Monthly Archives: November 2007

Peter and Alice visit Santa

Santa’s Bunker
Peter and Alice were still a long way off, but stopped to take another look through the telescope.
“I can see it!’ said Peter, “It has to be Santa’s home. But it looks strange.”
“Here, let me see” said Alice. “That’s barbed wire. It’s all over the place. He’s practically living in

I’m going to play football till they drop the Bomb

technorati tags: digital art | photoshop filters | vernissage | the Bomb | atomic field goal | plutonium pig-skin | pompei | radioactive Heinzman

The Price of Professionalism

Naysayer (2007)
The price of professionalism is no more costly than the mistakes of amateurs.–Slogan for MonkeyIT
The fractal contest fracases refuse to “go gentle into that good night.”
After much sound and fury (signifying nothing?) in the OT comments, I finally posed this challenge seeking whether someone could:
explain to me why these contests make good

The Wind Stole My Piano

Made with vernissage.8bf, a couple of Andrew’s filters, India Ink, some hue adjustment, and the cold November wind.
technorati tags: digital art | wind | picture-writing | illustration | half-poem | piano | music lessons | singing | photoshop filters | vernissage | high class

Spider Writing

Block-waving is all about lines. If there’s no lines, then you just end up with a pile of block-waved mush.
I was looking through an old book on my computer. It was a series of scanned, tiff images. I noticed the fine lines in the black and white engravings and instantly opened it

Damien, Inc.

A Crash Course in Reaganomics (2000)
The medium is the message…–Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan was concerned with the observation that we tend to focus on the obvious. In doing so, we largely miss the structural changes in our affairs that are introduced subtly, or over long periods of time. Whenever we create

Columbus

(from the journal of Columbus)
Whereas, Most Christian, High, Excellent, and Powerful Princes, King and Queen of Spain and of the Islands of the Sea…
…this present year 1492, after your Highnesses had terminated the war with the Moors reigning in Europe…
…having been brought to an end in the great city of Granada…
…I saw the royal banners

Meet the New Masters

Large Bank with TreeJust as some people admire the traditional artform of painting because of the skill and effort that goes into making it, I’ve come to realize that I have the same sort of admiration for machine-made art. Furthermore, just as many people will quickly associate artistic merit with almost any subject done