MOCA week 5

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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

MOCA 7

"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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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'.