the ART COLONY

[ila]

Originally Posted by sesame

What do you think of the Old ladies sewing
sweaters with "Punks not dead" and
"Thug for life" stitched on them?

Its very intriguing!

I think it's very funny and an interesting commentary on life and stereotypes. Society tends to think of old women as the grandmotherly type who adore little children, go to church regularly, and wouldn't say shit if their mouth was full of it. It reminds me of an old Monty Python skit in which members of the cast played old ladies that went around beating up young people.

Originally Posted by ila

I think it's very funny and an interesting commentary on life and stereotypes. Society tends to think of old women as the grandmotherly type who adore little children, go to church regularly, and wouldn't say shit if their mouth was full of it. It reminds me of an old Monty Python skit in which members of the cast played old ladies that went around beating up young people.

the granny of the katherin tate show is a favorit of mine, heres a link for anyone who's unfamiliar with it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo62P...eature=related

[sesame]

A rough sketch done with my graphic tablet. Its not a Wacom though. My pen tablet is iball. I never got enough time to finish this picture. Its supposed to be a nymph floating over the sea!

I was taking my chances with traditional Chinese style.

[ila]

Originally Posted by sesame

A rough sketch done with my graphic tablet. Its not a Wacom though. My pen tablet is iball. I never got enough time to finish this picture. Its supposed to be a nymph floating over the sea!

I was taking my chances with traditional Chinese style.

Very nice sesame. Your nypmh seems to have a very irritated look on her face though. I think that may be part of the Chinese style as I have seen similar figures with the same irritated/frowning expression. Perhaps your figure is showing her displeasure with the world? Also you have some printing in your picture (at least it looks like a word), but I couldn't read it even when I enlarged the picture. Your sea looks like there is land in it. At first glance it looked a bit like India and when I enlarged your picture it looked like Burma (Myanmar). Was this intentional or just the way your picture turned out?

[sesame]

Its only a rough sketch, Ila. I didnt work on her face at all; I only tried to bring out the Chinese style in the sketch. The thing you are mistaking to be the sea is part of her flowing cloth driven by the gale. Its not a landmass or map. I havent drawn the sea below her yet. I guess its my laziness

Thank you for your kind comments.

[sesame]

Originally Posted by ila

Also you have some printing in your picture (at least it looks like a word), but I couldn't read it even when I enlarged the picture.

Its my nickname, sort of ! It sounds like my real name, though.

[jimnaseum]

I like the blue colors, would go great in my livingroom.

[sesame]

What a great idea, Jim!
Ok, its settled then, I will complete the painting, Pronto!
(all my slack and laziness suddenly evaporated!)
pack it and send it to you, only for $ 1000! Courier extra :D

Hey, you dont have to hide,
my friend, I was only joking!

[jimnaseum]

I got a bulletin for you, a grand ain't that much anymore. You should price frames.
You could sell one a week and after taxes, ......
If you own a house worth $500,000. you really should have at least one really nice painting.
If you rent an apartment for $200/mo, you should have a fridge full of beer.

You have a good eye, sesame, the best artists are depraved, you know...

[sesame]

Originally Posted by jimnasium

You have a good eye, sesame, the best artists are depraved, you know...

And that automatically brings us to Van Gogh. The Master painter who couldnt (just a few actually) sell a single painting in his lifetime. And now after (2nd Aug 2008 - 29th July 1890) xxx years and yy months after his passing, his art is worth billions! How many years is it? I'm too lazy!!

He, after a failed love affair, lived with a prostitute and acted as a surrogate father to her boy! A Tragic hero! He finished one painting a day in his last 200days! Imagine! One masterpiece every 24 hours! What a creative genius he must have been! A penniless champion! If his art didnt sell, why then, did he paint? Just for the love of art! Because it was his life, his breath, his essence! Salute to Van Gogh.

Vincent painted the auvers_town_hall_on_14_july_1890 (image at the right) only 15 days before his death!

[jimnaseum]

I drove through Arles, and the light there really does make everything look like a Van Gogh painting.
When he died, Van Gogh's Mom threw away hundreds of his artworks.

[sesame]

I dont know about Vincent's mom!
But Jim, I have a brilliant idea!
Lets get hold of a time machine
and travel back to his home at 1890.
We will pick up the paintings as she
throws them away! Believe me,
when we come back, we would be Trillionaires!

[jimnaseum]

I'd settle for going back to when I was 16. If I had 20 bucks in my pocket, I was King for the whole weekend.

[sesame]

Just created it in Photoshop.
Just been honing my skills...
Thought, why not post it here...

[ila]

Originally Posted by sesame

Just created it in Photoshop.
Just been honing my skills...
Thought, why not post it here...

My first thought was that it's an underwater scene.

[sesame]

:D
Ila, its not a Sea Dragon!
Just an imaginary green shade full of weeds!
maybe a few dewdrops!

