Electronic Collage
That title should be pronounced in your best approximation of the vocoder voice, such as was used by 80s greats Zapp on such hits as Computer Love. Why doesn’t anybody make music like that anymore?
Anyways, here is my electronic art, baby:
Just like the Zapp song was being played on Vinyl, this is not entirely digital. In fact, it is built from 4 different sheets of scanned scraps of paintings.
I explain more and embed Computer Love after the jump. You know you want to embed computer love.
The reason I built this was because in 2006 I didn’t have a camera with high enough resolution to blow up any photos of my paintings to poster sized. But I wanted to make a poster because it sounded fun. I decided to get around the resolution issues by taking smaller res images and just layering them atop one another until I had an image the appropriate size.
This is made of over 60 layers of full sized 8 x 12 scans of individual scraps, each modified in photoshop. I got my poster- it hung in my office a few months and now I’ll probably use it in a collage. If I can find the damn thing.
I may do more of these. They are easier to store than actual paintings. But my to do list is longer than my have done list will ever be, so don’t count on it.
Anyways, here’s computer love.
I love the sax and vibraphone solos. I need to work some of those into my art. Soon we’ll be able to replace America’s highways with my to do list.
-JD
October 27, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I get the impression some people would dig a county map of Texas done by you. Just matching a designer with a market. It is an interesting outline, regardless of what overall cultural impressions leave. You know they actually have a “wine country” there, and olive groves around Wimberly?
October 27, 2009 at 7:34 pm
That’s actually an interesting idea. But when i do it I’ll claim to have had the idea one minute before you did…
October 28, 2009 at 11:06 am
I take it you can’t be nudged in a direction someone else sees you naturally predisposed towards. A lot of Californians I’ve heard move to Central Texas after they’ve degraded their drinking water around Silicon Valley. Austin in particular seems to be a place where they congregate…bringing higher rents with them. You ought to at least exhibiting some work there. Now, I’m not saying pander to their sentimentality over border outlines, but you’re halfway there independently.