Description: Local artist collaborate on an installation demonstrating the use of art to cultivate an environment conducive to the benefit of mental health
…….since I have posted to my wonderful and random web blog. So I decided today that its time to create some more adversity amongst my readers. So without further adu… adou… adubt…. a-doo… (how the hell do you spell it!)
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so now on to more pressing matters…
Haven Meadows (dot) com…
YES go there, check it out! See artwork like THIS:
CLICK IT! You know you want to….
And now to more things you should click:
Both of them need to be updated but I’ve been busy!
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Sorry guys, go check em out anyway! Good stuff there!
While your at it, have you seen the items I have for sale for local pickup or delivery in the Austin TX area?
I also have a new idea for a business building online stores for people. Wanna know how it works? Need an online store for yourself? Then Contact Me for more info!
Ok… so what other projects do I have going on right now…
The Panasonic Lumix G1 is the world first Micro 4/3 Lens Camera.
“What does that mean Nate?”
Well, in all older SLR cameras the camera had a mirror box that would reflect what was seen through the lens up to the viewfinder so the photographer could look through and capture his image perfectly. With the Panasonic Lumix g1 this mirror box was removed and replaced with a small lcd screen. This allowed the SLR to become much more compact.
Now there are two companies that have adapted this new lens standard. Olympus has been working on a micro 4/3 point and shoot while Panasonic has come out with the Lumix g1 (and also the GH1 that has the ability to shoot HD video)
So now I have this beautiful new micro 4/3 SLR camera that I can go out and take amazing photographs with as well as do professional photo shoots.
Interested in hiring a photographer? videographer? graphic designer? web developer?
Title: U Make me Funktion 3D Location: 4700 Burleson Rd Austin TX Description: 3D Visual Production Experience Start Time: 9:30 pm Date: Saturday, February 28th 2009
This is a clip of some Live Video Mixing I did for an event at Burleson warehouse. If you need live video or visual mixing for an event please contact me.
So my friend makes these crazy bone sculptures. Last Monday I helped him cart over a dozen of his sculptures to Houston TX to setup in the Celtic Dragon Gallery. If you want to check out the show the address of the gallery is; 1503A Chartres, Houston TX. I believe the show runs from now until mid December so if you get a chance go check it out!
Also last night I sat down in the Haven Meadows Studio and made my own bone sculpture. Here are some pictures:
I take no credit for creating these images, but find them very inspiring and entertaining. I have a few things I’m working on that I will upload when I have time.
Well as I mentioned before I lost my portfolio… but this last weekend at Makers Faire I saw so many people enjoying 3D artwork and photographs (most of it brought out by 8D crew members) I decided to show off a couple of my 3D Photos (that were salvaged thanks to being uploaded to myspace) These are all anaglyph 3D photos so your going to need to put on your red and blue 3D glasses now….
These 3 were all taken at the Austin Greenbelt.
This was a photoshop I did combining 2 3D photographs together.
This was a photoshop 3D edit that turned out cool.
Well thats all folks! I’m gonna blog later about all the cools stuff I saw at the Makers Faire
too bad my computer got stolen in August (right before my birthday!) and right now I can’t afford to replace it. (they stole my camera too… I hate thieves!) So now I’ve been doing my design work on an old school pad and paper. I want to turn this Ferrari into a digital painting at some point… If anyone knows where I can get a DECENT laptop (one that can handle the kind of design work I’m used to doing) for CHEAP (or FREE???) drop me an email (link is to your right) and let me know. Until then I’m stuck to using other peoples computers and my drawing pad.
So last night I was at Sustainable WavesSolar Tuesday weekly event. A friend of mine decided to make a statement on her opinion of digital artist. That statement used an expletive as an adjective to describe digital art as a whole. Being a digital artist I found the statement to be both offensive and unfounded. Her argument was that art has to be in a malleable form, something that you make with your hands and not a machine. I countered that my hands are used to manipulate the machine to create what I want to create. I also sometimes use a wacom tablet that is like digital pencil and paper. She still insisted that using a computer is not art and she refuses to consider digital art a valid art form.
So I decided today to blog about art and what constitutes art. Well by definition Art refers to a diverse range of human activities, creations, and expressions that are appealing to the senses or emotions of a human individual. (Thanks Wikipedia!) So by that definition visual art would be something created that is aesthetically pleasing that invokes an emotional response. Well that can include many things! Some people get an emotional response from looking at a Ferrari so does that make a Ferrari a work of art? (I think so) But what is the difference between a car designer and a painter? Designing is not art. Once again I’m going back to Wikipedia… “to design” refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a product, structure, system, or component. So design is used when creating art but design is not art. Art can be the outcome of the design if it is aesthetically pleasing and invokes emotion. I think where people start to loose the concept of art when they confuse the medium that the art is made on with art itself. Medium is just the tools that an artist uses to create. A painters medium is the brush and paint, a photographers medium is a camera and a digital artists medium is a computer and software. Remember guys, its not the medium, its not the design, its the outcome of the two that produces art.
What is the difference between knowing technique and being able to create an actual work of art? Lots of people know how to paint, lots of people know how digitally manipulate photographs and lots of people know how to design. What makes someone step above knowing technique into the realm of being an actual artist. Once again (and I think I have proven my point) Art is the outcome. If you can create something that is aesthetically pleasing and invokes emotion, well then you sir are an Artist!
Ok before I go I’m going to leave you with some links to digital art galleries that are amazing! If you say what these guys are creating isn’t art… well your just crazy!
