P.I.P.

"This is a picture in a picture; a phrase within a phrase." Brief bracketing of audio and video in this performance piece; my wife calls this "tongue in cheek" production my "infantile regression."

Slice Two

http://adventuresincreativity.net/slicetwo3.wmv (4 min.)


This digital re-mix continues slicing. This time you become gradually aware that a four-sided pyramid placed in front of moving images is imperceptively sliced. Beneath the very thin images other hidden slices move to their own beat, the Unconscious becomes Conscious.

Slice One

http://adventuresincreativity.net/sliceone.wmv (4 min.)

This digital re-mix might be called “The Creative Adventure” meets “I Ching - the Book of Changes.” I took original paintings, collages and graphic images from my two-hour video, The Creative Adventure, and sliced and spliced them into a video montage. I used custom created filters, accidental juxtapositions and other chance elements in this composition. As a semi-abstract video artist, I began with the whole and worked towards the details, even with the music. This was not a linear process-- what was at the beginning ended up in the end or somewhere in the middle.

I find the use of chance in the digital re-mix puts things together in ways I had not anticipated, but I believe the aesthetic dimension is choosing what to keep and what to discard. As Robert Rauschenberg said, “The drips maybe accidental, but I choose which ones to keep.”

Some changes in my website

I have redesigned my website so that my latest projects and thoughts will be on this blog, and my website, www.adventuresincreativity.net will separate the material into topics such as videos, art, photography, music, poetry, books, inventions, wellness, workshops, inventions and innovations. The "Adventures in Creativity Multimedia Magazine" E-zine will be replaced by this blog.

Before I discovered the blog, I was putting New Projects on a separate webpage. You might check out what was current the summer of 2006; but the blog formate seems more appropriate now for more rapidly changing material.

Colorblind

http://adventuresincreativity.net/video.htm

I am beginning to offer a video blog of original images and sound. The painting, photographs and video as well as the music and soundscapes I created for your enjoyment.

The latest offering is Colorblind. This video based upon my poem, “Colorblind,” takes video art to a higher level. Created with customized computer filters, novel flowing arrangements of flower shapes, with music improvised with soft-synths, this psychological journey will fascinate you. (20 min.)

I find it works well in windows media player and is a wmv file.

Installation at Boulder Creek

This new video short, Installation at Boulder Creek, is greatly influenced by some of the classes I am auditing at the University of Colorado. I made it anticipating my Energy Show along with 2 other artists at the St. John’s Art Gallery this November and December.

Mark Amerika:
Time varies--it is speeded up, slowed down and reversed, as joggers and bikers run the creek path. Images are connected like the individuals followed in the movie, “Slacker”

Jim Palmer:
The Jungian influence of the shadow and the negative space as well as a subtle spinning rose mandala. Water the symbol of the collective unconscious. The male runner moves toward his anima shadow. The heroic size of the images suggests the hero’s quest. But you can’t help ignore the Freudian Cali Lily implication of sexuality.

Dan Boord:
Notice little things especially the pigeons in the last scene. The ABCA’ form of the music, the subtle repeats. The participation in the video of the artist, the dance of the installer.

Julie Murray:
The poetic association of the images.

Don Yannacito: Speeding up and slowing down the pace, repetition of images, poetic association of images. Extreme close-ups so the source is not easily identified.

Non-narrative Space-time.

Thinking about non-narrative space-time, two versions come to mind:

I was exploring the possibilities of creating the appearance of movement with fractured images that never move. These cloud-like images are timed with music. There is no story. See my new video, "DeFlowered in Purple" [2 min]

Flowers so ephemeral, yet timeless.



Oil 30" x 30"
I remember daisies as a child; they haven’t changed as I have gotten older. My representation of them has; now they are larger, heroic in size, a contemporary take, a spatial shift.

Words, words, words

[Background improv for today ]

Probably no one.

Now it is so easy

to put words, images, sound

out there,

there are now more writers

than readers [fact]

Who/what are we writing for?

Write to find out what is right

or to maintain what is wrong--

what right is that?

Words, words, words

If everyone with a thought

picture, photo, sound--

journals in the new media
Where is the art?

“a computer screen produces nothing but electronic impulses. Press a key and
it's all gone, press a few others and it's radically changed.”

Is what is collaged together
More than the some [intended]
Of its parts
Or just parts shuffled together
sometimes?

Maybe its just juggling concepts

See "Concrete Poetry: fun with letters and concepts"

Copy and paste--

What’s the difference from plagiarism?

Encorporation

He swallowed me whole
Then wondered why
He has
a stomach ache.

Where’s the beef?

Is it too small

or not small enough
to digest
into your own?

The new Trashcan School of Art,
Garbage in, garbage out
Or can you make a sow’s ear
into a silk purse?

J.H.Poincare (1854-1912), (cited in H.E.Huntley, The
Divine Proportion, Dover, 1970)
The mathematician does not study pure
mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he
delights in it because it is beautiful

See more of my art at Best of Colorado Art Festival Sept 17 and 18 North side of Canyon at 10th Street in downtown Boulder, CO

What happened to

Aesthetics in contemporary art?

Is the beautiful dead?

What happens when the concept

is more important

Than the object conceited?

Is it just the conceit

Of the author.

Maybe what we need
is less words

Digital Sonnet 2001

John G. Young

Thoughts to the world

Strange to write to an unknown reader for the first time, entering the blogsphere. Who is reading this, besides me, seeing my thoughts?