1 year ago
It’s happening!

It’s happening!

1 year ago

This is my most recent edit of a photo shoot I did with two models and my custom double sided glass cupping device. This is very much in progress, please comment, give suggestions and artist references if you have them.

Thanks team.

Charlotte

1 year ago

I loved these guys after their first video, but now they killed it again. Looks like they got some corporate sponsors this time. They also ripped off Peter Fischli and David Weiss like woah, but nothing is sacred anymore. Let not ruin it and just enjoy the show.

1 year ago

Glas by Bert Haanstra

Amazing old film that I have been trying to track down for a while. The Sound, Sound, Installation class I am in helped me locate it today.

1 year ago

Dario Robleto

Dario Robleto poses in front of “Love Has Value Because It’s Not Eternal,” which holds an immortality potion for lovers.

In some of his work before “Human/Nature,” Robleto explored whether there can be “a material component of love.” For this exhibit he asked lovers of various ages and at different stages in their relationships to record one another’s heartbeats as they thought about their beloved. “When you’re in love or reflecting on someone you love, the chemical cocktail that’s released in your brain changes your heart pattern,” explains Robleto. He then braided the audiotapes of the lovers’ heartbeat recordings with the sounds he captured of the glaciers melting.

Robleto reveals that one of the couples died since making their recording, and two others divorced. “Life just happens, but that moment [when the lovers were together] was caught,” he notes. Love is not eternal; like the glaciers it “melts away as life continues.”

1 year ago

www.charlottepotter.com

I created this website in 2006 and it does a good job of representing my work up until that point. I will make a new one soon enough, but feel free to enjoy the time travel in the mean time.

1 year ago

Morgan Sparks obituary

It wasn’t until after my Grandfather’s death that I started to understand his accomplishments and what he did for modern technology. I know there is a lot that I will never know about his time at Sandia Labs, but there is plenty of information about his work at Bell Laboratories with the transistor. This is a link to his obituary from the New York Times.

1 year ago

I come from a line of scientists, my grandfather, Meredith Morgan Sparks, was an American chemist and engineer who helped develop the microwatt bipolar junction transistor in 1951, which was a critical step in making transistors usable for every day electronics. The first transistor was a small C made out of glass. His job was to grow crystals and attach a fine electrode in order to create a circuit. His work has been a large source of inspiration in my use of the scientific aesthetic and exploration. From alchemy to chemistry, science and glass have a long shared history. I began approaching my work differently once I made the mental switch from fabricating an idea to asking a question. I believe this shift is a scientific one. I am not trained as a scientist and have not applied myself to this study past what was required in grade schools and for this reason I have remained fasinated by the unknown quality of it.

1 year ago

Recent video. As per my last critique, I will be working on this more to find the exact moments of interest. Other notes form the crit include: that it references living bodies, it is seductive and depicts entanglement. I am not using the trope of film enough, study film more. How can I engage the phycological space of fusion more? This is really where the relationships lie.

1 year ago

A large part of my days seemed to be consumed by being the Vice President of the Graduate Student Alliance. In a shameless act I am posting the posters for the Graduate Open Studios, an event that I am putting together with the help of too many to mention, but you know who you are. Brett Windham did the layout for the poster.

1 year ago

RISD:FEED graduate website

The brothers Muller have worked in conjunction with designer Lucas Roy to create a fantastic new website for the RISD Graduate students. It is a great resource for finding interdisciplinary connections and pertinent events. Congrats boys.

1 year ago
For the project “Tread Lightly” I am casting the clogs that wear everyday out of glass. As per colleague Matthew Perez’s expert advice, I am using a Smooth-on product called “brush on 35” which is a urethane rubber compound. He also suggested tinting the different layers with a product called “Tints-All” so that you can clearly see each layer. This is stage one, more to come.

For the project “Tread Lightly” I am casting the clogs that wear everyday out of glass. As per colleague Matthew Perez’s expert advice, I am using a Smooth-on product called “brush on 35” which is a urethane rubber compound. He also suggested tinting the different layers with a product called “Tints-All” so that you can clearly see each layer. This is stage one, more to come.

1 year ago

My mother with her parents at her graduation from St. Lawrence in like 1971. Thinking about trying to graduate myself 2010 style…..

1 year ago

Radio Lab

I geek out and listen to Radio Lab on my head phones whenever I am commuting. It makes driving to NYC a multitasking event; I can drive, and be inspired and learn. It is probably illegal to drive with head phones on, but lets not take away my joy. I terrify my roommates by charging in and spouting off my new found knowledge while trying to take off my coat and write it all down. I am still trying to figure out the correct notation on my bibliography for a radio show. Anyone? Anyone?

1 year ago