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December 7, 2020 May 24, 2023

Recent and Very Recent

Three from the past couple of weeks, two from a new idea Sunday.

Now What?
Mama, what's wrong? Shush! Reality just went poof! Don't talk that way. Someone might hear. Yes child, listen to your mother. Reality went poof, that's …
Making Eyes At
Sundays, Patterns Galore Making Eyes At Sloan Nota, Making Eyes At. 2019. 4000x3000 pixels, 150 DPI Reference #P003 archived Here A simple enough pattern like …
Gravity and Other Facts on Earth
Lay Scientist Picks Gravity and Other Facts on Earth Your long-off ancestor could catch a dropped stone before it hit the cave floor. What's dropped …
Gizelda Rosas
Featured Artists Gizelda Rosas Gizelda Rosas, La Batalla de Vortex, 2024. Acrylic, watercolor, natural pigments, appliqué, and embroidery on paper 42 x 72 in. Luis …
Digiograph 02
Thursdays in the Now Digiograph 02 Sloan Nota, DIGIOGRAPH. 2024. 2043x1448 pixels, 150 DPI Reference #R010 archived Here How can this be an abstraction when …
Michio Kaku’s Hyperspace
D-ness(2d3d4d) Michio Kaku's Hyperspace I have been wrestling with the logic of how you can bend 2D space except in a 3D framework? Maybe a …
Glue
Clastics Glue Any form of joinery requires glue. In Clastics I'm open to any form of join. Think of a chord in music joining notes. …
Order and Disorder
Mondays from the Past Order and Disorder CREDITS: Sloan Nota, Order and Disorder. 2022 Image sources: TEXTURES.COM (end pieces) and UNSPLASH.COM (two middle images). 12000x3600 …
Red Obi
Sundays, Patterns Galore Red Obi Sloan Nota, Red Obi. 2024. 72200x3600 pixels, 150 DPI Reference #P002 archived Here A march of quasi-kimonos as regularly spaced …
Math for Einstein
Lay Scientist Picks Math for Einstein Miracles are rarely taken up by science, but the history of science holds a fact as beautiful as a …
Wu Chi-Tsung
Featured Artists Wu Chi-Tsung Wu Chi-Tsung, Cyano-Collage, 192, 2024. Sean Kelly Gallery Cyanotype photography is only the beginning for one of Wu Chi-Tsung's overpowering works. …
Neural Bouquet
Thursdays in the Now Neural Bouquet Sloan Nota, Neural Bouquet. 2024. 5056x3600 pixels, 150 DPI Reference #R009 archived Here Imagine throwing a pack of cards …
Studying Common Optical Illusions Using 3D and 4D
D-ness(2d3d4d) Studying Common Optical Illusions Using 3D and 4D 2D screenshot of the 3D file Optical illusion ( 2D - 3D ), by SDC PERFORMANCE™️ …
Clastics, an Art Form
Clastics The Dawn of Clastics I call the artwork I do Clastics, a term geologists use for a kind of rock mixed from weathered bits …
Wear (and Tear)
Mondays from the Past Wear (and Tear) CREDITS: Sloan Nota, Wear (and Tear). 2019 7924x12165 pixels, 72 dpi Reference #H008. Archived here Hastening through a …
Fenway Franks
Sundays, Patterns Galore Fenway Franks Sloan Nota, Fenway Franks. 2024. 4956x3600 pixels, 150 DPI Reference #P001 archived Here In Boston's grand old baseball stadium Fenway …
Why I’m The Lay Scientist
Lay Scientist Picks Why I'm The Lay Scientist I'm The Lay Scientist because no one's going to mistake me for a credentialed scientist. But under …
Yellowpoint
Thursdays in the Now Yellowpoint Sloan Nota, Yellowpoint. 2024. 7200x3600 pixels, 150 DPI Reference #R008 archived Here Pointing is powerful in composing art. A line …
