the ART COLONY
 

no, not the penil colony, I've seen a great picture on here already, there has got to be some art lovers here, I'm sure.
Here's a photoshop copy I did of teen model Sandra. She's eating an ice cream cone in the sunshine.

Nice picture Jim! I don't know if I'm much of an artist anymore, but I did get an undergraduate BFA in visual art, my specialization was in fiber arts. I once fashioned the idea of designing costumes for Hollywood. Oh how dreams get discarded...And replaced by new passions...

Grh Bfa
 

Why dont you try it again?
Its never too late to realise a dream.
Some creative adrenalin is always good.
Maybe not for Hollywood, but as an artform in your spare time; what say you?;)

Gardening is my most creative outlet as of late. Granted, it is closely associated with my job, but it's something I absolutely love to do. Composing with the color and texture of foliage and flowers and then having to care for the little buggers.

It's funny what education does...It usually informs you, but it doesn't always inspire you. My wife and I met in art school and fell in love, at the time I was the faggoty little goth kid who wore skirts and dresses and wore lots of black makeup. :) At any rate, we followed each other into the same program, and ended up graduating so incredibly cynical and embittered with the whole art world once we finally graduated. She has rekindled her artistic passion though, I have largely redirected mine. I have occasionally poked around with knitting, latchhooks, things like that. But my biggest creative draw as of late is that of writing. I have been told once-upon-a-time that I'm a half decent writer, and I enjoy writing poetry and have the ambition of writing a novel documenting some of my memoirs.

Jim, do you do the majority of your art on a computer? Computers were always too sterile and mechanical for my taste. I preferred media that provided more tactile stimulation.

Would you consider these images as artforms?
I used to find pleasure in creating 3D art.
But lately I enjoy sketching very much;http://forum.transladyboy.com/files/7/3/9/9/26262.jpg
As, in my opinion, the lesser number of props I use,
the better is the flow of bliss and aesthetics. :innocent:
http://forum.transladyboy.com/files/7/3/9/9/27027.jpg
Beauty like poetry, philosophy and music has
the power to deliver bliss in a very pure state.
And its a matter of heart.:heart:
Art resides inside the heart.

The majority of my artwork was done on the margins of school notebooks. That's great, sesame, I expect GRH to post an artwork or garden photo posthaste! Maybe one of his wife's things he loves the most. I hope the Art Colony can be a place where people can de-pressurize after a few weeks of torrid tranny photos, and maybe share the personal touch of art.

Yes Sesame, those are quite good in my estimation. Art is whatever you feel it to be...It doesn't have to measure up to any critical standards. I should post some pictures, but what is the best way to go about it around here? Setting up a third party photobucket account?

I wondered about that too.

Sesame, great stuff. Please post more of your sketches I do computer generated art, or rather derivative works, of shemales.

Cham

testing one two. Here's a couple of my favorites one photoshop and an older oil painting. I'm using imageshack, so if that's against the rules, just delete. I know new viewers don't get many downloads so I don't expect them to waste their limited selections on this.

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/1380/80309680zu6.jpg

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/440/21809144hg5.jpg

I wish I could draw. I can barely draw a stick shemale. :(

sesame and jimnaseum, those are great samples of your talents. Don't let them go to waste.

Art eh?
 

I think 90% of art is more accurately classified as Shite, there is a problem with art, and that is fucktards. There's nothing worse than a tard with no tallent of his own, who flocks like a sheep after whatever seems to offer him an air or coolness by association. And thus the buzzwords edgy and provocative were born, and then wrung dry of all meaning. Words like composition, aesthetic, palette, and are replaced by retarded blithering on shapes and movement and ohh look at the pretty colours, while some retarded monkey blabbers about the artist message or some such shit.

Basicly art has been debased by consumer culture into a state where a fucktard can put up a painting, and noone will look at it and say 'fuck, that is the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen, get it out this gallery and put something worthwhile there', because they are afraid they might have the opposite opinion to someone cool.

