Artists' Open Studios Nov 15-16 12-4pm

34 Front Street, Indian Orchard, MA

Stop by and see the work of over 50 artists at this years' Indian Orchard Mills Fall Open Studios.
More Details Here

Visit www.bordenca.com to see my paintings, and http://www.youtube.com/ChrisBordenca
to see time lapse videos of the works in progress.

Scroll down for iPhone theme info.

Antique Brass Keyboard for iPhone

The current version has been greatly reduced in size to 3.25 MB down from 11 MB. So you can now quickly download over Edge 3G or wifi.For use with Winterboard this is a fully skinned keyboard theme. Available via Cydia care of www.modmyi.com .This took a lot of time so if you're feeling awesome, please

even just a buck. Enjoy!

Crepuscular Wallpaper for iPhone

Crepuscular is a changing wallpaper I just made for jailbroken iPhones using Winterboard soon to be available via Cydia. It is meant to go along with Clockwork the lockscreen shown below. In this set of wallpapers there is a little circular window that reveals the sun or the moon depending on the time of day. Huge props to the creator of the Illuminated theme for creating the html.

Also there is a green glass apparatus where the page dots sit, so they look like they are contained within. It will hold 7 dots well, 8 dots look okay, and if you've got 9 pages well, there's an app called Categories you should check out.

I leave the bottom right icon space empty so the sun / moon dial is not covered.

Thanks everyone for the great feedback on Clockwork, it's been downloaded 8,000 times in three days.




As always if you're feeling the love please drop a buck or two my way via PayPal and I can keep cranking out the themes. Request and suggestions welcome.

Huge thanks again to www.modmyi.com for the hosting!

Clockwork iPhone Animated Lockscreen & Sliders

Clockwork is my new custom animated lockscreen for the iPhone available through Cydia hopefully soon thanks to www.modmyi.com for hosting my themes.

This one features a beating heart powering some gears and a piston. I've also include three custom sliders for your pleasure as well.

I'm hoping to make a whole theme with this including either animated wallpaper or at least a very cool set of changing wallpapers, and possibly icons as well. This will depend on whether the new PayPal donation system affords me the time to work on it.

So if you dig it and you want more, drop me a buck or two to chris@bordenca.com via PayPal or use the "Donate" button on the right there and I'll get going! I'll even take suggestions.

And if you want your own unique custom theme, e-mail me and maybe we can work something out!

Enjoy everyone!

Don't Panic

::::edit:::: This theme has now been downloaded over 15,000 times and it's only been up for five days! Huge thanks to Kyle at www.modmyi.com for hosting it!

I just made my very first custom animated lockscreen for my iPhone based on the great little green guy that used to grace the covers of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

With the iPhone it's as if Douglas Adams himself worked hand in hand with Apple, his favorite tech brand, and designed the closest thing to the actual Guide.

I've used some variation of this image below as the wallpaper for all of my cell phones. I did not create the image, major props to whomever did. What I did do, is animate the arms and tongue so they wave about. Also there is a highlight that passes across the words Don't Panic. Words to live by my friends.

The animated lockscreen is available only for jailbroken iPhones via Cydia using Winterboard. If your phone is already jailbroken then you'll know what all that means. In the first hour or so it's already been downloaded almost 600 times! Now if only he were around to see it...

October Painting 1

Here is my current painting. It started out as something completely different and wound up transforming into this. The resemblance to fire is obvious but not really intentional. I woke up this morning thinking of the painting as I had left it last week, and the warm colors came to mind.

I nearly totally destroyed the original painting, which will be seen when the video is finished. It's like I lit the original on fire and it froze that way.

This was a pretty tough one to get through and sitting back now to look at it I'm very satisfied.

New Empire

Other new painting in process.

One of two new paintings in process.

iPhone 2.0.2 jailbroken!

I used QuickPwn GUI on my first gen iphone. Worked perfectly the first
time. Thanks to all the hard workers who make good things gooder!

Jailbroken once again!

Aquarium with reflecting pond.

:D

See my latest time lapse painting at www.bordenca.com or www.youtube.com/chrisbordenca

(I know how to spell, but most of my responses come from a phone with
no buttons.)

Gallery 137 Show

Here is the Blue Painting hanging at Gallery 137 in Indian Orchard, MA. The show runs until August 30, 2008 if you'd like to visit.

Grey sky iphone wallpaper

My current iPhone wallpaper.

Tags: ,wallpaper, bordenca, grey sky, cloudy, red light

Gallery 137 1st Annual Juried Show

I've submitted three paintings to the show, All entries will initially be exhibited at the Dane Gallery from July 26 to July 30.

If any of my paintings are chosen by the jury they'll be shown at Gallery 137.

The rest will stay at the Dane Gallery:
Dane Gallery
34 Front Street
Indian Orchard, Massachusetts 01151

Phone: (413)543-332

Gallery 137 Members Show in the Dane Gallery
Opens July 26th from 12-4p
Can be viewed every Saturday through August 30th

Gallery 137 Members Show juried works at Gallery 137
Opens August 2nd from 3-5p
Show runs through August 30th

Gallery 137
137 Main Street
Indian Orchard, Massachusetts 01151

Gallery Hours: Wed. thru Sat. 11 - 3
(413) 543-6994
info@gallery137.org

Painting in a painting

New American Totem

Rt. 1 south Plainville, MA

Current painting just about finished

Iron Maiden

Awesomest show ever!!!

Black time lapse painting

Here is my latest painting created as a time lapse video.

