art - tm

making an old sketch new-old

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A few years back was making quite a few ink wash drawings on legal paper, steno pads, etc. The one below is fairly typical: a quasi-modernist sculpture over what may have been a bleed-through from a hastily-sketched floor plan, outlined in ballpoint. I scanned the drawing (after which it was hit by more raindrops and effectively no longer exists). Then, using an online image-editing program, enlarged the width and converted it to a black and white GIF format.

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Using another online utility (timb's bong.gs layering tool) I superimposed the green check pattern found by stage, captured the result and saved it as an animated GIF. So now the drawing has a new retro tech sheen to go with the old, differently retro subject matter.

One of the trollgenerator "memes" from a week ago asked "Tom Moody - Who Wants to Make Shitty Art of the '40s into a GIF Anyway?" Exactly.

squirrel, summer 2009

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squirrel_sunbathing_400

Last summer a squirrel picked an area outside my window for nut storage and annoying the scotty terrier next door. When not working the damn thing stretched out on a fence top and caught some rays. I didn't photograph it but drew this sketch on a post-it note. Finally got around to scanning it. In black and white it almost looks like a lithograph or something. I swear I saw this.

man and flamingo

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dump.fm user AGT528 had the idea of hand-rendering images she found on dump.
I tried it out using a couple of GIFs from her log as subject matter: the flamingo and the "presenting man" (these weren't her drawings but rather things that she found or reblogged). I drew mine in MSPaint. A couple more are coming where I put this sketch against different backgrounds.
Subjective art is not dead, just more dorky and robotic.

selected apparitions

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...and recycled twitter posts:

antonelli electr. "automatic music" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz3tqP-r3vs

thomas brinkmann "ulla" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdAPNj-Xg2k

"He studied painting in high school and has apparently at times considered being an artist" (New York Times review of artist)

peaches and 2% lowfat milk

dr. laura, lenny bruce of the right

"you retreat to your commentless blog and do not dare to face moi"

rupert pupkin and jerry langford together on tour

pee wee's dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82hS6voNnwQ

clipse - grindin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOZ7HPu9yU

http://superamiga.tumblr.com/post/936649371/five-minutes-of-funk-whodini

And now, interrupting twitter posts to present this painting:

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(a collage I made years ago [with scissors and rubber cement!] in a new digitally enhanced setting)

more twitter posts (used as loren ipsum):

facebook is for mom...and Bonesmen

"Several new Christian churches have been welcomed near Ground Zero ... in Hiroshima." (Greg Palast)

no way i'm computing my twifficiency

john brunner's stand on zanzibar (1968) predicted the 2010 world population as 7 billion (it's 6.8 by current estimates)

I live in BosWash and have visited ChiPitts and SanSan

increase in cake competition shows parallels increased upper tier marie antoinettism?

"There are mysterious parts in that book, but the only true mystery is that our very lives are governed by dead people." (argento dialog)

"why is there a Chicken of the Sea but no Tuna of the Farm?" (stoned Pynchon conversation per michiko kakutani)

Forest and variations

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Made this forest with MSPaint (well, technically MSPaintbrush, the older version, but there's nothing here that couldn't be done in the current one--oh wait, not true, the older model has a little more variety in brush sizes on the toolbar):

FOREST

Posted it to dump.fm and Crunkus did several animations using it as a setting:

with traversing jello llama posted by AGT528

handheld llama tracking closeup

with llama and rotating mushrooms

same as above with hearts

AbEx triptych

tumblr version