breathe more art…

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on February 6, 2010

breathe more art… an image for the moment.

Enjoy!

Redbot is Recharging

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on January 20, 2010

Happy Belated New Year from Red­bot Loves You!

Photo Above: Most recent sight­ing of Redbot…

That’s Red­bot (between Michael Moore and The King) on our Christ­mas card for 2009, which we based on The Bea­t­les Sgt. Pep­pers Album Cover.

You can see the whole card on my main site at onehumanbeing.com: http://onehumanbeing.com/central/2009/12/23/merry-christmas/

Recharg­ing…

I’ve dis­cov­ered that Red­bot needs down­time to recharge from time to time, espe­cially after a Red­bot hunt and all the activ­i­ties of Octo­ber and Early November.

While Red­bot has been recharg­ing I’ve been work­ing on other projects, includ­ing some audio and video work.

Here’s a piece I posted just a cou­ple of days ago on YouTube and onehumanbeing.com.

This is a sound col­lage visu­alscape I cre­ated last week called Area 5150 — The UFO Take Over Mix

What is a sound col­lage visualscape?

A “sound col­lage” is like a paper col­lage, but using audio sam­ples, syn­the­siz­ers, drum tracks and other audio mate­r­ial to cre­ate a new work — not a “song” nec­es­sar­ily — but some­thing like an audi­tory adven­ture, out of var­i­ous found materials.

A “visu­alscape” is a video mix of shapes, col­ors, found video images, ani­ma­tions, pho­tos and graph­ics which is cre­ated by apply­ing the same col­lage ideas to pro­vide a visual com­pan­ion for the audio experience.

These are my own definitions.

Mean­while…

I’ve received some nice pho­tos of Red­bot from some peo­ple, but haven’t posted them yet… sorry about that, but I need to re-do my photo sub­mis­sion process (that’s a whole other story I won’t go into here…)

It’s on my “to-do” list, and as soon as I’ve fin­ished to-doing it I’ll let you know. These post-holiday times are good for clean-up projects like that…

Until later, best of health!

After The Hunt…

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on November 7, 2009

The First Red­bot Hunt…

After weeks of think­ing about what a Red­bot Hunt would be like, and sev­eral long days this last week bring­ing it into exis­tence, Fri­day evening arrived and the small Red­bot Street Crew went to work…

Tania and I along with Ryan Smo­lar from GLOBAL hit the street just before First Fri­days began, hunt­ing for metal sur­faces to post the Red­bots (there is a lot of alu­minum sur­faces in Bixby Knolls) while also post­ing fliers on shop win­dows and poles, as we trav­eled from the Bixby Knolls Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion office, to Dis­trict 8, and down the length of the First Fri­days Art Walk.

Din­ner Break…

We fin­ished just before 6:30 and headed back up Atlantic to go have din­ner with Ryan and our friends Tina and Noel at EJ Malloy’s and lis­ten to local musi­cian Jesica Specht.

After food, drinks and music, our crew headed back up to the large group show: Gallery Expo @ Expo and the “Dia de los Muer­tos” exhibit. At the exhibit they also had some painters cre­at­ing works in a large open stu­dio area, where I was very for­tu­nate to see Jonathan Bueno.

Jonathan is a Long Beach artist who was born in Mex­ico City. Tania and I met Jonathan sev­eral years ago, but hadn’t seen him since. I love his work, he’s one of my favorite con­tem­po­rary artists. If I col­lected art I’d be buy­ing up all his work I could… here’s a photo of one I really loved.

But mean­while…

…out on the street, a Red­bot Hunt still con­tin­ued and by the end of the evening 25 new Red­bots went home with new own­ers who had redeemed their Red­bot Own­er­ship Kits at Dis­trict 8…

…and Tania and I went home to relax and talk about the hunt, art, love and Red­bot until it was time for lights out and some well-deserved sleep.

After a Red­bot Hunt…

This morn­ing I went back up to Bixby Knolls to remove all our Red­bot Hunt signs… my brain hum­ming with new ideas since we got home last night…

So this after­noon I cut out seven new Red­bots and went for a bike ride through the alleys the Bluff Park area of Long Beach, post­ing the Red­bots and tak­ing pho­tos on a lit­tle project for the day called “7 for the 7th”…

Note: If you hap­pen to find one of today’s Red­bots, let me know and we’ll arrange for you to get your Own­er­ship Kit.

The ride was a excel­lent chance to unwind, enjoy the col­ors and tex­tures of the alleys, take my time plac­ing my Red­bots and pho­tograph­ing them, and let my head clear…

The hunt had pre­sented many new chal­lenges to me, and some project direc­tions for the future.

Red­bots are GO!

PS. Four peo­ple went home with one of the mul­ti­ples of a piece called “The Man Says You Bet­ter Lis­ten” — Con­grat­u­la­tions on the find!

PPS. The Red­bot Own­er­ship Gallery and Fea­tured Red­bot Owner sec­tions are get­ting major over­hauls this next week — or so my sched­ule says…

The Hunt Is On!

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on November 6, 2009

Begin­ning around 6:30 or 7:00 this evening… see you there!

Going on a Redbot Hunt

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on November 5, 2009

The First Orga­nized Red­bot Hunt…

Red­bot Loves You! (and GLOBAL) is bring­ing a Red­bot Hunt to Bixby Knolls for First Fri­days tomor­row night, Novem­ber 6, 2009

What is a Red­bot Hunt?

This is the first “orga­nized” ver­sion of what I’ve been doing with my Red­bot project — con­densed and col­lected into one area at one time.

Instead on mak­ing a num­ber of Red­bots over time and post­ing them on the street when­ever the desire to “post Red­bots” strikes me, this event has forced me to approach my work in a dif­fer­ent way, and basi­cally, I’m not sure what’s going to hap­pen — this is where the fun begins…

25 new Red­bots from the Red­bot Army are ready to be posted on Fri­day evening with Own­er­ship Kits avail­able for all the lucky Red­bot find­ers at Dis­trict 8… “Join the Red­bot Hunt” signs will be posted on street signs at the event.

View Google Map Here To Dis­trict 8 and First Fri­days

I’ve been imag­in­ing an “Easter Egg” hunt kind of thing, but it will only be a small piece of a much big­ger event, with lots of music, art and things to see going on, that it could get lost in the rest of the First Fri­days cel­e­bra­tion… I pre­fer that it blends well with the big­ger celebration.

More infor­ma­tion will be posted on Friday.