Thanks Josiah, I was thinking about a sculpture at Yorkshire sculpture park by Julian Opie of a horse running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0le-E2wZ-c Opie had the idea from seeing a small LED toy in a taxi Alex On 12 November 2017 at 16:47, @TiddlyTweeter <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex Hough, via Twitter, announced a very impressive TW "Postcard" ... > https://alexhough.github.io/post-card-teggs-nose-joy-division.html > > I was very struck by how very good it is as an ART achievement. > > Restricting the "canvas" to just showing a "postcard" is also an excellent > example use of TW static render. > > _ART & CANVAS_ > > One of the central issues in visual art-making is "what is the canvas?" > Another way of saying "what are the constraints?" Its pretty important. Art > never really emerges without a "fitting" of some kind or another into > something that is usually, at the end, highly constrained. > > Often its thought that good art comes from open-ended enquiry. That is > true only to an extent. The stubborn nature of matter matters too. Tight > constraint hones forming. Get the relevant constraints clearer and you are > halfway there. > > Traditionally in painting you'd need master both the handling of brush and > paint and paper/canvas AND the conception of the "WORK" -- often a series > of paintings: a directed landing of brush on surfaces with boundaries. > > Part of the issue on the web is HOW to get to the point of enough mastery > of its "brushes" (codings) to find free expressive flow to achieve similar. > > TiddlyWiki is interesting to re-think as a visual art-environment. Its > "paint-brush rich" in that there are several types of "coding brush" > immediately accessible. > > I thought what Alex did very suggestive of how artists might use TW better > to more fruitfully explore their liminals. > > _"POSTCARD" CONSTRAINT _ > > Very interesting is the obvious sense of "freedom" in Alex's image whilst > its simultaneously bounded in a very tight minimalist framing. That is > unusual. Usually you'd see such a blob as an "orphan page". Not this. Its > already complete. In that sense it IS somewhat like a physical painting in > the way one receives it. A repletion of meaning. > > It illustrates that presentation and content are strongly inter-related. > In this case the minimalism is well suited to bring fore the uumph. > > _MY INTEREST_ > > I'm very interested in all this. I strongly believe that some art-centric > work can really help TW visualise what it can do. The thing about artists > is, in the end, they are mostly concerned with expression of content. > Coders tend to see code itself as their "art-form" and discussion tends to > focus on that as the "content". Visual artists tend to see technique/coding > as a means to an expressive end ... i.e. just process steps that sub-serve. > Of course its not so simply divided like that. But there is some truth in > it and appreciation of ends is good too--especially when they excite you. > > Just thoughts > Best wishes > Josiah > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/tiddlywiki/97efe09a-1bbd-474e-aaf7-8ba00abc1aed%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/97efe09a-1bbd-474e-aaf7-8ba00abc1aed%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CALc1hYdwa6mUhn4G7J%2BXAq93OmTi3XOr%3DVY2_prDrvnD8JgDbg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