That's not to say that there is no good art around, but when someone puts a broken piano in a gallery and says this is art, no, that is a cool looking object, but that is all, I saw a broken piano in the street the other day, If I had painted the broken piano sat in the street, or photographed it, or built a sculpture of it sat in the street, that would be art, to take the broken piano itself and put it in a gallery is not art, any more than randomly digging a bone from the ground and walking off with it is archeology, or glancing at some stars is astronomy.


Anyway, enough criticism, I'm more of a scientist than an artist, but as anyone knows scientists are better artist than artists are anyway.
I did do a lot of stencil stuff, but I could never get people to keep watch for me when I want out spraying, and I never liked doing it on my own, I was worried a copper would sneak up on me right in the middle of spraying something.


I once formed a group called UBX, our purpose was to go into restricted areas, and explore places we were not allowed, we still haven't penetrated most or our targets, and the best exploration we managed, we got in by chance when we only had a phone camera, we also had a mark we left behind which we always forgot to take with us too, the mutant wasp.


Here's a pic of a huge fork n spoon mountain we found in an abandoned kitchen, and the stencil I made for us to spray in places we went.

Outburst on Hypocrisy
 

What a Rant!

Where there is SSAnna (sounds like a ship:p), there is controversy and hot debate. Anger erupts like hot lava from her radical brain. Cool off, do you always like to take the Provocative stance?

The mutant wasp stencil looks arty. But the heap of spoons and forks looks just like any ugly dull heap of metallic clutter. I prefer to accredit all proponents of art movements... even Pablo Picasso and his stupid crap called Cubism Or, drug-induced tactless Art called Dadaism, which is more debasing than that produced by any infant! The art world is controlled and promoted by more dirty politics than Drug Mafia or Politics itself! It makes me feel nauseated to think of all the hypocrites prancing the Art World, acting as Gatekeepers, bent on monopolizing Art and Aesthetics! That said, I feel so much more liberated! Thank you SS-Anna.;)

I want to say "Dont be such a pissed-off pessimist!", but I have to agree with you inspite of my Ahimsa. I was downright disgusted when I saw a plain Commode (Yes, a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination) displayed as a piece of Modern Art! Or shapeless blotches of black paint splayed over a canvas, having much resemblance to a motor mechanic's hand mop! Think of Vincent van Gogh, Ingres or the Pre-Raphaelites and compare that with the sorry state of modern art now! Truely, Art has degraded.

What you say Anna is so very true. A painter makes two vertical stripes of blue on each outer edge of a panel. The centre of the panel is painted with a red vertical stripe. All stripes are of equal width. The painter calls it "Voice of Fire." The national art gallery goes crazy over it, pays millions of dollars for it, and trumpets the great purchase it has made. The average citizen see no artistic value or merit in it whatsoever and letters to the editors, of newspapers and magazines, point out that a person with a paint roller and masking tape can create the same thing in less than half a day. Of course the "arts community" immediately puts their collective nose in the air, sniffs as though having to breath in the odour of shit, and lets everyone, who is not an 'artist' know that only a great painter can produce such a masterpiece. What a load of crap. But that just shows that anyone can produce a work of art by giving anything (a painting, a sculpture, etc.) an artsy name. The know nothings who want to sound like they know everything will go along with it out of fear of not being thought of as artsy.

To be honest, with the spoon pile, I did exactly what I complained about, It's just a load of spoons, I should have got the whole mountain, but it was in the dark and we were sneaking about, and at the time I was wondering how many spoons I could fit in my pockets (quite a lot it turned out), we did find a few random things when we had our cameras, like this abandoned laudromat, which randomly had a stolen roadsign in it, but all the best pic we took were on our cameras, as the coolest places we ever got into were random spur of the moment things spot an open window and climb out onto the roof, try the door with the warning signs and it opens etc (see the door of treasures below, sadly locked again when we returned with the camera). I have a great picture of my friend stealing the flag from Edgbaston Golf course too, but I won't post that here, lol.






