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What is the dream I dream of as I fly past the colorful clouds?
Mike
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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 I do the Camera work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmjVVGraUVw
AJ'S blog:
Most color comes from pictures of cell staining done by Elizabeth Normand in the Mark Zervas lab here at Brown University.
Gracias por las visitas, amables comentarios e invitaciones
Thank you for the visits, kind comments and invitations
Joan Mitchell, City Landscape, 1955, oil on linen, 203.2 x 203.2 cm (Art Institute of Chicago), © estate of Joan Mitchell
The Silent Eye Opens
Dedicated to David Bowie.
May he rest in peace.
I had always dreamed that one day David Bowie would have been a collector of my images. I think he was a big influence on much of the art world in many ways. I know he was so with me.
The Silent Eye Opens. To me is a way of saying to open to what you cannot see in every thing around you. We all miss so much that is right next to us. So grab it and hold it.
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.
Mike
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 I do the Camera work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmjVVGraUVw
AJ'S blog:
Latest edition of my "Civil War Battlefield Montages" series. Netty's Der "Feuervogel" (the firebird) appears in all of them. Click on "Civil War Battlefield Montages" to your right if you want to see more in the series.
I had one funny situation as a kid. I visited my mother's parents at summer. There wasn't much fun in the village but I'd like to point out, my grandfather was very good at playing cards. I was school-aged at the time and I started playing cards, too. Knowing that, my grandfather suggested playing.
It was a nice, warm evening, we sat down at the table, my grandfather shuffled a deck of cards and we started. The game was simple, I understood the rules despite my young age. In the end, we played all night.
I remembered that story for life. Grandfather did not cheat, everything was fair, he won 54 times, I won 8 times.
A new tribute to Saint Michael The Archangel, by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley; created with prayers during the last two days of June 2024. He dedicates this tribute to the USA, which needs protection at this dangerous time of political unrest.
Saint Michael is seen as the Warrior Angel, fighting off Satan in heaven and protecting God's chosen people on earth from evil and enemies. St Michael occupies a special place in the church, appointed its protector; and his Intercession is encouraged to defeat the evil in the world - and for the protection from danger for anyone in their every day life.
Stephen B. Whatley is a Catholic convert, a calling he felt through his spiritual search to survive early tragedy in his life; and his exhibition, "Paintings From Prayer" was staged at London's Westminster Cathedral in 2013.
The British London-based artist gets what he humbly feels a 'Divine Push' to paint tributes of faith, alongside his other work; indeed this is the artist's third tribute to Saint Michael.
A large body of Whatley's work is on public display every day in the City of London, just outside the Tower of London - where his series of 30 paintings commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces, 20 years ago, vibrantly chart the history of The Tower.
As a permanent art exhibit reproduced throughout the walkway leading from Tower Hill Station they form a bright and colourful entrance to the Tower of London.
To see more of the artist's eclectic work and read more of his journey by visiting his website, link below.
San Miguel - Saint Michael The Archangel. 2024
Oil on canvas
40 x 30in/102 x 76cm
8.5x11" handmade collage. (5/30 works created for the 'GIFC' traveling exhibitions in British Columbia, Denmark, and Norway this Summer and Fall.)
In 1972 Soviet Director, Andrei Tarkovsky, made the film of a science fiction novel written by Polish author, Stanislaw Lern. It's about the crew aboard a space station in orbit over the planet Solaris.
The ocean on the planet's surface can really mess with your head! It can detect memories of people in your mind and turn them into completely lifelike holographs. These holographs are so real that they question the reality of their existence. How do you have a relationship with someone like that? The film delves into such questions.
According to Ebert, the 2002 American version [George Clooney/Natasha McElhone] is pretty good. But it will never be the equal of the Soviet masterpiece.
Read about the original 1972 film here at the Internet Movie Database: www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/