Calling all women, teenagers and young ladies who are interested in improving their computer programming, design and word processing skills! The UAEA serves people who sit below the poverty line. We want to use this as an opportunity for women of diverse backgrounds to get together and learn from one another.

The University Area Enrichment Association has a FREE computer lab that's available to ANYONE for use. Check out http://uaea.org/ for the most current schedule.

This lab was made possible by the amazing work of Free Geek Columbus, who take donations of old computers, reconstruct them & get them in the hands of people and groups that need them.

There's also a facebook group so you'll know what's going on during any given lab night.

true/LOVE from Jennifer Deafenbaugh on Vimeo.

true/LOVE is a piece that encourages passers-by to participate in a data visualization that seeks to question social media tools and methods that we currently use for expressing our like or interest in things and places.

The visualization will be created from 4-8pm outside of Kathryn Gallery in the Short North. If you're free -- please stop by and share with us what you love about Gallery Hop.

An Itty-Bitty Project with the University Area Enrichment Association is going to take place during the weekend of June 5th, 2010.

We created a Facebook event around this...
RSVP via Facebook here!

On Saturday morning, we went to Dorian's Farm Market in New Albany, picked berries in the drizzle-y rain.

Sunday we went to Summit on 16th Church and made jam!!!

If you've got jam jars FROM this event, or other jars that we can use for future canning projects, PLEASE save them!!! .... more info here:

www.ittybittystudio.com/jamjars

UPCOMING SCREENINGS....

August 7, 2010 | Gallery Hop (In the Fireproof Records parking lot)
Featuring Columbus independent animators & experimental filmmakers

Download this form and mail it in with quicktime files & any still images you wanna include (for possible press) of your work.

PAST SCREENINGS....

May 29, 2010 | Grandview Art Hop (Across from Stauf's)
Featuring interactive whatnots by Jenn Deafenbaugh

April 3, 2010 | Gallery Hop (In the Fireproof Records parking lot)
Featuring works by Sam Javor, Matt Meindl and Jenn Deafenbaugh

The DMSW Conference at The Ohio State University focuses on creative uses of social media, new philosophies of technology use, and innovative technologies for classroom instruction, and will be held February 19th and 20th at Mendenhall Lab on the OSU Campus.

I'll be presenting about what The Fuse Factory has been up to recently -- teaching young people about programming using Storytelling Alice in Mendenhall Lab, room 174.

The conference was started to get our own community on the same page about what's going on with digital media within our own community. It should be an amazing event.

Also... you can find them on Facebook!

I will no longer be teaching this course -- as the Storytelling Alice workshop is running into this session period. Ed Helwig (a talented 3D artist, Linux man and wonderful creative) is slated to teach. :)

So you're interested in learning about 3D concepts and how to produce artwork and animations in 3D, but you don't have thousands of dollars to spend on software.

An introduction to a powerful open source application called Blender might suit you well, then :). We'll cover getting around in the application, setting up projects -- and by the end of the two-week session you will have modeled, lit, textured and created some basic animated motion.

On January 13, for 5 weeks,The Fuse Factory Digital Media Lab will be partnering with the University Area Enrichment Association to teach middle school aged children how to animate and program using Storytelling Alice.

I'll be teaching this class, and am excited to be able to participate in such a great experience, with such a motivated, diverse and talented group of people.

This software was designed to help young people -- understand programming concepts in a more engaging way.

Make a donation so we can provide this at no cost to students from the Weiland Park area.

Opportunities like this have the potential to inspire and change the course of young peoples lives -- even if in small ways. :)

There are seats available in the class for other students too!

The best part is that once your child is done with the class - the software they have used is made available by its creators doesn't cost a thing. The workshop is $100 for 6 weeks - which works out to less than $17 per Session.

SIGN UP a student!

If you've ever received homemade jam, or any other yummy gift in a mason jar - from your friends or family,
they may have told you to save the jar and give it back to them for reuse.

Glass jars, if they are not cracked or chipped, are completely reusable.
The rings that screw on to the tops are also reusable, if kept in good condition.
(It's not generally recommended to reuse the dome lids - but if they're in good shape, they should work just fine.)

BRING your jar to Summit on 16th Church -- the University Area Enrichment Association has computer lab hours and we'll have a jar-collecting shelf there!

http://uaea.org/
82 E. 16th Ave. Columbus, OH 43201

If you're outside of Columbus, Ohio - you can contact a farmer in your area --
They will likely be able to put the jars to good use, or tell you who can.
(...and please support them by buying their crops.)

Thanks :)

Jenn

Check out the work that the Intro to Stop-Motion Animation class produced.

The workshop was offered as a part of the Fuse Factory's ongoing art and technology classes on
Sunday, October 25 at Wild Goose Creative.

It was led by Jenn Deafenbaugh... Participants used web cams, homemade animation stands, and
netbooks loaded with the Helium Frog Animator.

Each group worked on five shots - featuring different kinds small objects or

Just a quick note that Strawberry Jam Session will be screening on November 14th as a part of the Columbus International
Film+Video Festival's Animation 4 Adults Screening. It will be at Canzani Auditorium on the CCAD Campus.

It was entered as a part of the newly formed "Basement" category, and was selected as best in its category :).

You can see the low-fi Jam-making short in its entirety at the screening.

Tickets are only $5 for the screening.

More details at www.chrisawards.org

You can keep up with everything going on with the Itty-Bitty Studio through our recently created Google Calendar...

http://www.ittybittystudio.com/events