Technology and the Arts: New Technolgoy for 2010

Technology and the Arts: New Technolgoy for 2010

Line Rider - Finally!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q94obUneTSI

"Apples" by Tom McKeith

Tom McKeith is a Scottish illustrator (with an MFA in Photography) who currently lives in Sacremento, California. Many of his illustrations can be viewed by clicking here. There is not much information about Tom's usage of computer art, but his drawings resemble those created in Adobe Illustrator- which assists many graphic artists and illustrators today.

Grappa

This was fun and very addicting and I could have done it for hours. I had a hard time deciding which one to post as I really liked them all.

grappa

I think Grappa was my favorite one! Saving the best for last!
more of mine at this link

fractals

Here's the combonation of my UltraFractals and Apophosys images. For the rest of them, click here.

GRAPA - Week 7

ultra fractals

MOCA wk 7

I believe this is #7, i could be wrong BUT I chose the artist Neko Linda, who is a multi media and didgital artist living in Alabama. She does not have a site unfortunately but she does some pretty interesting stuff through her "scanographic montage" style. The two posted remind me of some type of mystical imagined garden photos at night, its very lush in a way, which is what drew me in. The bottom is my favorite of the two, it puts me in the mind of an ancient tree on perfectly still water, its beautiful. Enjoy.....

For my grandmother

I made this for my grandmother, who is the one making a fist in the Brian Westbrook jersey, and who roots with us every Sunday for the Philadelphia Eagles. The man on the right is Terrell Owens, who used to play for the Eagles and made a terrible mess of the team with his drama before being let go from the team. So I made this little image for her and put it in a frame and gave it to her this weekend. I told her I wanted to put it on the blog, but didn't do it without her permission. She said "Go for it!". So here it is. I know it isn't part of any assignment, but class is almost over and we all shared a lot of things, so I felt I would share something that means a lot to my grandmother and was made possible through Jerry's teachings and the things he opened our minds up to. So thank you all for the wonderful comments and sharing all of your beautiful images with us, and most of all thanks to Jerry. It's been a blast and I hope to have you for another course in the near future.

Grappa!!!

Grappa is awesome! The top left image is the Superman symbol, which just jumped out at me when I first tried the program. The one to the right is a simple delay then move image. The bottom left is an M for my last name and I thought would look cool in like a vibrant energy pattern way. Last is the sailboat on the ocean with the wind blowing it's sails at night. Even though there is a steering wheel there is no captain, as I didn't want to ruin the image trying to draw a detailed person.

MOCA - Week 7

This collection is called "The poetic in the midst of chaos" by Karl F. Stewart. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but for the past 28 years have been living in Italy and France and speaks both languages besides English. He started this exhibit back in July 2009 and calls it 'Documentary Photography Painting. He uses the word documentary because each photograph represents and documents the time and actions of a specific place. His photographs taken to date are of Europe and the U.S. These are a few of his illusions of reality and of his poetic vision of our today and tomorrow. These photographs represent the notion of sequential time in multiple physical actions as a simultaneous experience. What that means is that he takes multiple actions which have occurred through time and recreates the diverse actions and time differences into one image with the perception that reality is an illusion. The photographs represent what we perceive as the space between the time actions occur and the space separating the physical form of actions. Stewart recombines the spaces between time and matter in order to recreate new illusions for us to contemplate. There are 19 pictures in this collection and here are a few that I really liked. I think this is well titled as most of us go through life rushing here and there without a moment to spare. I think he has captured "the chaos" brilliantly.

Grappas were fun. I like the experimentation of movements to results. After playing for awhile, you start to gather a library of movement/images in which you can utilize for stringing together in order to create larger images. My favorite program was the blue grappas partially because I like the colors but mostly due to the stop function. The other grappas you always had the challenge of incorporating the exit of the line from within the boundaries of the image. Still good fun.