made in Peacock by bassp (Sloan Nota)
If you’re an artist there’s likely to be a tool that your hand knows how to reach for on its own. Comfortable in your grip, allows you the nuance you need or the well-weighted wallop. Do you make chairs, run chemistry experiments, bake cakes? Look around as you’re at work — your eye will light on a tool you have a feel for. You trust it, have bonded with it in the quiet way of tools, and the fine muscles that control your actions with it have adapted to just the shape and heft.
Now how about if a Blue Meanie Genie came along and ruled that the world will have no more paintbrushes – or Buchner flasks – or bowls?
I’m a digital artist. My tools are modes of software. And one that I’ve gotten really friendly with, have bonded with unto my very bones, will disappear on September 15. Peacock at advanced aviary.com will become nothingness — along with all the other Flash apps and an entire community.
I’ll spend the remaining days trying to say what my heart feels is enough.
made in Peacock by bassp (Sloan Nota)
Peacock is billed as an Effects Editor and as a Visual Laboratory. Truth is, Peacock’s hard to pin down. No one quite knows how to explain it because there’s never been anything quite like it. Revolutionary. Addictive.
made in Peacock by bassp (Sloan Nota)
To be continued….
