happy birthday to jenn.

on October 8th, it'll be 28 years that miss jennifer deafenbaugh has been wandering around on this planet.

you're invited to come celebrate -- by creating one shot of a film.

if you'd like to participate, please send an e-mail to artIsLove [at] ittybittystudio.com with "birthday 28" as the subject.

you'll be sent an e-mail about the project, then given a meeting place for 8 PM on Friday, the 8th.

:D

cheers.

You want your work supported & we want to support you.

This year's Independent's Day is going to be on September 18th.
(www.thisisindependent.com)

What's Independent's Day, you ask?

It's a festival that celebrates independent artists. So naturally, independent film fits right in at this event.

We're going to have a table where you can give out goodies and/or sell items. (DVD's, t-shirts, stickers, actors, old props, etc) Basically we welcome you to sell or give away whatever you've got lyin' around that can help support your film making addiction.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHEwUE9RcTVCVVFqWHVkYnU2...

...is where you're going to need to sign up. You have to volunteer for 2 hours that day in order to utilize the FREE table.

If you want to have work screened, get it mailed or dropped off to:
The Itty-Bitty Studio
1119 Mt. Pleasant Ave
Columbus, OH 43201

by SEPTEMBER 1ST.

If you want to jury entries -- (yeah - you can vote for yourself) -- we'll be having some sodas and screening the entries on Sept. 5th @ 6PM @ the Itty-Bitty Studio.

VIVA INDEPENDENT FILM.

Unfortunately, due to electrical problems at the studio, we have to cancel this event.

You can still make a donation online here:

We'll put the money toward the film, "In The Clouds" -- coming out in May 2011!

We're partnering with reFINDesign Workshop to help you practice the art of drawing.

Every Thursday, starting August 5th (except for holiday weeks), we will have figure drawing sessions at the Studio!

Come join us from 7-10 PM @ 1040 N. High St, Columbus (beside Late Night Slice)

Whether you'd just like to brush up your long lost college drawing skills -- you're a practicing artist --
or you don't have much experience and you want some guidance, you're welcomed in our space.

Bring your paper, charcoals, paints or whatever it is you need to capture pose and gesture.

Want the opportunity to learn a little itty-bitty bit about animation AND to participate in a public art piece?

You're totally in luck.

We're going to give you the opportunity to draw 2 seconds -- or 48 frames of animation -- of whatever you want -- in a little bitty flip book.

Flip books cost $10 and are available at reFINDesign Workshop, starting August 1, 2010.

Each flip book has a short lesson on an animation concept featured on the back.

They're made of reused paper - old unwanted xeroxes from a teacher's filing cabinet.

...and they come with a pencil nub to sketch with too!

Bring your flip book BACK to reFINDesign Workshop -- give us 2 weeks to scan and turn your piece into video -- and we'll put it up online. (Then come and get your flip book back, if you'd like.)

The collected project will also screen out of the Project-A-Bug...

...once we have a good number of flipbooks scanned.

Can't wait to see your two seconds!

During Comfest weekend we created a forest of aluminum trees with reused plastic bag leaves -- each tree represented a different Columbus Community and each leaf represented someone who biked from that community.

All weekend, cyclists helped the forest grow -- to show the impact small actions (in this case, cycling) can have when considered in the context of a larger group.

http://comfest.com/

At the Creative Soapbox (on July 8th at the Columbus Museum of Art) Columbus arts groups had the opportunity to share who they are and what they're about for 2 good minutes...

...If you came and are looking for where to send your googly eye photos -- send them to
eyes@ittybittystudio.com

www.ittybittystudio.com/googlyEyes

:)

... although the render turned out a little squished, here's the street performance/interaction that took place on June 5th. Enjoy!

true/LOVE from Jennifer Deafenbaugh on Vimeo.

Pedal Instead.

It's a pretty simple message.
A pretty simple way to get in shape...
And a pretty simple way to make a pretty big environmental impact.

We're doing a public art work to celebrate the good that can come of groups of people on bikes.

At Comfest 2009, Pedal Instead parked 2400 bikes. That's right -- Imagine how many calories that were burned -- how many gallons of gas weren't used -- heck, how many parking spaces WEREN'T taken up by people driving.

We have the data from last year's Comfest:

...How many miles were traveled per cyclist...
...Where they came from...

We're going to share that information by letting people at THIS year's Comfest participate in a public art work.

What we'll be doing is constructing trees out of used materials -- bike spokes, drop ceiling supports and corks, and placing them around a geodesic dome that represents Comfest.

Each tree will represent a different area from which people may have biked.

If you bike, you'll get to add a leaf to one of the trees. By the end of Comfest, we want to have an entire forest full of these structures.

Interested in volunteering? e-mail artIsLove [at] ittybittystudio [dot] com

What if there were a place where you could go to and learn about how to create interfaces and multitouch applications...
...without having to pay a dime to work on it?

Aside from a bunch of online tutorials or videos someone's posted. It's great that there are so many web tutorials out there-- but we're talking hands-on experience with real, live people.

We're building a set of multitouch tables that we want to use to learn, teach and play with. And we want to share this with the community. Yes, this means you too.

SO get involved.

Go to a Columbus Digital meeting.... www.columbusdigital.org
We're the local Adobe User group -- a fun group of nerdy creative people eager to learn and share what we can with the community.