Walter Logeman: Journal
The ever present battle with pixels. I battle with them, but also accept them, they are brush strokes of sorts. I have tried to enhance the image that came off the iPhone. How does it look? I think it will print up well after this fiddle, click to enlarge.
Later:
I printed both and the one straight off the iphone was better. Printing took care of the pixelation quite well. Mind you I am printing these images about 12cm wide on A4 paper.
For some biographical info about this effort look here.
Is it just me or is this lovely in it’s simplicity and ease of execution on the I Doodle app?
Signed one follows
The “sig” series I am doing, and there are a lot of them, are with a consciousness of the importance of identity and how the relationship with an avatar is reciprocal. Signing images I make is a work in process. I have signed some on the computer, but mostly I print them and sign and date them on the day of printing. I think of it as marking the making of the physical object.
More and more I want to sign them as I make them. One way or the other? Right now it could be anything! These Sig images, made on the iphone are printing well. I sign them again. Just WL and the date, in pencil.
But the alchemy of the avatar is still at work, and the change is not done. I amight be a bit old for this sort of adolescent exploration… but that is the way it is! As an artist I am young.
Science of Sex | The Digital Lover | Proteus Effect:
“Who we choose to be in turn shapes how we behave,” Yee writes in the draft paper. “While avatars are usually construed as something of our own choosing – a one-way process – the fact is that our avatars come to change who we are.”
It has been fun, but also frustrating to watch “In Treatment” and to see the therapist, Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne), not following his patients. To see him have poor supervision, have poor insight into his own life & relationships and clueless about relationship therapy. (Its only TV, and I am intrigued by the programme, I wish somone could make a movie with good therapy in it).
It shows some good moments, but sadly it misses the mark of giving accurate insight into therapy. The acting is good, but all too frequently the dynamics become ingongruent, I cease to suspend dis-belief and see the writer, and director coming through. Unfortunately the poor practice and poor supervision may be all too accurate, though I think we do better in New Zealand where personal therapy & supervision are standard practice for psychotherapists.
Following the client is the essence.
Letting go of all ideas about a solution to a problem.
The pattern of behaviour or situation what we draw attention to, not the particular behaviour.
The pattern is something that can be transformed at any instance of it. Status Nascendi is the most potent instance, but only if the person is ready to go, trust their pace.
The situation the client chooses to work on for that pattern is up to them, that is where we follow them, to that place where they are most ready to go.
This way the person is less likely to blame or place the experience onto another person.
And if they do…
“Focus on your experience, in this moment, your pain, your anger, your sense of injustice. Stay with that.”
I now have a list! on Twitter. I’ll make a few more too. But not sure that I fully get it.
I have added a few people who get psyberspace – but they post about mostly other things! So what’s the point?
Perhaps we can make a point?
One reason I synced to that last one is that I wanted to put it through some tweaks on the phone. I can edit on the phone in a way that I can’t on the PC.
Another version follows, possibly the one I like best. Strangely the iPhone app did a good job of increasing the resolution beyond what I did on the PC!
The app also does the thumbnailing pretty well, but I have made them a bit bigger.
This one, made on the PC but as it is synced with the phone, easier to post from the phone!
