The Solar Bikini is now in the hands of the Greylock Arts Gallery in Adams, MA as part of the Sustainable Energy Art show there along with several other sustainable ITP projects. Journalist John E. Mitchell of the North Adams Transcript wrote what I think is hands-down the best article on the Bikini yet (link). In other news(papers), MaryJane Weedman (yes) of the WSJ or Washington Square Jounal wrote up this little article on the Bikini this weekend as well. Thanks journalists! I can’t wait to see where the bikini will end up next. The South American Rainforests? The rumors may be true.

Just got back from the Janice Dickinson Modeling experience. Wowsers. Here’s my documentation. The segment doesn’t air until December. More later.

I’ll be in LA this morning (right now I’m in NYC) to shoot a segment for the reality TV show, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. Janice wants to turn her agency green. I’m there to help, and to get het into the solar bikini. I’ll be back in NYC tonight, god willing. More to come.

It’s the SIGGRAPH UnRavel festival 2007 in sunny San Diego California! I just wish I was actually there. I’m doing some really artsy shit in Chicago, but thanks to some last minute favors from great friends, it looks like everything is working out alright for the solar bikini during this two-day event. A nice spread this morning on the BBC’s website including othe ITPers Jenny Chowdhury and Joo Youn Paek. I can’t wait to roll out the iDrink!

more on the solar bikini…

Oh boy. The Solar Bikini was covered today by the national news personality Kurt the Cyberguy on the CW11 in NYC, KTLA in LA, and WGN in Chicago. The solar bikini has gotten press before, but none of this magnitude. A fairly good first showing for the first person who has actually put the thing on. Thanks to Preston Noon for being my doppelgänger and the bikini’s “handler” while I was away in Chicago. All in all a decent summer so far for the bikini. I may have to take Preston’s advice though on the PayPal account for SolarCoterie. I’m flat broke with hundreds of dollars worth of solar bikini on my hands.

I believe the proper quote to end on would be, “you don’t really need an iPod, because we all have music inside our head.”

thank you.

An open proposal to the Sustainable Enegy class & the whole of ITP:

I was thinking-on-paper (as opposed to thinking out loud) after our first Sustainability class, and thought that I’d post the result, get your thoughts, start a dialogue, generate ideas.

This is in re: the possibility of individual projects of the members of the class as subsets (sub-projects) of a larger scale project involving the whole class and it’s unique position (talent / resources / specificity of the course topic).

Sitting in the first sustainability class on Thursday, I was prepared to be non-plussed regarding what were about to discuss. It’s a shitty thing, but I’ll admit that I only signed up for the class because it was a two-credit class that I happened to signup for before it closed.

As the class got underway, and as we started to circle the room, talking about what our backgrounds in the subject were, what our passions in the subject were, etc., I was surprised to find that I actually had something to say, and more so the feeling that actually welled up within my angsty teenage-ey thoughts on the subject.

It became apparant to me at that moment that this was a special course being taught here, and moreso that we as the participants in the class were in a position to do something special. Other courses offered this semester may approach a specific topic, and the resulting work and projects are bound to stretch the limits of that subject and that form in very disparate ways. Other classes tend to output a range of product, from art-piece to big-game to social-networker. This course “Sustainable Practices,” seems to be about one thing. Change. And, change, for the betterment of all.
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I look forward to learning as much as I can from my fellow class-mates in a subect I know little about, and gaining the resources neccessary to educate myself further on the broad topic of sustainable practices.

Specific things I am interested in tend toward the technological side of the spectrum. I hope to research and experiment with solar technology, among other things. Of course, I say that. But I really know nothing about it.

Design as a sustainable practice also interests me. How small changes in an environ or work flow can drastically modify the way in which people live and work.

I also hope to propose a very-large scale and evolving project that may surpass the scope of the semester, and could possibly be an ongoing project at ITP.

more to come…