Art

I made art! It's been a while. MetaChat, an offshoot of a site I frequent, sometimes does exquisite corpses. You get the leftmost 15 pixels of the previous person's image, which becomes the rightmost 15 pixels of your image. My section, inspired by my friend Jeff's "automatic collages" and enabled by source advice from my favorite art historian, uses chunks of prints from Hendrick Goltzius, Wenceslas Hollar, Jacques Callot, and Bronzino, with additions from a Wisconsin plumber's website.

It's been a long time since I've done anything art-related (not counting filmmaking). A long time ago, I made a few collages, and I did a few logos for Shane's Interdenominational Hockey League. But this is the first time I've used Photoshop "properly": layers, the rectangle tool, light effects, etc. It was a lot of fun, and I think I'll be doing more of them.

Update: I did another one! (I should mention that the reason there's a naked person in the center of each composition is that the exquisite corpses have the theme "How naked go the sometimes nude," from a poem by Robert Burns.)