[ila]

Originally Posted by sesame

:D
Ila, its not a Sea Dragon!
Just an imaginary green shade full of weeds!
maybe a few dewdrops!

I wasn't thinking of a sea dragon. I was thinking of a carpet of seaweed on the ocean floor with a stylized seahorse or snail in the foreground.

[SSL]

Originally Posted by sesame

Just created it in Photoshop.
Just been honing my skills...
Thought, why not post it here...

Oh, lovely.. Was it influenced by the Green Fairy?

[sesame]

Originally Posted by Shemale Sex Lover

Oh, lovely.. Was it influenced by the Green Fairy?

Who is this Green Fairy, is she a sister of the famous Tooth Fairy?

[SSL]

Originally Posted by sesame

Who is this Green Fairy, is she a sister of the famous Tooth Fairy?

Not at all. It's misuse of absinthe that will eventually lead one to an appointment with Green Fairy

[sesame]

Just completed this. Gee, its abstract.
I have named it "Feminine stones".
I played around with it for 3 hours.
Now the ball rolls in your court.
Enjoy.


Seriously, there is great aesthetic beauty hidden in feminine form.
The curves are enough to soothe the mind.

[sesame]

Originally Posted by Shemale Sex Lover

Not at all. It's misuse of absinthe that will eventually lead one to an appointment with Green Fairy

Well said. But that belongs to GRH's department. She is the one who can tell us the truth about the Green fairy. Really, when someone drinks a lot of absinthe, does everything appear green or yellow? Why is the color change?

[sesame]

This photoshopped image is from the internet.
This Giraffe is desperately trying to save it's progeny!!

[sesame]

Female erotic fantasies with octopuses!
To what extent can the human imagination go?
The Octupus and female condoms! (image 1)
The dream of the fisherman's wife ~ image 2 (Japanese art.)
Erotic or not, they are very artistic.

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

Oh dream of the fishermans wife is so cool. Oldest recorded tentacle porn!

[sesame]

SS-Anna, your new avatar is cool! :D

[noshy]

I love the streetart stuff

[sesame]

More Graffiti around the block, near your home...

[sesame]

Superman, batman, spiderman, wonderwoman... ...
Somehow I like superman more.

[sesame]

Einstein giving the clarion call to promote free software!
Kidding! There were no computers or software at the time of Einstein.
But then I always say thumbs up for open source software.
Its a service to the spirit of mankind and philosophy of free thought.

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

ummm, of course there were computers in the time of Einstein, and you don't get real computers without software. Einstein lived at the same time as Alan Turing, who pretty much invented the modern definition of a computer, and built the amazing Colossus machines, the first electronic, digital, programmable computers. Of course, there was no free software, as all the Colossus machines and thier software were UK military secrets and the workings of the Harvard-IBM mark 1 was a military secret of the US navy. However, Einstein lived till 1955, so he would have been around to see he first commercial computers around 1951, however costing hundreds of thousands and only used by large busineses, there wouldn't have been any free software, so Einstein and computers in the modern sense shared the planet for about 11 years. As a socialist, I'm sure Einstein would have strongly approved of free software though.

[sesame]

J. H. Felker and J. R. Harris created TRADIC, the first transistor driven computer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1955. No vacuum tubes, just 800 transistors, Not hot, but cold & highly efficient;
Power requirement = 100 watts

But even so, dear sister Anna, it was only a giant 3 cubic feet calculator!

I guessed beforehand that someone will fill the information hole and most probably ...

[sesame]

GRH, Jimnaseum, hanky, Bionca... have you all gone into hiding or have you attained RIP status?

Post your Rant here! Grrrrrah!

'Nyway, found this interesting album cover.

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

Originally Posted by sesame

J. H. Felker and J. R. Harris created TRADIC, the first transistor driven computer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1955. No vacuum tubes, just 800 transistors, Not hot, but cold & highly efficient;
Power requirement = 100 watts

But even so, dear sister Anna, it was only a giant 3 cubic feet calculator!

I guessed beforehand that someone will fill the information hole and most probably ...

Transistors have no difference in function to valves, only in size, speed and heat efficiency.

Anyway, what do you think a computer is? All a computer actually does is perform a series of mathematical operations. The only difference is the scale.

Colossus could still decode German transmissions, I'd like to see you do that on your pocket calculator.

[sesame]

Arithmetic and Logic, Anna.
And computers in those days and many years to come had very limited capabilities. Forget the complex dataprocessing and analyses and image processing and rendering and sound processing and simulation and interactivity & whatever you see nowadays.

[jimnaseum]

Two self portraits

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

Originally Posted by sesame

Arithmetic and Logic, Anna.
And computers in those days and many years to come had very limited capabilities. Forget the complex dataprocessing and analyses and image processing and rendering and sound processing and simulation and interactivity & whatever you see nowadays.

Just remember, they landed on the moon with a 2mhz precessor and ~4k of RAM, you done anything more complex than that on your computer recently?

Colossus when scaled against a modern computer would have a clock speed of 5.8mhz and memory limited only by the amount of tape available.

