I’m a bit behind on posting, but I’m still working on linocuts and drawing. This was my first attempt with letters and my first try at creating a particular color by blending ink colors. It’s based on a piece of pottery that my mother-in-law had. As you can see in the first picture, I printed […]
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I’m still very much in the try-things-and-see-what-happens stage. I can sense a few mysteries lurking that are key to doing what I want. For carving, I have switched from the soft pink rubber stuff to the hard battleship gray linoleum. It is much harder to cut but makes a world of difference in detail and […]
The Internet still works pretty well for me.1 It brought me some examples of linocuts that got me interested in something I haven’t done since 7th grade. I went on my normal pattern of following a bunch of people who do this on Instagram2, watching a random assortment of YouTube videos (from tutorials to documentaries) […]
Man. These are taking some time to write and I know I’m missing all kinds of stuff. I really have to think through how to do this better for the future. I also found out VCU turned off the Google Takeout option so there’s no easy way to archive my mail or get anything else […]
Color Thief is a slick javascript that grabs a color palette from images. I found it after talking to an art professor who was looking to help future art teachers reflect on their work in different ways. Color palettes seemed an interesting way to get at that. I was talking to Larry about this earlier […]
I was fortunate to meet Claire Bourne from VCU’s English Department yesterday. In addition to all sorts of fun conversations around her upcoming course on Marlowe (and the WordPress site) and the FileMaker database she built to see more deeply into her research,1 Claire mentioned she was on Twitter (roaringgirle) which opened the door to […]
Inspired by (or copying depending on your perspective) this Modern Met post. Apophenia Find something in your house. Take a picture. Let your imagination churn. Make as many different augmented versions as you can think of. Help others see what’s in your head. Submit it on DS106 using the tags VisualAssignments and VisualAssignments1255. cc licensed […]
After seeing Alan’s post . . . This is a response to the Tate’s call for their 1840s GIF party — they have made images available from selected pieces of art from their 1840s room and inviting anyone to remix as a GIF. That is such a good idea I made it into a ds106 assignment. It is interesting to […]
I found Costic? Acsinte1 which is a new Flickr Commons participant. It also has a Twitter account. I really like these photographs and the backstory is interesting as well. They almost seem to good to be true but I’d almost be more excited if they were. In any case, the images are awesome. A number […]
In discussing trajectories, elements of engineered serendipity, “thought vectors in concept space” with Gardner and Jon yesterday the following occurred. Gardner shared this video (which is well worth watching and I rarely have the patience for videos). That led to a discussion about creating and using a MOOC/hashtag specific Twitterbot (like horse e-books but real1) […]