MOD 3, 2010 Introduction to Computer Art

2010-05-30T14:22:00.000-04:00

So, I have a macro setting on my very simple olympus digital camera. it is really nothing super special.....i put it on the setting for taking "very close up" shots and no flash and anti hand shake. once i take the pics, i upload them from my camera to my computer using the very user friendly picasa. you have probably gotten this by now. you can manipulate the picturesin all different types of very cool ways using picasa. the "im feeling lucky" button is great- use it.

2010-05-30T14:03:00.000-04:00

here is another intimate poprtrait series- my daughter eva

2010-05-30T14:00:00.000-04:00

Hi all! WOW I am so inspired by all of the positive comments and feedback I've gotten from you all already this week!! I apologize for the weak portraits of my significant other,Andre- bad light, at night and of course no flash!! However, I would like to redeem myself with these pics from the inside of the same purple tulip you all liked so much. I really appreciate the praise for the picture! The flowers exist in my next door neighbor's yard and I am blessed with their beauty every spring and summer!! LOL- I love flowers. The inside is the coolest. I think this class is goimng to be a great one due to all the interesting and positive personalities! Good luck everyone and enjoy.

2010-04-14T21:06:00.001-04:00

this pictures shows sadness and guilt. it reminds me of the movie "Rambo". After his fight was fought. He looks drained and tired but at the same time knows that he has accomplished his mission.

2010-04-14T21:05:00.001-04:00

I love the softness and calmness of this pieces. The colors and very soothing and so is the linesthey form.

2010-04-14T21:02:00.001-04:00

This is pretty cool. I like the wavy lines and the way the vase just sits there tilted barely.The colors are great.

2010-04-14T21:00:00.001-04:00

This is another great piece. It shows strength in the way the mountain stands tall and at attention. The lines are very neat, precise and accurate.

moca

2010-04-14T20:56:00.002-04:00

This is a very impressive piece of work. I see a submarine being emerged from the choas and mystery of the ocean. It shows people trapped by the current and ignorance of the sea.

moca

2010-04-14T20:53:00.002-04:00

I liked this image it signifies confusion with the different colors. It shows a nude woman with her left hand in the air and slightly looking up. The colors seems like a collagate of confusion.

Technology and the Arts: New Technolgoy for 2010

2010-03-31T14:37:00.000-04:00

Technology and the Arts: New Technolgoy for 2010

Line Rider - Finally!

2010-03-06T20:13:00.002-05:00

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

2010-03-04T21:20:00.002-05:00

"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

2010-03-04T20:49:00.008-05:00

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

2010-03-04T20:11:00.004-05:00

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

fractals

2010-03-03T19:56:00.003-05:00

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

GRAPA - Week 7

2010-03-02T13:46:00.004-05:00

ultra fractals

2010-03-01T22:42:00.001-05:00

MOCA wk 7

2010-03-01T22:33:00.004-05:00

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

2010-03-01T21:21:00.002-05:00

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!!!

2010-03-01T19:57:00.006-05:00

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

2010-03-01T19:20:00.003-05:00

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.

2010-03-01T14:36:00.002-05:00

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.

MOCA 7

2010-02-28T23:21:00.002-05:00

This image was created by Jago Titcomb a 22 year old student of illustration at the Falmouth College of Arts in the UK. I chose this picture because it reminded me of a dance team and my daughter danced for several years as a teenager. This image was created digitally using photoshop with a Wacom tablet and a mixture of scanned, painted, drawn and photographic sources.

grappa

2010-02-28T20:18:00.003-05:00

Line Rider

2010-02-28T19:26:00.002-05:00

Here is the link to my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e65EzKx3oys

2010-02-28T19:07:00.000-05:00

This week’s artist is Skydancer. She started making digital art with a Commodore 64 which is a extremely old maybe one of the first personal computers. Through the development of technology, she was able to explorer all types and styles of digital art programs. Though she can manipulate her images proficiently in several different programs, Skydancer prefers to finalize her work in Photoshop. She is quoted as saying” This is my journey. On the way I have made many discoveries. In my art I ask what moves you, what bothers you, and what speaks to your own spirit.” I believe her work, her style and her knowledge of digital art is summarized by that quote. I also think it is appropriate for a closing quote to this class. We have all journeyed through the digital, made discoveries and determined what we appreciate. Cheers to everyone! I hope to see you all on the other side of the screen.

