Gallery View IX
Friday, January 17, 2003
Images from 041302, 041402, 050802.
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Peter Ford asks how these these fantasy gallery views are made. All the original drawings are straight HTML using Dreamweaver- that's why they're so flat, hard-edged, and simple. These gallery views are of course made with Photoshop, heavy on the use of layers and the gradation tool.
Karin: see 010803 for an explanation of how I am flipping one day ahead. Yes, so far most of the galleries are invented. However, 011603 is built over a picture of a room I scavenged somewhere, and 011803 will also use another image of a room (that gallery view, by the way, is already finished and awaiting the Saturday flip on Friday afternoon). It's all pretty crude; I won't be sending my resume to Pixar anytime soon.
I'm pleased that others (KK, IM, RY, CY) like these gallery views, as I like them, too, a lot. They bring a real satisfaction to me. The scale of these depictions may not be as I have usually pictured some of them, but I do almost always also think of these table drawing thingies as being made of real materials and hanging on a real wall. I've talked enough about looking at a paintings that I'm surprised no one else really made the kind of connection I've been carrying around inside my head. But that's inside my head, not yours, so I shouldn't be surprised, I guess.
I just noticed how I keep calling these things "table drawings," yet in my head as I've used them in these gallery depictions they are paintings. That's a clue for me as one difference between the digital media and the real material. Drawing in HTML is mostly dealing in defining edges, boundaries, which is drawing. Then the shape is filled with color. In painting the action can be about line, but it's also about volume and surface and thickness. It's tactile in a way the HTML drawings can't be. That may be why I can't call these things table paintings. By can't, I mean that when I start to say it my brain stops me. I feel a difference and am forced to use the word "drawing."
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Say what? "Scientist: Bananas Face Serious Threat from Disease!" Why, I eat a banana nearly every day, and I hope to live much longer than ten more years. What's this all about?
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