Christmas Card

(no sound, sorry)

Terry Sawatzky

This self titled blogspot does
connect to me, 
Terry Sawatzky, 
the guy in the picture, 
the guy who builds sculpture. 
And works full time at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. 
(KPU)
As a Sculpture Technician.
And occasionally at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
(ECUAD)
In the Metal Shop or Industrial Design.
And occasionally at the University of British Columbia.
(UBC)
Robson Square Media.
So this does seem like a good spot to put further news and links.
...
I probably will.
We'll see how long the edits take to show up.
UPDATE:
2017
I'm still at KPU
but now I'm called an
Instructional Associate.
My most recent notion
on the thread of
Web Presence
is
Red Border Meta Nav.
(originaly tested as)
MetaNav rabbithole

Last Summer's Beetle

Did I mention the state of my desktop?
Follow this blog for long and you'll
surely notice the repeated motifz!

Mars Monkeys - On The Porch

During the Parade of Lost Souls
Vic and I
entertained the passing crowd
with our own individual flavour
of noise.
Available soon as a Limited Edition
Multimedia Email Release.
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more levels...

...in the self referential slide.

brainchild

I still like the old school, post-modern self-referential stuff.
"Look, Look, it's a photo-Chopped Jay-Peg!!"
I'm going to have to start adding in fake pallets next.

flat four

1966 VW
the car I drove in the '80's

I Don't Know Which Way to Look

At least three grooves to follow.

Nope, me neither

Didja ever just feel like two ogres in a swirling mass?

go here now

https://sites.google.com/site/marsmonkeys/

It's the latest thing,
probably not even started yet!


And don't forget:

http://ca.geocities.com/tmsawatzky/

TwistHead

I'm kinda liking
the crude,
loose flesh
masklike quality
of life.

Bold New Superhero of the current economic slump

Frank Zappa lyrics, of course.
They continue to fit so well.
And Dweezil does his dad so well.

space; time; soul

space is infinite

time is an illusion

there is only one soul

(everyone{and everything} is sharing)

Football without a helmet

Whatever made me think that was a good idea?

Still Transitioning

The analogue to digital and back to analogue conundrum.
Beating on my conunDrum.
Is it a website or a sound sculpture?
Do I revert to digital everytime I run out of Physical Space
for analogue pursuits?

I Don't Know, Officer...

...they all look the same to me.

Getting Primitive

The more subtle the changes
the more insidious the effect.

being stretched

Being stretched these days
more ways
than I care to name

self portrait with car

Distorting jpegs has little to do with traditional photography. I used to go out hunting with my slr. Hunting for things worthy of my camera. Now I can instantly create numerous cheap images that are just pixels waiting to be pushed around like so much paint.

Back In The Day

Retro visitation of "RattleTrap", "TripHammer","KeyBorg1",and,"Battle Horn of the Republic/Moose Call". 1981-84 My Emily Carr Student Daze.

What? A day?

This is so recursively self referential!
A self portrait photochopped (yes, chopped)to include a poster for a sculpture of mine,
uploaded to
http://ca.geocities.com/tmsawatzky/,
then sceengrabbed and reuploaded to
my blog.
And now I'm writing about it.
Hey, when I get some time for my brain,
I will add a flash adventure game to my site.
I'm tempted to make it a real old school text only
thing with linx.
I like the old/new blend.
Hotrod ..?

Flash Test

This is a test of publishing Flash as a Gif.
My formating is not what I expected. This is a voyage of discovery. Does this work? http://ca.geocities.com/tmsawatzky/
{click grey square to see motion}

my eye

I don't know what to write today. Entry #3, the visuals are easy, I guess that's why I build sculpture ... 3d communication just makes sense to me. Words are more difficult.

Deconstruction:Classic

A motor inside a VW turns wafer switches which have been soldered into the circuitboard where the computer keyboard once resided.
It aids in the process of getting the basic program booted via a librarian plugging in the lights of the cabinet in which the sideways Mac Classic was for a month.
The images on the vertical screen were mixed with basic graphics. System 7 ... 1990's. And equally aged Chipmunk Basic Program.
I had to buy a USB floppy drive to load stuff from my MacBook Pro.

Crazy Start

How is sound sculpting different from making music?
I move sounds as well as creating sound patterns.
Coming from an Art perspective ... filtred through Multimedia.
Writing is the hard part, this is the beginning.