Turned Off, an essay by DLKeur
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| One big turn-off for me as an artist and, more, as a person, is witnessing favoritism and unmerited reward. Let’s see, we have a crayon scribbling that a two-year-old would be ashamed of showing against an obvious Wacom tracing clip art against five exquisitely executed works, one of which is so far above the bar that it will obviously be the hands-down winner. Then come the results. What gets first and second? The (very bad) crayon scribbling and the traced clip art. The rest are dismissed without so much as an honorable mention. Why? MORE… |
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about | aeiou : from the prelude by revad
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 More about aeiou : from the prelude as featured in the widgets make the work from issue 6. Produced in response to the theme Random and Considered while using the book From The Prelude : Selections from Wordsworth’s poem : Edited by H. S. Taylor as a starting point, this work analyses a short section of text from the book using a simple five bit binary reflective Gray code and the position of the vowels within each line of the chosen text.MORE…
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Gradients by Tim Stringer
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 I can’t remember exactly what it was that put crop circles in my head. Probably something I watched on the History Channel or Discovery. I do remember that I wanted to do something that looked like a crop circle and I wanted it to be as complex as I could make it. Gradients is the result of that idea. I like to describe it as crop circles on steroids. MORE… |
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Dreams, Visions, and Art by Stacy Lee
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 Everyone once in a while an artist is faced with a challenge: “Can you create my dream?” or “Can you create this vision I had?”. The challenge begins when the blank canvas is set up and all materials are ready to go. But then something happens. The vision or dream becomes the artist’s own. She or he starts to own the dream or take on the vision for her or himself. This is the beauty of postmodernism. MORE… |
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