Digital art

Now a days, you can take your career pretty far with digital art. If you just Google "digital art" you'll see page after page of websites that display a lot of different types of art. One site, http://dam-berlin.de/, is pretty cool in that they show pictures, animations, installations, and more. Digital art is becoming more and more popular and it makes me curious as to where that leaves other art forms? Is digital art going to replace photography or painting? If people can just sit at a computer and make something that looks like they spent days standing at a canvas, will that eventually stop painting all together? It's interesting to think about other art forms ceasing to exist, but with the rise of the digital world I guess you never know what could happen in the future.

Google sketchup

I've been playing around with Google Sketchup, trying to make something remotely cool. However, it didn't take me very long to figure out that it's a lot harder than it looks. I've learned that I'm not that great at coming up with ideas for sculptures so I've looked some geometric ones up online...

Nigh scenes

Now that I know what goes into Photoshopping images, it's pretty amazing to think that you can transform everyday objects and scenes into pieces of art. These are 100 pictures of night scenes that haven't been Photoshopped, but are just as beautiful nonetheless...

http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.pxlshots.com%252Fblog%252F2009%252F04%252F100-beautiful-night-scene-photos%252F

20 great digital drawings

Here's a cool site with digital drawings...

http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url=http%253A%252F%252Fabduzeedo.com%252F20-great-digital-drawings-patrick-brown

I'm not exactly sure how to go about making digital drawings, but it's like anything we've learned to do in the class, I can imagine how difficult these would be to do.

X's and O's

Ever think about how far you could go creatively using just x's and o's? One art school put it to the test...

http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.toxel.com%252Finspiration%252F2009%252F05%252F06%252Fschool-of-art-and-design-creativity-test%252F

The ideas that people come up with are really cool and I think it would be a fun experiment to give a class.

Symmetric drawing

I was on StumbleUpon today and came across this video...



It's an artist who draws symmetrically on both sides of a paper. It's not the best quality, but the process is pretty cool and I think you could make some really interesting pictures this way. I'm sure you could create very similar works that he's making by using that tool on Sumo Paint and making whole pictures.

Marshmallow Motion

I finished my video today in class and put it on YouTube. I like it how it came out, but for some reason there's about 30 extra seconds of music at the end that I'll have to figure out how to get rid of.

Adele

During the last class when we watched the music video of the woman in bed, all I could think about was Adele's music video "Chasing Pavements". It's the same idea as walking when actually not moving, but it's not done in stop motion. I liked the effect of the video shown in class because it must have taken a much longer time to create.

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Photoshop

Since our last project involved using Photoshop, well Sumo Paint, I decided to try to find some pictures online that looked as if they could possibly have been Photoshopped, but in actuality, haven't. Using StumbleUpon, I came across this site...

http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.smashingapps.com%252F2009%252F04%252F18%252F21-brilliant-photos-that-look-like-theyre-photoshopped-but-are-not.html

Some of the pictures aren't that cool and I wouldn't have assumed they were Photoshopped, but there are a few that are hard to believe just appear like that. I especially like the rose picture and the ball of life. The water ones are pretty cool too, because it's not easy to get pictures like that. You need to have an extremely fast shutter speed and know when to snap the shot. I like this site because it's kind of like a play on reality--it's not always easy to decipher reality from things that aren't really there and visa versa.

Strange art

After going to the art review about contemporary art (and being throughly disappointed...) I decided to try to find something at least a little more interesting than the things he showed in his presentation. I was using StumbleUpon to find something and I came across this site:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.designboom.com%252Fweblog%252Fcat%252F8%252Fview%252F6081%252Fbart-hess-at-the-dutch-invertuals-exhibition.html

It's really interesting because it's using the human body in a lot of different, and weird, ways. It's taking things we see often, such as paper or bubbles, and adding them to the body to make them seem transformed. Some people might argue whether or not it's considered art, but I think it's definitely interesting to look at!

Cool art

http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url=http%253A%252F%252Fweburbanist.com%252F2009%252F04%252F17%252F20-amazing-examples-of-art-from-obsolete-technology%252F

I came across this site and it's all scrap metal and junk put together to make things like owls and people. There's a place near where I live called Atticus in Kennebunkport, ME and it has a lot of art just like this.

Stop motion

I've been trying to come up with ideas about what to do my stop motion project on. I remembered seeing this spaghetti western YouTube video a little while ago, so I went to find it. I did find it, and to my surprise, it's by the same guy PES that you showed us in class.



I'm trying to figure out what I can do with my digital camera seeing as the last time I made a video I only used images I found on the internet. I'm still thinking, but hopefully I can come up with something at least a little original.

Virtual space

I decided to type "virtual space" into Google and see what came up. The first site was this: http://www.spacewander.com/USA/english.html

It's actually pretty cool; it's a view from a space ship and you actually see the perspective of what it would be like to be inside during take off. There's a lot of different examples of virtual space, but it's kind of funny this site came up first because when it was first brought up in class, it was exactly what I was thinking of--space and rockets.

What is digital media?

So, what exactly is digital media? We see it around us everyday in many different forms. You can read the newspaper online, stream music, or watch YouTube videos until your eyes hurt. Here's the definition of something we know so well...

"Digital media (as opposed to analog media) usually refers to electronic media that work on digital codes. Today, computing is primarily based on the binary numeral system. In this case digital refers to the discrete states of "0" and "1" for representing arbitrary data. Computers are machines that (usually) interpret binary digital data as information and thus represent the predominating class of digital information processing machines. Digital media ("Formats for presenting information" according to Wiktionary:Media) like digital audio, digital video and other digital "content" can be created, referred to and distributed via digital information processing machines. Digital media represents a profound change from previous (analog) media.
Digital data is per se independent of its interpretation (hence representation). An arbitrary sequence of digital code like "0100 0001" might be interpreted as the decimal number 65, the hexadecimal number 41 or the glyph "A". See also: ASCII, Code.
Florida's digital media industry association, Digital Media Alliance Florida, defines digital media as "the creative convergence of digital arts, science, technology and business for human expression, communication, social interaction and education"."

Here we go again...

First blog of Digital is Fundamental.

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