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Tuesday, 28 June 2022

June 28, 2022

The Tuesday Night drawing group of Santa Fe drew both in person and on Zoom at the new Argos Gallery/Studio location. They arranged a hybrid real/virtual drawing session because we are still coming out of Covid. I drew south from Albuquerque, someone else drew north from Taos; and someone else drew way north from Wisconsin.

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New Mexico Spadefoot Tadpoles

It has been raining for the past week and the New Mexico Spadefoot Toads are out again like I saw two years ago (see the end of this blog post).

New Mexico Spadefoot Tadpole

On June 28th I saw a lots of tadpoles swimming in a temporary pool behind Quelab.

New Mexico Spadefoot tadpoles

in an ephemeral pond behind Quelab

I first checked the standing water further down the rail tracks, two blocks west, where I found the tadpoles two years ago in 2020. This pond was teaming with Triops, but no tadpoles this year.

Triops

Triops swimming over toad eggs?

And WHAT is this?

Saturday, 25 June 2022

June 21, 2022

John Tollett drew this pose live,

while I drew it on Zoom from a laptop screen

Holly Grimm sent us this drawing

in real time using Zoom chat

Animations:

PhotoMosh (Slices and Edges on)

EzGif.com

LunaPic (Jittery Blur)

EzGif.com

I am wondering if I could use Augmented Reality to overlay these animations on the static image. Specifically I would like to do this with a relief print image. I think the experience would be more powerful if the background of the animation were transparent, if that were possible.

Off-Centereds:

Holly Grimm minted a generative NFT and gave it to me -- from The Room of Infinite Paintings:

I now own this NFT

of "Infinite Painting #412"

So naturally I had to transfer that style and colors to one of my drawings:

Deep Dream Generator

Just to be cheeky, I transferred the style of the Ascii art in the "Solidity Contract Code" to my drawing:

Style source:

Ascii art embedded in the code

Deep Dream Generator

Combination Style Source

above the AI Result

The Ascii style does not nullify the ephemeral flavor of my aesthetic. I'm thinking of naming my next book -- "85 Drawings in Astatine Space" -- after the rarest and ephemeral element Astatine (85).

Lasercut Variations

I cut the above drawing out on the LaserPecker (on a 76x76 mm wood square):