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there is a really cool format here, like a composition written for a teacher to conduct i. their classroom and i’ve never encountered this before. intrigued.

radical beard in the forest delicious

movie theater projecting google chrome pages is such a vibe.

this issss a world i wanna live in.

i just. i just gotta get my computer fluency back. i have so much cleaning to do.

sideways mounted TVs used to display a still. i love it. why is it shrink wrapped. i love it.

what the hell. i love old tech manipulation where do i go see this work exhibited.

“Seen in formal aesthetic terms, the abstract videos belong to the tradition of German Absolute Films of the 1920s, which sought to attain a filmic, that is to say, time-determined form of painting - major protagonists of this movement were Walter Ruttmann with his film Lichtspiel Opus I (1921) and Viking Eggeling's Diagonal-Symphonie (1924).”

“A video clip lasting almost ten-minutes is produced, featuring colorful, wildly dickering patterns in squares, which recognize no rules or repeating schemes. The visuals are accompanied by a dark, background noise - an attempt to visualize the computer's unconscious.”

“In their artistic works Arcangel and BEIGE consists formulate a media critique that highlights how mud creative artistic process is now dependent on and die by computer programs and their already determined parameters.”

“The moment the mampulated cartridges placed in the game console the white clouds, which have n he continuously regenerated, advance jerkily across the blue sky. The game undergoes a narrative cleaning process, the dynamic is Short-circuited and reduced to a monochrome background. The work's Minimalist aesthetic reveals clear references to abstract monochrome painting.“ pg 14

interested in learning more about the artist collection Paper Rad mentioned here

“the notation system in music bears precise comparison to the programming and hacking of computer systems.”

wild typeface used here for text. i took some pictures.

argues that master painters as far back as 1430 were using scientific optical devices to capture a likeness - specifically a camera lucida. lovely line across the top of the authors progression in habitual drawing with the camera lucida where we see how the artist becomes more fluidly able to capture a likeness with depth and feeling.

“many artists prefer to work from their own or from someone else’s photographs. and, of course, there is certainty no reason why they should not. it is a question, merely, of what an artist personally needs as a point of departure.”

“reading about the social or historical background of architecture can provide the necessary impetus to enable you to go ahead and see the fabric of historical structure with a much deeper sense of excited commitment. if the period is entirely new to you, this research, of course, is particularly essential.”

“perhaps drawing architecture /is/ an acquired taste”

a lot of collating going on in the way he describes landscape drawing. seem to be coming from some notes that are taken alongside at the time of drawing. interesting !

so wait actually i can stop for notes before drawing.

“i often see a subject i feel compelled to draw immediately, without making notes. this is an old urge of mine, born from fear that i may never again see what i am looking at. this habit of drawing on impulse is so strong that i do not have the slightest hesitation in stopping whatever i may be doing and start to sketch, even if it brings a certain amount of temporary discomfort.”

“i always avoid the intense light of midday, which usually eliminates tone and color, as well as flattens the forms of incidental details.”

morning is most consistently the best light for drawing

just sit down and take in what is going on around you. it is a distraction and futile attempt to first go about trying to find “the best view”. three dimensionality can be received neutrally as well as iconically. it’s maybe a harder practice to receive it neutrally and observe it with as much care

“drawings landscaped is a much more leisurely process of discovery than drawing people, and i go about it in a much more relaxed frame of mind. although i find it stimulating to work on location because one is /living/ as well as /working/, i do tire of the noise and tension of the city.”

drawing on location is living as well as working.

“before you attempt to brave such possible outside interest, get thoroughly used to drawing people. start by simply observing them unnoticed. for example, study people through a window. the victorian english draughtsman Charles Keene used to do this continually; he then found he could see even more by using a large mirror fixed at an angle. in this way, unobserved… London Strand… for the journal “Punch”

“i draw people in a much more stylized manner with the medium of ink than i do with pencil.”

AMAZINGG diagram of a separated image for an ernest hemingway cover.

it can be cheaper for an artist to draw in separated layers to prepare the drawing a for reproduction. then the publisher does not need to use photographic separation means when the printing happens in layered processes