The Dawn of Clastics
Clastics The Dawn of Clastics At a point in my life when I was so stressed I felt suddenly that my personal boundaries might not …
Lurking in Plain Sight
Mondays from the Past Lurking in Plain Sight CREDITS: Sloan Nota, Lurking in Plain Sight. 2019 4000x300 pixels, 150 dpi Reference #H007. Archived here The …
Say No More
Thursdays in the Now Say No More Sloan Nota, Say No More. 2024. 7200x3600 pixels, 150 dpi Reference #R007 archived Here You do not need …
Leviathan Love
Mondays from the Past Leviathan Love CREDITS: Sloan Nota, Leviathan Love. 2021 2954x2146 pixels Reference #H006. Archived here Even those with craggy fangs and brazen …
Aggression of Sharp-Edged Rectangles on Complex Curves
Thursdays in the Now Aggression of Sharp-Edged Rectangles on Complex Curves Sloan Nota, Aggression of Sharp-Edged Rectangles on Complex Curves. 2024. 3593x3477 pixels Reference #R006 …
Riots
Mondays from the Past Riots CREDITS: Sloan Nota, Riots. 2019 4000x3000 pixels Reference #H005. Archived here Groups of running legs and urgent arm gestures. Riots, …
The Big Bang Blew
Thursdays in the Now The Big Bang Blew Sloan Nota, The Big Bang Blew. 2024 3352x1440 pixels Reference #R005 archived Here At the inconceivable moment …
Guts
Mondays from the Past Guts CREDITS: Sloan Nota, Guts. 2021 All images Unsplash.com H004. In the History Archive Guts is an artwork noting the many …
Similies
Mondays from the Past Similies CREDITS: Sloan Nota, Similies. 2021 All images Unsplash.com H003. Here: Art History Never pass up a chance to make yourself …
Masks of Tragedy and of Comedy
Thursdays in the Now Masks of Tragedy and of Comedy Sloan Nota, Masks of Tragedy and Comedy. 2024 Began with clip-art of a rabbit on …
Premonition
Mondays from the Past Premonition CREDITS: Sloan Nota, Premonition. 2021 All images Unsplash.com H002. Here: Art History Merriam-Webster defines Rhetoric as the study of writing …
Simple Diagonal
Thursdays in the Now Simple Diagonal Sloan Nota, Simple Diagonal. 2024 Blog number: R003 archived Recent Art A line dividing this from that can be …
A Study in Browns
Thursdays in the Now A Study in Browns Sloan Nota, Study in Browns. 2024 all images from unsplash.com Blog number: R002 The rich trappings of …
Crediting Images I Use
Crediting Images I Use A red umbrella is among the images that unsplash.com served up when I searched for "rubber boot." When I search textures.com …
A Charley-horse of the Soul
A Charley-horse of the Soul Eerie weeks of silence on this blog. No chatter, no opinions. You couldn't hear a moth dancing. I have been …
Complicated Path
Mondays from the Past Complicated Path CREDITS: Sloan Nota, Complicated Path. 2020. Images used include: 1) boot, textures.com, Various 0165 [seems recently removed from site]; …
Happy NEW Year!
Credits, Sloan Nota, December 2023 Happy NEW Year!
From Sloan
Credits: Sloan Nota, 2023 Merry is a jolly word. Joyful, heartfelt too. May whatever way you welcome the turning of winter, let your heart express goodwill to all.
The 3D Merry-Go-Round
The 3D Merry-Go-Round Some 3D models have a pivot point. You the viewer will experience their spaces in a singular way. Feel how your relationship …
Where Are you in 3D Space?