MOCA week 7

2010-02-28T13:18:00.002-05:00

Greg Klamt is a digital artist and composer/partner in the Spotted Peccary Music label. His graphic design supports his fine art and music careers. Greg's degree is in Chinese history, but he has studied fine and digital art at UCLA and elsewhere for years. His digital art has won numerous awards. He writes, "Intrigued by surrealism and and fantasy illustration as a child, I was inspired to create imagery where the edges of reality and imagination are blurred." He has travelled and photographed widely--rocks, sand, plants, walls, or anything that might feed his creativity--to expand his library of image resources. "Creating art with computers since 1982, I have sought to incorporate these elements with original drawings, mixed media paintings, etchings, elements of graphic design, found objects, and other resources in my digital paintings." He describes his work as techno-organic to suggest his style and creative process. His goal is to bring an organic, natural and integrated feel to his work...One of the challenges he enjoy most is moving beyond the feel of technology and instilling his individual style and perspective into his creations.

MOCA week 6

2010-02-28T12:48:00.002-05:00

Lily E. Smernou calls her technique "constructed photography."

"Studies in arts and sciences celebrates the rare, the unusual, and the fantastic. Born out of large number of photographic images, some of the works took years to be completed. Lily Smernou contrasts photographic discoveries of specimens from diverse fields such as botany and architecture, with invented forms and dreamt mechanisms. Working in the style of magic realism, Smernou constructs images that most often incorporate architectural elements, reflecting her primary architectural background. Physical layers devised to create depth along with inherent perception principles and symbolism, distinguish her work. Smernou creates images with narrative qualities, allowing viewers to project their own worlds into her works.
"While pursuing her doctorate in quantitative psychology in the early ‘80s, Lily Smernou was also embarking on creative quests that would later evolve into a full-time artistic career. Being immersed in computers throughout her scientific endeavors, Smernou continues to work with technological tools in her creative pursuits. Infinite compositional possibilities and the freedom to express her vision can be realized thanks to technology. Her psychological background offered a unique in-depth exposure to varied perspectives and concepts that ultimately surface in her work and allow viewers to be engaged at multiple levels.

MOCA week 5

2010-02-28T12:44:00.002-05:00

Teddynash is a photographer and photo artist from Germany. He brings wit, style and humor to his art. The image shown here is playful. He uses PhotoShop7 and Picture It 3. He says, "Important is not perfect artworks, but expression of emotions."

MOCA Week 7

2010-02-28T12:32:00.002-05:00

Karim Bouchnak's image of Wish for Peace is a gorgeous piece that she used a fractal frame for. I was wondering as I looked through different MOCA pieces if we could combine fractals and grappas and photoshop elements together to make a total package image. I guess the answer is yes! I will have to try this before class ends and get it posted.

The message behind the artwork is pretty powerful, in that it says to me that the hands letting the bird go is a sign of peaceful constructive human beings that want nothing more than to have harmony in the world, while the tank with the soldier standing on top of it is showing us that there is someone willing to destroy good out there with the cannon pointed right at the bird.

His website was in German and I couldn't find any related links to his information or find a way to translate it, though I think I have a good idea as for his inspiration for the image since it speaks volumes to me and our class has opened us up to understanding the different art tools and how they work.

MOCA Week 6

2010-02-28T12:23:00.003-05:00

Alessandro Bavari created this piece entitled Jerome's Garden. I chose it because it reminds me of the computer game Alice that I used to play. It was essentially Alice in Wonderland only a dark version in which the cover shows Alice holding a bloody knife and has blood on her dress. This piece reminds me of the scenery in the game especially with the tea pot shaped structures in the background.

Taken from http://www.alessandrobavari.com/

Alessandro Bavari was born in Latina, a coastal town south of Rome, Italy, on april 1963.
Grown up in an italo-french family, he was early attracted by artistic matters and decided to attend art college, where he began making photomontages at the age of 15.
Then, he studied scenography, photography, history of art and various other topics at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Rome, where he developped strong grounding in the techniques of oil, watercolours and engraving, while experimenting at the same time methods mixing tar, glue, industrial paint and exploring photographic printing techniques.
During these years, he took the habit of making numerous photographs everywhere he goes : human and animal matters, objects and architecture, pictures and landscapes, fossils and materials, which join his mental museum, also strongly influenced by indo-european cultural myths and allegories as well as 14th and 15th century artists.
Since 1993, he adds digital manipulation to his art, developping a personal artistic language using industrial and organic products from nature before incorporating photographic process, then computer digitalization, which leads to "a kind of contamination among the arts dissolving the boundaries which distinguish them".
Alessandro Bavari lives and works in Italy.

