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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.
A little bit of air
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.
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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”.
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Continuing the animal theme. This is a hippo from Oliwa Zoo in Gdansk, Poland.
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Shot with a digital camera in the dawn of digital cameras. This kitten is about 9 years older now.
The end of art as Art
J Dewey
Just started to read John Dewey’s Art as Experience. This is a book I should have read decades ago, but better late than never. It does not take many pages to understand that our respective view of art are close relatives. Museums, art exhibitions and other similar institutions have always put me in a state of bewilderment. Art is not about spectators meeting objects with a certain kind of techno-social status. Art is the action or process of creating and/or experiencing. Let’s take Da Vinci painting Mona Lisa as an example. What is Mona Lisa? It is a material design, made to reflect the person it mimics. The art-aspect belongs to the process when Leonardo created the image and when people like you and I view the design. For me, It’s more art to observe someone experiencing Mona Lisa, than viewing it myself as a spectator. When I view Mona Lisa and it intertwines with my own experience, it becomes art. Art is not something to be measured on the scale of good or bad. Art is experience.
We are living in a time period with great change. This might be somewhat cryptic, but I would say that philosophy as Philosophy, art as Art and even science as Science doesn’t exist anymore. The search for objective truth, obejctive beauty and objective knowlege is more or less done in vain and probably have more to do with the socio-economic sphere in out lives. The processes of philosophy, art and science is more important than ever, but they are not located beyond time and space.
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Branch
The photo design of today actually have a strong symbolic dimension for me. One side of me have an urge to write everything it means to me, while another side of me screem to shut the fuck up - the picture should be able to stand on its own feet. For this time I choose listen to the angry voice in the background, so I shut the fuck up…
Spotify Recommendation: Rufus Wainwright 2007
Release the Stars
I’m currently writing about the act of crossing disciplinary borders, and that is exactly what Rufus Wainwrigtht is doing in his music. I’ve wrote this in another recommendation, but if you like the music of Antony and the Johnsons, you will probably enjoy Rufus Wainwright.