Also dig the great song "Sad Robot" by Pornophonique who were cool enough to give me permission to use their song. They've got the whole album available for free download on their site www.pornophonique.de or search for it on jamendo. It would be very cool to drop them a donation of a couple of bucks just to say thanks if you dig the album enough to download it. See more at www.bordenca.com or www.youtube.com/chrisbordenca.

New painting.

This is obviously in the same vein as the last one, except it's much
larger.

Current painting update

Current painting

This is what I am working on at the moment.

Perfect bookmark

For Cory Doctorow's new book "Little Brother" what could be a better
bookmark than a TSA notice of bag inspection? I bought the book to
read on a flight this weekend and when we landed my friend's guitar
case had been graced the notice.

East Side

Found this while waiting to ride the go carts at Adventure Landing in NC
on Friday night. That's badass.

Very old hand carved "Indian Head"

Noticed this yesterday on a backyard gate.

Painting update

This was the black & white one I was working on before. It's mutated
quite a bit.

OrbLive for iPhone!

Checked Installer this morning to see what's new, and holy mackeral, Orb has an iPhone app called OrbLive, and it works GREAT! Stream all media, including webcam from your home pc right to your iphone.

Crazy

I've been losing it a little lately as a result of a little too much
alone time. Here is a painting I started with the hope of kicking the
crazy out.

Sean's new band name

> Mister Sippy King... Because it's like he's the guy who married
> Mrs. Sippy Queen! (Mississippi Queen a song he knows and loves from
> Guitar Hero). Sean is my five year old son.

> Friggin' Awesome!

!

:I

See my latest painting created as a time lapse video at www.bordenca.com

Please give meta a break

For the love of all things spoken, could we all agree to a moratorium
on using the prefix "meta" as a word to describe pretty much
everything lately?

Tangential non-smoking painting

For sanity's sake I popped this one out last week in an attempt to
cope with quitting smoking among other things.

Happy McStar Wars

Sometime back in 1997 I had way too much time on my hands and made some stop motion videos using a old VHS camera, my roommate's computer, and a bunch of action figures and Happy Meal toys I had laying around. The first one was a very loose take off of Star Wars. There was no sound then, so I added some today. I lost some of my favorite clips that have been corrupted. Likely from being moved from hard drive to hard drive over the years. What you see below are all that is left of my 8 Russell Street animated short shorts.

iPhone = Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I wish Douglas Adams were alive to have his very own iPhone. I bet he'd have loved it.

Ever had one of those nights?

Obama on a kendama

Recently painted this little portrait of Barrack Obama on a kendama
for Paul Miller over at www.varietyartsblog.com . Not entirely sure
what he's got planned for it but I'm sure there will be video soon.

Portrait of Aaron

You can see the time lapse video of this painting of my friend Aaron
over at www.youtube.com/chrisbordenca .

Shirts based on Time Lapse Painting #6 and Blue Painting

These wicked nice shirts can be found over at spreadshirt... Check 'em out. Buy one for someone awesome, and one for someone else-ome.
Link

Shirts & Stuff

Shirts, Mugs & More emblazoned with Time Lapse Painting #5 available now! Here

Distant relatives?

I just painted this kendama for my friend Paul Miller over at www.varietyartsblog.com

. More on that later. Anyhow I'm about to mail it back to him along with an old webcam of mine when I noticed an odd resemblance between the two. One designed hundreds if not thousands of years ago, and the other within the last eight years.

Granted they both serve different purposes entirely, but I find it interesting to note that the older of the two has been in use since its inception and the newer is already nearly obsolete.

Favorite mug

The handle broke about ten years ago, but that hasn't stopped it from
delivering the goods. "What, me worry?"

New time lapse / animation painting...errr what?

This new time lapse painting is more like a stop-motion animation because I removed myself from most of the frames. It's a quick one.

Variations

This is a response to Paul Miller's "That Guy". Which can be viewed below. The idea is that having a conversation over the paintings is more akin to the rambling thoughts someone might have when they are looking at this type of painting.



Here is Paul's video:

Robot Invasion

Currently a robot army has taken over our house as they mount up for a
galactic invasion. Not our galaxy though, so no worries.

Painting update

Red Painting 1

100 Faces of War Experience - Artist Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell is a painter I met when our wives were pregnant in baby having classes. We caught up with him and his wife last weekend for the first time in years. They are both incredible, accomplished artists. Matt's current project is called "100 Faces of War Experience"

Here is a quote from his statement:

100 Faces is a growing collection of portraits and statements by Americans with war experience in Iraq or Afghanistan (OIF, OEF). Not all the people pictured are military personnel, other people who have gone from America with a different mission or a different role than the military are also pictured.

The 100 Faces project has grown in many ways over the past couple years. As more portraits have been painted , more personal histories described, more exhibitions and events have been held the nature of this project has expanded. What began as a vision by one artist has branched out to become a project about history.

You can see the portraits at the website by following this link.

Current painting

This is what I'm working on at the moment.

See my latest painting created as a time lapse video at www.bordenca.com

All the Time Lapse Painting goodness.

For the past 7 months I've been recording my painting process using time lapse photography and posting the results all of the YouTubes... the work is for the most part abstract, although as of late I've been working in a more literal abstract style. Random doodles, shapes, creatures whatever you want to see, grow from a point on the canvas. For now there is no theme behind anyone painting. They go where ever my mind goes. There are definite "things" to be found among the random objects/organisms, like tentacles and pipes, heart like shapes that morph into planetiod shapes, things like that. So here's to the first blog post and the first batch of videos.