Palm Desert Public Art Videos

This link will take you to the official Palm Desert Travel site on YouTube that also has at least a doz. or more videos I've created about Palm Desert's public art and some other public art collections.  Follow this link and you'll be there: www.YouTube.com/user/PalmDesertTravel

Hope to see you in the desert sometime.

YouTube videos

These have been on YouTube for a while, hopefully you'll find them still fresh.  The Anthology of Photons is in three parts, because the files are so large and downloading would take too long.

www.YouTube.com/user/rtwedt

Richard's art spaces site

Here's a link to numerous digital still images and videos I've created over the past several years.  It's kind of like a storehouse for my artworks.  I've also recycled and transformed  many of my early paintings into digital images in Adobe Photoshop.  The mutations are endless.  Check it out at www.richardtwedtart.spaces.live.com/files, then click on the public folder.

If you're looking for art and cultural activities in the Coachella Valley, check this site out at http://desertartsincubator.typepad.com/weblog/public-art.html  It's maintained by Kimberly Nichols, artist and Gallery Director for the Heather James Fine Art Gallery in Palm Desert.  

The Public Art Blog

Here's a link to a blog that I created for my position as Public Arts Manager for the City of Palm Desert.  It has some interesting videos of public art in other cities and institutions, for instance, the Getty and the Stuart Collection on the UC San Diego's campus.  In April, my staff and I took the members of the Art in Public Places Commission to visit the incredible collection.  Some of my favorite public art pieces are in the Stuart Collection, like Robert Irwin's blue fence and Terry Allen's talking trees, visit the blog at:

http://www.publicartpalmdesert.blogspot.com

We have just updated our website with an all new design and navigation system.  It has links to our public art collection of over 140 pieces, other public art collections, museums, interactive Internet art sites, the Virtual Gallery and online artist registry that contains 300 + public artist's websites and much more.  I would like to invite you to visit it at http://www.palm-desert.org/arts-culture/public-art

The Squiggles

Like so many of my videos created in past couple of years, this piece is composed of animated individual digital images.  There is no sound track. The idea was to project the piece and each person could select what audio they prefer to go with it.  Let me know what you think.

Lightboxes

Here's a short video I created about a year or so ago of the different lightboxes hung throughout our house.  What I particularly like is at night they are reflected in the sliding glass doors and appear to float in space.  An added benefit.  The beauty of a lightbox is being able to change out the digital art to something new.  I change the images with the seasons, cool blues and greens for summer and warm yellows, golds and red during the winter.