Bennett E. Roti http://www.benroti.com creative portfolio Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:20:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Tucson Storms http://www.benroti.com/?p=358 http://www.benroti.com/?p=358#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:19:03 +0000 admin http://www.benroti.com/?p=358 I recently moved to Tucson, AZ and got some great shots of a lightning storm on July 17th 2010.

Tucson Lightning Tucson Valley Lightning Tucson Lightning 2 Tucson Lightning 3 Tucson Lightning 4 Tucson Lightning 5 Tucson Lightning Storm North Tucson Lightning ]]> http://www.benroti.com/?feed=rss2&p=358 0 Older Works http://www.benroti.com/?p=336 http://www.benroti.com/?p=336#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 15:55:58 +0000 admin http://www.benroti.com/?p=336 I just wanted to update my portfolio a bit, and throw a few older works in here that I’ve had scanned on the University computers for a while.

Detail of Worm Chandelier Tag SOUL Tribute to John W. UNI Tire Installation ]]> http://www.benroti.com/?feed=rss2&p=336 0 Red Bull Complete http://www.benroti.com/?p=311 http://www.benroti.com/?p=311#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 18:26:23 +0000 admin http://www.benroti.com/?p=311 About a month ago I went back to my hometown to help Ethan Carlson work on his project for a Red Bull art competition called Art of Can. This years competition will be held in Dallas, TX from July 31st to August 22nd 2010. I thought I would update everyone with some finished photos from the project.

Coming together Packing the plane Setting it on stilts Cockpit Finished project Arial view from the driveway Underside detail Red Bull 2010 Delivered to the warehouse in Dallas, TX Detail from the Side Wing span Arial Shot What the plane was modeled from ]]> http://www.benroti.com/?feed=rss2&p=311 0 Cost of War – Arts Fest http://www.benroti.com/?p=279 http://www.benroti.com/?p=279#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 01:34:24 +0000 admin http://www.benroti.com/?p=279 School of Art and Art History’s Arts Fest ended less than 2 hours ago and here are some pictures from my installation. The open house was great, lots of people showed. Thank you to everyone for your great support.

Cost of War - Arts Fest Cost of War 2 Cost of War 3 Helmets & Map Wall of Names Name Detail Name Detail 2 Helmet Detail Helmet Detail 2 ]]> http://www.benroti.com/?feed=rss2&p=279 0 Arts Fest http://www.benroti.com/?p=271 http://www.benroti.com/?p=271#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:33:08 +0000 admin http://www.benroti.com/?p=271 The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History is having an open house this Friday April 30th from 4-7pm. If you are in the neighborhood stop by. (I will have my piece installed and be demoing)

Facebook invitation

]]> http://www.benroti.com/?feed=rss2&p=271 0 Red Bull http://www.benroti.com/?p=269 http://www.benroti.com/?p=269#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:09:49 +0000 admin http://www.benroti.com/?p=269 Saturday I went home to help  out a great friend, Ethan Carlson, work on a project for a Red Bull art competition.   Carlson had been invited to enter his sculpture Crimson Rage in a national Red Bull competition titled The Art of Can. The Bull was a center point of the show at the Union Station.

Ethan is planning on entering a new piece into this years Art of Can in Dallas, TX. I went and helped him with his process this weekend and took a few pictures of his progress.

Red Bull Plane Wrapped in paper Tail getting the coat of cut cans Ethan working on applying the outline Detail Ethan's crew cutting the cans Detail of the coated side This is where we ended on Sunday Ethan Carlson and I ]]> http://www.benroti.com/?feed=rss2&p=269 0 Studio http://www.benroti.com/?p=262 http://www.benroti.com/?p=262#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:29:07 +0000 admin http://www.benroti.com/?p=262 I have a few images to update the website with, first is my studio space. I took a quick picture of my space a few weeks ago right after I finished my Afghanistan piece. It’s fairly clean compared to what it was before I moved the helmets out.

]]> http://www.benroti.com/?feed=rss2&p=262 0 Iraq War Names http://www.benroti.com/?p=247 http://www.benroti.com/?p=247#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:25:41 +0000 admin http://www.benroti.com/?p=247 I’m currently working on a few pieces that deal with the soldiers from the Iraq War. I needed the list of all the names of the soldiers that have been KIA but all I could find was the list from iCasualties. The list is great but I needed the names to be in a block format. So after several hours of pasting names into a word document from the website, I now have this PDF file:

Iraq Names

This list took me a VERY long time but I thought it would be helpful if this was somewhere for someone else to use. Feel free to use the list I created.

]]> http://www.benroti.com/?feed=rss2&p=247 0 Combat Paper 2 http://www.benroti.com/?p=223 http://www.benroti.com/?p=223#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:38:00 +0000 admin http://www.benroti.com/?p=223 I got to go see combat paper in action again today, here are some of the pictures:

Drew and Brandon laying the stencil Black paper pulp Peeling back the stencil Combat Paper North Hall Spraying the second stencil Combat Paper North Hall 2 Laying third stencil Combat Paper North Hall 3 Combat Paper North Hall 4 Spraying third stencil Combat Paper North Hall 5 Broken Gun Spraying half the gun Spraying the other half Finished broken gun Combat Paper North Hall 6 Combat Paper Prints Drying Paper ]]> http://www.benroti.com/?feed=rss2&p=223 0 Combat Paper http://www.benroti.com/?p=131 http://www.benroti.com/?p=131#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:18:08 +0000 admin http://www.benroti.com/?p=131 This weekend I was able to go and see combat paper in action. If you don’t know what combat paper check them out by clicking here. Here is the workshop Drew and Drew gave at the University:

UI Paper Stuido Paper Beater Paper Molds Juston Sketching Jessie Flipping Paper Jesse's gun mold Jesse's helmet mold Breaking Rank (© Combat Paper) ]]> http://www.benroti.com/?feed=rss2&p=131 0