L’eau Life, Jeff Scher

An experimental film-maker and painter, Jeff Scher makes dreamlike animations in rotoscopic form with water colour, ink, collage and an excellent absence of a computer. Featured is the newly updated and super inspiring L’eau Life. 

We Love his fascination with water and the call to summer!

His work is in the permanent collection of numerous museums, among them the Museum of Modern Art, and has been screened at film festivals around the world, including opening night at the New York Film Festival. He has also created work for HBO, PBS, the Sundance Channel and, most recently, a music video for Bob Dylan. A selection of his films, "The Best of Times," was just published as an iPhone and iPad app. Mr. Scher teaches at the School of Visual Arts and at N.Y.U. Tisch School of the Arts. 

Check out his other amazing films, especially "Stars and Stripes" another one of our favorites which you can view through his blogs on the new york times opinionator:http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/stars-stripes/

happy nu year!!

Hand painting 30's Florals Vs. 90's Grunge plaid's...GO

Today in the studio, hand done paintings of 30's floral motifs and 90's grunge plaids. A fusion of these motifs will create prints for our Sping 2014 line, on view at the upcoming textile show, "Indigo"  here in NYC.

http://www.indigo-salon.com/newyork/fiche/exposant/nuprimary?SearchText=&context=search 

Underwater luminescence- Hand paintings from the studio

Underwater paintings from the studio- Spring 2014

www.nuprimary.com

wide and narrow striations

N. Joseph Woodland, who six decades ago drew a set of lines in the sand and in the process conceived the modern bar code, died on Sunday at his home in Edgewater, N.J. He was 91.

 Earlier in his life Woodland stole away to spend time with his grandfather in Miami to focus on developing a code that could symbolically capture details about any item.

The only code Woodland knew was the Morse Code he'd learned in the Boy Scouts, his daughter said. One day, he drew Morse dots and dashes as he sat on the beach and absent-mindedly left his fingers in the sand where they traced a series of parallel lines.

"It was a moment of inspiration. He said, `instead of dots and dashes I can have thick and thin bars,"

Woodland joined IBM in 1951 hoping to develop the bar code, but the technology wasn't accepted for more than two decades until lasers made it possible to read the code readily.

Today, about 5 billion products are scanned and tracked worldwide every day.

Woodland was born Sept 6, 1921, in Atlantic City, N.J.

 Woodland and Microsoft founder Bill Gates were among those honored at the White House in 1992 for their achievements to technology, four months after President George H.W. Bush appeared amazed at a demonstration of a grocery checkout machine.

For more on this story see these articles from the NY times and CBS:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/business/n-joseph-woodland-inventor-of-the-bar-code-dies-at-91.html?_r=0

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57559140/bar-codes-co-inventor-n-joseph-woodland-dies-91/