Long time no pics - here 's a poss. idea, FWIW 2004-03-22 - By Kris Krieger
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At 10:06 AM 20-03-2004, Erik Trasti wrote:
>Thanks.. Lighting & composition was the main focus of that pic. Just
>trying to brush off the cobwebs as I have not had any time for TS
>in a while.
See, you do it the smart way. My "thing" is that I always end up
escalating the simplest thing into some huge (heh, maybe one could say
"grandios" <g>) plan(s) that is just about impossible to finish <g>!
>I guess I'm exercising my artistic license on the pins
>(the ones in my office are cheapos too!) Hard to do a 3d pic and
>not shove something shiny/reflective in there..hehe.
I think it's human nature - part of a "collective subconscious" sort of
thing that wants to include something that is symbolically indicative of
water (which, for millenia, also has been a fairly world-wide symbol for
the subconscious and things related to it).
well, I can't point a finger <G!>, because I cannot do a scene without
using multilayered textures, bumps, *and* refelctances. My thing is "shiny
stuff peeking out from among the dull stuff on an object" or visa versa.
Heer's an idea I just thought of as I finished typing the above. One thing
that might do could be to make the pins normal, but then model one of those
symbolic Chinese New Year tassels - I'm sure you've seen them, there is
usually a tassel of bright red cord, cinched with a bright gold-colored
band and often with a Chinese character molded also out fo the gold metal
(I think the character is the name ofthe animal-year?), with a gold bead on
top of the tassel, and sometimes with small figurines of the animal for
that year, then some elaborate knotwork ("macrame'"), and then the hanging
loop.
If you did the cording to be silk cord, the metal to be brilliant gold or
brass, and then the animals to be something interesting, maybe Jade,
Jadeite, or even antique ivory, and then make the whole thing look
antiqued, you could use a pin to hang that on your cork board, and then
maybe add a photo of someone plus another wherein you could use PSP or
whatever graphics prog you use to create a "montage" of you and that person
and in the background, maybe a Chinese-style building and garden, and,
since the human eye/mind sees odd numbers as being more "active" and
visually interesting, just to get in the third paper element, maybe an
envelope addressed to you that has been opened but then the letter refolded
and put back inside, and *Voila'!*, you have an image with contrasting
textures, plus someng shiny <g>, and on top of it all, a "story" as well ;)
. Title it something like "Memories of a Year Long Ago" or some such thing.
Of course, there I go again escalating something simple into some big
elaborate plan =:-o ! Meanwhile, I *still* have not yet loaded up my
revamped website....so much for plans <L>!
- Kris
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