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Form/Space Atelier Program For September 2008

Show Title: Play: Intuitively Altered Spaces

Show Duration: September 12- October 5

Opening Reception: September 12, 6PM

Exhibit is free.

Julie Alpert exhibits at Form/Space Atelier September 2008, addressing illusionism in collage,
painting, and installation as a metaphor for the way we suspend belief as a form of escapism. Her
process holds as much importance as her finished pieces. It begins with an intuitive response to the
architectural space the work will inhabit using found objects and building materials to distort the
space and create a loose narrative. She then manipulates photographs of the installation in collages,drawings, and paintings, distorting the already altered space. The work is an homage to German Expressionist film, contemporaries such as Jessica Stockholder and Lisa Sigal, and the tromp l’oeil artists of the 1600’s – early 20th century.

Today marks a big step as we have finally finished (and filed) our application for non-profit 501(c)3 status for the Collaboration Foundation.

Our completed application was 130 pages long(!) including By Laws, a Conflict of Interest policy, accounting statements, a narrative of activities, signatures of our Board of Directors, and various forms. It's a fairly complicated process.

Fortunately, we had the guidance of our pro-bono legal team at McDermitt, Will, & Emery. Big thanks to Christopher Lovejoy and Ben Wolkov for their incredible diligence and persistence in seeing this through.

We have just started to make all kind testing movies.

Hello everyone! I have a whole boatload of news as I have been a very busy boy lately. First on the list is that I have landed a role in the upcoming horror epic titled "Blood de Madam: The Fallen Ones" in a principle role. Also starring in the film are horror greats Ari Lehman, Tiffany Shepis, Felissa Rose, Lloyd Kaufman, and Monique Dupree! As you can imagine, I'm quite stoked about it!

My short film "Scalpel" that I wrote, prouduced, and directed is currently making the festival rounds. It screened in the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase as well as KDHX's Coming UP Shorts Program and will be in Idaho Ave. Film Festival in St. Louis, MO on Sep. 13 as well. I have been sending it all over the place and hopefully will have many more fests to announce soon.

Yesterday I met for several hours with our project manager and reviewed 30 pages(!) of technical specs.

Michal had gone through the designs and matched all the functionality to the specific pages, and highlighted various questions. There is a lot of pre-planning involved before starting to physically program; it's very similar to film production in that regard. it saves time/money in the long run.

We went over a lot of the details, and isolated a few decisions that still need to be made. Meanwhile, the majority of  design coding is moving forward. But some of the remaining decisions are on hold for a week; Michal is off to the Burning Man festival next week, and I'm headed up north for a few days of camping with some old friends (with two year olds!), so it seemed like a good time to take a small break.

I spent the weekend uploading PSD files of our new site designs to our client server on Ciplex. Meanwhile, Ciplex has started to layout some milestones for web development. Screencap of milestones is below:

So here is the current plan:

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