Found: A Collection of Creatures and Curiosities

For the first time a few weeks ago, Tim had some of his artwork on display in a gallery on Capitol Hill in Seattle. I wish you all could have seen it. He did a really good job of it, not only the art he contributed, but he was in charge of organizing and arranging the show. My plan was to give you a virtual tour of the gallery, but some of my pictures (some of the better ones, might I add) wouldn't upload, so I'll do my best to paint the picture for you.
The theme for the exhibit was Found: A Collection of Creatures and Curiosities. The idea came from a project that Digital Kitchen (Tim's work) did earlier this year. They did the videos advertising SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival). This exhibit is made of the great ideas they came up with and weren't able to use in their final product.

Walking in the Vermillion gallery. It is long and skinny, you can see the art work on the walls.
The whole gallery was Tim and his Coworkers art. It is a nice but casual gallery where you
can hang out, check out the art, and get drinks in the back.

Wall of prints by one of Tim's coworkers. All of them were prints of different fluids she
mixed together. They would form crazy shapes and she would
zoom really close into it. I liked them quite a bit.

I think this is one of the coolest things at the exhibit. This is a stop motion animation rig. Here's how it works: it's kind of like a shelf with each layer made of glass. There is a light at the bottom. Each layer has a different part of the background. They take the pictures from the top to get a very 3D look to it. You can kind of see on the top row there are cutouts of the characters. Stop motion means they take a picture of the characters in one position, move their limbs, take another picture and so on. Amazing...and incredibly time consuming. That's how the whole SIFF video was made.

Tim's part of the exhibit (unfortunately those pictures are some that wouldn't upload) consisted of 4 awesome shadow prints of some of the characters he developed. Then above those, the following video was being projected. The video just circled onto itself and played continually. Everything you're about to see came from the mind of Timothy Michael Howe, my husband :) I think it's pretty impressive...enjoy.