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Location: the internet and mobile phones
Date: Ongoing
Description: Online and mobile phone sad penguins application prototype, developed with UC Davis Computer Engineering students, Zachery Ennenga, Connie Nguyen, and Arie Knyazev. Special thanks to Professor Devanbu.

click here for painting sad penguins online app prototype

In Spring 2013 I contacted Professor Prem Devanbu in Computer Science about finding collaborators to make a sad penguins app. The following fall quarter, he suggested to his senior design class that a team take the project on. Arie, Connie, and Zach worked tirelessly winter and spring quarters. Our collaborative poster of the project pictured here was selected to hang in engineering building.

Sad Penguins UC Davis November 2014
(Watch here, it looks better)

Location: In front of Memorial Union, University of California, Davis
Date: November 20, 2014
Description: Three hours sad penguin painting, sumi ink , oak gall ink (made from on campus galls) watercolor, paper, milk crate, cardboard, digital camera, sound recordings of ice floes and penguins.

I set up in front of the UC Davis Memorial Union in the row of tables where student clubs and associations flyer and bake sell. I painted sad penguins and gave them to students. The video is edited from the first hour and twenty minutes. Subsequently, the camera ran out of battery and the sky with rain. The penguins and I took cover under the eves. I painted with both sumi and oak gall ink made by artist Kim Zitzow from galls gathered on UC Davis campus.

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