04 June 2005
Illustration
I thought I might illustrate my article on "Progress platforms the primitive" by using work available via creative commons. I envisaged a computer type porthole where the omnipresent primitive urges like sexual drive could travel through one end, and emerge as computer graphic representations of sex out the other end, onto a platform of sorts. Pretty abstract but I thought I was onto something hot!
Visiting creative commons for images made me realise how much I have become dependant on Google for photos. I very rarely get the "no matches" announcement from google, yet the creative commons page gave it to me frequently. So I adapted my pornographic theme to primitive representations (drawings), televised representations (B&W TV), computer related representations (naked girl sits beside a monitor), and computer graphics representations (abstract blue screen), of sex. The composite picture shown below is the result.
Let us rephrase my earlier declaration from "Hail the Commons" to "Help the Commons!" Their databanks are in serious need of substancial works, particularly images. Once I post this pic I am off to upload some of my pictures. I see this not only as a selfless act of sharing content, but also a chance to be in there as one of the early contibuters. If I submit quality pictures then I can be assured that when people search for something like "sex" they wont get some obscure blue screen imagery like the one shown below.
I am keen. Get in early and get a foot in the door. This is the big break I have been waiting for. I am NOT too late to get involved with THIS area of the internet. The only sacrifice is that I give my work away for free. But who cares about that? As an artist I see it as a chance for free publicity! The real authentic artwork is still with me. It is merely the reproductions that I will be sharing around. How bloody exciting!
Visiting creative commons for images made me realise how much I have become dependant on Google for photos. I very rarely get the "no matches" announcement from google, yet the creative commons page gave it to me frequently. So I adapted my pornographic theme to primitive representations (drawings), televised representations (B&W TV), computer related representations (naked girl sits beside a monitor), and computer graphics representations (abstract blue screen), of sex. The composite picture shown below is the result.
Let us rephrase my earlier declaration from "Hail the Commons" to "Help the Commons!" Their databanks are in serious need of substancial works, particularly images. Once I post this pic I am off to upload some of my pictures. I see this not only as a selfless act of sharing content, but also a chance to be in there as one of the early contibuters. If I submit quality pictures then I can be assured that when people search for something like "sex" they wont get some obscure blue screen imagery like the one shown below.
I am keen. Get in early and get a foot in the door. This is the big break I have been waiting for. I am NOT too late to get involved with THIS area of the internet. The only sacrifice is that I give my work away for free. But who cares about that? As an artist I see it as a chance for free publicity! The real authentic artwork is still with me. It is merely the reproductions that I will be sharing around. How bloody exciting!
