Thanks to Rhizome for reblogging* this recent sketch. I like what happened when the image resized--the center got white hot and edges became black holes. It's more of a graphic this way, but a mysterious one, I think.
Someone asked if the recent uptick here in drawings and animations was because I was showing the blog in the gallery. That hasn't started yet--end of next week. This blog is a place for my artwork and if I had more discipline I would just draw and post sound files. I post text because (a) some images don't look good adjacent to each other and it helps to have a buffer of some kind, but the buffer can't just be filler so I have to write something cogent, and (b) I'm verbose and have to talk about things (even though it means sometimes people get "insulted.") The writing helps me think through what I'm doing and ties it into a larger context of stuff I like and don't like. [/pure egotism]
Update, 2011: The Rhizome link has been changed to http://rhizome.org/editorial/2007/may/9/sketch-monochrome-gradient/.
man these sketches that you have been posting are so nice -- i love when something gets resized and it looks new and sometimes even better??? i have many files of things in different sizes and that is because little sketches can become totally new things in a different size but mostly i think i have so many files of the same image is ultimately because i am unorganized hahaha
Thanks, Petra. You are more adventurous with scale changes than I am and are getting some great results. These black and white MSPaint drawings can get some ugly plaids when you shrink them so I'm usually afraid to go there but Lauren Cornell was right on the money with this one.
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Thanks to Rhizome for reblogging* this recent sketch. I like what happened when the image resized--the center got white hot and edges became black holes. It's more of a graphic this way, but a mysterious one, I think.
Someone asked if the recent uptick here in drawings and animations was because I was showing the blog in the gallery. That hasn't started yet--end of next week. This blog is a place for my artwork and if I had more discipline I would just draw and post sound files. I post text because (a) some images don't look good adjacent to each other and it helps to have a buffer of some kind, but the buffer can't just be filler so I have to write something cogent, and (b) I'm verbose and have to talk about things (even though it means sometimes people get "insulted.") The writing helps me think through what I'm doing and ties it into a larger context of stuff I like and don't like. [/pure egotism]
Update, 2011: The Rhizome link has been changed to http://rhizome.org/editorial/2007/may/9/sketch-monochrome-gradient/.
- tom moody 5-11-2007 12:47 am
man these sketches that you have been posting are so nice -- i love when something gets resized and it looks new and sometimes even better??? i have many files of things in different sizes and that is because little sketches can become totally new things in a different size but mostly i think i have so many files of the same image is ultimately because i am unorganized hahaha
- petra (guest) 5-11-2007 5:40 am
Thanks, Petra. You are more adventurous with scale changes than I am and are getting some great results. These black and white MSPaint drawings can get some ugly plaids when you shrink them so I'm usually afraid to go there but Lauren Cornell was right on the money with this one.
- tom moody 5-11-2007 6:51 am