I believe the majority of the work was done with individual photos or screen shots of images found online and then photoshopped together. I also love the dullness to the art with very little color accentuating certain structures, which is something I enjoyed doing with Photoshop as well.

GRAPPA

2010-02-28T10:04:00.003-05:00

The top image was created with the delayed trace grappa and the bottom utilizing the gestural moment grappa. I call that one "fireworks."

Line Rider

2010-02-27T22:49:00.002-05:00

Although I had a very difficult time with this program, I did enjoy creating it. This video is the fourth one that I created over the last two weeks and needless to say, I do not know how the other three were deleted as I did not click on the trash can. Every time I went to use Hyper Cam, I lost all the work I did creating the other three Line Riders. I was very happy with the third one I created, as he flipped three times and had several jumps and I also got him to stop. The video you are about to see, only has one flip as I do not know how come I could not get him to flip again. The last 30 seconds of my 1 minute and 36 second video is of me trying to get the Line Rider to come to a stop. You can view this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCHHf55R-Rk I truly did my best, but I believe that I let my emotions get the best of me and this is what I ended up with. I will not be sad to put the Line Rider to rest.

2010-02-27T19:12:00.000-05:00

2010-02-27T19:08:00.001-05:00

This week I chose Alessandro Bavari. His artwork is very complex. He represent European mythology and literature. Most of his artwork represent humanism in ill art form. He uses any form of working instrument, like a brush, a palette or a darkroom.
(You’re definitely a true artist when create of nothiness). Again , another excellent week of Moca.

Last Week!

2010-02-27T18:42:00.000-05:00

Wow... It is hard to believe that we are coming to the end... It's been quite a journey... I hope you enjoyed it! I am impressed with the way the blog came out... so much energy and spirit here! Everyone did a great job with not only their own projects, but the weekly MOCA assignment added an important dimension and context to your own creative work.

I'll be working on the grades next week. The absolute deadline will be 9 a.m. on Friday morning.... I'll be looking for each of your projects and for there to be 1 MOCA submission each week. You are welcome to redo anything or catch up and do a project that you missed with no penalty.

Hopefully you'll keep going with this exploration! We scratched the surface... your explorations on MOCA opened you eyes to some future possibilities for yourself. Thanks everyone for your contributions as well as your patience and hard work! Perhaps I'll see you in another class online. If any of you has a suggestion for another art class you'd like to see online, let me know and perhaps I can develop it this summer...

Take care!

Line Rider 1st Attempt

2010-02-27T18:30:00.002-05:00

This is one of the coolest things we have done. I love the different tools this class has opened up for us. It is amazing how much is out there that we don't know about. I could have added more background pictures but decided after losing my first one that took 2 plus hours due to Spycam opening a new web page over my Line Rider project I focused on the fundamentals in this one. Keep an eye out for a new one from Alucard soon! Here is the link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ_yYabfQCc
Enjoy!

2010-02-27T17:06:00.000-05:00

i hope you guys like my second image. g.w.

2010-02-27T16:58:00.000-05:00

i can't beleive it's our last week. okay, here is my gappa i hope you guys like it .

MOCA 7

2010-02-27T00:42:00.004-05:00

"The Tree of Life" by Stefano Menicagli

Stefano Menicagli lives and work in Tuscany, Italy. He enjoys digital photography retouching photos, using Photoshop and digital painting images for digital manipulation. He became interested in fractal art and genetic mutations, genetically modified reality images. He utilizes Photoshop, Ultra Fractal and Groboto software in creating his works.

In regards to the image I chose, I like how he enhanced the earth and the tree as the focal point for the viewer to make their own interpretation of the image. This particular work was created in Photoshop. He quotes "The power of the real art is that to directly reach the brain and then to go down in the heart to release emotions. The role of the art is to raise the human spirit and increase the awareness of the beauty."

Blue and White Grappa

2010-02-26T22:50:00.004-05:00

The top is a plain blue & white grappa, the second I created another image adding a fliter, and lastly added a filter and texture to another image.

MOCA wk 5

2010-02-26T16:20:00.003-05:00

ELECTIC GEISHA by CHRISTOS MAGGANAS

The artist chosen for this weeks submission is Christos Magganas, born in Greece in 1972, he now lives and works in London. He is a graphic artist whose works consist of carefully and skillfully layered photography and 3d rendedered art. The above is a beautiful example of that. His other works are equally as surreal in design. Check him and other great artist at: http://www.pvuk.com/cgi-bin/aapp/forms.pl

Ah HA!!! Now i know how it was done!

