no image 2day

No image today, only words. Will we ever replace words? Or when information bypasses the usual senses and goes directly to the neurons of the brain will words be obsolete? Some people are word people and some are picture people. Is a picture really worth a thousand words. But are their places where pictures are not usable. For example you cannot give unit of measure in images. Or can you. measurements are made in visual units. Think about the height of a telephone pole. how tall is it in feet? Do you visualize a giant ruler measuring it? Perhaps like me you visualize an object of which you know the length is used to compare the telephone pole. Is not measurement a contrived or invented system? Yet it was possible to measure before the methods were invented. And so on......

Just another day

When in Chicago you gotta visit the Art Institute. According to my sketchbooks I was first there in 1966. It is such a good thing to emerse yourself in the art of the ages. Here I stand next to a Jackson Polluck and I didn't realize that I had on matching colors. Seeing a photograph of a Polluck is hardly like seeing the real thing. First there is the scale. Some big paintings lose their grandness when reproduced in a smaller size. It's like seeing the opening scene of "Patton" with George Scott in front of the flag on a small television--you miss the impact. And then there is texture. Since they were painted (?) horizontal there is a tremendous build-up of paint. Indeed it is almost sculptural.I like his paintings and liked the movie. It was tragic the way he lost control of his bicycle and broke the bottles of beer.

A-r-r-r-gh!

It has been difficult. I'm reacquainting myself with Google notebook in hopes of making it a useful tool. Things just haven't been going that technologically. First of all I have been having trouble logging on to this blog. Sometimes the log-in box appears and sometimes it doesn't Go figure. I've been having video problems as well. I have some hardware/software to convert VHS to DVD. But after considerable time in editing ,etc., I burn a disk and it won't play in my DVD player. however, a disk burned with the same software by a friend plays good. I must have the format wrong or something because I can play the disk on the computer.

New monoprint

I cannot refrain from making the monoprint made on the inkjet printer. There is something about the strong almost flat image image of the objects that I like. It does at times become difficult to introduce atmospheric perspective. In other words to have the correct value in distant objects. The titles are "#3" for the one on the left and "The Monument" for the one on the right. Each has different techniques. "The Monument" has both cut and torn paper stencils and "#3" has the addition of painted elements. You will note the use of resist on the stone monolith in "The Monument".

I'm not really sure where these techniques can lead. Except that the effects are easily reproduced in Photoshop.

New work

I've been having difficulty logging in to the blog.

I just searched for my latest art work and could not find it. I loaded an old piece that I did some time ago. The idea had been around in my sketch book for 10 or 15 years. I think that this is my first attempt at designing a poster since my sign shop days. In those days I regularly made posters for geneticists for use at seminars. This poster was done in Photo Deluxe. And I am a great procrastinatorI have been tinkering with my Logitech webcam. Time lapse photography and stop-motion has always been fun. So why not give it a go. Why not a pseudo masochistic rite performed daily?