Sketch N Draw procedural drawing, imported into GIMP for gradient background and a drawn intermediate layer with Wacom tablet. Not thrilled about the muddiness in the bottom half, but its hard to do controlled application of brushes in Sketch N Draw since it doesn’t have layering.
Incidentally, I notice that most of these pictures look [...]
Author Archives: sbenthall
Bring Back Classic Rock
February 4, 2012 – 8:46 pm
Wondrous Nature
February 4, 2012 – 7:48 pm
Imagine the wilderness ecosystem.
Big predators eat the weak of grazing herbivores. Scavengers chew those bones. Hiding rodents gather seeds until snatched by hawks. Worms blissfully migrate through the mulch; shrubs burst from their excrement.
Consider the ecosystem of which humanity is a part.
Some people build towers. Others farm and sell their produce [...]
dangerous kind
February 2, 2012 – 1:29 pm
You are
the most dangerous kind
don’t know what you want
and wanting it blind
You may
be the end of me
But when it began
you set fire to me
And I
protect myself by
keeping my distance
but tugging the line
And so
what we will soon get
are four empty hands
two sighs of regret
Storm
February 1, 2012 – 1:09 am
Please
don’t saddle me
with your polite company and chit chat ripples on the surface
I
would rather die
than live a life as weakly as the insulated chorus
What will it take to gather
your bursting hearts and souls prismatic?
we’ll grapple with the dreams that matter
pull them back from heaven to the earth
Unrelenting unrelenting
crusades against the automatic
wills on fire and painting [...]
Heads Heads Tails Heads Tails Tails
January 31, 2012 – 9:20 pm
Experimenting with the ideas discussed here.
In class we are discussing the possibility of ‘information’ as a point of reduction across multiple domains. I’m the reductionist visigoth in the room.
This sort of art tries to prove something by breaking something.
Drawing is expressive in a way that complicates the ‘informational’ story. A product of a [...]
informational art
January 28, 2012 – 1:06 am
Just so that I have no direction to go but down, I’m going to go ahead and do the most pretentious thing that it is possible for a human being to do. That is to “define” a kind of art. In doing so, I’m trying to explain some of the thinking that goes [...]
Procedural drawings
January 28, 2012 – 12:26 am
(This is a thumbail. Click for full size.)
I recently got a tablet. Drawing seemed like a natural thing to do with it, so I searched the Android app store for a drawing tool and found Sketch n Draw. So I’ve discovered procedural drawing, which is apparently a thing.
The world needs a wikipedia [...]
The Case for Defunding NASA
January 27, 2012 – 12:12 am
However shall we fill our time?
Exquisite distances
between the lines
Three thousand years to get to outer space
all the time wishing we were
face to face
What makes a difference?
Is it information spat back to the earth?
Why not just use our lives
to celebrate the moment of our birth?
You can bring the olives
and I will bring some wine
he can cook [...]
Neoplatonic
January 25, 2012 – 10:08 pm
I have looked so many years to see through to your soul
and sing to you a melody — the one to make it roll
If you are tired of those who wish to take from you by force
then we can find all that we need by sipping from the source
Just give me a few minutes as [...]
Notes
January 13, 2012 – 12:24 pm
Dr. Specterman explained to me the progression of consciousness in The Phenomenology of Spirit. The first stage is animal, and so there is no contradiction with the empirical result that children (infants even) have empathy for other beings. Meanwhile, recognition that there is one essence does not mean the same thing as, for [...]
