It’s mind-blowing isn’t it?!! I love the idea of randomness within generative art. And I even love the implicit ephemerality here, the fact that it’s temporary, that it exists only for a small window of time and, unless you get a screen shot, it never will again.
It’s so much fun to play with and Sascha is such a great person. When I told him I was working on this, he gave me access to a hi-res version of the site so I could get better quality images. He even changed the refresh rate so I would have longer to collect the images. Definitely looking forward to working with this more.
Thanks for your kind words on “a dark wave breaking”, that was another fun experiment. It was an image I photocopied from a magazine at the library and cut into varying strips. The idea was to assemble something in an almost grid like way but to have the aspects of the strips defy the grid. For once, it seems to have actually worked out, lol.
It is and I had to really go look into Sascha's work now, excited to learn more. I'm amazed that I'm still stumbling on work that I get to explore like this (thank you Substack!) and hope that never ends! You're both new to me, so fun to do.
I remember doing an interview with Max-o-matic a while back where he talked about The Engine that creates collage using generative art but I'm struggling to remember all of the details, I'll have to dig it up and revisit.
Love your style Duane and look forward to reading/seeing more!
I thought it might be fun to experience a lesson in evanescence 😁 ... but what's really weird is that I build this little tool just for fun and now people – like the amazing Duane Toops – are using it and unless they take a screenshot even I will never see what they saw. Not to mention all the Unsplash photographers who will very likely never know that their work made it into artworks by other artists ...
There's something so poetic and insightful about the fleeting nature of the structure. It's an apt metaphor for life, for Being, perhaps even for existence as a whole. A collection of unrepeatable instances that fade almost as soon as they start to flicker. Capturing them and using them, becomes an exercise in memory, in recalling, in reminiscing. Remembering is always an act of creativity, it's always a kind of transformation, something that changes with time and experience and perspective, and eventually it changes us too. i didn't even realize how rich this experiment would be until I started. Thanks again for giving me so much to work with!
'To care more about the 'how' of the making, rather than the 'what' of the made.' ⚡
Much appreciated! Glad that stuck out to you! I think that’s the catalyst for everything with me.
This is new to me and I'm going to learn more about it! And "a dark wave breaking" -- stunning, stunning work!
It’s mind-blowing isn’t it?!! I love the idea of randomness within generative art. And I even love the implicit ephemerality here, the fact that it’s temporary, that it exists only for a small window of time and, unless you get a screen shot, it never will again.
It’s so much fun to play with and Sascha is such a great person. When I told him I was working on this, he gave me access to a hi-res version of the site so I could get better quality images. He even changed the refresh rate so I would have longer to collect the images. Definitely looking forward to working with this more.
Thanks for your kind words on “a dark wave breaking”, that was another fun experiment. It was an image I photocopied from a magazine at the library and cut into varying strips. The idea was to assemble something in an almost grid like way but to have the aspects of the strips defy the grid. For once, it seems to have actually worked out, lol.
Thanks again!
It is and I had to really go look into Sascha's work now, excited to learn more. I'm amazed that I'm still stumbling on work that I get to explore like this (thank you Substack!) and hope that never ends! You're both new to me, so fun to do.
I remember doing an interview with Max-o-matic a while back where he talked about The Engine that creates collage using generative art but I'm struggling to remember all of the details, I'll have to dig it up and revisit.
Love your style Duane and look forward to reading/seeing more!
Hey Elyse’, thank you, really appreciate it! I've never used Substack before and now it looks like I have a deep rabbit hole ahead of me 😁
So great to see you here! You won’t believe how deep this one goes! haha!
You won't be disappointed by anything you find Sascha doing, that's for sure! Discovery is the absolute best part of anything!
The collage engine sounds amazing! If you manage to find it, please let me know! I'd love to check that out!
Thanks again Elyse', I really appreciate it!
Every twenty seconds! Half the days I can't even find my scissors or glue in that time. 🤣
I know, right?! It’s crazy. I had to be quick to take screenshots!
I thought it might be fun to experience a lesson in evanescence 😁 ... but what's really weird is that I build this little tool just for fun and now people – like the amazing Duane Toops – are using it and unless they take a screenshot even I will never see what they saw. Not to mention all the Unsplash photographers who will very likely never know that their work made it into artworks by other artists ...
There's something so poetic and insightful about the fleeting nature of the structure. It's an apt metaphor for life, for Being, perhaps even for existence as a whole. A collection of unrepeatable instances that fade almost as soon as they start to flicker. Capturing them and using them, becomes an exercise in memory, in recalling, in reminiscing. Remembering is always an act of creativity, it's always a kind of transformation, something that changes with time and experience and perspective, and eventually it changes us too. i didn't even realize how rich this experiment would be until I started. Thanks again for giving me so much to work with!