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The amazing fun art gallery game.

Go into an overly pretentious art gallery, make sure you are dressed for the part, (a small group all standing closer to each other than is normal and very occasionally making hushed comments to each other is even better) find a fire extinguisher, or a random object and stand staring at it, studying it like a piece of art, stroking your chin, getting really close to look, you get points for 10 points (per person) someone comes over and looks at it too, 20 points, you make a comment to them about the artist's tumoil, or thier depth of expression or the commentry on society etc and they nod n accept it etc. 30 points if you ask if they have seen such and such work (really dumb name), and then tell them it is simply (bizzare object eg, shopping basket containing a stuffed badger) and how it expresses (random emotion + buzzword) 40 points if you tell them the artist stole the idea from you and then desecrate the 'art work' eg get a pen and sqiggle on the fire extinguisher in front of them, then run off. 100 points if they call security, 30 points if you convince someone a modern art picture is upside down, 45 points if you do it for a sculpture, 40 points extra if it is member of staff, 60 points if you add your own 'artwork' and someone thinks its a real exhibit, 5 points for each person you get try and explain it to you. 'Explain' works to people, you get 3 points for each buzzword you use, 5 for introducing politics, 10 if you make a sentence consisting entirely of buzzwords, 60 if you convince them the artist is a paedophile or a fascist based on the work.

If you get called on your bullshitting, you lose all points scored from that person plus 20 more.

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When my Mom was 17, she saw "Gone with the Wind" which shocked America when Rhett said Damn.
When I was 17 we talked our way into an X-rated movie, "Midnight Cowboy" with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.
When the internet generation turns 17 today, they've undoubtedly seen more shit than we have!!
The world is getting faster and harder, and so is the Art World.

SSA, where do you draw the line between art and crap? Is it a difference between realism versus abstraction? Because personally, I love some abstract works, Van Gogh being my favorite painter ever. He had a command of composition, aesthetic, and palette, yet you could easily describe his works as possessing "movement" and "feeling." Is something wrong with this? Further, while Picasso is known for Cubism and his abstract works, few people know that he was a very skilled realist, but chose to go a different route with his works. Pollack is another artist that I find fascinating, but many would decry as just a painter "flinging oil onto canvas." He invested so much emotion into his work. In recent years, through X-ray and other scanning techniques, they have actually discovered objects imbedded within the layers of paint. A professor of art history at my school taught modern art and conducted much of his research on Pollack.

Dada was a commentary on the art world itself, thus it is a very ironic period. That said, I think Dada is a bunch of shit...I say this having written a report on DuChamp's famous toilet. The art world is a very pretentious club, full of cliques and ass patting. This is one reason that I became very cynical and disillusioned with art after going through art school. I never was part of the right clique. Then again, I seldom went to class because I preferred to do my art at 3:00 AM instead of 9:00 AM. Half of the critiques were merely exercises in mental masturbation, because nobody wanted their feelings hurt. I guess this sort of slackard approach is what you get when you model your department after the Bauhaus. Our program emphasized feeling and intuition more than technique, a fatal flaw in my estimation. I just wasn't willing to suck enough dick to ever make a tangible contribution to the organized world of art. Anyone curious about the pretension of art/art school should watch the film "Art School Confidential." A very good watch. :)

you might have a stutue in your city that you pass everyday and never pay any atention to but as soon as someone puts a trafic cone on its head they'v just made there own piece of art and everyone who pass's that stautue that day will look at it.

The gallery game
 

SluttyShemaleAnna,

You are one shrewd, twisted, funny, totally naughty, anti-authority, anti-tradition, angry, revolutionary, impish Girl! ;)

And I love you for that.:respect:

The Dutch offer public urinals for men... you can call them quickies! You are in a hurry and cant hold back any longer. Just piss on the steel wall! :D You will find this kind of practical but disgusting piss stained walls in street corners of Amsterdam. Officially, they ARE public urinals! If you go to Heineken Museum and wander off to the modern art section, you will be amazed to find this stupid exhibit there. If you piss on the exhibit by mistake, beware, the security will carry you off!

