tom moody

This is a rough-cut studio shot of my piece in the "Telefone Sem Fio" show. The art is an animated GIF based on pictograms from an older (late '90s/early '00s) web piece by Brazilian concrete poet Augusto De Campos. There's a web page version of the GIF but for the physical exhibition I made a DVD loop of the GIF to run on a CRT television monitor. Those monitors are already retro-exotic but they work well with certain GIFs. (Stronger color, etc.)

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Telephone journal
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
Lecture tomorrow (Friday Nov 11) on De Campos (will have to miss this unfortunately)

a couple of images found on the dump.fm front page and mashed together, more or less literally

hat tip Frankhats for components

one day late for halloween on the public internet (a primitive, antisocial environment where you can't login, talk to your "friends," or gain access to the onboard tools to not "like" this).

experiment with using the Windows 7 MSPaint program as intended. the brush blending isn't fluid at all, so you have to force shades to merge through vigorous scrubbing movements to get anything remotely painterly. not a very enjoyable process but if frustration could be visualized it might look something like the above.

"Ryder, Ryder, you're needed back at dump HQ, over."

This painting and Space Cadet were loosely inspired by Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires, one of the most exquisitely art-directed films ever made. Perfectly framed shots combine high opera poses with the clarity of Steranko panels. The camera makes effortless, angular glides past elegant instrument banks and down the vaults and corridors of Bava's soundstage spaceship. The leather S&M catsuits with extravagant wing collars and asymmetrical zippers worn by the male model spacemen and zaftig spacewomen occupy a dimension beyond pulp. As ludicrous as the dialogue gets you can't take your eyes off those costumes.

Originally posted to Computers Club Drawing Society
GucciSoFlosy, on dump: "its more of an advertisement for ryder's brand hidden in a surrealist painting of under armor"

Have been fooling around with a oekaki style drawing utility for a series of posts on the Computers Club Drawing Society website. The above montage was screencapped from my Windows 7 image viewer. All of the above drawings have been posted to CCDS except the bottom right one--I deleted it and made changes to it in MSPaint.

The above images are reduced/softened so you don't get the full effect of the old school black and white fill patterns that you get in the originals. It's been interesting to work with a program that's more painterly than I'm used to, though the drawings seem to be going in a cartoon direction.