Archives for the month of: December, 2009

one wacky bird video.

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Slow and Steady

arcosanti, originally uploaded by normnode.

Arcosanti – a cool, futuristic bee hive city in progress. Not very far from Phoenix, AZ. http://www.arcosanti.org/ for more information.

trees

Same sketchbook.

hats

Getting more of my non-digital work online is one of the many things I want to do before the end of the year, so I took some time to scan a few drawings.

This drawing is from a sketchbook that is roughly six years old. Most of the drawings were done with India ink and the standard Hunt drawing pen points. A brush makes an appearance from time to time.

by the estuary from Norm DeValliere on Vimeo.

I love painting with a variety of apps for the iPhone, like Brushes 2.0, or Layers, or the very awesome Mobile Sketchbook from Autodesk. Brushes is my favorite, though; it’s a model of simple usability. It offers few choices in the tools being used. It also records every stroke as it is being applied, so you can view the evolution of the painting as a kind of stop-motion animation. I find it amusing (and irritating)  to see how many times I “paint over” the entire field and begin again.

I have been uploading the images to Flickr, but I thought some of the videos might prove interesting. Other than the fact that I do them on my iPhone with the Brushes app, the way I build up the image is the same way I would in traditional media. I use the same approach to oil painting on canvas, watercolor on paper, or printing a monotype.  Abstract expressionist methods – very little in the way of planning. Just start painting. It works out sometimes.

I hope everyone has the Library of Congress Flickr photostream bookmarked somewhere; it is a real treasure chest. In Flickr, everyone can help identify, tag, and otherwise enrich the body of knowledge about each image. Back at the LOC website, the uncompressed and un-commented images are preserved. Seems like an effective division of labor and attention.

The 1930s-40s in Color collection will give you an idea of while Kodachrome’s end is a sad thing. Unfortunately, the notes added to some of the images are, well, less than scholarly.

This image of the lovely Sangre de Cristo Mountains is worth the visit:
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, looking north into Colorado (LOC)

Yesterday BoingBoing posted about this set of photos at Flickr – apparently of a home built machine for creating photographic film. The prospect of hobbyists filling in when industries die is intriguing. Is craft-brew 35mm film in our future?

The processing of Kodachrome is more complicated, but hopefully someone is on that project, somewhere….

Alicia cooked up 4 dozen latkes tonight. mmmmmmm.

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Swiss Winter time lapse meditation from Michael Rissi on Vimeo.

Via BoingBoing.net.