Tumblr (3.0; @carissapotter)http://blog.carissapotter.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ppa6tXWu1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ppa6tXWu1qbm9c9o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ppa6tXWu1qbm9c9o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ppa6tXWu1qbm9c9o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ppa6tXWu1qbm9c9o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ppa6tXWu1qbm9c9o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ppa6tXWu1qbm9c9o7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ppa6tXWu1qbm9c9o9_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><strong>Syzygy, sea level change inconclusive. </strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span>An unintentional </span></em><span><em>eclipse of an </em></span><em>obscuration</em><em>.</em></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>May 20, 2012.</span><span></span></p></p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/23905977310http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/23905977310Sun, 27 May 2012 19:51:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4e9p5PQu71qbm9c9o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Colpa Press in Daily Candy!</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.dailycandy.com/san-francisco/article/126124/Edicola-Limited-Edition-Prints-Magazines-and-Art-on-Market#fb-comments">http://www.dailycandy.com/san-francisco/article/126124/Edicola-Limited-Edition-Prints-Magazines-and-Art-on-Market#fb-comments</a></p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/23504459003http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/23504459003Mon, 21 May 2012 15:41:29 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m46ujfWWTY1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="http://colpapress.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/ryan-de-la-hoz/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to RYAN DE LA HOZ">RYAN DE LA HOZ</a></h2></p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/23252353261http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/23252353261Thu, 17 May 2012 15:30:51 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m42t9jzCzL1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/23112188881http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/23112188881Tue, 15 May 2012 11:12:54 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ved3PyTJ1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ved3PyTJ1qbm9c9o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><span> Amy Vazquez</span></p> <p><span><a href="http://amyvazquez.com/">http://amyvazquez.com/</a></span></p> <p><span><br/></span></p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22849164372http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22849164372Fri, 11 May 2012 11:07:50 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3trlxIX2A1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>one last thing… working on a congrats card for a shop in Mill Valley called Mint… this is the first draft… okay no more posts - sorry for so many but this is how I keep track of these things… dont hate me unless you have to, and if you do, I will understand.  Happy day!</p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22796762105http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22796762105Thu, 10 May 2012 13:58:45 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3tm2we0yO1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong id="internal-source-marker_0.9760945797897875"><span>- The Amateur Astronomer - Issue #3</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>I.  Premise</span><br/><span>The Amateur Astronomer is a monthly advice column that looks to make a constellation. By re-presenting the stars, bringing them, you, and their light just a little bit closer, we are seeking to make site-specific observations about our setting with the goal of growing closer.  Once a month we aim to introduce a “tool” borrowed from the gamut of childhood plaything to beyond our realm of expertise.  We suggest a social application and provide diagrammatic instructions as to how one might continue to search the night sky (with a “take-home activity” for the reconstruction of prospective aforementioned instrument).</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>—</span><br/><span>Sabina and Carissa are two pals trying to call you right now, but the telephonic-love-satellite is down.</span><br/><span></span><br/><span> </span><br/><span>II. How to use in daily life</span><br/><span>I’ve been afflicted with starry fever.  How I’ve longed to embrace your lunar circumference with a halo of far-away flame.  May 21st will be our annular anniversary.  Mark the calendar. </span><br/><span></span><br/><span>I’ve been redesigning how I might perceive your essential features, given this new eclipsed purview.  Sitting in the dark like listless space-age Aphrodite, I’m wondering which vantage would be best for observing you.  Perhaps you should be standing in front of me (or was it me in front of you).</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>We can’t be far behind the modern science fiction daydream of knowing your deepest darkest parts, only thus far fantasized about in pulp publications.  Dragging my inevitable anchor of space junk across an unrealized landscape, I’m reinventing my mission under the influence of that outer black blanket.</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>Destination:  Weightlessness.</span><br/><span></span><br/><span></span><br/><span>III. Take-home activity</span><br/><span>(“Rocket Goggles”—consume (3) space-cocktails and observe the Solar Eclipse (May 21)  or Transit of Venus (June 5).  Recipe follows.)</span></strong></p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22789886223http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22789886223Thu, 10 May 2012 11:59:20 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3tisgF4cx1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3tisgF4cx1qbm9c9o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://www.ulrikemeutzner.de/index.html">http://www.ulrikemeutzner.de/index.html</a></p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22786847908http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22786847908Thu, 10 May 2012 10:48:16 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3qjvq4fE71qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3qjvq4fE71qbm9c9o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>I have been lucky enough to meet Anne Colvin twice now…</p> <p><a href="http://annecolvin.com/">http://annecolvin.com/</a></p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22697330705http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22697330705Tue, 08 May 2012 20:19:02 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gg9dJn0e1qbm9c9o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Oakland done!