Pom Pom

Kaleidoscope Pom Pom Bra Animation!!

A short video loop for an installation, by Blake Peterson and Zoe Phillips (c) 2015

Golden Raspberries

Over the weekend Zoe and I made a new video!  
We also have a few other projects coming along as well...

Updates, New Work, and Side-Projects

We have been quite busy for the past few days... and it's looking like it's only going to be busier as the month goes on!

Zoe is preparing for her group exhibition this May in San Francisco while completing her print series, FOAMLESS = HOMELESS, and the Naked Mole Rat projects

She is also working with a group of other printmakers for a MAPC show in Wisconsin.  

Additionally, we should be having a show (just Blake + Zoe) this Spring in San Francisco.  We haven't decided on the opening yet, but it will be listed on the blog when everything is confirmed.  

Blake added another piece to his Saatchi Portfolio.  It is quite different from his most recent works, while still maintaining his particular method of drawing only in independent layers of CMYK

Additionally, Blake has been updating his Mixcloud Page... 

Also, we realized that some of our videos, which have been posted onto Vimeo through the GSA have not been shared here.  These are higher quality streams than on Youtube (and do not have annoying commercials obstructing the pieces).


The two videos featured are:

Trans-Atlantic by Blake Peterson (2012) and Chit-Chat Tummy by Blake Peterson & Zoe Phillips (2012)

Blake Peterson: Trans-Atlantic from GSA MFA on Vimeo.


Blake Peterson: Chit-Chat Tummy [Collaboration with Zoe Phillips] from GSA MFA on Vimeo.

Two Shows

This past weekend I was involved in two different shows here in Glasgow.  


I was an exhibiting finalist for the Chalet Prize, for my piece "Sheepish [Jen; Iowa City]."


It is an exhibition and award, celebrating excellence in fine art. Finalists are chosen from an open call by a panel of guest judges and The Chalet curatorial team. All finalists are exhibited in The Chalet during this year's Streetland Festival. 


Zoe & my collaborative piece "Lost Sheep In Glasgow" was also installed from Thursday May 3rd through Saturday the 5th at the Arches, as a part of No Man's Land, which was commissioned by the Mutual in association with Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012.  


Also, this week I should have some preview images for what will be going into the Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show, before I begin installation.

Sheepish [Jen; Iowa City] by Blake Peterson 2012

New Videos

Between adding more images to my print series, and working on my sculpture piece, I decided to work on another 'infinite loop' stop-motion video (much like the ones found here and here). This time, I posted two different (low resolution) edits of the piece.  


Each has a different soundtrack, and there are more effects / visual edits on version number two... 


Here is Version One:

And Version Two:

Another Weekend, Another Video

While finishing some images, Blake decided to do another quick stop-motion video

Here's a Low-Resolution copy of it...

New Video

Blake just finished a little video, here's a low-resolution copy of it... 


High-res will be shown in the near future (potentially with different audio)...

Zoe and Blake have also been collaborating on a series of short videos, mostly stop-motion animation...

This is a short preview of one of their videos.  The audio was simplified a bit for the purposes of the youtube video; when in a gallery / open space - each noise will be broadcast from separate speaker systems, creating a (rather disturbing) surround-sound experience*.  Also, of course - as it's youtube, the resolution of the video was lowered.

This will be a part of a much larger, longer video work...




* Basically having the smacking / digestive sounds coming from either side of the viewer as they enter the space, with the two voices in the center.

New Project!

While Blake + Zoe have been house-sitting with Maggie and Priscilla near Iowa City, they've been working on a few different stop-motion projects 


Here's a preview picture!

Little Boy with a mouth for a stomach riding a snail, while Blake's hand adjusts the frog eating a hotdog

MFA Interim Show

The MFA Interim Show at the Glasgow School was last night, and it was a success!

Here are some photographs from last night, as well as the two photographs (including the give-away postcard for people to take) that were used in the exhibition, in addition to the video piece:

"Lost Sheep in Glasgow" (2011); photograph - taken by Zoe Phillips; Blake as Sheep

"Lost Sheep in Glasgow [postcard]" (2011) - Photograph taken by Blake Peterson; Zoe as Sheep

Lost Sheep In Glasgow

Here are the flyers that Blake & Zoe made for the "Lost Sheep in Glasgow" Project.

Blake will be showing the video piece and one photograph from the collaborative series at the Glasgow School of Art's MFA Interim Show.  The opening is this Friday, the 6th of May from 6 - 8 pm; and the show runs until the 14th of May.


Visitors to the exhibition will be able to pick up one of these flyers.

[Front] Zoe as Sheep, being engulfed by cotton; photo taken by Blake Peterson (2011)

[Back] Information about Sheep, and their Global Historical Impact; created by Zoe Phillips (2011)