It’s official. With Photoshop CS5, Adobe has single-handedly made my degree (and many more out there) worth absolutely nothing. Ok, so maybe not NOTHING but at least worth the cost of Photoshop CS5. You no longer need to have any skill to remove objects from an image, know what the tools actually do and how to alter them, or even the actual reason you are doing anything in the program. You only need to select an area, use a single check-box…”Content Aware”, and hit delete. It’s like magic.
Apart from the image manipulator, you no longer need a good photographer either who has the ability to see the issues that may arrise in the shot before they even take it. Oh well, I guess the new wave of Art Majors studying fields that use Photoshop will have an easier time with their projects. Maybe that’s just it, I’m bitter I didn’t have this option available to me. Enjoy your easier image manipulations kids, now maybe you’ll have to think more conceptually.
Not one for poetry and performance art it’s actually quite surprising that I found the work of Rives as riveting and thought provoking as I did. That being said, I’m posting three videos on my site about him. There isn’t a whole lot to say other than this is the first performance artist/poet to really catch my eye, even through all those years as an art major at Northern Michigan University I was never able to really grasp the art of spoken word outside of music. The following has changed that.
Rives remixes TED 2006
The first comes from TED Conference 2006 in February of 2006. It’s an amazing imagery of what the TEDers will do once they leave the conference, and what we should all do when we have the spark of a new or life changing idea…share it.
I have added a few new sites to my portfolio. The first was a mockup of a site, and the other was implemented for a short while, but the site was later closed and the live theme was removed and deleted. Stop in and check them out.
As some people may know, it’s difficult to get your artwork out to a community of buyers. It is particulary diffucult in a small town that has a very traditional art community. In order to help get my name out, I’ve started selling work over at RedBubble.com.
Please stop by there and check it out. There are a TON of great artists on there that you can support and critique if you would like.
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