Monday, June 29, 2015
baby caladiums
They're the cutest little things. This rectangular planter is loaded with a layer of bulbs for these things. Three contrasting types. This is just the very beginning. I can see groups of spears coming out of the dirt. It's going to get crowded. When as a kid and I would draw a jungle then this is the shape leaf I imagined jungles had most of. These plants are turning out to be fun. I recommend them.
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I looked up the origin of the name, because it sounded like a chemical element. I was disappointed.
I thought it was a venereal disease for infants.
I REALLY enjoyed everything about that. Your greatest post ever, Chip.
Okay, I'm stumped. How did you turn an evolving drawing into a photograph?
Ricpic, Rotoscoping with Photoshop. I think.
The photo started first as background. A bit is traced onto a transparent layer. Layer copied, and another bit drawn, copied and another bit drawn. copied and another bit drawn, so on for 100 or so layers.
The original photograph moved to the top. Copied 8 times. Opacity adjusted for each photograph layer, 15%, 25%, 35%, 50% and so on to unadjusted 100%.
The last frame in the drawing sequence is also copied 8 times for the background to the 15%, 25%, 35% etc photograph frames. For a smooth transition from drawing to frame.
Upon saving you have a choice: Save as transparency? No.
Anything that is transparent will be white. Anything 15% opacity will be 85% white and so forth but that won't happen to us because we made backgrounds of the last drawing layer.
It was fun to trace. Very childish.
How did you turn an evolving drawing into a photograph?
This is what caught my attention, with the wonder of wow replacing the how.
Watching these shoots and leaves form to eventually morph into the pictured photo at the end made me smile at the surprise of seeing a reverse process take place, opposite of the look-at-a-photo-and-turn-it-into-a-recognizable-representation way of doing art. Yet it accurately revealed the creative process, where Spirit hovers over emptiness and that vibration unlocks potential and prompts growth to happen and new realities to emerge.
While the early bird got here first to release a burst of Whatcheerful Ebullience that can't be topped, I'll add my enjoyment to his appreciation, while hesitating to attach the label of greatest to a depiction of Genesis that reveals what happens over and over a gazillion times or more in the minutes, hours, days and years of time. Maybe that qualifies as greatest, who knows? I'll stick with enjoyable. And good.
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