Colossus was Turing complete. This means that it can perform the functions of a Turing machine, except not to an infinite degree. This means it can perform any algorithm given enough time and memory. In essence all Turing complete machines are non-infinite versions of a Turing machine, they simply differ in scale and speed. There is no operation that one cannot perform that another can given enough storage. Essentially if you had enough tape, good enough programming skill and a very long life span, you could apply the same image manipulations with colossus as you do with photoshop on your laptop. of course your image would be displayed as a very long binary number on a very long piece of paper. You would also have a very long beard.

But the point is, colossus is as valid a computer as your desktop, and capable of some incredibly sophisticated calculations.

[sesame]

Originally Posted by SS-Anna the battleship

There is no operation that one cannot perform that another can given enough storage. Essentially if you had enough tape, good enough programming skill and a very long life span, you could apply the same image manipulations with colossus as you do with photoshop on your laptop. of course your image would be displayed as a very long binary number on a very long piece of paper. You would also have a very long beard.

Your logic leads us to believe that those first transister computers could do all the things contemporary multi-core machines (mine is intel core2 duo) or more advanced ones can do, only much slower. Buts thats such an absurd generalization! Even you are laughing at this joke (behind your keyboard now... I can almost see it!). Things get better, its called progress, improvement, technical development. Those old machines could never render a 3d scene we do now. Or could they possibly interpret a CAT scan or simulate the flight of an unmanned aircraft? Or could they be of any use in a particle accelerator like a cyclotron? (perhaps they can be used to regulate the temperature in a coffee percolator!)

Regarding software of choice:
why dont we all stick to the assembly language and stop using all these user-friendly softwares? Lets replace Java or .Net with good old Assembly language and return to a technical stone age again. I still have my Qbasic stashed out somewhere.

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

Who said anything about transistors, I was talking about these fucking beauties: (pic 1)

This is what the inside of a 1940's computer looked like: (pic 2)

The definition of a computer starts with colossus, it was Turing complete, it was programmable, it could solve any equation that would fit within it's memory. There is no other point more significant which you could define as being hte first computer, it is genesis. There is no definition of computer that it does not meet, just because you can't play quake on it, doesn't change that. Get with the program, you cannot out nerd me, You pocket calculator by the way is less powerful than the Difference Engine... it's only asset is size.

Go read about Turing Machines, and you will see that both collosus and your PC and just pittiful attempts at approximating such a device. in the grand scale of it, they are the same, on a scale to infinity, one and one million are barely distinguishable.

[sesame]

Look what I found! Hidden artwork inside the microchips almost at the molecular level, measuring only a few microns! (1 micron = one millionth of a metre)

1) The Thor image was found inside a Hewlett-Packard graphics chip.

2) The sword or excalibre only 300 microns long, was hidden in a Macintosh G3 motorola(powerpc 750) chip.

3) The Herd of Buffaloes were imprinted inside the chip by HP engineer Dick Vlach. It was discovered in a Hewlett-Packard 64-bit combinatorial divider Focus II Math chip.

4) The tiny Gnome or Smurf pulling a cart was spotted in a Siemens IC M879-A3. The smurf idea was first created by the Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford, also known as Peyo (June 25, 1928 – December 24, 1992), back in the 1970s. This particular IC artwork is only 60 microns long!

5) This Playboy icon was hiding inside a German Siemens chip. I wonder what it was doing inside?

[sesame]

This kind of art is also called Silicon Art or Chip Graffiti... its similar to the software easter eggs , only its not software, but integrated inside the IC by photo-lithography! The engineers who designed those, must also be artists with a huge sense of humour. They must have known all along that very few people are going to peep inside a microchip and find their artwork.

6) A camel in a Sequent motherboard!.

7) The Christmas Tree bearing the spirit of happiness was resting peacefully inside a Micronas MSP3450G chip.

8) This beautiful Land-Shark, was dreaming about Candy grams hiding deep inside an Analog Device AD1939.

9) this antique automobile was cruising along in an NMAH chip.

10) A toon frog playing a guitar and singing silently inside an Analog Device2175digital-signal-processor.

Anyone seen the work of Noelle Walker?
http://seattleweekly.com/events/tacoma-screwd-476896

[SluttyShemaleAnna]

oh yea, there's loads of cool stuff on chips.

Kilroy was here.

[sesame]

Originally Posted by SluttyShemaleAnna

oh yea, there's loads of cool stuff on chips.

Kilroy was here.

Na Na, Anna, you're from UK, so you say, "Chad, or Foo was here."

People from the US say "Kilroy".

[SweetCharmer]

Banksy is my number one favourite but i hate how they're selling his work now assholes making money off of it

[jimnaseum]

Photoshop copies and my '46 Chief

[sesame]

Southern India, 10th century Chola Artifacts unearthed at Tanjore. Pay special attention to Ardhanarishwara, one form of Shiva that is half male and half female.