Pouring My Art Out

Stick together… part 35… monkeying around… part 3…

Posted on June 24, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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Is that a flying saucer???

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No, I guess not… just more mirror images.

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But still…

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It was an Unexplained Funny Object.

Multi-media-tasking… part 2…

Posted on June 24, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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How do you make a fire star?

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First, you take a glass blowing class, and make a paperweight.

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Then you go to Maui on your second honeymoon, and get a cool little glass bulb with an etched jellyfish inside, that comes with a stand… or base… that has color-changing LED lights in it, and, in a dark kitchen, you take super close up photos of the paperweight using a macro lens, as the colors shift.

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Then, using that cool website I am always telling you about, you put that macro photo through the ‘kaleidoscope’ filter.

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Then, using the new image, you just use some other digital magic filters on it.

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See, nothing to it.

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I mean, this will work on any other images you have floating around.

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So I guess the Hawaii trip and the macro photography and glass blowing class are sort of optional.

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But art doesn’t like laziness.

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Art requires dedication, if nothing else.

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Art wants you to try…

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So at least go to Maui.

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Monkey see, monkey doodoo…

Posted on June 23, 2018 by pouringmyartout

So I was doing another of the pictures for my series where I make mirror image images of stuff, and when I finished doing the mirror image of a group of monkeys, it hit me how funny this would be as a metaphor for tRump followers.

There they are, not overly bright or particularly evolved, and not even the best examples of their own species, captivated by the loudest monkey in the group. He hoots and waves his arms, and they hoot and wave their arms right along with him. If he shows aggression to a member of another group, some of the bigger, dumber males will attack small, defenseless members of that group… as long as they outnumber them. If he treats the females or young members of his own group with disrespect, you can bet the other males will follow his lead.

And if he throws crap, well, you get the idea.

Posted in dogs and other animals, funny famous people pictures, thinking about stuff | Tagged art, current-events, donald trump, humor, monkeys, people, photography, Photoshop, photoshop art, politics, social-media, trump | 2 Comments

Stick together… part 34… monkeying around… part 2…

Posted on June 23, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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It is the humanity in their faces, their eyes, that make this even better for me.

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Which leaves me wondering…

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If perhaps I should do some more of these… of famous humans through history.

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The thing is… (hello, thing, where have you been hiding?)… that faces, monkey or human, are so symmetrical.

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This works best on a photo of a head that is tilted, or turned to the side a little.

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If that monkey wasn’t tilting his head, a mirror image would just look like a particularly symmetrical monkey face.

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That is what I learned… the hard way.

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Stick together… part 33… monkeying around… part 1…

Posted on June 22, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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I am going to have some fun with this mirror image thing on photos of our closest relatives. Then, I will be done…

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With the animal portion of this series… HA!

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Oh yeah…

Posted on June 22, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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My younger daughter, Mollie, got me a custom father’s day coffefe mug… which is appropriate, seeing that I am an actual Scottish Lord, thanks to my other daughter, Jessica. But I told that story already, so you should already know that, right?

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Multi-media-tasking… part 1…

Posted on June 22, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Okay, follow along with me on this multimedia journey. That right there is what happened when I took this image…

And put it through a digital filter called: ’emboss’. The image is of this…

Yes, it is the very first project I made in my glass blowing class, a paperweight. Except the photo above that one was taken with a macro lens for super close up photography, and it was taken in a dark room with the paperweight on a stand that has little LED lights in it that change color. That is already a few types of media, am I right? Are you with me so far?

All the rest of these images are versions of the first one in the post, so I am doubling up on the filters. That one is a ‘neon’ filter, on top of the ’emboss’ filter.

I guess the point I am making is that if you consider photography and glass blowing to be forms of media, and you take in the fact that there are layers of digital media going on…