Images For HD Video: Sometimes In The Waking The Reality Is More Pressing Than The Dream
There are times when I have a visual dream. In the waking. A collage of kinetic images. And as painful as it may sometimes be, I can but only love … living my art; finding fuel for it in the most unlikely places …
a new day …
This piece is an exploration of the moment when waking from a dream. The dream persists, but so does the realities of life: Our personal journey. As they intrude. Crash. Collide. And take us for a ride along the highway of uncertainty. I think it is here, in this moment, that we can rise from our slumber with our greatest fear or with our greatest hope. As we face the day, with our portfolio of experiences, memories, and designs, we can, with internal intent and wisdom, begin our search for a better tomorrow.
http://youtu.be/58Nwb7HmbLQ – Sometimes In the Waking the Reality Is More Pressing Than the Dream 3:10; music by Nine Inch Nails
Images For HD Video: The Night Outside Your Dream (A Blue Moment Remix)
Second in the series of “chance” recordings …
http://youtu.be/Wdrl6O_H1uE – Copyright 2012 Walter W Smith
…
the night
- blue
with restless dreams
– isolated
in scattered refuge
in sudden refrain
– through the darkest storm
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” – Calvin & Hobbs
Images For HD Video: An Unfolding Night Next To You (A Scattered Storm Remix)
The night holds many mysteries when time stands still….
she remains transfixed trapped in summer's night contemplating the approaching storm
Searching for chance in the process of creating art.
Within the context of my digital and video work, the objective is to find visual ambient experiences. The process at times, is a stationary camera. Post-production: Unedited film, or with very minimal post editing and digital effects. With this piece, I altered the color tonality. The difficulty in the piece was balancing the black sky, now slightly colorized, while maintaining a brightness/contrast without compromising the visibility of the lightning strikes.
Art can be discovered by random chance.
An Unfolding Night Next To You is the first in a series of new HD experimental video work-in-progress. Some years ago, my first exploration of the still camera and chance recording was an hour-long piece entitled Oceans of Art. This 2012 video was filmed during a late night drive on HWY 221 in South Carolina through a scattered rain storm. Darkness, lightning strikes, pressing rain, and the headlights of passing cars all merge with the music of sound design artist, and master of glitch Alva Noto, creating an eerie journey into meditative abstraction. Rain drops falling on the window shield create a mosaic of pixel forms. These forms are constantly moving and manipulating the video. While sporadic lightning strikes fill the night sky. Patience is in order to gather the full ambient feeling of the piece. Things are there.
Recommended viewing: In a very dark room by single candle light.
http://youtu.be/-KKafg4qoaQ – Copyright 2012 – Walter Smith
Images For Android Phones: Flow Goes The Night (A Being There Remix)
A late night drive. Alone. Afraid. One last stop. The next to last exit. The very next turn. Into the dark of yesterday. Leaving the light of knowing behind. Only to find the last stop had no answers to sell.
Images For Android Phones: Pop-Art In Motion
Revisiting the past and spinning brakes. A life without a caution. Pop goes the art. Over the cliff. Off the road. And Crash. Red meets blue and yellow finds green. Andy Warhol’s last thoughts. Wheels turning effortlessly as the years mount up. There’s a story here … And a Pontiac Bonnerville circa 1967.
Images For Android Phones: To Each Expression Of Love A Flower
in your garden
– through spring
where you sustain
all things
like the flower
in bloom
– for only
forever
Nothing You Ever Do Is Collected In One Moment (A Two Worlds Collide Remix)
Perfection can be found over time when you follow your instincts….
Two worlds collide
Something other than remaining…
I often wonder when a work of art is finished. What defines a piece as being complete; needing no further creative intervention on the part of the artist? Perhaps nothing (completion) is ever collected in one moment. If as artists, we seek to embrace the process, then it is possible that perfection is truly the antithesis to what we hope to accomplish; the creation of great art, the connection with self, and the freedom to allow instinct to govern.
Instinct is a mystery. It has no ending. No point at which it is defined.
When I create a work of art, I first view it as a part of a whole. That whole being one that is infinite.
– A life time of creating.
That which is the part of a whole, only serves to contribute to a never-ending journey; the idea of nurturing the creative instinct that lies within the realm of the visceral. While at times abandoning conscious decision-making.
Sometimes it serves us well to know that the perfection that is born of one’s decision, is not the perfection that is found over time …
In the end trust in the mystery….
Images For Android Phones: After Digital Art What’s Next
32 bit
Data
Paintings
Color
RAM
Pixels
Art
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Images For Android Phones: We’re At A Gallery With Another Distinct World In A Frame
rushing to make
a first friday night
someone’s art
– and
someone’s poem
in a distinct
world
all their own
Images For Android Phones: Post Canvas and Paint (A Pop-Art Remix)
An abstract form of art becomes a pop-art form of art becomes a post canvas and paint form of art becomes a digital form of art….
What’s next?
A Spark Of Life Revealing Itself
The patterned floor of my imagination led me to the light…
Moving towards the light from places unknown
like a maze
– it felt
when i walked
toward myself
and
into the light
Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes – Who Are We
how strange a question
the film provides
a search for who we are
beyond the stars
– prometheus
Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes – 06.07.12
it’s raining outside
– like colors
and things
with shapes
i haven’t seen
A Post Written With Random Thoughts
Sometimes a post is worth less than a thousand words….
A random image for random thoughts
It is a struggle sometimes to keep up with the pace of life. Better to find a moment of peace. I often think about things too much. For too long. Finding only temporary distraction when I am far too busy. Doing almost nothing of any true importance. Like discovering an insignificant place in time. Is it me, I seek to know? Or a vision of something that holds me captive? It is, perhaps (on a good day) all about waking to the dream that belongs to someone else. Feeling something. Something amiss in my own interpretation. Somewhere in the lost-not-found.
And then…
Feeling a strong sense of delight. In awe. The things inescapable. Like the beauty of a rising sun, an intrepid step, or a moon-filled night.
Then there is of course the consequence of not following the plan. Any plan. Failing to listen to destiny. My destiny.
And now…
It feels like I’ve just begun to say something….
The Waking Dream That Brings Such Beautiful Light
Sometimes it only takes a moment to feel a dream has something to say….
The waking dream in the morning light
a soft moment …
of transition
– sleeping in slumber
– waking in peace
an ethereal awareness
here
now
– in the present moment
centered
in an intuitive way
– to life
– to meaning
a very dreaming day …
The Dream Struggling To Complete Itself (A Waking Dream Remix)
Sometimes a dream no longer has words to say….
The darkest of dreams shed some light
It only takes a moment
– to know
a dream has nothing more to say….
When A Waking Dream Can No Longer Speak In Words
The moment I awoke I knew the dream would end in silence…
Sometimes in the waking a dream can no longer speak
the dream awoke …
with a stutter and a stir
it tried to find
in my mind
words to complete
a story unfolding
– boldly
in slumber
in death
a sleep with an end
and a dream
– with words
unable to speak …
– a dream struggling to complete itself
Images For Android Phones: The Dark Outside My Window
the film ends
no longer a starring role
outside my window
the darkness
is collecting its toll
are you there
feeling it’s unfair
– our lost
you have to bare
sitting there
– with empty seats
and
ending dreams
no starring role
here
just the things
we sometimes fear…
Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes – 05
As my every step led me closer to the edge of things unknown, the music became my refuge …
Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes – 04
The very last step I ever took, led me to the edge of time …
Images For Android Phones: 4 Views 1 Place – 04
There is always more than one truth to contradict any one belief ….
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