I’m celebrating 4 years at the IMA today and it’s hard not to reflect on that.  It may not be a very long time in terms of a career, but it makes for a lot of audio, video and web projects, not to mention exhibitions and new innovative projects.

The first in-house video I worked on at the IMA was re-editing an African Pottery Techniques documentary shot in Burkina Faso.  At the time, it was a pretty big step for the museum – to actually do this in-house, quickly, easily and for free.  When I compare that to our latest  video release on Orly Genger’s installation “Whole”, I kind of laugh.  We shot this video in HD, incorporated Time Lapse, used a lift for certain shots and then published to YouTube.  Check it out below.

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Filed under: New Media

First things first, let me start by highlighting one of the The Nugget Factory’s latest productions – Welcome to the IMA.  This is piece we produced in part for the 125th Gala, this past weekend, to appear in the new Indianapolis Airport and for other multi-purpose uses.  Please enjoy.

And speaking of the 125th Gala, we uploaded images from this incredible event to our Flickr account.  Have fun.

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Filed under: New Media, Technology

I’m a number geek. Give me a calculator and a list of digits, and I’ll be happy for hours. If using the calculator was an Olympic sport, I might be a contender for the gold. I’ve got lightening fast fingers and my addition button is wearing out from all the use it gets. From attendance to web stats, revenue to ROI, I’ve been crunching numbers like Michael Phelps breaks world records.

As numbers twirl around my head like 10-year old Chinese gymnasts (they are definitely NOT 16 that’s for sure), I thought I’d share with you some of my favorites. You can find a lot of these stats on the IMA’s dashboard, but some of the numbers are not accessible to the public…until now. In the Museum’s ongoing dedication to full transparency, here’s IMA by the numbers: Read the rest of this entry »

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Or maybe the more appropriate question is, “What does technology have to do with art?” It is a question often asked in the face of ever-more pervasive digital content. There are so many ways that art can benefit from technology. It is likely that you are having one of two reactions to that statement. Maybe a raised eyebrow with a silent, “Yeah, right.” Or perhaps you have already bought into this notion and your gut reaction was more like, “Well, of course!” Regardless of your point of view it is probably next-to-impossible to see it from the opposite perspective. Why?

I assert that it has to do with how much you love technology. My life, for example, is steeped in it. I read art blogs, watch YouTube videos people send to me via e-mail and spend nearly every moment wired in to some form of technological interaction. So of course I think art, like everything else in my life is fair game for technological enhancement.

But I know there is another point of view. One that firmly holds art and its viewing in a quiet, pensive place, unfettered by the white noise the digital world can create.

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80,000. It sounds impressive. It’s the capacity of the Stade de France in Paris – home to the French national soccer team. I mention that mainly for my love of soccer and to reference Zinedine Zidane once again in one of my blog posts. 80,000 is also the number of CD’s sold by the Spice Girls in Poland, for their album Spice World (Despi mentioned them in this post). And finally, one of the longest dinosaurs, the Apatosaurus, is estimated to have weighed close to 80,000 lbs.

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