randomRamblings

Working on another single song download site for someone. This actually isn’t going to get used, but I really like it:

Adobe has launched an online version of Photoshop. They are even giving you 2gb of storage! I get the vibe it is for the casual user who frequents the social networking sites. Give it a try for free right HERE.

I have two prints of this piece for sale.
They were bought here in Portland Oregon at Compound Gallery.
The print itself is about 11in by 17in.
I am selling just the print for $15 plus $5 shipping within U.S.
The print-framed with the one pictured-in white or black- is $30 plus $15 shipping within U.S.
Outside U.S.-please contact me for shipping info.
I prefer paypal payment.
If you would feel better going through ebay as well, please let me know and I will put it up as an auction.
Let me know if you have anymore questions.

This and a little help from Photoshop could prove to be tons of fun.

I had this idea of a bird,birdflu, and gasmask floating around in my head for a while now. I finally got a bit to knock this out. This -in some form-might be going on new promo stickers I will be getting done up.

I just recently moved out here to Portland, Oregon from Tampa, Florida, so you might notice a lot of posts having to do with this and surrounding areas. My first one is about GRASS HUT, a studio, gallery, and shop. The studio is home to Bwana Spoons and Justin “Scrappers” Morrison. Head over to their site now to see some amazing photos and artwork. February 1st, they will have a new toy available: “The newest toy by Ojo Rojo, masterfully executed by Kyoka Ikeda of Gargame, even has movable limbs! Those in attendance at the opening will get first dibs on the new little guy, but they will also be available online the following day.”  

Thanks to Juxtapoz for the heads up.

“An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Supper,” raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting.” “Pala, a 45-year-old musician who lives near the southern Italian city of Lecce, began studying Leonardo’s painting in 2003, after hearing on a news program that researchers believed the artist and inventor had hidden a musical composition in the work.” “In a book released Friday in Italy, Pala explains how he took elements of the painting that have symbolic value in Christian theology and interpreted them as musical clues.”

The result is a 40-second “hymn to God” that Pala said sounds best on a pipe organ, the instrument most commonly used in Leonardo’s time for spiritual music. A short segment taken from a CD of the piece contained a Bach-like passage played on the organ.”

-SunHerald

I wanted to do a post on the amazingly talented Polish artist Grzegorz Jonkajtys. What made me aware of him is the ridiculous good trailer for his short “ARK” or “ARKA” in Polish. While working on a short for the Warsaw studio, Platige Image, he walked along side thousands of burial shelves carved into walls of tunnels, and imagined being inside a large ship. “I thought of a huge oil tanker with networks inside of what looks like graves that are platforms for people.” From that vision he developed a script about an ark carrying the only survivors on earth of an unknown virus. Six years later this film was nominated for a Golden Palm for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival, received a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction, won Best of Show at SIGGRAPH over 905 submissions, and because of the SIGGRAPH win, is in the running for an Oscar nomination. Visit his site HERE.  I am trying to find details on a dvd release.

[ youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuyjgOgmNOw]-Source: Computer Graphics World