</p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22324643933http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22324643933Thu, 03 May 2012 09:24:48 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3f2lqaROU1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Oakland Draft 3…</p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22280065644http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/22280065644Wed, 02 May 2012 15:32:14 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m35jow4iNa1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Oakland Draft #1</p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/21923934990http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/21923934990Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:05:20 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33v3hyKYY1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thanks Miguel! For your help with TBI and for reminding me how much I like your work… :)</p> <p><a href="http://www.argumentativa.com/">http://www.argumentativa.com/</a></p> <p>Having a hard week, hard two weeks. </p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/21868108276http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/21868108276Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:16:29 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2jv0vPyYK1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/21188363578http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/21188363578Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:02:55 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2flypYdMs1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2flypYdMs1qbm9c9o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Gazzetta Issue #2</p> <p>Hot off the press…</p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/21034774522http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/21034774522Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:56:49 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2btpuR0Ds1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The start of a drawing for <span>Constellat</span><span>ion Template - Amateur Astronomer II</span></p> <p><span>A collaboration with the lovely and talented Sabina Neito </span><span><a href="http://sabinanieto.com/">http://sabinanieto.com/</a></span></p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/20911554395http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/20911554395Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:53:54 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2avowpks61qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The start of a design for a new print - I was hoping to say something like uber romantic and silly like You are my forever or yea, I will stop with that :) But sometimes I think these really crazy things - I am not really all that… Shoot, I just dont know how to be anything by overly cliché and contrived. And somehow I guess I am okay with that.  </p> <p>I am thinking about screen printing and letterpress for this one - the white water with gold leafed text? Does anyone know if gold leafed text is even possible? Cathy Lu? Any ideas?</p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/20891743766http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/20891743766Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:38:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2acygR1pd1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2acygR1pd1qbm9c9o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>After watching Nostalgia for the Light, here is how I would write myself into the stars.</p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/20866966256http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/20866966256Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:54:16 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m24v8rFbTh1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m24v8rFbTh1qbm9c9o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><span>By some unknown luck, today I strolled past <strong><span>Jonathan Harris</span></strong> and <strong><span>Sep Kamvar’s </span></strong>2008 <em><span>I Want You To Want Me</span></em> project.  Here comes the hard part - I LOVED the project, BUT I think it is perhaps the most ugly, problematic, stereotypic, uninteresting, un-informational, interactive installation I have seen in some time. AND IT IS KILLING ME INSIDE! </span></p> <p><span>I cannot tell you how excited I get to address the world’s fascination with romance. I would talk about it all day long, if someone would listen. I am a romantic, by which I mean, I believe in love and connection (I edited out “human” here, because it seemed way too limiting…). For several years I was obsessed with generating an online persona that would be able to reflect and represent my actual self (I know these terms are inherently problematic, but I use them because I have very poor English skills, yet it is my only form of verbal communication). I spent hours looking at how we could scientifically label and characterize personality traits, creating bins separating personal taste and experiences with the like. Attempting/believing that I was data, that could in essence be classified into a binary code (I do still believe this is possible… however the kind of data needed for this exercise seems not yet quantifiable within my current understanding). And this code, could be easily analyzed and matched with some other inherent romantic that felt equally alone and pressured to believe that: A. Life is always better when you are with other people or/and B. That that perfect someone exists. </span></p> <p><span>So I made the person I believe to be the love of my life (last year) make an okcupid profile that could be matched with my already existing profile. The results of this are still being looked at, computed data against the actual lived data. Stay Tuned. </span></p> <p><span>Back to what I think is the crux of my discomfort with the I Want You To Want Me. It claims to be looking at Romance represented by the internet, and I buy that. However, I think that it could be more forthcoming about the inherent issues with attempting to do just that. Yep. I have a problem with the representation – that balloons are at the epicenter of this. I understand the argument that for art to be accessible by the masses it has to relay on certain social tropes. But this piece seems to have a balance in the direction of reinforcing social stereotypes’. Neither artist in their statement addresses their role in this exercise. They created a platform for exploring and interacting with highly personal data, that is visually different from how it is traditionally viewed. However, they must be held accountable for decisions that they have made regarding aesthetics. They both claim to be artists on their website – credible, to say the least according to their biographical background. </span></p> <p><span>This is not a new way for us to look at data, this is a way for us to look at the way you think data and personal relationships could be looked at. Though I am not an expert, I feel it was done with poor taste. I feel, humbly. And I am not just jealous (maybe). <span> </span></span></p> <p><img alt="We Feel Fine" src="http://www.number27.org/assets/work/titles/iwytwm.png"/></p> <p><a href="http://iwantyoutowantme.org/"><em>I Want You To Want Me</em></a> is an interactive installation about online dating, commissioned by and installed at New York’s <a href="http://moma.org/">MoMA</a> on Valentine’s Day 2008, as part of their <a href="http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5632">Design and the Elastic Mind</a> show.</p> <p>Displayed on a 56” touch screen monitor, the piece portrays an interactive sky filled with hundreds of pink (female) and blue (male) balloons, each representing a real person’s online dating profile collected from any one of several dozen Internet dating websites. Viewers can touch individual balloons to reveal personal information about the dater inside, and can rearrange the balloons in various ways to highlight different aspects of the world of online dating, including the top turn-ons, the most popular first dates, and the top desires.</p> <p><em>I Want You To Want Me</em> is a collaboration with <a href="http://kamvar.org/">Sep Kamvar</a>.</p>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/20680193507http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/20680193507Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:43:39 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22wtrDgky1qbm9c9o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22wtrDgky1qbm9c9o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22wtrDgky1qbm9c9o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22wtrDgky1qbm9c9o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22wtrDgky1qbm9c9o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22wtrDgky1qbm9c9o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/20614072773http://blog.carissapotter.com/post/20614072773Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:22:00 -0700