2010-02-25T23:05:00.004-05:00

NOW I see where Tom Crayns created this image from. As I was tooling around with Ultra Fractal 5 I found the almost identical image he used in the artwork that I selected back when class first started. Here I thought it was a painting done electronically with a lot of symmetrical color schemes, but all he did was take the Nova (Mandelbrot) formula and rotated it and probably doctored it up a bit and it was done. WOW! I thought there was so much more involved. I kind of feel cheated putting so much thought into it and how I believed there was a genuine appreciation for old literature and London fairy tails... but no... it's just a jazzed up fractal...

Fractal 1st attempt

2010-02-25T22:20:00.006-05:00

I attempted this first image on the bottome and I really do like this program! I originally changed the exponent to 131 which was crazy big and not clear enough, so I toned it down a bit. As I explored the program I found the inside and outside settings which really bring the fractals to life. Awesome program!

MOCA Week 5

2010-02-25T21:53:00.003-05:00

This has to be the wildest adaptation of sea shell photography I have ever seen! It is a piece by Gulnur Guvenc entitled Chtulhu People. It is so creepy in that it is what I envision a man that has become one with the ocean floor would truly look like. It looks like something out of Pirates of the Carribean.
Gulnur Guvenc is an architect and graphic design artist in Turkey. She writes, "These images are made from several scanned seashells, three photographs of a friend, some happy hours with Photoshop, and a little bit of lovecraft inspiration." The inspiration is tempered, or fevered, by a Byzantine imagination.

MOCA Week 4

2010-02-25T21:35:00.004-05:00

After being out of commission for a while, I have some things to make up, so here it goes. I chose this piece entitled Arno Rousseau by Philippe Abril because I have always been a fan of the "old" style pictures that I remember looking at in my aunt's old colonial house, and how it has been adapted into a cartoonish jungle setting. I love the mysterious figure lurking in the background who seems to be playing a flute as if he is summoning these old spirits who have an other-worldly glow to them.

I could find no information on his artistic expressions or style, as the only biography was wrtten in French and I can't understand it. However, I did find some personal info on him which tells of his favorite artistic medium is that of acrylic painting and is a fan of abstract expressionism, and his favorite artist is Picasso.

I believe a simple photoshop job was done to crete this artwork, in tht it was nothing more than taking a pre-existing background art piece and inserting the old style pictures in and adding a glow to the people in it, giving it that eerie feeling.

Moca wk 4

2010-02-25T16:11:00.003-05:00

The artist I chose for this submission is Dorothy Simpson Krause who's work is both traditional and digital. She's mixed media in that her technique encompasses transfering her digital images onto surfaces like wrinkled tin< plywood and tiles. She incorporates text also in her colage-like pieces. She creates alot of her work in book form and the process is very interesting. She scans the images onto paper and combines photos and text into the compositions that are placed in look book, and thats a simple explanaition. I enjoyed her works because I'm very into collage and printmaking processes as well as photography and her work really appealed to that. Visit her site: http://www.dotkrause.com/art/art.htm

MOCA week 7

2010-02-25T12:09:00.003-05:00

Of all the techniques we've learned these past 7 weeks, I think my favorite is fractals. Karin Kuhlmann's abstract art is one of the glories of algorithmic art. She calls her work AbstrsXness, and it has had wide celebrity in recent years and has won a number of awards. Her fractal pieces are composed and colored in Photoshop using KPT5's FraxFram filter. She writes, "Like the surrealists and some abstractionists I prefer to utilize 'Automatism' for my creative process in order to release my inner pictures. I usally generate a series of inspiring and associative shapes on transparent layers and combine thenm to form subtle arrangements of glowing transparent areas of colors, including the light behind it." This piece is called 'Rapture of the Deep'.

another Grappa

2010-02-24T19:48:00.002-05:00

Grappa

2010-02-24T19:42:00.002-05:00

Line Rider

2010-02-24T10:18:00.001-05:00

Yeaaaaa! I finally GOT it!! Here's my Line Rider... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttXNRr1utI I hope the link works OK!

The wondeful world of the PAINTING MACHINE/ week 3 assignment

2010-02-24T01:27:00.007-05:00

This is my favorite (above)

After a some late nights and screaming fits, I've done it. I love the results but damn am I having a difficult time with this photoshop biz. BUt here they are ( the painting machine creations), the remainder will be posted in my fotothing (anailah511) ........ENJOY

MOCA 6

2010-02-23T19:27:00.002-05:00

This portrait was created by Luca Cervini. I chose this portrait because it symbolizes love. This portrait was created with digital art, painted, drawn and collaged on the computer. Luca Cervini says his work is "sometimes ominous, sometimes sad". He is an emotional painter and that is what attracted me to this portrait.

