On 12.30.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
On 12.26.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
This is a photo painting from the mountains somewhere around Serra San Bruno in the south of Italy. It is mainly created with cloning techniques in Painter, with some post processing in PS and Lightroom.
This is a photo painting from the mountains somewhere around Serra San Bruno in the south of Italy. It is mainly created with cloning techniques in Painter, with some post processing in PS and Lightroom.
On 12.25.08, In Music, by Peter Giger
I loved to see a new edition of Maia Hirasawa’s album Though, I’m Just Me on Spotify, but it made me wonder if the dear old album format is dying – or if it’s not dying but it should be. The album is a very strong socio-economic tradition in the music industry, but it’s strongly [...]
I loved to see a new edition of Maia Hirasawa’s album Though, I’m Just Me on Spotify, but it made me wonder if the dear old album format is dying – or if it’s not dying but it should be. The album is a very strong socio-economic tradition in the music industry, but it’s strongly related to products as the LP and the CD. The album was also practical in a society with simple attention mechanisms. A few music labels owning most of the industry, and relatively few but very famous artists releasing albums evenly over the year, carefully planned for maximum attention. The Internet age will probably lead to substantial changes in this distribution form.
Maia Hirasawa’s new edition is, 2008, a rule rather than an exception. Most popular music albums is released in multiple versions. The digitalization of the music industry inevitable leads to reconstructed forms of distribution. Personally I think we will end up in the “blog format”, with the artist releasing songs as they are completed. The Swedish artist Marit Bergman is probably leading the way with her subscription service:
Next to last she hints the possibility of this distribution form supersiding the album format. I like this change. In a way I like the album distribution form, but it feels kind of strained in the digital world. I would like this change even better if all artists distributed new songs immediatly into distribution forms as Spotify, and let our listening determine the artist’s “pay check”. In this scenario, Spotify would not be taxonomized by albums, but by artists and their chronological flow of songs. As a listener I should be able to subscribe to new songs by for example Marit Bergman, and for every time i listen to her music, she would get paid. I hope this is the future of Spotify and other streaming services.
It would also be nice if distribution platforms as Spotify had a paypal button on each artist page, where I could sponsor artists if I like their music. Perhaps, this would especially benifit new artists – no point of sponsoring someone I know to be a multimillionaire.
On 12.20.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
Simulating a water color painting. The scene is from a stream called “Silverforsen” close to my home. Silverforsen might be called Silver Creek in English. Not sure this image reflect the name though.
Simulating a water color painting. The scene is from a stream called “Silverforsen” close to my home. Silverforsen might be called Silver Creek in English. Not sure this image reflect the name though.
On 12.20.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
Just tested a thick bristle clone brush in Painter on this over-saturated photo of a bridge close to my home. I think the brush strokes destroy the feeling of an over-saturated reality. The image is transformed from a quite bad photo manipulation to something else, still crude and amateurish, but something else than a simulation.
Just tested a thick bristle clone brush in Painter on this over-saturated photo of a bridge close to my home. I think the brush strokes destroy the feeling of an over-saturated reality. The image is transformed from a quite bad photo manipulation to something else, still crude and amateurish, but something else than a simulation.
On 12.18.08, In Other, by Peter Giger
I’ve had the devil’s backache for more than a week so it has been difficult to concentrate on writing. But I have had some time to think, sketch. My thesis has finally got a form I can see myself in. You’ll be hearing a lot about that…
The photo above actually starts the project in [...]
I’ve had the devil’s backache for more than a week so it has been difficult to concentrate on writing. But I have had some time to think, sketch. My thesis has finally got a form I can see myself in. You’ll be hearing a lot about that…
The photo above actually starts the project in a way. I am going to ground my thesis in a learning project labeled “Learning a Craft”. The craft is “Digital Painting”. This technique demanded a lot of power of my computer, so I had to upgrade it. Making the computer more powerful, created a lot of heat, which in turn made the CPU fan go wild. So more “thinking power” means a need for more air. The process of switching CPU fan was not as quick and easy as usually. To install this model I had to dismantle most things inside, and remove the motherboard to mount a plate on the backside. Not a technical obstacle since I have planned and assembled my own computers for 20 years or so. But it was a physical burst of effort due to my backache.
The picture: the old fan to the left, the new to the right (the difference is kind of tangible). The fan is mounted on top of the silver plate (the CPU) in the lower right corner. The new fan is mostly a large heatsink, absorbing the heat, which is further reduced by the big fan mounted on the side of the heatsink. The new cpu cooler also made my system more quiet. Now I can direct the attention the noise stole in an a more pragmatic direction.
On 12.10.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
This photo is taken on the cost of Calabria, Italy.
To view a large version with dark background, click the image to view it at my gallery pages. Then right click the picture and chose “Dim the lights”.
This photo is taken on the cost of Calabria, Italy.
To view a large version with dark background, click the image to view it at my gallery pages. Then right click the picture and chose “Dim the lights”.
On 12.09.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
Continuing the animal theme. This is a hippo from Oliwa Zoo in Gdansk, Poland.
Continuing the animal theme. This is a hippo from Oliwa Zoo in Gdansk, Poland.
On 12.08.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
Lazy summer days in the grass. The photo is from Austria.
Lazy summer days in the grass. The photo is from Austria.
On 12.07.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
Shot with a digital camera in the dawn of digital cameras. This kitten is about 9 years older now.
Shot with a digital camera in the dawn of digital cameras. This kitten is about 9 years older now.