Owl on February 25th, 2010

Spider Assesses a Web Page, originally uploaded by purple0wl.

Why does fine art have to have the monopoly of abstracts? Actually I think most cartoons are abstracts. They use notations to express actions and emotions that are not at all what you actually see in real life.
Here we see a web spider, doubtless one of Google’s [...]

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Owl on September 27th, 2009

It occurs to me that people who do not accept the legitimacy of digital art are not asking themselves “Is it Art?” but “Is it Photography?”
Critics of  art works created in computer art software – Corel Painter for instance – seem to regard drawing as some kind of fairground trick. Regardless of the often quoted [...]

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Owl on June 14th, 2009

Seth Godin in his famous marketing book, Purple Cow, advocates being – yes, a purple cow.
I can’t say I was all that keen on the idea when I first set up on the net. Destiny, however, had other plans.
I started on the internet by looking for a memorable name. Scanning a list of design [...]

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Owl on January 14th, 2009

Visualise something and you’re well on your way to understanding it better.
See what I mean? Take a look at my last post. But don’t your other senses get a look in? The words we use give us plenty of clues to what we are doing in our heads.
SOUND
I would have thought that after vision, [...]

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