Where Are you in 3D Space? A 3D app is all about creating and experiencing the particular realities of XYZ space -- horizon, vertical, depth. …
Getting Your Hands on 3D
Cute Toon Tree by Matrix Rex on Sketchfab credits: Cute Toon Tree, by MATRIX REX Robot Arm by Tolibjon on Sketchfab credits: Robot Arm, by TOLIBJON Industrial Robot Arms (Packaging Animation) …
Time Passage
Credits: Sloan Nota, 2023 Time Passage Time twirls down the egg timer's little waist. Nothing is appearing on this blog. Image you were sorting files …
Samothrace in 3D
credits: all models from Sketchfab. • top (Samotghrace by Rmn-Grand Palais), • MIDDLE: (Winged Victory of Samothraceˆby COSMOWENMAN) • BOTTOM: (k_3_closing_west_section by RASALEM[2019 season of the American Excavations at Samothrace closing model of trench …
The Mad Frustration You’re Soon to Feel
credit: NIKE OF SAMOTHRACE The Mad Frustration You're Soon to Feel The Winged Victory of Samothrace in the Louvre is singular. I could stand and feel …
Wikipedia Time!
Wikipedia Time! Wikipedia is pledging again. They never ask for much. I've been sending $3 a month for more years than I can recall. It's …
Murky Copyright
[credit: NATURE JOURNAL COMMUNICATIONS CHEMISTRY, MONA LISA] Murky Copyright This is a screen from one of the science feeds I follow. I'm an artist, my eyes always …
The Task of Seeing Something Foreign in the Mirror
[credit: MASK (BUK, KRAR, OR KARA), Torres Strait Islander, mid to late 19th century.] The Task of Seeing Something Foreign in the Mirror I'm an artist who …
True Connection
[credit: MASK (BUK, KRAR, OR KARA), Torres Strait Islander, mid to late 19th century.] True Connection This could be a battered old mixing spoon, plastic handle singed no …
Ardhanarishvara
Credit: The Half-Male, Half-Female Form of Shiva (Shiva Ardhanarishvara) | Cambodia | Angkor period | The Metropolitan Museum of Art As featured in the Washington …
Arch Stanton
Arch Stanton Credit: Arch Stanton by Sloan Nota, 2023 It's time I introduce you to Arch Stanton, who was first my 3d tutor and is …
Declaration of Years
Declaration of Years Today I would like to announce to the world that I'm old. I've just realized it myself, so I might as well …
When Artists’ Surfaces Met Science
credit: slashio-photography-B5vpv3eyRgY-unsplash When Artists' Surfaces Met Science As it often does, science makes new realities visible. They pop out like champagne bubbles in still wine. …
When Art Was Surfaces
credit: ;brittany-chastagnier-B7xSl-dWuto-unsplash When Art Was Surfaces Leonardo da Vinci never worried about whether viewing eyes should face the front or back of the Mona Lisa's …
Trying to imagine the scene-change at Rafah crossing
Trying to imagine the scene-change at Rafah crossing Trying to imagine the scene-change at Rafah crossing. After aching silence, engines start. Dust spurts upward. Human …
24-48 Hours?
photo by Julia Taubitz on unsplash, https://unsplash.com/.../woman-in-black-tank-top-covering... 24-48 Hours? President Biden says it may take 24-48 hours for road repairs before trucks roll from Rafah. …
The Wizards of 3D
The Wizards of 3D Photo Credit Alban Denoyel, Cédric Pinson and Pierre-Antoine Passet are three men who saw a gaping hole in technology and chargeright …
Laurie Annis’s Reflections Of An Enabler
Laurie Annis's Reflections Of An Enabler featured 3d artist Reflections Of An Enabler by Laurie Annis on Sketchfab The 3d files on Sketchfab are the works of …
An Easy First Step
An Easy First Step Screenshot example of Sketchfab main screen You can enter the world of 3D imaging from many a portal but I first …
3D Boot Camp
3D Boot Camp I hear some bafflement out there. An image you can reposition in space? Say you had a Jack in the Beanstalk book …
Clown Show
Clown Show credits: s-o-c-i-a-l-c-u-t-SZl4UAnkztY-unsplash Imagine me with my feet coming out of the armholes of my blouse, wobbly eyebrows and uncombed hair. Here comes my …
3D springs from 2D
Reality depends on your mood when you meet it by basspace on Sketchfab 3D springs from 2D This started with the animated Sci-Fi Lab Machine …