I say, take a piss :lol:

Toilet Art
 

This Toilet is designed by artist Jemal Wright (Florida). Its adorned with 50,000 Swarovski crystals & mosaic set by hands! It fetched a handsome price of $ 75,000 !

Although its a toilet fixture, I cannot call it "just a commode"; its a piece of art in my eyes.:yes:

Now THAT is far superior to DuChamp's piece of Dada shit(ter).

Frigidaire mailed Pablo Picasso a check for $3,000.00 and asked him for some advice on their new Refrigerator design. Picasso promptly cashed the check and wrote back "I don't know anything about refrigerators, but I definitely think it should be white"
There's thousands of books on art criticism, I hope some of you will "mark your territory" here with a little drawing or something. Show you were here.

Engrave: I was here
 

"I was here."
~Napoleon Bonaparte.
It was engraved into the Pyramids of Egypt.

I would like to carve that on Picasso's Bald Head,
or upon the Ass of an ass-patting Jackass Critic!

The picture above, reminds me of someone...
Who is it, Who is it?... Got it! Someone's ass!
Bionca's! :lol:

eye candy
 

Ass carved out of sand. :p

Nice stancil anna. I love that kind of stuff.

There are train tracks that pass by my neighborhood and alot of times trains park there over night, so a couple of times I have gone there to check out some of the graf art on there. I really dig that kind of stuff, I eat it up like candy! Here are some pics of some of them...

There is also a couple from this creek/stream up in the LA mountains, where I got my car stolen by some vatos! I think it looks cool the clashing of a urban style art with nature, if you look closely on one of them someone wrote "me n us girl came 2gether" I got a kick out of that one.

And that AMPK one is from when I went to Greece, it was on an elementary/middle school. There was much more and better graf in Greece, I just never had a chance to take pictures cuz I was in a car or bus when I saw them.

So ya I consider graf an art form, I know some people dont and yes some grafitti is absolutely horrible, but so is some of the other post modern bullshit like anna was saying where they take an object and call it art. Like that one famous upside down toilet, I forgot who did that but I learned about it in art history.

ok im done

More toilet art
 

This one is for lovers who wanna stay togather even while taking a piss! Believe me, this was only an art design in the beginning. But some whacko company is now producing it commercially!

Graffiti
 

DO IT For fun, if not ART. :D



Image description:
1) Stop BusH:lol:
2) Cheating Wife

An interesting thing about grafitti. What is art to one person can also be vandalism to another.
I will admit though that there are some really good grafitti works out there.

I get to see a great deal of railroad art with my job. Even the railroaders themselves seem to think that there is a lot of wasted talent in some of it.

Yah, some of it is that good.

QUOTE=ocinteeni;31970]Nice stancil anna. I love that kind of stuff.

There are train tracks that pass by my neighborhood and alot of times trains park there over night, so a couple of times I have gone there to check out some of the graf art on there. I really dig that kind of stuff, I eat it up like candy! Here are some pics of some of them...

There is also a couple from this creek/stream up in the LA mountains, where I got my car stolen by some vatos! I think it looks cool the clashing of a urban style art with nature, if you look closely on one of them someone wrote "me n us girl came 2gether" I got a kick out of that one.

And that AMPK one is from when I went to Greece, it was on an elementary/middle school. There was much more and better graf in Greece, I just never had a chance to take pictures cuz I was in a car or bus when I saw them.