2010-02-23T14:07:00.002-05:00

his is my line rider how guy like it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN75E7LoDp4

Line Rider - HELP!!!!

2010-02-23T06:13:00.002-05:00

I am having a very hard time using HyperCam and have been trying to post my Line Rider since this past Saturday. Could someone please email me with what they did? When I pull up HyperCam and I press record, the box goes away by itself and I can see it on my tool bar below but I cannot click on it to stop the recording. Oh yeah, do I need to create a YouTube account first before I actually get the link to upload or does it not matter? I check Albertus email several times throughout the day - PLEASE HELP ME. My last name is Lincoln when you look me up in the school directory. Thanks.

Grappa

2010-02-22T20:10:00.002-05:00

Here's another one of my Grappa images. I really like the colors in this one. The bright yellow and orange look beautiful against the black background.

Grappa

2010-02-22T20:05:00.003-05:00

Here's one of my Grappa images. I am having a lot of fun creating them. I like the effect that this one has where it looks like dots in some areas. It kind of reminds me of the solar system.

2010-02-21T21:30:00.002-05:00

Man another excellent week of Moca. This week I chose something a little different than the previous weeks. I fascinate by Karl -Ludwig Leiter; he was an old hippie back in the 70’s in Germany. His artwork represent sex,, drug, nature and rock and roll. I believe he channeled his frustration in his artwork. He uses Apple computer, Photoshop, graphic tablet, and painter. Again, I can’t express how much I appreciate and respect the artwork on Moca each week.

2010-02-21T21:28:00.001-05:00

MOCA6

2010-02-21T20:47:00.003-05:00

"Light Leaks" by Dennis Sibeijn
more located here: www.damnengine.net

Sibeijn is a part time audio/video designer for Technicolor Netherlands. He uses photos (which he takes himself) and hand-made textures to create composite images. Sibeijn takes pride in the fact that his images are one-of-a-kind and expresses explicit views about the use and re-use of "stock images":

"I often read replies like 'great use of stock', I want to make clear I don't use stock, every element in my work has been photographed/painted/modelled by me. Personally I think stock will limit your creative abilities because you're dependent on the vision of someone else, for some this may work but not for me. It can take quite some effort and time to get the right shots for the right work."

click here for an interview with Dennis Sibeijn.

MOCA Week 7

2010-02-21T20:24:00.003-05:00

I really like the work of Luca Cervini that I found on MOCA this week. I think the colors that he uses are really beautiful, especially his piece "Love." He was born in Italy in 1983, which means he is about my age. That is inspirational to me that he is doing such great work and he is as young as I am. Cervini got his diploma in graphics in Milan in 2003. His digital art is sympolist-surreal, painted and drawn and then collaged together together on the computer. It's very interesting that he uses so many different mediums and mixes them together.

Line Rider

2010-02-21T03:04:00.005-05:00

Here is the link to my video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vtuX_YzkRI. This assignment was indeed time consuming and once I got the hang of it I thought I did okay. I had technical difficulties in trying to do a screen capture of the video in hyper cam. Hope you like it anyway.

Line Rider

2010-02-20T19:19:00.002-05:00

Here's the link to my Line Rider video www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH5bidasLys. Hopefully it works and you guys enjoy it. It took me a veerrry long time to create.

2010-02-20T15:33:00.002-05:00

Claude McCoy is a digital artist who works within the genre of algorithmic generated abstract art. Claude states all his work is a product of “examining multitudes of iterations they can produce until the "keeper" image appears.” Considering the computer provides the image, the artist must be the critic who allows the images into their gallery. McCoy uses common mathematical programs and occasionally adds digital photography to the images. I liked the images in his portfolio because it further explored the possibilities of mathematically generated images in addition to our fractal projects.

Ultra Fractal

2010-02-19T22:56:00.002-05:00

MOCA - Week 6

2010-02-19T10:23:00.003-05:00

This week I chose artist Sebastian Marquez who lives in Stockholm Sweden. Here are four of his pixel paintings all painted with the help of a pressure-sensitive pen which he has mastered and the graphic program Painter and Paint Shop Pro. He has been painting with pixels for 14 years and studied art in Barcelona. I clicked on his website and found many more beautiful 3D paintings with Max, Poser, and Painter. He does a lot of nudes and from what I saw, and he distorts some of the faces and body parts on lots of his pictures. I chose a couple of nudes that did not show too much as not to offend anyone, but then again, this is art. Another picture is of a disco dance with many couples having a good time and of a "nude" lady in waiting at a table looking out the window which fascinated me. His work is considered impressionistic with exuberance of color and form. And, I agree.

