Unleash Your Power Now Fly
Unleash your power Now fly the dreams within you.
I would like to offer you some peace, joy and energy for your day. Be for you read any more, I welcome you to step back from the computer screen and jump up and down two times then stretch your arms out and back two times. Now take a few deep breaths let them out slowly and read on. Do you feel a bit more awake and some energy flowing. Well, I find it helps me. Now that you have some new energy, I have this individual art experience, just for your enjoyment. My art can be a mini meditation session, even if you have only a quick glance at any given image. You can have a space to rethink your feelings and allow the colors to brighten your mood. My art images can change your day or even enlighten your moment. Some can take you on a new journey, to a place unknown before. We all have lives and things that can take us down and run us over. We all need a way that helps us escape. That is not just a drug but real mind opening energy. Colors and light can add energy to revive and awaken you and add a jump to your step. We need moments of joy to open us to more from our day. Some place to escape from the real life we all have. My art can give you a moment or even minutes of joy, if you really look into the art. Let your self travel, in to the story that you can create from my art. This will be your own secret experience. You never have to share it with any one. Or if you like you can tell every one. Now you have the opportunity, to add my art in your life. If you have a wall, you have a new home for my art to be your personal mini meditation session each day.
Mike
Father and son collaboration
Our photographic art is a kinetic motion study, from the results of interacting with my son A.J and his toys.
He was born severely handicapped much like a quadriplegic. On December 17,1998. Our family’s goal has always been to help A.J. use his mind, even though he has minimal use of his body.
A.J. likes to watch lights and movement. One of the few things he can do for himself is to operate a switch that sets in motion lights and various shiny, colorful streamers and toys that swirl above his bed.
One day I took a picture of A.J. with his toys flying out from the big mobile near his bed like swings on a carnival ride. I liked the way the swirling objects and colors looked in the photo.
I wanted to study the motion more and photograph the whirling objects in an artful way, I wanted my son A.J. to be a part of it. After all, he’s the one who inspires me. When A.J. and I work together on our motion artwork, A.J. starts his streamers and objects twirling, I take the photographs.
Activating a tiny switch might not seem like much to some, but it’s all A.J. can do. He controls the direction the mobile will spin, as well as when it starts and stops. The shutter speeds are long, and sometimes, I move the camera and other times I hold it still.
I begin our creation with a Nikon digital camera. Then I use my computer with Photoshop to alter the images into what I feel might be an artistic way. Working with Photoshop, I find the best parts from several images and combine them into the final composite photograph. I consider the finished work to be fine art. The computer is just the vehicle that helps my expressions grow.
I take the photographs and A.J. adds the magic. It’s something this father and son do together. After I’ve taken a few shots, I show him the photos in the back of the camera. When the images are completed, I show him from a laptop. He just looks. He can’t tell me whether or not he likes the images, but he’s always ready to work with me again.
It offers me my only glance into A.J.’s secret world. We’ve built a large collection of images and I hope the motion and color move you as much as they do me.
A.J. inspires me to work harder to understand my life in the areas of art, photography, people, spirituality, and so much more. He truly sets my mind in motion and helps me find the beauty in everyday things.
Abstract Art set:
www.flickr.com/photos/patnode-rainbowman/sets/72157602269...
AJ Patnode - A Journey of Hope (documentary):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7m8QFcmRM
This shows how we do the Camera work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmjVVGraUVw
AJ'S blog:
Unleash Your Power Now Fly
Unleash your power Now fly the dreams within you.
I would like to offer you some peace, joy and energy for your day. Be for you read any more, I welcome you to step back from the computer screen and jump up and down two times then stretch your arms out and back two times. Now take a few deep breaths let them out slowly and read on. Do you feel a bit more awake and some energy flowing. Well, I find it helps me. Now that you have some new energy, I have this individual art experience, just for your enjoyment. My art can be a mini meditation session, even if you have only a quick glance at any given image. You can have a space to rethink your feelings and allow the colors to brighten your mood. My art images can change your day or even enlighten your moment. Some can take you on a new journey, to a place unknown before. We all have lives and things that can take us down and run us over. We all need a way that helps us escape. That is not just a drug but real mind opening energy. Colors and light can add energy to revive and awaken you and add a jump to your step. We need moments of joy to open us to more from our day. Some place to escape from the real life we all have. My art can give you a moment or even minutes of joy, if you really look into the art. Let your self travel, in to the story that you can create from my art. This will be your own secret experience. You never have to share it with any one. Or if you like you can tell every one. Now you have the opportunity, to add my art in your life. If you have a wall, you have a new home for my art to be your personal mini meditation session each day.
Mike
Father and son collaboration
Our photographic art is a kinetic motion study, from the results of interacting with my son A.J and his toys.
He was born severely handicapped much like a quadriplegic. On December 17,1998. Our family’s goal has always been to help A.J. use his mind, even though he has minimal use of his body.
A.J. likes to watch lights and movement. One of the few things he can do for himself is to operate a switch that sets in motion lights and various shiny, colorful streamers and toys that swirl above his bed.
One day I took a picture of A.J. with his toys flying out from the big mobile near his bed like swings on a carnival ride. I liked the way the swirling objects and colors looked in the photo.
I wanted to study the motion more and photograph the whirling objects in an artful way, I wanted my son A.J. to be a part of it. After all, he’s the one who inspires me. When A.J. and I work together on our motion artwork, A.J. starts his streamers and objects twirling, I take the photographs.
Activating a tiny switch might not seem like much to some, but it’s all A.J. can do. He controls the direction the mobile will spin, as well as when it starts and stops. The shutter speeds are long, and sometimes, I move the camera and other times I hold it still.
I begin our creation with a Nikon digital camera. Then I use my computer with Photoshop to alter the images into what I feel might be an artistic way. Working with Photoshop, I find the best parts from several images and combine them into the final composite photograph. I consider the finished work to be fine art. The computer is just the vehicle that helps my expressions grow.
I take the photographs and A.J. adds the magic. It’s something this father and son do together. After I’ve taken a few shots, I show him the photos in the back of the camera. When the images are completed, I show him from a laptop. He just looks. He can’t tell me whether or not he likes the images, but he’s always ready to work with me again.
It offers me my only glance into A.J.’s secret world. We’ve built a large collection of images and I hope the motion and color move you as much as they do me.
A.J. inspires me to work harder to understand my life in the areas of art, photography, people, spirituality, and so much more. He truly sets my mind in motion and helps me find the beauty in everyday things.
Abstract Art set:
www.flickr.com/photos/patnode-rainbowman/sets/72157602269...
AJ Patnode - A Journey of Hope (documentary):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7m8QFcmRM
This shows how we do the Camera work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmjVVGraUVw
AJ'S blog: