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Tom Sepe: Portfolio

Tom Sepe — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:01:52 +0000

Here’s a preview of the print-on-demand book I just made of my art. It’s meant to be like a portfolio, but right now its really more like a coffee-table style retrospective of the last ten years. I’ll probably trim it down and go with a smaller format for use as an actual portfolio.

I designed the book in Apple’s professional photo editing application, Aperture (which is kind of like iPhoto on steroids.) But for the next version I think I will go with Blurb.com and do a full re-design using their software.

(for best results click on the view “full screen icon” on the lower right)

FLOCK Timelapse Video of Install at ArtOutside 2010

Tom Sepe — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:53:40 +0000

Here’s a quick timelapse video edit I just completed of the installation of this epic sculpture, FLOCK, by Michael Christian originally created in 2001 for the Burning Man Festival.

Click here to view the embedded video.

We’ve been here 4 days installing FLOCK by Michael Christian and the Art Outside Festival in Texas.

Film and edit by Tom Sepe

Music by Beats Antique

Get the Whirlygig to the Museum

Tom Sepe — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:05:18 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

I really fantastic opportunity has come my way: to display the Whirlygig Emoto, my steampunk motorbike, at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation in Waltham Massachusettes. Steampuffin.com is hosting a “Steampunk Form and Function Design Competition.” The opening night is Oct 22nd 2010.
I’ve never had any work in a museum, most of the projects I’ve worked on have been large-scale sculptures or art cars, so this is a very cool thing that I’m super excited about!
However, niether the museum nor I have the funds to ship the bike!

Well that’s where community comes in: I’ve started a fundraising campaign on kickstarter.com to raise the funds to ship the bike. Here’s the catch though: if I don’t meet my target goal of $3000, then I don’t get a single dime from anyone. That’s right. It’s an all-or-nothing kinda deal. As of today I’m a little over a third of the way and there are only 8 more days ’till the campaign ends!!!

I hope you’ll consider clicking on the link and donating.. even $5 – it all adds up!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1455561131/get-the-whirlygig-to-the-museum

Thanks for your support!

The Infinitarium – In Progress Timelapse

Tom Sepe — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:48:26 +0000

Here’s my latest: A timelapse video I just edited of The Infinitarium we are building at Big Art Studios in West Oakland. I’m one of six artists leads building 18 giant over-sized plants out of scrap metal. I’m in charge of building five giant willow trees – each tree will have over 1,200 feet of salvaged steel cable! We have a small army of incredible volunteers showing up everyday to learn welding and build BIG ART!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Directing artists Karen Cusolito and Dan Das Mann designed and envisioned the Infinitarium, a massive interactive sculpture garden that will span an acre and will include state-of-the-art lighting controls and user-controlled pyrotechnic flame effects. It will be a larger-than-life magical botanical garden and will travel to many events and festivals, premiering at the Electric Daisy Carnival, Sand By The Ton, Outside Lands Festival, Burning Man, the PDX Bridge Festival and many more. http://theinfinitarium.com

I’m using a hacked Canon S1is digital still camera and a kit-made 7.4v power supply (kit from Adafruit Industries) connected to a 12v deep cycle marine battery and combining photos and video from my iPhone as well as a mini DV video camera.

My Timelapse Camera Rig

Special thanks to Phil “pEEf” Sadow for assistance with setting up the Canon hack and for the 2nd camera.

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

Get the Egg

Tom Sepe — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:51:15 +0000

Last week I helped Michael Christian pick up the “Egg” from the Reliance powder coating in San Leandro:

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Unfortunately they couldn’t fit the sculpture into the powder coating oven and had to paint it by hand. This was less than ideal for a number of reasons – mostly, Michael said, because he could have bondo-ed the weld seams faster than the grinding of the seams necessary for powdercoating, and as a result obtained a smoother finish. ANother important lesson learned is that there is now a metal-to-metal bondo that contains aluminum – which means you can use it in the powder-coating process!

We then took the egg over to the new NIMBY space in Oakland, which is HUGE! It will be exciting to see NIMBY 2.0 evolve….

The Lumbering Contraption

Tom Sepe — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:52:15 +0000

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Originally uploaded by tomsepe
We’ve been making some great progress on the Lumbering Contraption. We’ve only got a few more days to finish before bringing her out to Santa Rosa for the Handcar Regatta.
You can see Pictures of her in progress on my Flickr page,
http://flickr.com/photos/tomsepe/sets/72157607076970947/
\as well as some wonderfull photos and a bit of video by Nick Winterhalter on his Flickr page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/winterhalter/sets/72157607016106105/
I also posted a dark and mysterious video on YouTube of last night’s test run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxQ8I4818-w
Come on out this Sunday Sept 28th to us pit our invention against the other fabulous railcars at the Santa Rosa Handcar Regatta: http://handcar-regatta.com/

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Railwheel Hijinks 2

Tom Sepe — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:52:07 +0000

Railwheel Hijinks 2
Video Originally uploaded by nck wntrhltr

Yes we’re building a railcar – hand powered rail car. Actually ts more of a rail wheel – You can see pictures of in progress here