MOCA Week 6

2010-02-19T10:21:00.002-05:00

This week I chose the artwork of Amichai Shavit. Amichai was born in Palistine in 1935, studied in the US from 1955 to 1961, then returned to Israel to receive a degree in business management. He taught at Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem Universities on the subjects of technology and contemporary art in the departmenst of philosophy and art education, and later became a general director of the Haifa Museum and VP of Israel's Art Endowment Fund. His art has been widely shown in Israeli museums and galleries, and he has represented Israel in biennieals internationally. He largely works in Strata Pro and Photoshop. I like this piece because of the feeling it gives me - clear, crisp circles, cones, cylinders, squares, pyramids - I see diversity coming together as one.

More Ultra Fractal's

2010-02-19T08:20:00.003-05:00

Here are two more Ultra Fractal's. The first one is done with three layers and many colors. I really like the gradient tool. And, the second one, I cannot remember what I did, all I know is that I was clicking away on several things, and I really liked the way it hypnotizes you.

MOCA 6 - Michael P. Ammel

2010-02-18T22:04:00.003-05:00

This week I choose the artist Michael P. Ammel. He is a native German and lives in Southern France. When creating his digital images his influence comes from his passion of painting, sculpturing and photography.

It was very hard to choose what artwork to choose from his portfolio. However, I’ve chosen a piece called “Natural Beauty.” I like the way he blurred the background and focused in on the image in the forefront. I love the color blend that compliments the image.

He enjoys creating all type of images using various technologies and software in creating his digital artwork. A few software application he uses are WACOM tablet, Adobe Photoshop CS2, PaintShop Pro, cinema 4d, Bryce, vue d’ esprit and various fractal generators. He also use the Nikon brand cameras when taking photographs.

MOCA 6

2010-02-18T12:21:00.002-05:00

JULIETTE GRIBNAU is the artist, she has some serious fractal images in her series on MOCA but I couldnt copy the image so I ahd to do a screen shot and get it that way. I am humbled by her stuff- its complicated and she adds other elements to the fractal art which makes it more interesting and unique....like the sky here

2010-02-18T12:13:00.001-05:00

OK- So I didnt realize that this artists series was in our syllabus until after I posted the picture...lol....my mistake....

Moca Week 6

2010-02-18T12:03:00.002-05:00

I was exploring the fractasl art section in an effort to beeter understand our asigned fractal project and see how other artists freak the fractal game. i found a lot.....including this arist Pam Blackstone. She is a long time fractal artist and this image comes from a series she titled "organica"; the concept being that art imitates nature as in this image called "Inside Out Shell"

MOCA 5 POJUCAN

2010-02-18T11:50:00.006-05:00

I'm not sure if we are "allowed " to repeat artists but I wanted to show a couple more of the Pojucan 365 series. I have been converted to a PhotoShop addict so I really like that this artist was so successful in tweaking this image 365 ways in PS only....

CLEARER PIC OF MOCA 4 POJUCAN

2010-02-18T11:49:00.000-05:00

moca 4

2010-02-18T11:32:00.003-05:00

"pOJUCAN IS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND VISUAL ARTIST IN bRAZIL. IN 2002 HE PUBLISHED AS A BOOK A SERIES OF ICON HEADS,ONE FOR EACH DAY OF THE YEAR. tHE BOOK WAS 365, A LONG CHERISHED DREAM AND A CAUSE CELEBRE IN THE bRAZILIAN ART WORLD AND ELSEWHERE. eACH IMAGE WAS A VARIATION ON AN ICON HEAD WHICH pOJUCAN FOUND IN A CLIP ART COLLECTION. iT WAS, HE WROTE, 'tHE FIGURE i HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR FOR OVER TWO DECADES. tHE IDEAL CHARACTER.'.....hE WORKED ENTIRELY IN PHOTOSHOP."

http://http//moca.virtual.museum/pojucan/pojucan00.htm

i PICKED THIS IMAGE BECAUSE ( I REALIZE THIS IS A VERY TABOO SUBJECT, BUT...) THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHEN I WISH I COULD SMOKE THAT MANY CIGARETTES AT ONCE.....LOLOLOL....SO I THOUGHT IT WAS HILARIOUS.....I WAS ALSO INTRIGUED BY THIS ARTIST'S CONCEPT....YOU SHOULD CHECK IT OUT I ADDED THE LINK

ADDITIONALLY, I THOUGHT IT WAS EXTRA APPROPRIATE THAT HE WORKED ENTIRELY IN PHOTOSHOP

it's about friggin time.......

