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.

Gwen Stefani - Sexy

Gwen Stefani goes from sad to happy in this morphed sequence. You can also see it on YouTube.

Gwen Stefani - A Range of Emotions

Peter Gabriel - Digital watercolor and stylus

For 2008 I’m adding video clips. Peter Garbriel ages 20 years in this morphed sequence. You can also see it on YouTube. (The one below is higher quality.)

Peter Gabriel - Yesterday and Today

Anjelica Huston - Digital watercolor and stylus

Kryptonite Gas - Jul 14, 2002

Found on a write-able CD archive disc, I can’t remember why I called it that. Corel Painter.

Supposed Organic Life on Mars - False Color

My online buddy Mac Tonnies and I have been blogging since before they called it that. I have long since re-engineered my site to run Wordpress, and "broke the link" to these old images, but the Internet never forgets and the relentless programmatic "spiders" that cataloge the Web for "relevance" came looking for them.

A long time ago, in Internet time, Arthur C. Clarke made an offhand email remark about "tree-like" objects on Mars, which appeared to have no geological explanation. He might have known better, because once they’re on the network your words can be cross-referenced endlessly. At that time I thought, "Wouldn’t it be fun to show what organic life on Mars might look like?" (Keep in mind that these Mars things are really, really huge, and that this image was "colorized" by nothing but my imagination.)

Lowell Maps the Canals of Mars

Here we see astronomer Percival Lowell, as he meticulously documents the so-called canals on Mars. If you go in for high-tech, scientific "what-if" speculation, Mac Tonnies over at Posthuman Blues offers up the best around. But I am warning you, Mac, that anything you say (or imagine) could come back to haunt you.

Sampling Space

This explodes a digital painting technique developed here earlier this year. Energetics and Cellular explored atomic-size energy concepts. Here we zoom way out to energy on a cosmic scale.

Detail

Did you know there’s a gaping hole in space?

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Brian Eno - A photo never taken

Although we’re not exactly sure what Shakespeare looked like or whether or not Da Vinci actually painted his own self-portrait, there is no historical anonymity for contemporary artists who live under the watchful gaze of the photographic eye. In fact, the same might be said about anybody who has a photo ID. It’s hopelessly likely that someone who takes an interest in you at some future date will have a good idea of what you looked like.

Enter a name, and you’ll turn up any number of photos of famous people. But, if you were searching for Brian Eno, you couldn’t have turned up this one, until today. That’s because it isn’t an actual photograph. Isn’t it interesting how human beings have the same demeanor, even over a span of decades? The photographs that seeded this image are years apart, but the "ghost" inside still shows through.

Eno - Before and after morphing

If you’re interested in Eno, San Francisco’s Laughing Squid, Scott Beale, has a great clip of Eno talking about his 77 million paintings.

Thunder and Lightning Both Arrive

Thunder and Lightning Biting Through