Zazzy

I called this one jazzy because it reminded me of Matisse. It started out as a live sketch, that really celebrated the female figure, without being too overtly sexual.

Sketch - Los Gatos, 11-Feb-08

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In this video Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek combine to create a new person. Start with two familiar faces and create someone vaguely familiar, who exists only in imagination.

»Now Playing on YouTube Cruz, Hayek : A Photo Never Taken

The La Gata video exposes the software foundation behind a digital media portrait that seems like someone you know.

The term “la Gata” is a tribute to these two Latina superstars. It’s a slang term that, loosely, means “female cat.” The proper Spanish word for cat is the masculine, “el Gato.”

The Making of La Gata

The La Gata painting and video were digitally produced using a variety popular software applicaitions running on ordinary computers.

Cydonut Matrix Animation

I created the Cydonut Matrix in the Spring of 2000. It was my first all-digital painting. I ended up making 100 different versions of the picture in this animation, to populate a photomosaic of about 1600 elements.

What I liked about the painting was that it drew upon the scientific notion of self-similarity on various scales of magnitude. Both the image and the individual picture elements were the same thing. So, it was scalable. That is probably why I made two prints, one Zoomed In and one Zoomed Out.

Living Space

I think artwork should be lived and worked with, as opposed to something seen in a museum or lobby some place. Here’s the Zoomed Out painting wedged into a recreation space.

Work Space

Over here the Zoomed In painting resides with some office and networking stuff. People ask, "Are your walls really yellow?" Yeah. Just those two.

Neo Violet

Flash as a drawing tool.

Northern California Violet

The Philip K. Dick portraits incorporate the phenomenon of light. If you look at the animation long enough you should see interesting retinal effects. The Flash wave effect is called a moiré pattern.

Memes - based on a photo never taken

Philip K. Dick was a science fiction writer, best known today as the inspiration behind movies like "Blade Runner", "Minority Report", "Paycheck" and "A Scanner Darkly". These images date back to Spring of 2004 and are posted here for the first time.

Update: The animation was newly coded. Version 2.1 is scaled down to a smaller size because the version first posted here was consuming too much bandwidth.