Although I think it's still lacking a media project feel, this is what I've got so far. (I'm still looking for an appropriate airport sound effect.) It probably required me longer time and concentration to finish this 40 second piece than actually vandalize a private premise which makes me regret that I faked it. A hopeless effort for vain... My next crucial mission is to find the solutions to add some sophisticated touch to my works...

The above image is a part of the footage from my airport split-flap display graffiti. The final piece will also be animated as seen in my previous test movies. I'm currently in the process of inserting slightly complexed twists to it, in hopes of adding more of a media work feel rather than a mere art piece. Stay tuned.

Test video, The Bandit Tree

The Bandit Tree

Another test graffiti before I proceed on to animating the airport split-flap display. This one was rather harder to work on compared to my previous Gagarin piece as it has more characters in it.

Test video, Gaga Wall

I made a test video using my Gagarin.

Gaga Wall

My Gagarin cutout on the wall.

I should probably put on my bandit hats on

The age of post-innocence

The new cut-out designs I created this week. Making stencils out of them and displaying them in public spaces without getting caught are my next challenges...

Walls in my mind

A few of perspective public canvases for my cutouts that I've found in the streets of Seoul. I'm hoping to put them together to construct a stop-motion, yes, I'm slowly going back to the first idea I had after all.

50th anniversary

I made another cut-out and sprayed over it. I had no idea Yuri Gagarin was only 27 when he became the first human in the outer space 50 years ago.

New method

Ok, it seems as though i'm gradually getting far away from the initial phosphorescent project but I'm still sticking with the concept of glow-in-the dark, night graffiti or whatever I've mentioned previously. What I did here is that I basically made a cut-out of a corridor ( can also look like stairs.) with Z-depth and project it on the wall using a portable pen light. I'll work on more optical illusion-isque cut-outs and double image some of them to see if I can make a short stop-motion piece.

An amazing tutoring offer

I found out that around Friday to Sunday, the streets of Seoul, especially Hondae area, are full of night club ads and party stickers, then by Monday they are all gone. I'm wondering if there are some secret troopers who clean up the mess while we are sleeping. I also wonder why Koreans always use those green duct tapes to stick things up on the walls. I found the left over of this green tape visually interesting when photographing.

Dr. Murakami for your speech therapist?

I placed it right under an English tutoring ad.

Paint splashing test

I have done some testings for my still on-going phosphorescent graffiti piece. In the meantime, I'm searching suitable phosphorescent materials to paint, I used a black water paint, portable light and mini spray gun this time. Although I intended to draw a balaclava multiple times, things came out to be some meaningless patterns. The image above turned out relatively nice, resembling an alien donut or something I would expect to encounter in the outer space.

Missing a glow in the dark cat

After a bit of contemplation, I ended up placing the lost cat notice on an utility pole.

Nonchalant graffiti 3

This one might well fit on a school bulletin board?

Nonchalant graffiti 2

I would need to find a nice public bulletin board to stick one of these.

Nonchalant graffiti 1

The image of the glow-in-the-dark cat was taken from http://ohfortheloveofscience.com

While I'm still contemplating on how I could achieve my phosphorescent graffiti piece, I decided to work on something rather relaxed and with wits that hopefully makes some people giggle for a moment. I that sense, I came up with 3 hoax bulletin notices which I am planning on posting in various public spaces. Although I am not sure wether what I've done here could possibly fit in the terms of the conventional graffiti, I would like to call them the "nonchalant ones".

Production ideas

I'm still trying to mix my stop-motion and phosphorescent graffiti ideas somehow. As this little brainstorming sketch suggests, I would need a wall where I can either paint or hang a phosphorescent materials. On this wall, I would project a character which are printed on sheets of transparencies. Instead of drawing the wall in live, I would use a set of transpariencies to achieve stop -motion effect.

Light Roller

I should probably ask this for Santa...

PixelShade by rAndom international

When the cat glows

I found a little report that might turn into a good theme (when used effectively, of course.) for my phosphorescent graffiti ideas. Back in 2007, South korean scientists reported to have cloned cats that have the ability to glow-in-the dark when exposed to ultraviolet light. Apparently those phosphorescent felines enable the scientists to artificially create animals with human genetic diseases, which process could be used to develop treatments for a range of genetic illnesses. It was also said that it could also help clone endangered animals like tigers, leopards and wildcats. I couldn't find further progress in this experiment. I'm curious wether PETA had left any comments on it.