It’s day three of the Greer Family Chrimbo Limbo Star Wars Marathon.
We’re doing release order, no omissions.
#forrealz
Art
ART: ɑːt (noun) 1. the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
2. the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance.
“the visual arts”
Playlist >> 18/12/2015
Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 117-123
Limped through Autumn. Working on health a bit more now. Can’t do any harm.
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The rest can be seen here.
Recently rediscovered missing parts of a vintage 16mm projector, the rest of which was donated to a beloved local cinema some 14 years ago. I’ve been in touch and fingers crossed all the component parts will be reunited soon.
Uniball.
10 mins
Notebook: Ethel
Lunchtime sequential drawing of a random member of the white wire brigade enjoying the Indian Summer in various states of smart phone reading.
Uniball
10 mins
Notebook: Artemis (homemade)
45 mins
Blue Stabilo point 88.
Notebook: Ethel
Windows on Whiteladies Road. There’s plenty, I could do a whole book of these.
Uniball micro.
Notebook: Ethel
Approx 20 mins intermittent whilst waiting for playblast renders.
@mrtimmytimtim‘s coat hanging on the second floor door at BDH.
Just tipped a third of the way through btw.
Straight to Uniball.
Notebook: Ethel
Cumulatively about 15 mins.
Saplings in Leigh Woods.
About 10 mins all in.
Notebook: Artemis.
Uniball micro.
Architectural detail, Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station.
Waiting on Platform 5, sllightly hungover.
There is no Platform 14.
15 mins
V-ball
Notebook: Artemis
Taking Drawing Lessons from Artist and Journalist Molly Crabapple
The first great works of digital literature are already being written
“The problem is that people who like science and technology, and people who like storytelling and the arts have typically been placed in different buildings since about the age of 16. We haven’t been taught how to admire each others’ work, to recognise excellence, or even to know that there is excellence in “the other culture”. There’s a kind of sullen arrogance on both sides, with some people in both camps simply denying that the other knows anything worth listening to. There is a kind of “worthy” arts professional who thinks that knowing nothing about games – like saying “I don’t even own a television!” – is a marker of intellectual superiority.”
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As always more for my benefit than yours.
That’s a picture of the recent Supermoon over the front hedge.
We were lucky enough to see Dismaland 3 days before it closed on Wednesday, I felt like I was going because I ought to rather than wanted to.. But, no, it was wonderful, for several reasons. Firstly because the visitors there were not your average gallery goe, there were all different kinds of people engaging with what was there.. Secondly because it was like going to a rock concert rather than an art show. Thirdly the range of work there (most of it not by Banksy) was for the greater part technically excellent as well as engaging. But mostly because it didn’t feel like it came out of that art world, it felt fresh and relevant. (Some good animation on show at the cinema bit too!). An uplifting experience, not empty or even dismal in anyway.
News
https://twitter.com/joannaq/status/652295694259200000
Bookmarked
An analysis of #ThisIsACoup – with data via Visibrain Focus/A physicist considers the appeal of miracles/Jim Le Fevre Interview/Micachu and The Shapes: The Art of the Happy Accident/The Perfectly Looping Mini-Trips of Hayden Zezula/Weird Facebook is a subculture of meme pages, secret groups, friend networks, and personalities/Essential Crowdfunding Campaigns You Need to Support from Art Aid Nepal, 2D Cloud and Off Life/Frank Krause: Mining the Internet’s Fears/BlenderVR/Music video for Karma Fields by ravenkwok is presented entirely using animated Voroni tesselations/artists are using Google’s Deepdream in virtual reality/Bereavement and Grief Powerfully Examined by Cj Reay and Black Lodge Press/Sunny 5 by Taiyo Matsumoto: to be unreachable, by kindness or hope/
Social
So I nuked the Facebook page I made. I was a nice experiment, but quickly became apparent that using it for a sole artist would require more money and work than I can spare, just to get people to see it. So I reactivated the Follow option on my standard profile, so if you don’t know me IRL you can follow my public posts there. I’m trying real hard to love Facebook, I understand one has to work it to really hard turn it into the space you want. So I am going to give it a go.
Been trying Flipboard in the hope it would give me the curated link feed we use to get in Google Reader, but it doesn’t seem to be responding to the information I give it. Also been trying Pinterest, but I always go back to Tumblr just because.
Playlist
Chromatics – Tick Of The Clock
Smaller Than My Mother – The Overcoats
Reading
Post-Capitalism by Paul Mason
Emma by Jane Austen
Miracles Of Life by J G Ballard
Back Up
Everything, all the time.
Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 102-116
Incorporating Dismaland visit and the completion of the pub drawing.
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Other 365 drawings can be found here.
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It’s been a beautiful weekend, like the summer’s not ready to let go, I’ve been outside, mostly, hacking at the hedges. Pleasant but very tiring.