So ya I consider graf an art form, I know some people dont and yes some grafitti is absolutely horrible, but so is some of the other post modern bullshit like anna was saying where they take an object and call it art. Like that one famous upside down toilet, I forgot who did that but I learned about it in art history.

ok im done[/QUOTE]

Just saw Art School Confidential, thanks GRH, (still looking for High School Confidential, ) I heard a rumour that the Son of Sam and Robert Maplethorpe both belonged to a secret club that committed unspeakable sexual atrocities for kicks. I think that in art and music and even "Shemale" modeling, the attraction to the public is the aura of the art, but to the artist, you're trying to visualize and correct the central truth of the matter, the nugget of reality that everybody's stuck with.

cool posts sesame, i recognice that one of the lady hanging from the window. Isnt famous and protected by the state or something in the UK as a national peice or something? the computer graf art looks cool, surprisingly there are street peices that match those. I think its about time I go look for some more graf peices.

And ya Ila, I totally agree with you, it really is different for people because I have a friend that considers it just plane vandalism. But for me I consider it more intriguiging than art in galleries because of the raw aspect of it. But I definitly like more "professional" convential art as well.

Explaining for the Cheating Wife
 

Its The cheating wife!
http://forum.transladyboy.com/files/7/3/9/9/28968.jpg
The wife had been busy in bed ;) with her secret lover, when the suspecting husband suddenly came home. (and started looking around for the culprit!) The secret Lover is shown hanging from the corner of the window by one hand and hiding his family jewels from the public on the street below, with the other hand! The wife is in her undies and the husband is in a suit! And the Lover boy is totally nudie nudie :p

I'm Getting a Bit Off The Topic Here, But
 

This is getting off the topic here, but I just thought of something else that is somewhat in relation to Anna's rant. My subject was brought to mind yesterday when I read a review about some different wine in yesterday's newspaper. It seems that wine critics (oenophiles?) and beer critics have developed a taste (pun intended) for using buzzwords and not knowing what they are writing about. The rest of the fools follow along because they too want to sound like they know what they are talking about. Specifically one comment yesterday compared the taste of wine to green leaves. It makes me wonder what the critic has been drinking/smoking/injecting. Does this person drink green leaves? Has he ever tasted a green leaf? What kind of green leaf - tree, fern, vegetable? Why would this person taste green leaves? It seems too that whenever a critic tastes red wine it always tastes like blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries, etc. Grape wine has always tasted like grape wine to me. I have never tasted any other fruit or plant in grape wine. Then there is the critic that reviewed beer. He compared the taste to barnyards and manure piles (and he was praising the taste of the beer being reviewed). It makes me wonder if this critic eats shit. He certainly dishes it out.

If you really want to see the ultimate in pretentious fucktardation, check this out: http://www.finewaters.com/Water_Food/index.asp

Any Co-Nan fans here?

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/3...drhuzgbzt8.png

That about sums it up perfectly.:respect:

This is only a picture and not a drawing or painting, but it is along the same lines as your picture Sesame

:lol:
Thank you Ila. Its just the thing I needed. The technique shown in your picture is better than mine. The strain on the wrist is much less, and the bodyweight is shared by all the limbs. Hmmm, thanks a lot. When I plan to commit adultery with Bionca in near future, I will avoid confrontation with her hubby this way.;)

H R Giger
 

The Horrendous magic of H R Giger: His art is too gothic, really macabre, but very deeply aesthetic at the same time. Dont be aghast at your first glance, enjoy his taste, his sense of beauty dissolved and assimilated in his grim artwork. Its a mixture of gothic style (not Hellenistic) and Scifi techno-mechanical. Sorry for my use of buzzwords, but they will make sense, if you take a closer look.

I enjoy every piece made by that Dark Genius!

