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  1. DIBS

    Illustrator

    i dont know if someone aswered this, but it looks like a photoshop'd image, greyscale then halftone pattern filter-horizontal lines. just a guess. that red portrait is HOT.
  2. wow LTS in detroit? here is another forum for you all to worked up about, have fun.... Detroit Yes Grafitti Thread
  3. DIBS

    bicicletas

    seized posts are a bummer. try this, i know you have soaked it, use triflow if you have it. get a hair dryer, set it at high and blow dry the seat tube, heat expands metal, try to keep the actual seat post cool, ie:wrap it in a cold damp cloth. when the seat tube is warm try to twist the seat post, repeat till it gives. also, remove your bottom bracket, and drip try flow into the seat tube and set bike upside down. flood the seat tube if you can, just let it soak over night. the hair dryer works pretty well if your patient. good luck
  4. your an as#ho!e. font lab is pretty good. i have used it a lil for mac, just to tweak a fontset though. fontographer is a windows app. (mac os9 or classic also) not much experience with it though. you should be able to get a copy of font lab off a torrent site pretty easy.
  5. F@#K YES! i still remember so vividly the first time i heard the misfits (1988). i really believe that moment combined with finding skateboarding about the same time changed my life forever! excellent thread, thank you.
  6. i can try to help, i am fairly familiar w/ illustrator. if you are trying to cut/copy a selection from photoshop to illustrator. the photoshop file must be set up coorectly. illustrator will not accept jpgs or gifs. make sure your file is one of the following, tiff. psd. or photoshop eps. also here are some good tutorial sites for photoshop tutorial1 tutorial 2 also seeking is right, for a sharp edge, you should learn how to use the pen tool(you will need to anyway to do anything in illustrator) convert the "path" into a clipping path or a vector mask in the transpearancy pallet. then you can export them as working paths to illustrator.
  7. these drawings are awesome. good luck w/ the magazine. which magazine is it?
  8. actually, the "untitled" forum is for non-graf related art, as i understand it, as is much of its content. part of that content includes at least one or more other "photography threads". my question was why it was nessesary to start another one. is yours a special photography? too good for the other photography threads just because its "old" looking? there are too many redundant threads is what i am trying to bring to light, and you are just contributing to the problem.
  9. arent there enough photography threads already? coudn't these have gone in the other photography thread photography thread ?
  10. hes the man. he put out a really nice book of his prints through Arkitip magazine. it was a lmtd thing, i dont know if its still available. even hecox book
  11. i would love a powerbook for its esthetics. small, sleek, portable. but i could never see myself taking it anywhere, i suppose i would find somewhere to take it. either way i vote for desktops and easy expandability, just picked up my G5 today, merry christmas.
  12. frank stella is always one of those artists i forget about or does not often come to mind, although i like his work. alot of people i have talked to(ok so like the 4 or 5 people) do not like his earlier minimal geometric paintings, but i enjoy them alot, and especially with todays design trends, he would seem to me ahead of his time given some of the resemblences. i really like his newer sculptures, like picture 1 and 3. those peices are very interesting to me. high priest, you cover alot of ground with the artists you create threads about, another great thread with an underrated artist in my opinion. thanks
  13. DIBS

    Illustrator

    i agree, for an intro to the basic skills going solo, adobe classroom in a book. the Bible is more useful once you have grasp on the app. and its workings etc.
  14. excellent work, very dark. i had seen her work before but not this much of it i guess. i really like it.
  15. its such a good forgery. i was sooooo excited when i found it, i really wanted to believe it. what a shame. a guys gotta have dreams. after researching more, the story originates here.axis of logic
  16. ok. i am pretty sure its fraud. false alarm. but would be great if it were true.
  17. bush arrested is this real? its on cnn.com, has anyone else heard about this? and if it is real, why isnt the mainstream media, besides cnn, covering it? can anyone confirm this or any news about it?
  18. i did not take your comment as a personal evaluation but more as an informed comment. my original comment, however was my personal evaluation of Johns work, as that was the question asked of me basically, what i thought of his work. i would be very interested in reading more about Johns. maybe you could suggest a book about Johns and his story?
  19. DIBS

