Nov 2 2020 - Of Sand and Sea

 

Gerry found an artist who paints in the sand on the ocean shore.  He is Nico Laan.  His website says: "An anamorphosis is a representation that you have to look at from a specific point of view. With 3D objects this gives a spatial effect and with flat subjects a certain 'friction'. Later on I started to focus more on 'ordinary' drawings, which do not require a special point of view. The challenge lies in finding a camera position in which landscape and drawing reinforce each other."   Vast on the landscape, these transfix our attention.  His website is HERE. It includes a short video and images of how the drawings are used to guide the work, the grid is created and the trenches are dug for the lines.    In 2020 alone he's created 6 works.  The top one, Waterline is one of these, and the next one, Sandmen was created in 2019. The bucket is titled Water to the Sea and created in 2014. Today's picture is my Acer Palmatum Osakazuki out front - this year it has the reddest of red leaves as is the promise of this gorgeous Japanese Maple.  It too is transfixing.

We Run Ads

I have been following the Cambridge Analytica scandal and watched Congressional members interview Mark Zuckerberg.  Here is the quote that will reign forever: "Senator, we run ads" In comparison, here are the prior quotes of Mark Zuckerberg, where he envisioned a new and better world. When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference. Mark Zuckerberg When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. Mark Zuckerberg I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life. Mark Zuckerberg These and more are at brainyquote.com  I expect today I can buy any number of t-shirts online that says:  "Senator, we run ads". Today's images are digital paintings exploring colour and shape.

Painting in the Garden

The Forge Filter software has been an interesting experience and though some of the processing takes many hours (seven hours for one image), I have enjoyed the results immensely.  Here are some garden and floral image results.

More Painting - Pick Up Sticks

Hi everyone,
Yesterday was my second day of using the Filter Forge software and it proved to be a long, long process.  What a beautiful result, but it took 8 hours to 'render' this image.  I looked up the forums to speed up the processing and made all the setting adjustments.  I did a lot of clean up on the hard drive to free up processing space.  I didn't get any substantial improvements.  So I guess it's on to the support desk next.  

I have to say the results are so wonderful, that it will be worth solving the processing issues.

Light Painting

Painting with light - these two works were created at the Toronto Convention Centre with time lapse motion blur.  The original works are neon light sculptures.