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"Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility."
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
A rainy day with Photoshop instead of camera. For my album "Creativity, Close-up and Macro". Take a look !
Re-Edited.
Around 2007 I thought that a small camera for my pocket was enough ... Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3, Canon PowerShot SX200 IS and Canon PowerShot SX210 IS until I bought another EOS1000D.
And yes, the trees in Germany sometimes have a number. It may be due to the fact that everything that is not regulated by law is prohibited in Germany. So, in principle.
Another aspect is that only about 25% of the employees are still working in real life and the rest are managing something and making meetings ... ;)
Sometimes the graffiti is really creative and intelligent, but mostly just stupid and unimaginative. Suppose Baselitz, Richter or Beus just write his name on a blank piece of paper ... senseless!
A rainy day with Photoshop instead of camera. For my album "Creativity, Close-up and Macro". Take a look !
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath
I had created the Wombo images a while ago but never used them. This is a combo of 2 of those, plus smaller elements masked in from 3 others. The framed picture on the wall (left) and on the easel are 2 other Wombo creations. The blending, masking, cloning were all done in Pixelmator Pro as well as the torn corner on the wall picture. Light and color were enhanced with PicLight.
Prompts: abandoned art studio
Style: Not sure, but most likely VFX
I can relate to this scene. I have a couple of unfinished paintings leaning against the wall in my hobby room. I blame it on this darned computer!
All who enjoy using this app are invited to join and post your creations in my new group, Wombo World.
www.flickr.com/groups/wombo_art/
If you enjoy using Wombo as a part of other creations, check out Wombo Art Blends.
"For however else you and I differ from each other and from the great creative people of history, we share that we are broken, messy people, dogged by fears and traumas, buoyed now and then by hopes and joys. And when we accomplish any great and beautiful thing—at whatever scale we make it—it is not made because we lack fear or possess remarkable genes; it is because in all our human weakness, and from the middle of stories fraught with complications, we do the work and pour ourselves into it."
The Problem With Muses;
Notes on Everyday Creativity
David duChemin, July 2020
Chapter One
Doing the work...
digitale malerei…anschliessend hinterlegt mit foto einer malerei, welche ich mit mobilphone und effektapp fotografiert habe.
Well this shot of a circular looking park or area (not sure how to really describe this) is a bit of an experiment with some new post-processing styles I am currently trying out, and quite different from the usual styles that I am used to.
Not sure how the response would be, but do let me know if anything looks out of place or unnatural. Note the small kid on a tricycle in the shot.
[2020/04/17 20:49] Luka Benton: well you definitely express your creativity visually :D
[2020/04/17 20:49] Winter Jefferson: you mean by taking moodily lit photos wearing nothing but lipstick and jeans.
[2020/04/17 20:49] Winter Jefferson: lolollll
[2020/04/17 20:50] Luka Benton: ROFL false modesty
[2020/04/17 20:50] Winter Jefferson: okay fine, lipstick jeans and the odd nipple piercing.
This is creativity at it's "finest" for my magic friend Luka Benton. THERE YOU GO BABYCAKES.
And also for that ex who says I look like Jeffree Star.
When I see the variety of colors and shapes that nature endows this faded part of a magnolia with, I am simply fascinated!
"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
Roald Dahl
Emil Ferris is one of those humans who you can just sense their utter brilliance. I literally think it's an amazing gift to share the same respiratory space with such an amazing human. I was thrilled to be able to speak to Emil after the Q and A following The Music Box Theater's documentary of Art Spiegelman entitled Disaster is My Muse (This should be available on PBS in the upcoming months according to the director)
I was telling Emil Ferris about this nonfiction book I was reading called Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck, who speaks about how a creativity cycle can disrupt an anxiety cycle. I think many of us artists in this current political climate are feeling increasingly restless and hopeless. Channeling that into art is a good idea at this time.
In any case, this is a great film and Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Book 1 and 2) is absolutely phenomenal. Highly recommended!
In these current times, the monsters are humans who have been given absolute power to enforce their wills and desires on all. Every day is a new horror and destruction of human rights. Some will try to counter this by praying ceaselessly. Others, like myself, will continue to maximize their time on Earth by doing art every spare moment. It is perhaps the only way to cope with the madness of reality and maybe enough of us could create a new world out of the embers left.
More about Emil Ferris: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Ferris
If you haven't read My Favorite Thing is Monsters, you haven't led a complete life. Here's a link for more info: www.fantagraphics.com/products/my-favorite-thing-is-monst...
More about Disaster is My Muse: www.imdb.com/title/tt32276169/
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When I get a slump and feel a need to pump up, all I do is take the walk in nature. It does not take long and frames begin to appear on things near and far. After an hour walk I am pumped and full of ideas, the memory card is pumped and full too lol.
On the mornings when I wake feeling inspired, and can pour some of that into a picture it wakes my brain more effectively than the strongest coffee.
This is a wonderful combination of the M.A.B.E.L.-6 Cybernetic Head and Mechanical Owl Pet from LOGO, with the Cyberdoll body joints from Salt & Pepper. The 'rust' skin on the rest of the body is from Fallen Gods, The hairbase from Mina and the Bulb attachments from CABALPIER. The decor items are from Dirty Rat.
Let SL spark your creativity whenever you can!
Recently the field of theoretical cosmology has been enervated by the suggestion that our universe is the mirror image of another one stretching back in time before the Big Bang (see, for example, www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/icpti-symmetric-uni... ).
Intrigued, I set out to test whether this was observable in practice. After a quick calculation on the back of an old envelope (cigarette packets now being not Politically Correct) I worked out that conditions would be favourable for an experiment in the period around the vernal equinox for my latitude (51N). At this time the angles of the Earth’s gravitational field, the neutrino flux from the sun and a local EM field could be arranged to the optimum.
So, setting a sufficiently powerful Tesla coil in a glass envelope with an inert gas (I used Nitrogen), I tried it out.
And it worked!
Sometimes I could actually see the dim reflection of the alternate universe appear in the glass capsule, but perhaps the best result was this one where I managed to create a wormhole bridging the paired universes.
If you look carefully at the image though you might observe that the energetic feedback created by the wormhole burnt out my coil… such are the sacrifices of science…
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Storytelling idiocy aside, this image was one of the fun results of an evening spent with a local friendly group of photographers taking images of lightbulbs on tablets (and other things but I didn’t get that far :( ).
I used a clear glass bulb on my iPaddle which I set up to show some very colourful graphic images that I had generated using Midjourney (I finally found something useful to do with that toybox… The text prompt for this one, if you are interested, was ‘Close - up macro HDR photograph of the centre of mirrored 3D circle sculptures, overlapping rainbow circular fractal, vivid rainbow colours, graphic abstract’).
The bulb was lying on its side at an angle resting on the bayonet fitting so I made the canvas larger and rotated it. Starting in Capture One I dropped the greys to black using a levels adjustment and played with the Clarity and a little Dehaze. In Affinity I sharpened it with High Pass/Linear blend and a bit of Unsharp mask and enriched the colour. Then quite a lot of work with inpainting to remove the vestiges of the iPad and a lot of dust.
PS I forgot to mention that this was a focus stack of ten images, though I suspect only four or five contributed anything useful. The camera did the focusing and I used Helicon Focus for the stacking, which I've not really done before (it was fast, worked with raws and produced a dng output).
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Easter and 100x :)