TURBO DISTURBO SPEDAAMO

Well, tomorrow marks the official beginning of fall. Such little time left for heatstroke hallucinations. And so I gather together the summer's creepiest audio-visual finds, and offer them up to those of you interested in such things. For those weak sisters in the audience with an aversion to the combination of Karo syrup and red food dye, I'd advise you to skip this post and maybe try something safe, soothing and non-confrontational.

Skull Thunder graffix

Ah, the wonders of Photoshop. Here's a handful of unsolicited graphics work I've done.




The following works were done in a spirit of experimentation. This next one is based on  the Minimize filter. When I was nearly done with it, I realized that there was at least one method that could bypass the regions that developed into rectangular forms, but by then I was ready to be done with it.




It took a mad amount of tweaking minor details to get this next result.




And look! Video! It's a silent thirty second loop, so I suppose you could put on some music and trance out. There's an HD version, but the fine details are smeared into Technicolor mud. What can you do?




I adore this effect. Not an easy thing to accomplish.




Hey, more video! Like Heavy Metal Omelette, it's a silent thirty second loop, and available in a higher-definition version -- but unlike Omelette, the fine details are the point, and yet here they are, lightly stomped into artifact grunge. But, hell, it's free, so why complain?

Not bad for a month's worth of work

Here's a collection of artworks that I finished just a few days ago.

About a year ago, I had an idea for a computer-aided 3D modeling project, but I just couldn't get a program to cooperate, and I gave up.  But near the end of this past July, I decided to jump back into the project, and with a little Google Fu, I finally found a tutorial that explained how precision Dynamesh subtraction was supposed to work. Huzzah!

And with that knowledge at hand, I got it goin' on. Here's the result:

Pretty fine. And because I do so love my variations, there's this jade overdose...

...and a sloppy-paint version.

Now, obviously, I could go on at some length at how I accomplished all this... and I did!

Curious?

Leonard Cohen - Austin City Limits 1988

My dad and I saw this performance on a local PBS affiliate in 1998, and were much impressed. I apologize for the lousy video quality, but the only source I can find for this fantastic show is an MPEG of a nth-generation VCR bootleg of a television broadcast. But the small venue brings an appropriate intimacy that's missing in larger venues.

Happy birthday to me!

And to celebrate, here are a small collection of thematically-unrelated tunes! Hooray!