Fix 1806

Since Sandy swept through the Jersey shore I have been collecting video and photographs to put together a short documentary film. Like so many others on Long Beach Island, my parents needed to gut their flood damaged house in order to rebuild it, but the task was overwhelming. The community of family, friends and neighbors that came from all over the state to help them was amazing and quickly became the focal point of my documentary.

This past weekend, we invited all those volunteers back to LBI to help my parents celebrate their now fully restored home! Just like the night of the demolition we ate in the driveway and even warmed ourselves in front of propane heaters (yes, it was a cold Memorial Day weekend!). At dusk on Saturday night everyone gathered as I premiered my film as a projection directly on the front of the house. It was truly an amazing experience.

Thank you again to all those who came together not on that weekend, but any time throughout the years, because there really wouldn't be much to celebrate in life without a community to celebrate with.

Even Roxy wanted to help say thank you!

Rod and Kim! Rod was even wearing his shirt from the original event!

John and my dad. John rented his island apartment to my parents so they would have someplace close by to stay while the house was being reconstructed.

Watching the sunset from the street end.

After the sun went down it was time to set up for the premiere. Our neighbors even brought over a pop corn machine!

The best seats were in the street, so we temporarily blocked traffic.

The projection on the house worked really well!

Everyone celebrating!

Memory Maps

So I've been working on a documentary about my parents' house for the past several months. It's been somewhat of a secret during production since I'm planning a big premiere party on Memorial Day weekend... I'll be sure to post it here after that.

But I'm also working on another project that is going to accompany the documentary. I'm going to ask all the volunteers that came down to help my parents demolish/rebuild their house to make a list of site-specific memories from LBI. From the list I am going to create a Memory Map for each person. Together, all the maps will form Memory Atlas. I've already asked a few people and started compiling the data. Here's Jaclyn's and Devin's maps...

Snowball

What happens when you take a snowball for a walk? Benn and I did a few weeks ago and I finally finished my movie about our experience. Enjoy!


Snowball from Oz Hatke on Vimeo.

Illustrating a Haiku

So a friend of mine started the challenge of writing a haiku every day for a year. So far he's made to the end of January and I've found them pretty entertaining so far.

http://haiku2013.wordpress.com/

Then he asked if anyone would be willing to illustrate some of his haikus. So here's my illustration for his January 27th haiku.

Can you be in 9 places at once?

That was the question I experimented with for the final video of my fall semester class. I know the posting of this video is long overdue, but its up now!


9 Places from Oz Hatke on Vimeo.

playin' footsie

So today I decided I wanted to paint. I wanted to paint a picture of feet. I've been doing a lot of work about walking and taken a lot of feet-centric images... so why not keep going.

Funny thing, now that I've gotten this far I've realized that not only did I pick my "dirty foot" - the one that's covered in a birth mark that is some form of a mole, but I decided to stop the drawing along the edge of the mark. I thought I was gonna be done with skin related stuff for a while... maybe not after all.

Crabby Animation

I've recently been learning some new techniques in After Effects (the animation software) and decided to re-animate my stripie crab. Enjoy my new Barnegat Bay Animation.


Barnegat Bay Animation from Oz Hatke on Vimeo.

The reason it's so silly long is because I want to submit it to ART in the AIR, a collaborative project between PECO and Breadboard to use the Crown Lights System on top of the PECO building in Philadelphia to showcase digital art from local artists. Hopefully the next time you see this crab he'll be swimming around up in the Philly skyline.