Spain Doors

A couple doors I liked

Barcelona 'Water Columns'

Here's some (processed) photos taken last year in Barcelona.

These are all from the same building which has a section supported by columns resting on concrete pads in a pool of water (with the attendant corrosion and decay)

Skull Altar II

Just finished a new sculpture. It is centered around a cow skull.

Given the base skull it is pretty big 30 in wide x 48 in deep

Here's a detail shot

I call it Skull Altar II because it is reminiscent of Skull Altar an earlier piece of mine, although I will admit that the first piece has more of an "altar" feel.

Brushes

There's been a lot of buzz lately about the Brushes iPhone app. It is used by David Hockney, was used to generate a cover for the New Yorker and has a bunch of interesting images created with it in a Flickr pool e.g., this one.



I certainly think it has potential, but I haven't warmed to it yet (too busy working on a sculpture, which will hopefully be the subject of my next post).

One thing that I found interesting is that it's treatment of brush overlap was more like Photoshop than a painting program. Namely if you cross over a line without lifting your "brush" (finger in this case) it does not increase the intensity of the line at the point of intersection, unlike the painting programs I'm used to (primarily Corel painter).

Example

Brushes

Painter Pro.

This is probably a good way for brushes to work, since as far as I can tell it would otherwise be hard to create an arbitrary area of uniform color, but it did throw me off on my first attempt.

Lincoln Street Green Strip

There was a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Lincoln Street Green Strip (which I wrote about previously) today.

Here's some photos I took of it last week.

In my mind, the noteworthy aspects include that it:

• Is a significant improvement


• Reflects community input


• Came in in budget (apparently)


• Is designed to be low maintenance (mostly volunteer, if I understand correctly).

I think the latter is especially important during the inevitable times of stress on the city's budget (like now).
Here's the artists' description

No detailed masking

Here's something that I wouldn't have thought possible without detailed masking around the "sharpened supports"

Before

After

It was just a Tiffen Filter combo of (from bottom to top)

• Bleach Bypass 5


• Depth of Field: Highlight Blur (with an increased range parameter)


• Color looks: Sunset

PS: Yes, I also think its cool

chain bridge

Near the Chicago Ford plant