davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[Alliecat]

Yay, dinosaur week!
I watched another "Jurassic" movie the other night on TV... always fun to see the dinosaurs but I can see why it got just 2 stars, not much of a plot, most of the movie was people screaming and running away from dinosaurs, and some plot logic holes a T-Rex could run through    Back to the well, and the well is dry.

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No.  Cos it doesn't really interest me.  I'm much more interested in the organic artistic process done by people handling materials and putting something of themselves into the art, than in computer programming.  Over the lifespan of the Maine tourism magazine I wrote for, I interviewed a couple dozen artists -- painters/potters/sculptors/carvers/tile/textile -- and I'm much more interested in hearing about their philosophies and techniques over hours of work than about what bits of computer code someone used to generate an image.  They were genuinely intriguing interviews and even if I didn't like their art style, after talking to them I at least understood why they did it that way.

The lack of organic participation in the process was what put me off digital photography for so long and is still something I miss doing; I miss my all-manual Pentax K-1000.  I've recovered the participation a bit with the low-light light-painting stuff -- manipulating the light is fun.

I guess they are OK for fantasy art, but, yeeahhh, those aren't functional ships or bits of rigging.  I don't think ever in the history of sailing ships has there been a stern gallery at the bow. 
Just doesn't float my boat