Kids are doing awesome stuff with the Akon Calls T-Pain video we did for Olde English / Super Deluxe.


Casey, Jason, and Zain's 9th grade talent show.


Rome with a mellow re-sing.


Meez's South Park style remake.


...and lots of kids are doing live videos but these girls were the best actors. Thumbs up is acting!

Tonight, while you were sleeping, Yui and I were down at an abandoned grain silo watching several story high projections by MAOW. Yui has recently joined this crew and projected Yuiees on the side of a building to great response. I'll try to edit some video together soon.




Inspired by the Grapffiti Research Lab, MOAW created giant-projection rickshaws run by generators and able to project art anywhere...including mountains:

Say goodnight Yui.

Where people can walk...there can be art.


The main gallery. This is what you see if you look through the window


The side gallery. This side can be made very dark for light/projection stuff

As we work on the Pink Hobo gallery space, the windows of passing cars give us a branded light show (it gets good about 20 seconds in when the traffic light changes)

Flickr User Designisfine caught some video of the show to show



They got some good still photos too...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/designisfine/sets/72157606926019498/

And here are some creature close ups from PUNY Dave:

The First Amendment show has got me excited about doing more installations. We've been working on the gallery space very slowly over the past month but made some progress today.

The laminate floor going down. It's kind of a nightmare and not going in very well..we're going to try it for a while but it may all be for bust.


This window seat should be pretty rad after we make some pillows.

The show came together and was super-fun. I'm hoping other people will post photos and video..here's some to get you started.



Joe and Dave's show-stopper.

Turns out Mark Fox IS a DJ..in front of some Sugah Beats mono-prints.

Scumbag MILF watches TV.

Cartoonists Will Dinski, Tim Sievert, and Brett Von Schlosser.

Ashley, Amanda, Matt, and Mitch.


Us.

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It's just about to turn midnight and we're most of the way through hanging the show. Here's some set up, we hope you can make it.
Details on the show here.






And check out the great write-up in the City Pages!..our only local press. Other than it not being an animation art show, it's pretty spot on:

I took a huge road trip last week to visit friends and DJ a couple nights in eastern towns. One of my most anticipated stops was in Geneva, IL where my old classmate, Britney Rutherford, gave me a tour of her lab at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Yes - that's the place where they smash protons and anti-protons together at an energy of about two TRILLION electron-volts and look at what comes out of the collision.


Britney works with photon-tube detectors connected via optical fibers to scintillating materials deep within the 5000-ton CDF on a layer of the detector called "Shower Max". Her test stand is a complete working version of a tiny part of that layer.



The amount of sensors, optical fibers, cables, computer boards and ultimately data coming from the CDF is completely awe inspiring. Three millions of collisions per second have to be sorted by artificial neural networks to find the (few hundred) most potentially interesting collision data. Fermilab has petabytes of data storage capability including tape libraries which are operated by robots.



The CDF is colliding about 21 hours per day. Engineers and physicists monitor from this control room and a similar one in Pisa, Italy. When interesting or error-indicating data shows up in the control room, operators enter it on their up-to-the-minute blog! Closed-circuit TV's with basic data are hanging all around the Fermilab campus.


Everything looks ok for now.


What particle accelerator would be complete without its own herd of plains bison?

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Here is a sneak peek some of the drawings and prints that will be in the gallery show this Saturday. Lots of mashups, doodles, interactive bits, and whatever people are inspired to do the morning of the show....

Here's a write up:

"Best known for their animation on Emmy Nominated TV Series "Yo Gabba Gabba" and high-end interactive development; PUNY's twenty-two artists, designers, and programmers throw shit against a wall to see what sticks. For one night only their corporate overseers allowed non-billable hours to be put towards un-artdirected art, interactive pointlessness, and animated mash-ups. On display are secret passions, resume killers, and a clear bias against race, gender, and economic backgrounds..
Is it art or a capabilities pitch? We're not sure they know the difference. Salary DOE."

Live Music by

CAVERNS IN CAVERNS
and
Mark Fox is a DJ

Perhaps you've heard the sonic booms as of late, or perhaps you've been on your way to taking the first bite of your hamburger only to have the sudden realization that you are no longer holding a hamburger which is in turn followed by a swift gust of wind and the smell of static charged fur.

It is because Will has graced the midwest with Maggie: gamma burst in the shell of a Corgi.

Two words don't come to mind when I think of PUNY but the 120 year old "Finance and Commerce" recently found us newsworthy. A big thank you to reporter Arundhati Parmer and photographer Bill Klotz.

Enjoy!

On absolutely hitting the big time.

On innovation

Not everything in there is one the nose but it's pretty good.

The new audio space in underway! Right below the gallery space under 4ft thick concrete and terrazzo and surround by a field of hushes to make it quiet and perfect for recording funny people. All comedians of the world are invited into our basement so that we can make cartoons together.

Speaking of comedians at our place...Minnesota's own Maria Bamford stopped by last month to have a lunch and a hello. Here's Maria, Amanda, Dave, and Mitch.
Mitch doesn't like to be touched.

Sometimes, here at PUNY, we take it upon ourselves to travel the world in search of those that need us - and boy howdy, does the west coast need us. Mitch's tiny camera documented items from this trip that will be supplemented by a larger post from the big PUNY camera in days to come.

It's hard to not over-run this blog with talk about Yo Gabba Gabba because we love it so much and it's our favorite thing to work on. (sorry other jobs..try harder) Shooting on Season 2 just wrapped and everything is now in post production. We've been in post production for months making lots and lots of cool designs and animations for the show. We can't wait to show it off..we're very very very proud. I superstitious about saying "proud" because of that line "Pride comes before before the fall"..but maybe "pride is coming this fall on Nickelodeon" works.

We're also working on the new YoGabbaGabba.com which is a ton of fun and will be finished soon. It has a nice content management system for frequent updates of videos, games, and applications like Biz's Beats Mixer that's super-fun to play.

The other exciting thing is that TOYS CAME OUT THIS WEEK! You can get them at Target, Walmart, and Toys "Я" Us...or stop by the PUNY studio and play with Yui:



Oh and here are a couple photos from Mitch, Dave, and I went to visit Julia on set before shooting ended. We took a lot of great ones but can't show anything that can spoil the second season. (which is going to be amazing)

Julia, Mitch, Brobee, and Dave on set.

Me and DJ Lance!

Recently, we learned how to use a displacement map filter to create a perspective effect in Flash. Here's how we did it.


Here is a bitmap which has a gradient in the blue and red channels.

The blue gradient augments the horizontal position of pixels in our ground image. Zero blue in the displacement map causes pixels from the ground image to move to the right, while full blue causes the pixels to move to the left. A medium blue value causes no change to the pixels. The blue gradient has medium blue values at the bottom, and at the horizontal center.

The red gradient augments the vertical position of pixels in a very similar way... our ground pixels get "squished" with the bottom most pixels being unchanged because of the medium value in both red and blue channels.

Applying this bitmap as a displacement map filter to these display objects,


we'll see the objects with an perspective effect like the following images.




Then by sliding our ground images across the displacement map we can achieve a perspective effect like this.