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Years ago, I began wanting to develop my work enough to show in gallery events. This partially led to the development of ART7 and the...
Years ago, I began wanting to develop my work enough to show in gallery events. This partially led to the development of ART7 and the rest of the ART series on Playdate - in that case, I figured I could just make my own gallery. But still, a lot of the work I'm interested in making is fully in the realm of the physical. I spend time with friends every week at a local Art Night hosted at the Highland Collective here in Austin. It has been an amazing place to focus and/or not focus. To talk to other artists,...
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Playdate Camera Photowalk
Photography Playdate Videogames

Playdate Camera Photowalk

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Tom Granger is a developer for the Playdate and has done what I had hoped to someday do - he has created the hardware and...
Tom Granger is a developer for the Playdate and has done what I had hoped to someday do - he has created the hardware and software to turn the Playdate into a camera! A la the Gameboy Camera before it, Tom's Playdate Camera project takes this little handheld system and vastly expands its capabilities. He was kind enough to share test shots used in the production of the camera and we have included them as an exhibit/photowalk in the new ART tOO for July 2023 The ART tOO is free to download and explore. The shots  Tom provided were cropped...
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ART& – Loss & Interpretation
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ART& – Loss & Interpretation

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ART in Translation across Medium During development of ART& I was walking through a massive MC Escher exhibit in Houston. So many of his works...
ART in Translation across Medium During development of ART& I was walking through a massive MC Escher exhibit in Houston. So many of his works in black and white seemed like they would translate delightfully into low-res 1-bit, but that would fundamentally change what they are, even while bringing them to a new platform. With Escher, the detail and craft embody the message, but there is a loss in translating mediums. The work is fundamentally a different thing even were the artist themselves to craft it.  Running through my mind while viewing a master's work and seeing the arc of...
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The Balloon Collective
ARTwork Balloons Collections Photography

The Balloon Collective

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The Balloon Collective has kept me in the Art-making business since I started helping out at SXSW 2018. We do small-large scale decor pieces -...
The Balloon Collective has kept me in the Art-making business since I started helping out at SXSW 2018. We do small-large scale decor pieces - Garlands of Organic, Ceilings, Streamers, Backdrops and Balloon Sculpture (Nate the Great is amazing at this). Below are some pictures of the work. Follow @TheBalloonCollective for more! [gallery_p_gallery id=1]
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ART7 Submissions and Credits
Collections Photography Playdate Videogames

ART7 Submissions and Credits

dtw
Welcome to ART7 1-bit Gallery! I hope you Have or Are enjoying the gallery. The focus for this first show has been to include art...
Welcome to ART7 1-bit Gallery! I hope you Have or Are enjoying the gallery. The focus for this first show has been to include art from members of the Playdate community, art from friends, partners, and myself! What do you do when you first open a Gallery? Invite all of your friends to show of course! Now, if you have enjoyed the ART7 and would like to be featured in the NEXT show (Audio or Visual), get in contact with me for details! [contact-form to="dtw.ledbetter@gmail.com" subject="ART7 Submission"][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="1"][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="1"][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea"][/contact-form]   ART-O-Ween: Night at the...
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ART7 for Playdate
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ART7 for Playdate

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ART7 1-bit Gallery **OUT NOW for Playdate** by Ledbetter So I'm building an Art Gallery for the Playdate Handheld Console. !. It's called ART7 and...
ART7 1-bit Gallery **OUT NOW for Playdate** by Ledbetter So I'm building an Art Gallery for the Playdate Handheld Console. !. It's called ART7 and will be released in April/May/June on itch.io and to the developer community. I have a long personal history of fascination with Games and Game Hardware, especially niche and bootleg devices. Tiger Electronic LED handheld games. Space Harrier on the Sega Game Gear. I built a Retroarch machine into a NES cartridge. I'm loving my Anbernic 315v and all the MAME games I can run. I have a bootleg arcade stick with 1400+ arcade games. I...
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Boop!
ARTwork Collections Photography

Boop!

dtw
The Gallery shown in the sidebar of these pages is a series of 'Digital Instant' photography. Every image is the result of a Boop! in...
The Gallery shown in the sidebar of these pages is a series of 'Digital Instant' photography. Every image is the result of a Boop! in which I reach out with an innate sense of composition to capture a photo. These are truly instant and shot from the hip pictures, but it is the limitations of the process that are a literal joy! Due to the intentional design of the camera system (a papershoot), I can neither studiously compose a shot nor review it immediately afterward. The philosophy behind the device is to bring back the mystery of shooting instant film...
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