Abstract Art & Birthday Events

May 15, 2007 at 9:28 pm · Filed under art

To Dear That Frolicksome Kid,

Thank you for the challenge with your double tags.

I didn’t deal too well with the Jackson Pollock simulator, it made my body very agitated. No control over the flow of the pen, and even more stressful for me - no control over the colour. My journey began with a very frustrated;

“Grrr…grrr, just give me the bloody red colour for once!” *lol*

The experience was just like that pink pig in the movie Toy Story 2 - mashing out the buttons at high speed trying to catch a specific channel, but because he’s going too fast, he misses the channel, then he has to cycle through all the stations until he gets it again.

Couldn’t accept the pollock-sim outcome as any kind of art, of mine – as no tangible meaning could be derived out of it. The end-result was processed via photoshop, leaving me with a very accurate “blah” of what the experience was like for me;

3 Events that occured on December 4th

  • 1959 - A monkey returns to Earth safely, after being launched 55 miles high into outer space by the United States space program.
  • 1980 - The rock group Led Zeppelin formally announces its breakup.
  • 2006 - Adult giant squid was finally caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo. (hey, that sounded like fun - so where’s the video footage?)

    • 2 Births

  • 1892 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)
  • 1976 - Kristina Groves, Canadian speed skater (as old as me if she’s still alive, and i hardly know her)

    • 1 death

  • 1995 - Lionel Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler (b. 1935)

    • Tagging Rambling Rose to visit wikipedia and do a search on her birthdate to reveal 3 events, 2 births & one death.

    3 Comments »

    1. that frolicsome kid said,

      May 16, 2007 @ 3:45 pm

      Hahaha, sorry to know that it gave you such a hard time! :P But it was fun, right? It does take time getting used to it though.

      How did you do the animated GIF? =S I like the first few frames: the orangey abstracts. Yours is still art, a real abstract art. I don’t know much about art, but I heard that the more mysterious and uninterpretable your abstract art is, the better it is, and the more time people will try and interpret it. Lol!

      Hahaha, I can see the “blah”! =P It looks great too! :D

      R’acquel: *lol* It was fun ;) Animated gif was done via photoshop & adobe’s image-ready that’s connected to it ;)

      Lol! Imagine a monkey from outer space coming back to Earth on your birthday. Hahaha! :P

    2. chase said,

      May 17, 2007 @ 10:14 am

      The abstract artwork you made looks fab and i like how you animated it.

    3. rr said,

      May 19, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

      ramblin rose to do it soon… promise…. !!!

      for birthday photos up close go to photobucket :)

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