    Illustrator

    has anyone here used corel painter? it seems from what i have seen that you can get some very "hand painted" looking results. thoughts on it? is it worth having?
  20. ...i think you may have missed the point that johns was trying to convey with his work, and most specifically his use of texture with the brush stroke...the abstract expressioinsts were the ones that where intrigued with conveying emotion in their brush stoke...a representation of so called 'artistic angst'...johns and others didn't really buy it however...and the popularity and overwhealming critical hype of abstract expressioninsm quickly led to the rise of movements that intetionally challenged the ideas of Abst. Ex....the power and purity of the brush stroke with all of its emotional significance being one of the early targets along with the almost devine importance that was being placed on painting...so people like johns and rauchenberg began to challenge these concepts with their work...with the flag paintings, johns sought to challenge ideals of symbols and objects...these are not paintings of flags, these are flags (...likewise with the target paintings)...with johns, paintings where treated as objects, not paintings (...an idea explored to much greater depth by frank stella a few years later)...the thick encaustic paint is not used to convey emotion, but instead to tell the viewer, 'this is just paint on a canvas'...the work of artists like johns helped to usher in the inevitable end of modernism and the beginning of what we now simply refer to as 'contemporary'... ...one of my favorite johns painting was done a few years later when he painstakingly mimicked the drips and splashes in a painting like pollocks or dekoonings with a number one brush and a magnifying glass... Quoted post [/b] huh, this is interesting. my interpretation being the almost exact opposite if Johns' intention with the brush strokes. i think thats great though, how paintings read differently to every viewer. just like with pollock. i have a freiend that is very fond of him, but i just cant feel it. not discounting that he was a good painter or that he was talented and had a vision. but for whatever reason i just can not get into his work. i have always meant to pick up a book on Johns, not so much of his paintings, i have a few of those, but to get a better idea his story, better than the little backgrounds they give in books primarily with just work in them.
  21. no sweat. i really enjoy discussing topics like this and it helps me to figure out what i feel and put it all in order, i appreciate the push to do so.
  22. i know you said you liked a couple motherwell paintings that you saw, i have this great motherwell book of a buck of drawings and prints of his, you might really like it, or not. its called robert motherwell on paper. anyways, i would really like the crit deal, and each of us comming up with a artist a in its own formal thread would be great, i would really like to expand my very limited knowledge of artists.
  23. i'd neverseen motherwell before just now. that guy sucks. there were a couple pieces that if 'remixed' them, i'd like, but as they stand, most is garbage. ha. i'd seen a couple jasper johns (the flags) but wasn't too familiar with his stuff. he sucks too. ha. Quoted post I'd love to pick an artists every week for critique... good idea. I hope you like architects... Quoted post [/b] hating on all my favorites, johns, motherwell, at least joker was inspired by a motherwell painting. i am really down for this weekly crit of artists. it think it would be good and i dont know jack about architechture but i'm down to learn.
  24. Well all right, I guess for me to pinpoint exactly why I like his work so much is hard, on a very basic level it just touches me I guess or I relate to it. from his use of color of even his black and white/grey pieces I am a very big fan of his choices and how he uses them against each other, not exactly colors I would or do normally work with but his sense of color really works for me, I get a sense of struggle or conflict form his color choices. His use of icons, i.e.: the flag, map of the US, for me its an interesting idea, or at least at the time was, to use an everyday somewhat impersonal object and paint it, to paint some emotion into it, to almost reinvent it as an idea beyond what it was originally intended to be thought of. Duchamp had done similar things but in using the actual object. So I imagine Johns, as many painters of his generation, was deeply influenced by this. I also like how he took these objects, targets, flags, maps etc and did multiple reworks of the theme, which in a way reminds me of graffiti, and how as a writer you constantly rework a system of letters or your name, always using the same theme and creating a new work or interpretation of that existing theme (his numbers series). I really appreciate the heavy and varied brush strokes, which give his paintings a movement and an energy that I can relate to in my own paintings. I often paint and try to use the brush strokes as a way of giving the piece a texture or to convey a sense of emotion or energy as if the stroke is the actual focus of the piece. His paintings often look labored over to me, and I get that feeling from the erratic, heavy and intense brush strokes he chooses to use. I am also inspired by his story, someone living in New York, living as an artist, painting, and he had a lot of paintings before he was discovered (or so the story goes) but then had his epiphany, “to stop becoming an artist and actually be one”. At this point he says he took all of his existing paintings and started over, painted over everything. That to me is a big risk, to just say fuck it and start over. I like that. Really what Johns did at this point, he really broke away from the existing status quo of abstract expression painters and started to paint recognizable objects in a new light. Together he and Rauschenberg really started what many would say became pop art. The other painters of that time were still painting and were fixated on the idea of very cerebral paintings, very abstract and without any recognizable object. The two of them rebelled against this idea and brought back more recognizable themes to there work. But overall, if I had to pin it down, I would say brush strokes/technique and the constant reworking of themes/objects. Plus encaustic (bees wax and pigment) is a rad medium to use in painting. It’s an ancient Greek method of painting that up until Johns started to do use it again starting with the targets (my favorite Johns pieces) was a dead art form. But to be clear, I am a fan of Johns’ early works, not such a fan of his later pieces from say the late 70’s on. I am a very big fan of this whole era of paintings, from Johns to his across the hall neighbor Rauschenberg. I enjoy Motherwell a great deal and also someone who you like Barnett Newman. With his giant paintings of jagged colors overlapping and taking over another colors territory. I like Joseph Cornels box pieces and I like John Tinguely and his self destructing painting machines, and I adore Duchamps works, the more painted and sculptural pieces (large glass). I am a sucker for the abstract expressionists. Does any of this make sense? let me know.
  25. Who wants to teach me Illustrator? adobe classroom in a book.
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