Lucas T Swick Blog
This post originally appeared on the whoisowenjones.com blog. As part of my learning-is-the-new-black 2014 initiative, I’ve decided to learn languages by creating small projects. I limit my time in the language to a week and share the results. This year’s first undertaking is all about openFrameworks, an…
I was recently invited to participate in Share PDX, a creative get together where artists are brought together for a two hour period to explore a theme announced at the start of the evening. I was a little nervous, because the last two share prompts were Decay and Collapse, two…
My studio has been quite the mess. One of the problems I have with my music studio is that synthesizers take up a lot of horizontal real estate. Even when they're stacked, it's a big footprint, and up until now I've had keyboards leaning against a wall to try to…
The Misses and I began 2013 knowing we were in for some Big Changes. Good changes, but even good changes carry a sense of foreboding when they involve sugeries that liquify excess bone from one's wife. Most of the footage was shot at Burning Man (see my photoset) this year…
Tracing Remnants is an original illustrative series by Lucas Swick that combines vector line-art, masked photography, and tattoos. Prints are available in our Etsy shop. Each piece begins as a photograph. I spend a few hundred hours in Illustrator using the pen tool to mask each tattoo and create the…
Neil Gaiman has given me over 20 years of dreams and ideas. That's over half my life. It might be a coincidence, but that's about the time my life started getting better. These photos are from a conversation between Neil Gaiman and Chuck Lorre (of Dharma and Greg, The Big…