So, [if I can lead like the beginning of a Beach Boys song... has anyone else noticed that many people lead with one of the casual intimaters so familiar in pop songs like "So," "Well," "You know..."?] anyway, I dunno if people even mildly care, but perhaps to give a bit of a glimpse into the art and brain of Mel & Eron, we've made some rather ( Read more... )

So I haven't exactly done much to publicize it, but I have an virtual show of my World of Warcraft work up in Second Life at the Art Mecho Museum. I actually think it is a fascinating combination to use a virtual venue for the display of works generated in another virtual geography. Especially, because of the way that the style, interface, and ( Read more... )

I don't know, honestly, this has been an artistic issue I can't quite wrap my brain-meats around... These totally overloaded and nigh-chaotic images of MMORPGs in full swing, with the interface left on as well the text, etc. are utterly fascinating to me. The really, in some ways, are astounding documents of the sheer visual data that we, in ( Read more... )

I'm currently attending the the University of California at Irvine's conference "The Culture of Virtual Worlds" and I wanted to share a couple of images from my projects involving World of Warcraft that I've been looking at using in my upcoming show at the Art Mecho museum in Second Life. More information will be coming as it develops.


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Hiya! I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out to support my show "Leveling" this past Friday. It was a great deal of fun to hang out, drink some beer and learn that an awfully large number of people, even in the pretentious art world, are addicted to WoW. There was a touch of vertigo involved in trying to whip my brain between ( Read more... )

Hi all! I just wanted to extend an invitation to come out and see my most recent show that is up in Los Angeles. "Leveling" is a show that is comprised of three new bodies of work that explore the intersection of MMORPG's (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games), specifically World of Warcraft and the history of photography.


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