Miami Layers: original images

The original images were taken in Miami last December while my lovely bride, Carrie (see #4) and I visited Art Basel & all the related Miami Art Week festivities (OK, maybe not all of them). Some friends were involved with a group of Artists/Designers who were exhibiting at a showroom in the Design district. The images above were taken of an installation piece that consisted of many large sheets of translucent white fabric. The layers were all hung parallel to each other and had large elliptical holes cut in the interior. The holes were cut so that the interior space formed a large egg-shaped void, or room. Inside the "room" was a white platform and people were encouraged to step through the layers to view the piece from inside. On either end of the installation (on the exterior of the piece) were lights that caused the layers of fabric to "glow" on the inside.

Once inside, I whipped out my trusty iPhone 3Gs and proceeded to take lots of pictures, including several sequences of shots for future AutoStitching. Below are a few of the images that resulted from apping these images. Most were put through several applications including (but, not limited to) AutoStitch, Diptic, Iris, Photo fx Ultra, Tiny Planets, Decim8, Juxtaposer, Blender and ReTouch. A couple also had a little ScratchCam action thrown if for good measure, and one had some TwistCam and Segmentix work done.

Miami Layers--> The Resulting Images

The 1st 9 images came out of the initial project, while the last 3 (bottom row) were done recently as a follow-up "revisit" to the work done previously.

All the finished images can be seen on my Portfolio Page right here at Clarkeography.com. You can also see them on my iPhoneArt.com page as well as my Flickr page.

Clarke versus Cline...

After the Great Clint Cline spoofed the Grand Exalted Leader of PIXELS about his "no Big Border" decree (and I, of course, couldn't resist jumping into the fray - see my earlier blog entry on this), Clint came out with an image titled: "Precipice" (image #1). Other than the fact that this is another fine example of Mr. Cline's creativity, what caught my eye was a comment he made about this image on iPhoneArt.com. He made what I thought (at the time) was an outrageous claim that this image was created using the iPhone application Tiny Planets. He, of course, explained exactly how it was done (in Tiny Planets), and I was left with mud on my face.

Not one to sit still for this sort of embarrassment, I immediately set out to create a similar effect using Tiny Planets. Naturally, I had immediate success (due, of course, to Mr. Cline's excellent instructions). My 1st thought was to create an image using this new-found technique. But, what to do? Wouldn't it be rather obvious that this new work would be easily spotted as a "derivative" work? I could simply justify it by following Pablo Picasso's line about "Good Artists copy; Great Artists steal". However, I decided to take the high road and give credit where credit was due. The result was image #2, which I titled: "What Clint Might Do (if only he knew how to do a dotted line arrow)...".

Clint, being Clint, took up the challenge. He came out with image #3, which is officially titled: "Tightrope", but is unofficially titled: "What James Might Do (if only he knew how to shade his cubes)".

When this image was posted on Facebook, my response was that it was a good effort, but it could benefit by having a shark added somewhere. Clint responded that he'd get on it, but had to watch his alma mater (the Air Force Academy) play football first. While he was doing that, I came out with image #4, which I titled: "What James might do if he were trying to do what Clint might do if he was trying to do what James might do".

After the ball game, Clint came out with image #5, entitled: "Surf's Up" (unofficially called: "What Clint might do if he were surfing with James...").

I wasn't quite ready to let this go, so I responded by challenging Mr. Cline to get busy & add some shadows to his images somewhere, somehow. In the mean time, I came out with image #6 called: "What James might have done had he come up with those cute little clip-art guys before Clint did...".

Taking up the "shadow challenge", Clint responded with image #7, which he calls: "Shadowcam at 30 meters...".

Not being one to let anyone have "the last word", I responded with image #8, called "Shadowcam in 3 dimensions...".

I think this will most likely be the end of this little "challenge", but Clint and I both agree that we both had some fun & it was great to be "pushed" a bit by a fellow Artist. I hope you enjoyed the progression of images we created as much as we enjoyed creating them!

If Mondrian had an iPad #2

One never knows where that next "idea" will come from...

My earlier attempt to come up with an image that was mostly "black border" has led me in an unexpected direction.

While coming up with “No Wimpy Border Control Guppies Around These Borders” (see previous post), I used a drawing/painting app called ArtStudio. I had rediscovered this app recently in an attempt to create an arrow using a dotted-line pattern. ArtStudio, along with Decim8 led me to the basic image I needed. I might also point out, that these images are created entirely from iOS generated imagery (no photographic images).

I liked the basic minimal simplicity of where this was going, so as any good Artist would do, I went with it! The result is my "If Mondrian had an iPad" series, of which I present #1, and #2 here.

These images also mark the 100th, and 101st of my images to be published on pixelsatanexhibition, THE premier curated iPhoneography site on the web. A BIG thanks to Knox Bronson for encouraging (and, exhibiting) my new work in this extraordinary new Art Form!