‘Eyeborg’. Has anyone asked where he got his name? hmm.” landed a close second, but alas there is only one winner. And what about Wafaa Bilal and his camera that got infected in the back of his head? Where are the fashion critiques on the eye-patch that adorns Jeff Bridges character, Rooster in True Grit? Yuuichi what do you think??
Well I’ve been busy, and not blogging obviously – I was overwhelmed with what “an audience” wanted from me.
I started to get away with why I started this thing in the first place which was originally called “One-Eyed”. A forum to make sense of it all – to poke fun – to redefine – to empower. It originally was for me to get through the trauma and find a new me ~ then miraculously you came in swarms with so many moving and remarkable stories, I couldn’t keep up. I was so impressed, I thought who wants to hear about my silly ideas when there are so many amazing yous. I believe that it is easy to drown in all the voices when they flood in, and I forgot my voice. So, tralala! I’m belting it out again — it might be crude and monocular but it’s mine.
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San Francisco is Hot! And I’m announcing that I will make an announcement tomorrow.
October 11th, 2010 § 1 Comment
SAVE THE DATE OCTOBER 26th. Some sort of happening. Get ready …
Tonight’s Screening @ Ninth Street, a link, and a pict.
October 8th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
Phoebe Tooke, Documentary Filmmaker, and I will be on a panel (along with several other filmmakers and artists) tonight at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center to talk about the process of how filmmakers & artists work together. We will be discussing the Eye-Camera project and the documentary film that Phoebe is making about it.
OCT. 7th 2010, Another Perspective: Artists Work on Screen
Screening of clips of Eye-Camera Project Documentary Directed by Phoebe Tooke.
Media ART Event
Next MediaART Series Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Location:
Ninth Street Independent Film Center
145 Ninth Street #101
San Francisco, CA 94103
Time: Doors open 7pm
Cost: $10 (all proceeds go to artists)
Tickets: Eventbrite
RSVP: Facebook
Why are filmmakers drawn to make films about artists from other disciplines and what are the implications of creating a piece of media about someone else’s artistic process?
Ninth Street’s upcoming MediaART event will focus on films about artists and explore the nature of this sub-genre. Artists and filmmakers will benefit from this forum, as we explore the pros and cons of collaboration; examine how to honor the artist‘s work, while maintaining a unique vision for the film; and discuss how to cultivate and leverage the value of the project for the artist and filmmaker, alike.
as promised here’s the Link:
Can’t take my eyes off of you
and the Pict:
