One of my favorite quotes:
We have two lives – the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
Bernard Malamud
Sketch Club, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, iColorama, VideoShop, 15 minutes
Two Lives
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Category Archives: Video
Tango Heartbeat w/ 2 videos
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Sketch Club (and iColorama & VideoShop)
Video #1
Video #2
What’s this PENCIL thing?
You may have noticed a Pencil theme on this illustroblog, as I have illustroblogged on and on about this remarkable tool. There are some 20 odd posts about the Pencil here at portfoliolongo.com; click here to see them before checking out the following YouTube video that my wife shared with me this morning, prompting this pencilographic post.
PS There’s even a Pencil Gallery on the home page, second gallery down.
Last Saturday’s Art Hop at Aces & Kings Cheesesteak
I was stationed at Aces & Kings Cheesesteak last Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. While I was there, I was playing around demo-ing in Sketch Club on my iPad Pro with my Apple Pencil.
Videodigital Leitmotif with Soundtrack and Video Update
Back to my iconographic roots: Videodigital Leitmotif. Turn your sound on, and say it 10 times.
Videodigital Leitmotif, Videodigital Leitmotif, Videodigital Leitmotif, etc.
Original score for this piece was recorded live on GarageBand for iPad by the Portfoliolongo String Quartet on their west coast tour.
Portfoliolongo String Quartet
Serendipitous Development
One of my oldest and dearest friends found a videoclip of me playing Videodigital Leitmotif with another string quartet while I was touring in Europe. No, actually they made this videoclip using their musical expertise, creativity, sense of humor, and one of their AI accounts. They took the soundtrack of the above video and a recent photo of me and created the most hilarious AI video that I’m in. OK, it’s the only AI video I’m in, I think.
“Beginnings,” A Commissioned Digital Drawing of a Sculpture on the Campus of UC Merced
Several months ago I was commissioned to render a digital drawing of the “Beginnings” sculpture situated prominently on the UC Merced campus. The image was printed on fine paper, matted, framed, and presented as a gift. “Beginnings,” was conceived by noted American sculptor Aris Demetrios, and according to the official website “consists of two gently curving, vertical stainless steel arms, each about 40 feet high, rising from a large circular base.” (Click here for further details)
Use the “Leave a Reply” box below to initiate contact with me if you are interested in purchasing a print of this freehand digital painting on paper, canvas, metal, or wood.
Digital image in Procreate on an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil:
Video display (effects in iColorama):
Something…
… under development. More on this later.
Started in Paper 53, then iColorama, even some PhotoSpeak, then Videoshop.
Thinking about Hannah Arendt
…and what happens in the absence of genuine education, when propaganda and marketing hollow out one’s voice… [prompted by this article shared by a friend]
“The constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.
With such a people, you can do whatever you want.”
—Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher (1906–1975)
Reference photo source: click here.
Crafting a Creative Story … About Me
I mentioned in a blog post last month that I had begun a process, which I said I would elaborate on in detail at some point. Well, I’m not going to elaborate on that just yet, but I will say that one of the goals of the process is for me to be able to have something coherent to say “about me.” I will also say that I’m working with Adam James Butcher, artist and coach. So in the spirit of showing my work, when it comes to this sort of work in progresss, here’s a one minute, thirty-one second video that I did in Videoshop that represents a draft “illustrated about-me statement” that I hope to improve upon. Your feedback, as usual, is welcome. Please feel free to chime in on this or any other post.
A byproduct of this process is my ABOUT page.
Congestion: An Interactive Post
What do you do when you’re sick, your eyes are watery, and your nostrils can’t even collaborate?
You pull out your iPad, open up Paper 53, and get to work!
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Now for the interaction: which of these two moms is more modern? The Vick’s mom or the pill mom? [Use comment form below to reply. The first 25 respondents will win big prizes.]
