http://ajnabee.tumblr.com/post/992242725/43-dodgy-statements-on-computer-art-by-brian-reffin
A stimulating list of points!
Later: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Who wrote this?
I am still getting my head around Facebook – for KTHT we have “group” but I get the idea that a “page” would be better. I am going to explore now… and make a page for Walter Logeman Sketches. lets see how that goes!
How to: Create a Facebook Fan Page | Business | Tutorial Blog:
However, if you really want to network and promote yourself, business or organization, then creating a Facebook Fan Page is the best way to do this.
I like his work! And these “rules” make a good read.
Nice video here. hilmancurtis
Milton Glaser’s Great Rules For Life « Saskia Wilson-Brown http://saskiawilsonbrown.com/2010/07/28/milton-glasers-great-rules-for-life/
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Unfortunately in our field, in the so-called creative – I hate that word because it is misused so often. I also hate the fact that it is used as a noun. Can you imagine calling someone a creative? Anyhow, when you are doing something in a recurring way to diminish risk or doing it in the same way as you have done it before, it is clear why professionalism is not enough. After all, what is required in our field, more than anything else, is the continuous transgression. Professionalism does not allow for that because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure and if you are professional your instinct is not to fail, it is to repeat success. So professionalism as a lifetime aspiration is a limited goal.
This popped up on RWW today:
iPad Art: Who Says You Can’t Create With The iPad!:
The iPad has taken the tech world by storm this year. In a half-year poll, ReadWriteWeb readers voted it the most important product of 2010 so far. One of the few criticisms of the iPad has been that it’s mostly a media consumption device. It doesn’t have a camera and writing on the iPad is akin to walking on the moon (everything happens in slow motion).However, the iPad has gained popularity in the artistic community – in particular thanks to an iPad app called Brushes, which enables you to ‘finger paint’ a colorful work of art.
It is a great tool – that’s why I’ve just got one. Brushes on the iPhone is OK, I prefer Layers and Sketchbook, but I’m upgrading them all to iPad versions.
The big drawback is pressure sensitivity, which puts it way behind any wacom based screns like my M200.
Just did my iPad first doodle today.
First time in months I’ve put pen to screen! Playing.
The last one called “Making Time” Mostly using ArtRage on the Toshiba M200.
I love the process. I am so familiar with the tools – the software and the M200.
I have my eye on an iPad. It will not have the pressure sensitivity. What it will have is mobility. It is so sad that MS did not have the ability to develop the Tablet. The Toshiba M200 is small enough, but impossible (for me at least) to master when folded into its slate form. And the battery life is measured in minutes even with my new battery. There is still IMO a place in the market for MS to make a Windows 7 convertible. I am over my initial iPad disdain. I am appreciating Apple’s solid building and pragmatics combine with the revolutionary. They took over the music industry even though they came in late to the mp3 market, not a mean feat brilliant strategies!
Tools evolve, and the best use of any given tool is of value. I have done a lot of sketching on my Palm PDAs – tool I’ll never use again – but therein lies something of value. The lead pencil has no colour. But look what has been done over the centuries with the humble pencil, and it lives. The current – no pressure iPad will die and be gone, but I look forward to making use of it, while it is in its first iteration. What can the finger do on that thing?
Here are some examples, some good stuff there.
This is about art, but applies to all human activity IMO. From Artblog.net: Franklin Einspruch on making art, looking at art, and other requisites of life
Click to continue reading “Neither subjective nor objective”
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Podcasts of Key Note addresses: (Thanks to Julian Wilson, Auckland) Jonathan Fay’s Key note address:
Michael Leunig’s Key note address:
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Useful item. I think there is an art and a science to checklists. Their design and their implementation.
The beauty of checklists | The Evolving Newsroom – http://evolvingnewsroom.co.nz/the-beauty-of-checklists
Whole article follows:
Art on the couch: when Sigmund Freud examined Leonardo da Vinci | Jonathan Jones via The Guardian.
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Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Bettmann/Corbis
Renaissance meets reason … Leonardo da Vinci and Sigmund Freud. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Bettmann/Corbis
From Jonathan Jones
guardian.co.uk Blogposts Mon 29 Mar 2010 11:44 BST
Whole item follows.
Click to continue reading “Art on the couch: when Sigmund Freud examined Leonardo da Vinci”