Within the space of a week UK politics has changed completely which is a breath of fresh air whether you agree with the direction or not. You can tell how much it has changed by the level of hysterical outrage in the old school press. It can be difficult to take your eyes off the news. Fun times.
If your not watching This Is England ’90, do yourself a favour and get with it. When it’s done, it’s done.
Social Media-ed
https://www.facebook.com/burningfp
News
Listened
Bookmarked
Twitter and Instagram users can learn a lot from a 1920s journalist – Paul Mason/A Graphic Account of Roxane Gay and Erica Jong’s Uncomfortable Conversation by Mari Naomi/Meet the Artist Making GIFs to Ridicule All the Shit Women Deal With: Isabel Chiara/The Tsarnaev trial: Drawing a line/Hunter S Thompson on Now, from the Past/Jeremy Corbyn’s new PMQs has Tory MPs turning to tranquil pursuits like sketching MPs/’Ukraine’s Banksy’ on his time imprisoned by separatist rebels – in pictures/Megan Nicole Dong – “I’ve been doing a series of comics about men being deceived by makeup.”/Judy Pfaff/
Always Tumbling at TheElectronicalRattleBag
I can relate to this:
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Wondered
Why does anyone share anything ever. Does it help people? These are all thoughts and findings and I collected them over time and then here they are. What I thought was worth passing on. Perhaps I should be weaving it into some kind of artful enterprise, but for the moment there is only this. A list. I’m work on making more stuff, but there is very little time, it’s not easy. I’m posting “daily” sketches at Instagram, so follow me there if you like.
Haunted
I have to say I have been haunted by these two renderings from real time tech leonardo, Kyle McDonald. When I was little I remember imagining animation as it might be if each frame was as detailed as an oil painting, it didn’t take much practical experience for me to realise that such ideas would lead to certain doom of endless work, no friends and little result.
Bring on neural network analysis, the Inception Network and Google’s Deep Dream. This from the Bethge Lab.
In fine art, especially painting, humans have mastered the skill to create unique visual experiences through composing a complex interplay between the content and style of an image. Thus far the algorithmic basis of this process is unknown and there exists no artificial system with similar capabilities. However, in other key areas of visual perception such as object and face recognition near-human performance was recently demonstrated by a class of biologically inspired vision models called Deep Neural Networks. Here we introduce an artificial system based on a Deep Neural Network that creates artistic images of high perceptual quality. The system uses neural representations to separate and recombine content and style of arbitrary images, providing a neural algorithm for the creation of artistic images. Moreover, in light of the striking similarities between performance-optimised artificial neural networks and biological vision, our work offers a path forward to an algorithmic understanding of how humans create and perceive artistic imagery.
(quote via)
and the algorithm, the dream doings that wre blowing people away a month or so ago there are people around the word making this mad math work on images like this, and as you can read here, it’s not at After Effects plug-in utility level yet (there appears to be many lvels of adjustment and feedback loops), but i’m sure it’s only a matter of time and several levels of genius away.
Most of me is hoping it’ll never be that easy.
Heads up from Prosthetic Knowledge.
Bookmarked
This job is so cool because it’s about imagination, then destruction/The Groundbreaking Silhouette Animations of Lotte Reiniger/ Remove Water Stains From Wood Furniture with Mayonnaise/40 reasons why you should blog about your research/Mijn Begrafenis (My Funeral) by Maarten De Saeger (Bries)/ The Uber Endgame/Interview: The Diary of a Teenage Girl Author Phoebe Gloeckner/ Bringing International Communities Together Via the Medium of Comics – Wallis Eates on Connecting Teenagers Across the Commonwealth through Sequential Art/Debt is Good by Paul Krugman/Early Humans Made Animated Art/Could virtual reality revolutionise crisis-response filmmaking?/ Mutually Assured Content – In 2015, the illusion of audience ownership is becoming harder to sustain/ Spalding Gray’s Catastrophe by Oliver Sacks, ‘This only happened because people organized.’ – Nail salon workers speak out after NYT exposé by Sukjong Hong/Fette Sans Website back online/Jared Muralt – Sketchbook/Collaborative Self-Contained-Self-Portrait in the That Sea of Multiplicity – Traci Matlock/Linn Myers – Drawings/ Spinning Daggers by Benjamin Ducroz via Jim Le Fevre/
Curated
Tumbling daily since March 2008 at The Electronical Rattle Bag.
Read
1Q84 by Haruki Marukami
Autobiography by Morissey
A Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Currently reading: Oliver Twist, Post-Capitalism: A Guide To Our Future, Human Diastrophism
Listened
All I know by Soul Sugar featuring Courtney John
Be kind, it’s free.
Paul Greer 