Dr. Woohoo!

Fireflies on a Blueberry Blossom Tree
signed, unique diptych print (1 of 1)
archival inks on canvas
6 x 6′ (182.88 x 182.88 cm)
$3,500 USD

  

My approach to painting with code continues its path in search of beautiful colors, and mixing surrealism with emotional evocative scenes. The linear progression of generatively painting objects randomly within rectangles, geometric shapes, distorted and sliced 3-dimensional surfaces and as skins to different 3-d skeletal structures now takes a turn towards shapes that are familiar to us, like the cherry blossom tree in this instance.

It’s hard to believe but it’s time for Flash on the Beach! I’m bringing my daughter this time, so I will only be at the conference for the day of my presentation because she doesn’t want to miss too much school. ;) 

I present on Monday at 11:30 am with a focus on transforming ideas-to-pixels-to-atoms. Following the flow of ideas-to-pixels and how my artwork comes to life on the screen, I will discuss two new Adobe tools that will make driving the CS3 & CS4 Creative Suites (CS) dramatically easier than previous methods. I will also explore automating Maya via code and integrating it with the CS apps. I’ll wrap things up with how-tos on different options for converting your pixels-to-atoms: using innovative printing techniques that allow you to print to any substrate from your inkjet printer, laser cutting/etching and more. 

Hope to see you there. 

Update: As a side note, for my early experiments driving the CS apps via code, I used ExtendScript ToolKit (ESTK) – as simple ExtendScripts (ES) to begin with and then with embedded swfs that could communicate through the ES. When Apple’s Leopard was released, Apple changed how the windows, including the swf palettes, redraw and this made swf palettes unusable in CS3 apps. Luckily, Adobe and specifically Michael Daumling and Bernd Paradies were already working on the follow-up to ESTK. With the merger of Adobe and Macromedia, it made perfect sense to combine some of the great technologies and out of that came Adobe SwitchBoard and PatchPanel. Both are SWC libraries for Flex Builder, the former allows an AIR app to communicate to the target CS app, the latter enables a swf palette/panel to communicate to the host CS app. SwitchBoard is available here and PatchPanel will be released at some point in the not-to-distant future.

I still recommend playing with ESTK because it’s easy to get up and running because the code feels like JavaScript and ActionScript 1 and it’s free if you have any CS3 app installed. Get to know the DOM (eg., in ESTK Help > Adobe Photoshop CS3 Object Library) of the CS app you’re interested in developing for and how to set/get different values, like the name of a layer.

Using ESTK is a simple stepping stone to developing AIR apps with Flex Builder and SwitchBoard – which brings the code up-to-date with current standards, such as strict data types, code hinting, etc. For all of the demos I did that involved AIR apps, I used Flex Builder and SwitchBoard exclusively, including the color apps for In The Mod. 

Hope this helps.

Touring the Leeum-Samsung Museum in Seoul

Original Signed Fine Art Print
Archival inks
Aquarelle watercolor paper
Deckle edges

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All prints use standard sizes, making framing a breeze.

signed, unique print (1 of 1)
archival inks on canvas
3 x 6′ (91.44 x 182.88 cm) each canvas
available for purchase: in the store

signed, unique print (1 of 1)
archival inks on canvas
3 x 6′ (91.44 x 182.88 cm) each canvas
available for purchase: sales[a t]drwoohoo[d o t]com

 Final images, blowing in the wind

As the light shines through each hanging kinetic art piece, a color shadow of the printed acrylic design on the surface of each seed of the dandelion falls on the nearest wall. Spinning around to a light breeze, the added dimension of movement is added to the experience.

For the best experience, hang the ~ 6″ in diameter art piece in a place where sunlight will shine through it and a breeze will gently blow it. The string and hook to hang each dandelion is included.

Each kinetic dandelion art piece is sold separately as an individual piece, however you can buy as many as you want.

Now available at Dr. Woohoo’s showroom on Ponoko

Transforming ideas to pixels to atoms
The only way to allow my artistic vision to take form was to create applications and scripts that could intelligently analyze colors, influence brush strokes by music and other data streams, control the behaviors and the form of the paint influencing the paint from natural dynamics like gravity and wind and shape-shifting the form into unexpected shapes like glass, and then paint it onto the surface or texture map of the digital 3d models.

For the final transition from pixels-to-atoms, the form needed to embrace properties that allowed me to print it in a 2d plane on canvas or laser-cut/etched on acrylic, as well as cnc-milled into a 3d physical model that I could use for casting that would eventually become the glass, ceramic and metal sculptures.

Woohoo’s presentation will explore the process and tools of tranforming ideas-to-pixels-to-atoms as well as the end results. The session is scheduled for September 29th, 11:30am.

Only a few tickets are left and ticket sales will close on Friday, September 5 – you can purchase them here.

Harry was kind enough to share some of the latest artwork I am working on with the MoCo Loco crowd. You can view the article here.