Monthly Archive for March, 2005

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Yet another Free For All…

iPod shuffle partsToday is Free-For-All Friday! Free for All means you can post whatever you want on my blog. Say what you want to say, share a link, complain about household appliances, etc…all you have to do is login and post! Need an idea of what to write? First off Tell me who you are and pimp your blog then tell me your most recent holiday celebration. Today is the Jewish holiday of Purim and My wife and I decided to create an iPod shuffle costume set. She was to be the silhouette and I was the iPod. I will be adding pictures to the jump at the end of the post by mid-day.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Go to http://www.schleifstein.net/wp-admin/post.php
2. Login/Password: guest/freeforall
3. Enter a title, make the category “free for all”
4. Type what you want to type in “Post” and feel free to add technorati tags in the “Tags” box.
5. When you’re done, click “Publish” edit:oops, forgot to change permission, fixed now though

Rules:
1. Please keep it somewhat clean…if you don’t think I would post it, don’t. God forbid if I find spam or porn links…
2. Feel free to link your blog…just make sure you say who you are. (sign your post)
3. I reserve the right to edit/delete inappropriate posts (or those with really obvious spelling mistakes)

Have fun! Oh and check out the art and the FFAF blogroll after the jump.
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The painted face and ceiling

the painted face and ceilingThis piece was created by importing a small photograph from my treo600 to Flash. Once there, I painted over the image to create a flat painting style image that seems to spring from a general face image and is enhanced by a contoured ceiling. The ceiling appears to overtake the work but is balanced by the emotion on the face as well as the contrast between the un-lined figure and the etching in the ceiling near various lighted regions. This piece took a little over four hours to complete and may inspire animation based art in the future. The work was created March 16, 2005. Click through to see a larger version of the work.
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Homemade, painterly apple pie

Homemade painterly apple pie, mmm, mmmMmm, mmm. Gotta love that tasty homemade apple pie. In this case you also gotta love the painterly effects added to make the taste drip off the work. The piece was made using an original photograph taken of my wife’s wonderous apple pie immediately after placement in our oven. The work was created March 14, 2005, using Photoshop. Click though to see a larger version of the piece.
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Apparently my hosting sucks!

snippets of facial recognitionFirst off, the post. I created today’s work using an original photograph I took of my and my wife’s wedding rings inside of one of the wine glasses I painted that we used to drink wine during our wedding ceremony. I imported the image to Photoshop cropped and filtered and layered til, voila’, something cool. I think the piece has a mysterious sunrise/sunset quality that, given the context of the parts, harkens to the end of our single life and the beginning of our new life together.
Now to the rant about Powweb. Lately I have no been happy with my hosting provider. I have been their customer for over two years now and even host two sites with them, but recently they decided it was a good idea to mess with their servers once a week and my site has been going down during weekday hours in the morning or afternoon. One weekend it went down for over 4 hours and today I was down for TWO HOURS. Now I realize I don’t run an e-commerce site and my life souldn’t revolve around my site, but I pay for this service and believe I deserve at least the level of service guaranteed by the homepage. It would seem that zero-down-time-hosting means down once a week and you better not be trying to run a business. I am stuck with these guys til September, but after that I will be leaving for a better provider if things don’t change. I need warning if you’re going to take down the servers for maintenance. A web forum is not the only way to notify paying customers and should not be used as such. I need to know that you aren’t going to have a server failure once a month. I want the promised zero-down-time-hosting!
Aargh!
Anyway, this work was created March 13, 2005. Click though to see a larger version of the work.
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What happened to Schleifstein.net today!?

what is up with the design here?!Hmmm, you say to yourself. What the heck has Schleifstein.net done to its design and why does it look like its going through a name change? Today i was trying to fix my brother-in-law’s site to make it look the way i told him i could make it look, but I didn’t have access to the site via ftp from where i was working so i jsut did a sample of the theme i hope he likes and applied it to my site. The left and right menu bars were a biz-natch, let me tell you, but after a number of wasted hours trying to figure out css I finally saw that the original author of the theme used a repeated image to get his really nice bars. Of course i made my own. Don’t worry the theme change is only temporary, but i makes a good post of an example of my design capability. I think it says if you tell my how you want something to look and give me enough time to figure it out i can probably do it. Oh, check out my brother-in-law’s wine review and design blog, AdamDeVaney.com, when you get the chance. He knows more about wine than almost any wino and pretty much any snooty wine “connoisseur!” This work was created March 11, 2005. Click though to see a larger version of the work.
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Snippets of facial recognition

snippets of facial recognitionUsing an old modified photo of my face i created this piece in Photoshop within the the span of about fifteen minutes. I really like how the use of this application and some older original work can help me to create something brand new in no time at all that is still successful from an artistic standpoint. In case you haven’t noticed this week has a Photoshop theme to it. I hope you enjoy the works I will post during the rest of the week, as I plan to create a new piece everyday before posting. This work was created March 9, 2005. Click though to see a larger version of the work.
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How about a gimmie?

What the heck...Today I started messing around in Photoshop and this is what i came up with. The work makes use of cool tones to calm the chaotic scene. I enjoyed stretching the piece into strange new forms just to see what could happen. There is a figure hidden within the image as well. This work was created March 8, 2005. Click though to see a larger version of the work.
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