Welcome to slowburn, a digital playground for more than twenty years.
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Entering 2019 with a minor kvetch…
This year has started with big change, as I’m now running a busy silkscreen studio, and starting my first semester teaching Art Appeciation for a local college. My only regret is that the French Moderns exhibit is gone from the Figge Museum – it would have been a good teaching tool. (As an aside, the …
Update Accomplished
After hand-coding and WSYWIG-ing for years, I finally decided to migrate over to WordPress, in part because of a really thoughtful conversation the founder of WP, Matt Mullenweg had with Kara Swisher for her Recode Decode blog. I’ve run WordPress as a subset on plenty of websites previously, but this is my first time giving …
Visual Archive
The problem with having a web site as digital archive for so long is that you never lose anything. I’m in the process of building separate galleries for art works, gallery shows, design projects, and gentle persuasion .
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About
Hi, my name is David Balluff. Some days I am an artist. Some days I design things. Some days I teach people stuff, mostly about art, and silk screening.
I have been building web sites since the beginning, which makes me incredibly old, wise, and probably useless. Slowburn has been my digital playground since 1996. I have an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute, if you’re asking.
As this site is more than twenty years old, I decided to do some housekeeping to get rid of the cruft – legacy code, .gif photos, and incriminating evidence. My plan is to slowly return old projects – Hugh, Rosa, and create a more up-to-date archive of my past errors in judgement. 🙂
I really dig languages, iconography, and symbols, and how they often tend to disseminate in a viral manner. I studied Chinese in Taiwan, where, in the traditional characters, a written word can be dense with meaning, history, and social cues. My thesis for grad school had to do with visual propaganda, rhetoric, and snake oil salesmen.