Art

I had to file my moving claim today. That stressed me out/ angered me beyond belief. I used citysearch to find a mover and got tr0s3d.

A bunch of my shit got damaged…

Then I had some talks about taxes.

Here are 2 kind of off the wall “toys” that I have. The first is a Ben Franklin toy that my friend Mikey got me. The second is a little plastic fetus that I bought (in bulk) off of eBay. Why you ask? I really do not have an answer. I was going to use them in some crazy sculptures, but that never happened. Now there are around 40 of these little buggers somewhere in my house!

So I took more photos in my sweet light tent set-up and played around with some of the setting. Digital photography is pretty interesting. I have never had a high end camera that shot in “RAW” format, until now. It allows you to play with a ton of the settings that would be similar to darkroom development techniques. I think it is pretty interesting and fun. Not only that, but being able to change every setting on the camera ranging from exposure time, to exact focus, puts me back into total control of every photo I am taking. It is great.

So I took a trip into the basement today and setup some more pictures in the light tent. I really liked how these came out, so Buddy Lee is now my new desktop. I run dual 19″ monitors at 1280×1024 each for a total of 2560×1024. So I made 1 wide buddy lee that is 2560×1024

This post is due to a few things that recently have happened in my life.

1. I won an amazing camera from one of the companies I work with. It is a Nikon d80, digital slr camera. It is pretty much TITS

So I have been pretty flipping busy lately, mainly due to work, and other stresses, but for the last two weekends I started to paint again, and it has been great. The first one I did had this image that I drew on my whiteboard over at locallaunch.com, and loved it so much I traced it to paper. I thought I lost it when I first moved here, but found it later and hung it on my fridge. Well tonight I took pictures of it, so I could trace it in illustrator, for future use and decided to take pictures of my 2 paintings while the camera was out:

These are pictures of a sculpture that I made about 16 months ago. The first is a detail shot of the piece and the second is a “user perspective”. The project was called “larger than life” and it it put you in the shoes of a giant monster. You viewed the world through a fisheye lens which distorted your vision to look like you were hundreds of feet tall. There were headphones and a soundtrack which including “godzilla like sounds” as well as gun shots and helicopters.

This is a painting I did about a year ago, it was actually the last good painting that I created. I had to do one assignment since then, and i thought it was terrible, then I started working full time and have not touched a brush since. It is pretty sad actually. One day I want to start painting again. i think I burn most of my creativity at work…

lets see here…. it has been a while. i have been super busy and super tired lately.

i am assuming most of that is due to too much work/schoolwork/staying up late and helping other people with homework….

thanksgiving was interesting/depressing…

thunksgiving is tomorrow and i am cooking a tofurkey.