I created this interactive animation as a project based on the human figure. The project was to be an abstract that would give the viewer a sense of parts of a general figure. The idea came to me while watching a super bowl commercial of all things. Be sure to click through all five parts of the piece which included intuitive navigation. The work was created during the Spring semester 2001 at UNO. Click through to see a larger version of the work.
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Monthly Archive for January, 2005
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This is a landscape style photo of traffic in the New Orleans area during an extremely rare event. The day this photograph was taken was the first time in fifty-one years that it had snowed in New Orleans on Christmas day. Why the one is in parenthesis in the title of this post? On the day after the snow the local newspaper reported that according to the weather records it had been fifty years since the last ‘white’ Christmas in the city, but this was actually a typo as a check of the records of the surrounding days found it was extremely unlikely it had snowed on a day between to days in the 70s and more likely it did on the day the year before. The photo shows an interestingly divided and active scene with strong still life elements, such as the hedge, in the foreground and enjoyable action in the background. Also you may notice the lack of visible snow in the piece as there was very little on the ground at the point when the photo was taken, so you’ll just have to believe that there was snow that day and enjoy the picture as is. The work was created December 25, 2004. Click through to see a larger version of the work.
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This work was part of the same project in which the Painterly image project was included. The image is interesting because of the appearance of grain waving in a light breeze created by the use of multiple filters in photoshop. This work was quickly created to fill a small art gallery on the site, but the work still follows some basic rules of good art by showing balance and movement of the eye around the canvas. The use of light and dark helps divide the work, but the curves keep the view involved in the piece. Feel free to post your own comments about this and any other work on this site. I am currently considering starting an artist commentary for this site, where I will be critiquing various web sites and their use of design in the near future. This work was created March 13, 2001. Click though to see a larger version of the work.
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How do I make those wonderful rss feed buttons on my home page?
I actually use an automatic button maker made by the Kalsey Consulting Group and now you can too.
Today I begin to post some of my more traditional work. This print was created using a large hand rolled press and a hand etched brass plate. The work depicts a stack of Polaroid photographs, the top of which shows a woman feeding her cats. Originally the photo was of my wife and our cats, but as the etching took shape the image changed to one more of mystery than reality, as art tends to do. In the future I shall be posting more art created in the printmaking medium as well as with paint, charcoal, pencil, and ink among others. The work was created November 19, 2002. Click through to see a larger version of the work.
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Here are some links to various sites reporting on the Steve Jobs Keynote at Macworld, usually the most important keynote of the year:
Engadget feed, the Mac Observer feed, Gizmodo feed, MacMerc info, MacRumors feed, SpyMac feed, official MacWorld page
This week’s recommendation from Amazon.com is related to Macworld, which is going on right now in San Francisco, CA. Apple Confidential 2.0 is the definitive Apple Computer history book. It contains more stories about the creation and history of the one time master of the PC (personal computer) who has become the small market share company that make some of the greatest computer products out there, including the iBook that I currently own. I think this book is a highly interesting read and a must for all the mac-freaks out there and so I am officially making it this week’s recommendation. Remember you can help support this site by purchasing products from the Amazon.com links throughout the site.
