The gloriousness of lovebirds
This is acrylic paints on canvas then sprayed gold then oil paints! It’s getting done, slowly..
I’m trying to capture the feeling of ‘gloriousness’ hehe, is that a real word? But that’s the word that comes to mind. I love combining realism with more abstract motifs and I love have multiple light sources as it makes the pictures come alive in your mind!
In other art news, I decided to make a few virtual art galleries again in SecondLife (after a long absence, which seems to be a pattern with my art, I’ll stop one type of art for a while and try another and when i come back to the first it is with a renewed vigor not seen by many (hehe that’s an interpolation of the poetry from the mighty Henry Rollins).
You might see my really cool personal logo around the sims of SecondLife, my avatar is called Daz Honey!
This is the type of thing I want to show the wfabi.org people, this is graphic design from a fine art perspective which is a precious commodity in this world where that ipod silhouette idea gets rehashed over and over until people just don’t notice it anymore. Graphic design needs to be fresh or people don’t look at it, they see it, but they don’t look and that is the difference between a successful design and just another design.
WFABI Mission: To define standards to aid in the design, development and marketing of websites, from the teachings of experiential fellows; to help produce a "better internet"
I know graphic design, I graduated with a BS in graphic design in 1999 and have been ‘experimental’ ever since. My friend Scott Tranchitella (DJ Disaster) and I built our own graphic design studio and taught ourselves to become media experts. We built websites, bought domain names and made a thousand graphics (see the logo on the wall behind DJ Disaster in the photograph below). We built a recording studio with a sound booth and used pro-tools, we bought a professional broadcast tv camera and half a dozen M2 decks and learned Final Cut, we produced and recorded several albums worth of original music (Homer Simplex) to use for our indy movies and commercials, we acted and produced in a weekly live comedy radio show and streamed several stations 24/7 from our studio to promote the artists we had recorded, often writing the beats for the hip hop tracks to suit the clients, we even started work on an internet tv show before I left for Michigan (and eventually wound up here close to NYC).
That’s just the work part, after all, everyone and their grandma is an amature graphic designer and videographer these days, children make CSS that can rival the pros (seen Neopets lately?) and social networking experts are a dime a dozen, so the actual nuts and bolts of software wrangling isn’t that important when you can crowdsource a project to the most available, cost effective and proficient person you know third hand on twitter. Proficiency can be hired but originality has to be sought out.
I’m 42, I’ve been around the block, hell, I went to school on three different continents. I’ve moved dozens and dozens of times, each time refining what is most important to take with me and discarding the rest. I have little left of my childhood except the same dreams that surface like liquid gold each time I create something great. I’ve been wealthy, I’ve starved, I’ve had great love affairs and I’ve been miserably lonely but I’ve always been an artist. It’s not a jay oh bee as that means someone elses rules, it’s not a career as that means it has to end, I fully intend to follow in the footsteps of Michelangelo and Picasso and be a old man who makes interesting things, by then I should be pretty damn good don’t you think!
If you want people to brainstorm about making a better internet, I would be a good choice I think!
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