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Flash Game..?

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:41:41 +0000

I was commissioned to create a flash game for cygolite’s bike light giveaway raffle promotion, so check that out while it’s still in effect and if you ride bikes at night, buy one of their lights at cygolite.com. My game [and the raffle] were even featured on the women’s cycling magazine website, so clearly, I’m moving up in the world.

cygolite flash game screenshot

Trips to “Deutsche-town, U.S.A.” (Germany)

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:19:31 +0000

I haven’t been getting enormous amounts of work done lately, but at least for a while I had a good excuse since I was away on vacation, visiting my brother who studies in Germany. Don’t think for a second that sightseeing of baroque palaces, castles, Mercedes Benz, and winter wonderlands was all I accomplished though. No, no– you know I’m all business, and even on vacation I’m utterly focused on my artistic endeavors, constantly expanding my horizons and making sure my gears are always turning, so to speak. I went to four art museums to get inspired, and to scoff at the now passé Modernist paintings. And also, German scenery itself being the setting of centuries of wars and the stuff of fairy tales, I just might’ve found the inspiration for a lot of work in the future. For now however, all I have is this artsy, self-indulgent vacation movie and this illustration of the trip done in a style that rips off one of my favs, Olivier Kugler. Click on it below.

Germany from Garrett Sneen on Vimeo.

Digital + Dichotomy = Digichotomy

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:35:06 +0000

digichotomy from Garrett Sneen on Vimeo.

I worked with my UCSD buddies Angela Black and Michelle Leonhart on part of their Second Life art project. During their performances, they encourage people in the “real” world to communicate via microphone with users in the Second Life game– neither one knowing whom they are speaking to or what their relation actually is. It’s an attempt to test the relationships between real and virtual worlds as one merges with the next. I helped write a cell phone application that uses GPS to move a Second Life avatar relative to its player’s geographical movement. Watch this informational clip and read more about the ongoing work at Digichotomy.com. It’s cool stuff.