I love glass artwork. Glass has the ability to be both incredibly strong and yet in its brittleness lies a fragility that we’re all familiar with. Japanese artist Satoshi Tomizu sculpts amazing glass spheres which appear to contain planets, galaxies and beautiful tentril-like galactic structures, and a few others appear to contain delicate flower-like objects. And here’s a cool video showing in part how the artist creates these works.
A few weeks ago I had the misfortune to have a Green Hippo media server sent to me for a show by a well-known company that provides gear such as this. The misfortune was not so much that I got a Hippotizer, because they’re excellent media servers that I’ve worked with before – but this particular server (or more accurately the software on it) was a giant lemon. There are really four separate issues here, and all were solved in different ways. I’ll take them one by one. The first problem began when I was first telling the server to fade the layers up and down. What we (the video designer and I) noticed was that the fade-up was happening…sort… Read More »The Case of the Mysterious Hippo Server