Images For Android Phones: Pop Art – Track and Field
The Olympic trials are in full swing. Competition. Endurance. Will. Beauty. Art and sports a Pop Art tradition. London 2012.
Images For HD Video: Water For Meditation (Sunrise Remix) and On Water
Exploring nature through video …
I enjoy working with video. It has always been a true love of mine. It is however, a very challenging medium. It takes time to learn new programs and to obtain the right equipment. And it is expensive. Exhibiting video art in a gallery usually requires a grant. And grants are difficult to come by these days. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, I was awarded a couple of grants for a video installation and a multimedia collaboration. All in all, through recent years, and mostly because of the expense, I’ve shifted from video art to digital imaging. 2-dimensional work. Photography, prints, and digital art.
However, I do want to invest more time in video making. At the heart of this endeavor is having the right mindset for video. Filming. Set design. Editing. Video making is much different from taking photographs. I must remind myself not to think in terms of large production. But rather find inspiration and subject matter in the in-between spaces. Mood. Ambient nature. Form. Simplicity. Lo-tech – high-tech.
The pieces “Water for Meditation” and “On Water” are two perfect examples of ambient nature. They are not very complicated to film and produce, yet fulfill, in this instance, my desire to create an ambient environment for meditation. Transporting the viewer to a moment of relaxation. “On Water” is micro short (26 seconds) in length, while “Water for Meditation” is nearly six minutes long. I prefer long meditative pieces, however I realize that it takes a considerable amount of investment on part of the viewer to “sit” through the minimal motion of a piece of great length. All in all I hope to produce in the future some rather experimental pieces. Incorporating original imagery and music created by me. Work that at this time is a mystery to me.
Below are 2 links to my YouTube channel and the video pieces; “Water For Meditation” (Sunrise Remix) and “On Water”.
Please enjoy. Any feedback is well appreciated. In the future, I hope to post videos more regularly.
Namaste
http://youtu.be/pyYahhz2svM – Water For Mediation (Sunrise Remix)
http://youtu.be/wGXnumdn_Ys – On Water
Images For HD Video: A Day At The Beach (A Tybee Island Remix)
A Tybee Beach remix…
Tybee Island is a small public beach located on the Atlantic Ocean near the Georgia/South Carolina border. It is just a few minutes away from historic Savannah GA.
A day on the beach, with sand and surf in hand.
Images For Android Phones: A Place To Rest With Colors
a morning trek
so patiently caressed
on winding paths
while colors reach out
with subtle invitation
through angled trees
and grass so lean
the intrepid eye
never at rest
seeking things anew
with every test of step
except for here
under the gazebo
with summer’s warm
– embrace
as i wait for you
– knowingly
feeling at peace
feeling transcendent
Images For Android Phones: The Girl In The Summer Blue Dress
The ocean flows in many ways, not unlike the wind swept beach and the girl with the summer blue dress. As the sun fades, and ends the day. She casts her weary dreams out to sea.
Images For Android Phones: Standing With The Fading Sun
A photograph is never the end of a moment in time.
Images For Android Phones: The Last Moment (A Setting Sun Remix)
sitting on the beach
with the cooling sand
caressing my sandaled feet
mind and body
feeling bonded
with this very moment
the last moment
– here
with the setting sun
and you
while my joy
– and clouds
join in blended
transformation
leaving the waves
a fluid surrender
to a day ending
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: Monday Afternoon
There is a classic ambient piece by Brian Eno entitled Thursday Afternoon. An one hour shimmering landscape in the style of Music For Airports. This piece Monday Afternoon was created on Tuesday night while listening to Pandora Radio on my Droid phone. Slowly revisiting the drive into Savannah, GA. And the crossing of this remarkable bridge. Beautiful Sunshine. Warm atmosphere. Cool wind. Simmering heat.
Images For Android Phones: Tybee Island 6.19.12
early morning
a slightly deserted
– beach
the sun has risen
ever so brightly
casting shadows
under umbrellas
Images For Android Phones: Tybee Beach 6.19.12
the sun floats
while the waves
– reflect
summer’s warmth
and beauty
caressing the day
– the sun floats
the waves flow
a sparkly trance
with wind and water
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: The Abandoned House And The Darkness Of My Room
across the street
their memories abandoned
the years in view
slipping away
fading to and fro
weathered by the storms
and dreams
long since gone
Images For Android Phones: The House On The Corner
it was a house
not un-like
the others
decaying
dying
without a word
of remembrance
Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes – Who Are We
n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s 