Happy Customers

highlighter and white-out on paper

holoframe

mappings

levels

watcher of the grid

Current project - part 2

EDIT: Oh yeah, never posted part 1. Here's a hint:

More inventing

USB-powered!

Keeping Busy

Marker Grid - based on a drawing by ohahalicia

Believe it or not, this is a vector image. This weekend I've been keeping busy with projects like the above -a foray into vector filters. Still adding to page 2, so check out new work and image sources there.

New web drawings:

• fluorescent divs
• Element Cubes 1 and 2
• How To Display Net Art
• Six

Lastly, a reminder: SELF PORTRAIT

"Positions"

thanks to mirrroring for the title!

 

More reductions

More vector reductions on my vectors page. Still very ambivalent about this technique. I find the forms produced to be very seductive and energetic - like colored oil in a 60's light show - but it seems too easy, like I should be making things more difficult. I tried working together both unaltered and altered vectors as reduced-palette gifs today, and was reasonably pleased with the result.

More path tracing - click for full

Accomplishments of the Now

My laptop toasted itself late Wednesday night, so my routine is a bit thrown off. Thankfully, I was able to salvage the hard drive (it's now an external on my girlfriend's desktop PC), which held all of my vector source files and music. Whew! The upside to this situation is that I have an excuse to shop around for a new computer, and my routine is thrown off.

Recent work: Corpus, Artwork for Neighbors, TIWIDMCA, and the above, which I just finished. The image was made from a  heavily manipulated raster image of random noise, run through a tracing filter in Inkscape. I then adjusted layer colors & added gradients until things seemed right. The tracing algorithm leaves very dynamic outlines, and I like being able to separate a flat image into layers by color or value. Will be investigating this further.

I can't stop thinking about science fiction these days. I've been perusing Orion's Arm, the best work of collaborative worldbuilding on the net. You can't find articles on transapients and art movements of the next 8000 years just anywhere. I dig the 90's-esque superclean 3D renderings for ironic purposes.


Also not helping this obsession was my visit to the Walker on Thursday to view an exhibition of work by Yves Klein. His work is postmodern, precambrian, and anticipatory of life in space. If you look at Klein's sketches, you can tell that he didn't care for science in the same way the Cubists embraced relativity. (air roofs, Klein? really?) Klein was more interested in the spaces and existences than the mechanics.

Visions of Google

While falling asleep last night, I had what would be best described as a hypnagogic vision of a landscape image, comprised entirely of Google Docs shape elements. I took this as a sign, and wrote down the idea. This morning, I made two attempts at simple compositions
:

"Bad Day for a Cylinder"

"Two Frames"

Really liking the simplicity of form and palette. My notes from last night say "Art of the Private Internet," whatever that means. For prior examples of Google Documents as a collaborative art platform, check out Chris Collins' "Public Interface Gesture" performance.

Merry Christmas - Two Sites

mirage

viewpoints

Pick Comb

From a really weird dream I had last night.

New html

Browser Surrealism

edit: a simple but cool remix by frakbuddy.

Martian Sculpture

Bond Reboot

A picture I made for a project by dump friend AGT528.

Morning Sketch

2 Sketches - Mask and Nebula

Time

On a Tangent

It appears I've caught the vector bug from my last post. After Malevich was made in the GIMP, but it's a lot easier to manipulate planes and gradients on a computer if they're vector-based rather than raster-based. I use the open-source software Inkscape to produce vector images - it's kind of buggy at times, but it's a whole lot easier and safer than pirating Illustrator.

Here's a sneak peek of a project that I started this morning. It's referential to art history a bit, but not so much that most people won't get it. Sometimes it's better to steal.

After Malevich

Click for full. This is a study of Kazimir Malevich's Morning in the Village After a Snowstorm that I've been working on for the past three weeks. I saw the painting when I visited the Guggenheim last month; immediately I wanted to explore using gradients in the same way that Malevich did, to boldly push and pull space. What better way to make gradients than on a computer?

Cathedral 3

More tampering with the laws of nature in CSS. Cathedral 3