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Blog . Stephen Winter
..on signs of intended ruin
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Eight months ago I used for a while a payed VPN service to watch British TV. Now I was interested in how Tor works, in general and for the case I would really need it, not for watching TV. – But it ended up in trying just that.
My favorite tool makes use of the filtering system of OS X (Smart Folders) for filtering the notes/ bookmarks by tags, text strings, by excluding individual tags (boolean) etc. ..
Very fast, very neat, most indispensable.
The Guardian and Wired use derogatory naming as web pages' category: 'Hacking' resp. 'Threatlevel'.
Ars Technica calls it 'Civilization and Its Discontents' – sounds intellectual but intends downplaying rather...
In the final result "3D" is either about engineering or about lighting, shadows, surface texture and perspective projection .. – not what I want. This blog post tells (beside listing CAD software) how I got loose from CAD.
My photographs are exercises for myself (my eyes) in finding balance and proportion. They are not about current events, authenticity or contemporary photography. – In most cases the more square aspect ratio is important for balance.
Basic ideas. – Some of my thoughts on art, on digital painting, on teaching art etc.
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My fake draft for a stained-glass church window
Both the church and the artist fondly hope to get increase in prestige by a stained-glass window deal. – And on both sides it is hypocrisy in terms of motivation.
Later I realised Photoshop builds its brush strokes just the same way from little circles inside the stroke's structure. — I invented for myself this basic principle of digital paint strokes not knowing the insides of Photoshop.
2008/ 2009 I tried to preserve some 3D aspects in my graphical work and to turn the computer-generated 3D shapes into decorative plane structures. But in the end 3D was a deadlock for graphic art.
人们说艺术是什么，艺术就是什么。
成功建造登月火箭或发现青霉素，这与意见看法无关。
艺术反而相反——如果什么东西没在社会上被大肆宣传，那它就不是艺术。所以艺术是非常有依赖性的。——艺术根本不自由。
Two prints that show the difference between effort and art. The comparison was a harsh eye-opener for me. "Cutty Stool" was my first (within five minutes made) drawing on a comuter (after a few test strokes on a Photoshop canvas) ..
Robert Walser: "Plötzlich gingen die Wände... Ein Wald von Eichen flog herein..., aber ich sank: der Felsen war weich wie ein Stück Tuch, gab nach, senkte sich mit mir, dem Klammernden, dem Abgrund zu."
Bau der experimentellen Kernfusionsreaktoren ITER und Wendelstein 7-X. — Jedem ist klar, dass die bewilligten 10Mrd EURO unbedingt für das Gegenteil von ITER auszugeben wären. Außer der Wissenschaftspolitik. (it's in German)
..nur die Synapse existiert. – Ist das ein neuer erkenntnis- theoretischer Ansatz oder schlicht Blödsinn? Es wäre das selbe, zu sagen "Die Existenz existiert nicht." – Meine Kritik zum 'Manifest der Neurowissenschaftler' (it's in German)