More of Giger
 

I think criticism of ANY sort reeks of this...Beer, wine, food critics seek to elevate their supposedly higher tastes above the masses through the use of creative vocabulary. I have drank a LOT of beer, and a decent amount of wine, and I know just what you're talking about. The world of criticism is about ass-patting and affirmation. If a CRITIC says it, it must be good, so the general person will adopt the vocabulary of a critic (however inept) to describe things. I agree with critics on many points, but the flowery nature of their vocabulary is so ambiguous as to be useless. I much prefer more quantified means of describing a product such as IBU (International Bitterness Units) than the subjective description of one person. Beer and wine critique is as full of pretension as any other artform. Much of the allusion is just that, a taste that alludes to some preconception of something else...This begs the question, will EVERYONE share the same preconception? Will the taste take EVERYONE to a barnyard, or an orchard, or freshly cut lawn? Doubtful, and this is the difficulty of subjective criticism...It is just that, subjective...

As to the larger topic at hand, I really DO hope to post some stuff as soon as I get around to setting up a third party account. My wife entered a painting gig this weekend...Go figure, her work didn't sell. It was a timed shindig, not something she excels at, she hates time limits...At any rate, she did a very impressionistic work, whereas most of the entrants did a more realism-slanted piece. It just goes to show how people interpret things differently...

thats a banksy heres another few banksys i like

heres another few banksy's

and another few

Thought provoking Images
 

The naked little girl in between the clowns... I have seen her somewhere.
http://forum.transladyboy.com/files/9/8/6/3/29329.jpg
She was one of the survivors of the Atomic
Bomb attack on Hiroshima, Aug 6th, 1945.
Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character.
I wander what this image means... Its Ironic.
I remember her from a documentary film on
the destructive applications of atomic energy.

http://forum.transladyboy.com/files/9/8/6/3/29324.jpg
Here again, a white dove of peace,
with a bullet-proof vest! Its chest is
being targeted!

http://forum.transladyboy.com/files/9/8/6/3/29334.jpg
Girl hugging a missile!
http://forum.transladyboy.com/files/9/8/6/3/29336.jpg
Little girl hugs a TV set displaying "The End" of the world?

World Peace! Om Shanti Om! But then, peace comes from within!
And everybody must agree to live in Harmony. Only then its possible.
Some people will have to sacrifice their greed and control :yes:

the litle girl is vietnamiese and has just survived a napalm attack, i'll attach the original photo and here is a link to a video which i think is of the same girl http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8bcdc4dabe she is pictured with mickey mouse and ronald mc donalld two kid friendly symbols of of american comsumerism, i think the picture is trying to highlight the contrasting nature of capitalism, the piece is called the american influence

Girl in the middle
 

Yeah, I saw clips from that video on TV.
But the context it was shown in, was Nuclear warfare and its horrific results, including longterm genetic mutations caused by radiation.

Thanks for the link, Rdelivery!

Care to Explain?
 

What do you think of the Old ladies sewing
sweaters with "Punks not dead" and
"Thug for life" stitched on them?
http://forum.transladyboy.com/files/9/8/6/3/29328.jpg
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.

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

Chinese Sea Nymph
 

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.:p

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?

The sea nymph
 

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 :rolleyes:

Thank you for your kind comments. :yes:

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

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

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! :lol:

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...

Vincent Willem van Gogh
 

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!! :p

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!

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.

Plan
 

I dont know about Vincent's mom!:no:
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!

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.

Shade in Glade
 

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

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

: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.

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

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

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

More from my nib
 

Just completed this. Gee, its abstract. :p
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.

No, not the absinthe 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?

Romantic Giraffe
 

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

Female fantasies
 

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. :respect:

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

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

I love the streetart stuff

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

I <3 Superheroes
 

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

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.;)

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.

Puters and Anna's wisdom
 

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 ... :yes:

Calling the non-believers back inside
 

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

Post your Rant here! Grrrrrah!

'Nyway, found this interesting album cover.

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.

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.;)

Two self portraits

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.

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!) :p

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.

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.

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?

Silicon art in IC
 

This kind of art is also called Silicon Art or Chip Graffiti... its similar to the software easter eggs :p, 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. :p 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

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".

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

Photoshop copies and my '46 Chief

Ancient Bronze~ frozen music
 

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.