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My first Matrix creation. I know it's been done and done well, but I wanted to make one that would be relatively easy to reproduce without rare parts.
Instructions here
On the screen: art by Alex Grey.
Alex Grey (born on Gregorian November 29, 1953 [White Solar Dog] in Columbus, Ohio) is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. His oeuvre spans a variety of forms including performance art, installation art, sculpture, and most significantly, painting.
Grey's paintings can be described as an unusual and contemporary blend of sacred or visionary art and postmodern art; one term used to describe the artist's work is "transpersonal". His work often depicts aspects of the supernatural world overlayed with aspects of the natural world. Some viewers report that elevated or spiritual states are induced while viewing his images, which might be described as the traditional purpose of sacred art. His work has an eclecticism that often integrates auras, human anatomy, religious icons (sometimes reminiscent of thangkas), geometric shapes and tessellations (sometimes reminiscent of mandalas), in natural, industrial, and multicultural situations. The human figures are sometimes shown nude (usually with partially translucent skin), in sexual situations, or in the act of meditation.
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Digital: A digital system is one that uses discrete numbers, especially binary numbers, or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons, for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (an analog system).
The distinction of "digital" versus "analog" can refer to method of input, data storage and transfer, the internal working of an instrument, and the kind of display. The word comes from the same source as the word digit and digitus: the Latin word for finger (counting on the fingers) as these are used for discrete counting.
The word digital is most commonly used in computing and electronics, especially where real-world information is converted to binary numeric form as in digital audio and digital photography. Such data-carrying signals carry either one of two electronic or optical pulses, logic 1 (pulse present) or 0 (pulse absent). The term is often meant by the prefix "e-", as in e-mail and ebook, even though not all electronics systems are digital.
11. 100% Dot Matrix
This title came from Colin E. Johnson (whimshot.com/ ). He said it to me after he saw the painting I did of his photo. It fit because it captures Dot’s gleeful grand slam after grand slam. This woman is such an incredible jammer and skater and everything else a roller derby athlete might need to be. There just needed to be a painting of her.
If you want to see the original photo of Dot, check it out here: www.flickr.com/photos/colinj/3037475237/
I did not alter my shot from Colin’s, which was a perfect shot. Here is the place where I need to talk about the importance of good photographers and how I appreciate what they do. Colin in particular taught me that photography is not just about having a good eye and a good relationship with Photoshop, but it’s also about equipment, dedication, and so many other things…..
All of my roller derby photos turned out shitty. There wasn’t enough light. Everything was blurry and gray. But Colin’s shots—they were bright and crisp. They were daring and on the edge of the action with a lot of close ups and a knack for capturing things that happen right in front of him. Just … good equipment, good eye, aggressive in his pursuit of the shot, and willing to post it digitally for the world to see. Plus, he got out to bouts I never saw. Posted so many photos I gave a week of my life to see them all.
I want to sing the praises of Colin E. Johnson and everyone like him. Anyone who takes photos of things they see everyday, to share the beauty in the world, to give us images from worlds we’ll never travel ourselves, glimpses into other lives, the faces you give to the world, the picture-stories, the images worth more than a thousand words, …. thank you, photographers, for what you do. It is precious. You give this artist a view on the world. I want to paint all your landscapes.
In a way, a lady is a landscape in herself. Here, Dot Matrix is a fast moving thing. Her landscape is shaped by people bumping into each other on roller skates. God how I love painting roller skates. I think that’s the second biggest reason I painted so many roller derby paintings. The first reason was this is where my search for strong women led me. That’s a story I’ll save for another painting.
Painting roller derby required I learn a new medium: acrylic. Water color just wasn’t bright enough to capture the intense movement and vivid plastic environment. Even that orange stripe on the floor is a garish hue—but I did that on purpose. Roller derby should be a little garish. As for technique, I just did the same thing I usually did with watercolor—built up solid background blocks of color, then built up the detail. It sorta worked.
I needed to portray 3 different layers or distances—the close-up Dot with her crisp detail, the track behind her where all the bumping and roller skates are taking place, and then the even blurrier background: the audience, including people sitting on the same floor the skaters are on—so they are all connected on the same field. The trick is for one to appear close-up while another appears middle distance and the last thing appears furthest back. It’s important NOT to confuse the eye with details. The blurriest is a mere suggestion of shapes and motion. Lighting and shadow would normally help in cases as complicated as this, but on a derby track, all lighting is wonky and coming from 10 different places. It’s an interesting effect to try to capture with my paint.
I tried to capture the playfulness of roller derby in this painting. Plus, I like this one of Dot. She did, too. Her parents bought it from me for her birthday gift. I gave them a half off discount (since the painting was of her), and then I sent 30% of the $ to Colin. I don’t think he expected that, but he said he appreciated it. That’s just the way it should work, right? I should’ve given him extra for the title….
18 x 24 acrylic on canvas
Grand Raggidy All Stars: Dot Matrix
from the photo by colin e. johnson (whimshot.com):
This is so cool. The original Matrix, now 20 years old, is my favorite movie ever, and now I am super excited to share the sneak peek that my Pilat painting of my Apollo 15 umbilical cable that flew to the moon — providing a data link to the Lunar Module from the mother ship — will be among the symbolically-perfect home décor for Neo in the Matrix 4.
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are in town for filming that starts Feb 9 in the San Francisco financial district, SoMa and Chinatown. It goes by the code name “Project Ice Cream”. The action scenes will mostly be filmed at night and over the weekend with “low-flying helicopters, pyrotechnics, drone cameras, crash stunts and simulated gunfire” as they describe on the fliers sent to the local businesses here. Shipping containers of film equipment are also in place in the Alameda (as they were for Matrix 2) and an FX studio is running in the basement of a certain iconic SF hotel.
So excited to see what the Wachowski sisters — née brothers — will simulate this time around. And I hope my Pilat makes the final cut!
Details on the Apollo 15 umbilical cable: In 1971, on the way to the moon, it was routed through the docking tunnel to connect the two spacecraft; it was used to provide power to the Lunar Module from the docked Service Module fuel cells until separation for the lunar landing, and it functioned as a command link for the LM/SLA sequence controller (required for LM extraction from the Saturn V stack).
Here is a flickr post I made on the artifact and Pilat's painting of it. And her site: www.agnieszkapilat.com
ALS363A, a 7x5 matrix with an odd extra dot. Manufactured in 1985, not exactly the brightness king and the viewing angles are poor but it's very retro-cool.
The modules, each consisting of two matrices and a microcontroller, are daisychained with SPI. The right-most shifts the text to the others. The rightmost socket is also a programming socket.
Fun shot with my brother. I was actually testing my flash, what i did, but than my brother said make it the matrix! So here it is :-)