2010-02-17T15:41:00.003-05:00

WHOA, how difficult was it for me to finally get this together.... there was no paint bucket which took me hours to figure out that I should use fill under the edit tab, and I went about it doing the background red in a different way, I basically hand painted the red using the brush tool....a little out of the way but the same result...ANYHOO here is my Warhol project, it will also be posted in photothing. ENJOY

Fractal Flame

2010-02-17T01:17:00.002-05:00

Line Rider

2010-02-16T23:21:00.003-05:00

I have posted my line rider to Youtube. The address is www.youtube.com/watch?v=icUDRZ4UGTo. I don't know if the link will work or if copying and pasting will work either but you can type in the youtube search box : Mt Crumpet Line Rider. Please make some popcorn and enjoy the movie. Lights, camera , sledding?

2010-02-15T21:11:00.000-05:00

FRACTAL 1???

2010-02-15T14:07:00.000-05:00

I can't reiterate on how impress I am with these artists and their images. This week I chose Gun Legler. I'm impress with her artwork and a her psychological mood swing. Gun Legler was a former psyche treacher in Sweden. She decide to go back to school at the age of 40 and concentrate on digital art. (she had no prior computer knowledge and self thought herself). Much of her work portray a psychological mood swing. she use PintshopPro and Photoshop to create her images.

2010-02-15T13:59:00.002-05:00

2010-02-15T13:11:00.000-05:00

This my second ultra fractal. i hope you guy like them!!!!!

2010-02-15T13:02:00.002-05:00

This is my ultra fractal frame. I have to say it took some work intially. There is so much to do with this program. I hope you guy like my images.

2010-02-15T01:13:00.000-05:00

These are my 2 favorite apothyses--- i have to say that i spent hours with this program_ i was working in full screen which made every change take 5 minutes.....lol...it was addicting though......many more on fotothing

Ultra Fractal

2010-02-14T23:46:00.003-05:00

I realize my pictures look like Jerry's video tutorial as I was having a very hard time with this project. Thanks to Naniki, I was able to download Ultra Fractal 5.03 as I could not find how to download Ultra Fractal 5.01. This became very frustrating to me as I was so excited to get started on this project. The first picture, I chose Distance Estimator under Layer Properties and the second picture I used Orbit Traps. In the coming days, I will be adding new pictures and choosing different images.

2010-02-14T23:09:00.002-05:00

I really like making fractal art. I had to stop myself because it was going to be hard to pick only 10 for my fotothing site. Each picture you make has a secret picture hidden some where in there.They just keep going and going. Lots of fun, hope everyone enjoyed this exercise.

MOCA 5

2010-02-14T22:58:00.002-05:00

This painting is entitled Venice, created by Peter Mc Lane. I chose this picture because the buildings along the water just reminds me of my hometown, New York City. The artist used digital art for this painting. He discovered the program "painter" and said that his technique "can not be related to another". The artist started with a white screen and used a stylus and wacom tablet to create this painting.

2010-02-14T22:52:00.001-05:00

This work is by Georgia Bassen who has accomplished awards in several areas of art such as drawing, painting, and sculpture. She uses Photoshop to manipulate pictures with filters and transformations. Georgia feels she can work much faster with digital art, allowing for creative exploration. I can relate to this feeling with the fractal projects. As you go through the process of exploring a picture, each move seems to add to the last and deep into the picture you go. I like the portfolio Georgia has put together and can appreciate her creativity.

MOCA5

2010-02-14T20:43:00.002-05:00

Scarecrow by Giovanni Auriemma

In Giovanni's words:

"I create works of computer art trying to combine the 'human' warmth of ink or the sign of oil-painting with photographic images, even if at the end the latter gets the better of it. I like to contradict the predictability of the photographic picture, inserting unexpected and unusual elements... Of course I am influenced by several artists and tendencies, but dadaism and surrealism are my foremost sources of inspiration. Lately I utilize as models the bodies of elderly men: I'm fascinated by the lack of symmetry, the complexity of the skin and the unusual beauty which permit me to transmit my personal sensations/obsessions or to reinvent ancient myths."

(Giovanni Auriemma via MOCA website)

Many of Giovanni's images reminded me of the paint machine exercise for those of us that chose to use human images and combine them with computerized special effects.

Ultra Fractals 5.01

2010-02-14T16:36:00.002-05:00

HELP!! I have been at this for a long time and I cannot find the download. I went to Google and found Ultra Fractals 5.01 free download but every time I try to download it, I get something else. Can someone please tell me what they did to download this software? Every time I click where it says free download, it is for something else and NOT Ultra Fractals. PLEASE HELP ME. Thanks, Valerie

Line Rider

2010-02-14T16:02:00.002-05:00

Hey everyone,

I just tried to play line rider on the website, but I am having a lot of trouble. It's not actually giving me a full screen, so I cannot get past the first page to start creating a track. Is anyone else having this problem? Can anyone help me? I am probably just going about it the wrong way...

Thanks!
Jessie

MOCA Week 6

2010-02-14T15:45:00.003-05:00

Gun Legler lives in Sweden and gave up his job as a child psychologist at age 40 to pursue an education in art. Although he has no actually education in computer art, it now takes up most of his time and he has grown very fond of it. He tought himself how to do everything. Legler typically uses PaintShopPro and Photoshop to create his pieces. I was drawn to his work because the subjects' emotion comes out. You can tell that he took portraits of people and altered them using the computer. The colors and textures that he adds really show how the subject is feeling and what they are going through. My favorites of his work are the above two images, "Frostbitten" and "In Her Own World," however other pieces on MOCA are also amazing. There are a couple on the website that really demonstrate the termoil that the subject must be going through. I admire Legler's ability to depict such emotions.

MOCA - Week 5

2010-02-14T14:48:00.003-05:00

Vermac Santos' images are based on his own original photography portraying scenes from the Amazon. I believe this artist is from Brazil and when I Googled his name I could not find any other info on him. All I know is that every one of his pictures, in this collection of (12), are beautiful and the vivid colors look like they are jumping off the screen. This first picture reminds me of an outdoor cafe on the water and the second picture looks like a house boat or it could be a house surrounded by the tall grass of the Amazon.

Apophysis

2010-02-14T13:48:00.004-05:00

When I clicked on #74 (black background), I liked the design just as it was. So I saved it, and then went back to modify it so you could see the before and after. I changed the background color to purple to make it stand and pop out even more. I used Swirl to give it an even more circular look. I love the way it came out. I like the fact that you can do so many different designs with this program and get an entirely different look each time.

Ultra Fractals

2010-02-14T01:31:00.004-05:00

The top image is my original and utilized one fractal in creating that image. I then minipulated the same image by using another blend mode and mapping which reflects the bottom image.

MOCA - Week Five

2010-02-12T22:51:00.003-05:00

The image that I found most interesting and different is created by Natali Hromin. She was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She credits her studies in Russian language and comparative literature in helping her to better understand visual art. She quotes that her art “leads to the void that absorbs all thoughts, beliefs or prejudices.”

The piece I choose from her collection is called “Metascape i2.” Her works is described as being mute, intense, mystical, wondrous and forbidding.

She creates her masterpieces by utilizing layers from various sources such as paintings, photographs, gradients and patterns integrated in software. The software that she utilizes is PaintShoPro, Brice, Corel and Photoshop in creating fractals, effects,

Ultra Fractal

2010-02-12T09:21:00.002-05:00

painting machine

2010-02-11T15:15:00.004-05:00

Here's part of my painting machine submissions. I used Dallas Green for this piece. more at: theresnoneedtorush's fotothing.

MOCA 5

2010-02-11T15:03:00.002-05:00

This week I chose the artwork of Lutz Meinert. The diverse fields of work of this native-born Berliner were always stamped by art and technology - since his work consisted of studies of education and dramatics as media educationist, musician, composer, web designer and photographer. While working with photography and computer engineering, Lutz Meinert detected his passion for digital painting. The almost limitless possibilities of the digital imaging enabled an utmost efficient experimentation with different forms of expression. Although photos are his main starting material, by their abstraction their photorealistic heir is only partially reflected. In fact, his various works of art mostly show an expressionist until surrealistic style, which sometimes becomes abstract art or takes up another element of style like pop-art. I was drawn to this piece of artwork because there is so much going on. The images of (ghost) people sitting around a table intrigues me and makes the piece feel like one is in a dream.

Apophysis

2010-02-10T23:14:00.002-05:00

I really love the different variations you get with this tool. My problem is that I like so many of the (9) different looks that I have a hard time deciding which one to pick.