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Thank you for the scans...having a blast.

Wish you were here.

Care to battle?

nice volley persist , where do you get the images from ?

That is some really nice imagery you have there

Typical Persist genius me thinks.

It makes me feel strange in a very good way. I love the elements that seem to permeate through all your work. Keep it up.

thanks.
I wonder if ari will respond.

*waits

if not I'll open up the battle to anyone who takes.

I'm in!

Hope there's no rush...

I'm glad the "la Science et la Vie" scans are coming in handy... this ought to be fun.

Yeah no rush for sure.

I have been messing with the scans for some time, but haven't been happy with the results. I think it's because they didn't do much on the landscapes. So the scans force me to do something different. I liked the one I did and thought that it would be a fine battle start.

beautiful

I sense a dada mechanistic revolution!

ANyway, I know we're both super busy at work so no rush - but here's my return. Lots to work with in your first post. Hope this one works as well for you as yours did for me.

Incroyable.


Instantly makes me think of Kafka's Metamorphosis.

nice one arigato

Nice shit, both of you.

Sorry, this volley is so soon?
I promise I won't do it again.

Persist - be as fast as you wanna be. I like.
Interseting construction - I find it oddly intriguing how you have left areas of the yellow paper showing in the negative spaces.... oddly compelling... That ultra subtle placement of the thorny vine is suh-weet.

Something reminiscent of emergent fractal patterns overall, and the little assemblages by Cornell. Again, plenty to work with.


As to the comments so far -
Thanks guys, I've been wanting to rock out steady with Persist for a while now, I think our styles will play off of each other well even though our approaches are very different.

Originally posted by arigato

Interseting construction - I find it oddly intriguing how you have left areas of the yellow paper showing in the negative spaces.... oddly compelling... That ultra subtle placement of the thorny vine is suh-weet.

I have found that the CS magic wand, for whatever reasons, has been greatly improved over Photoshop 6. I have been over using it, to see what fragments it leaves behind (evidence of its previous life?) and how far I can push the tool itself. My recent work involves so much removal of backgrounds (Foreground revival?), that the improvement of the magic wand is a welcome one and speeds up my process.

As for the vine, I thought it was such a bully move on your part, I wanted to use it in some way. I thought your original use of the vine shape was right on the edge of acceptable. If it had been slightly out of position it wouldn't have worked. Then you made it high contrast. That was pretty risky, but you pulled it off. So yeah, I thought it would be unfair to not pay it some homage.

Thanks, I wanted to include a really graphic element and I had the vine sitting around from something else I'm working on - it's like that borderline punk/art nouveau thing Dada often seems to ride so I thought I'd give it a try. I did sweat a bit placing it, let me tell you.

looking good guys.

great work so far guys!

Feeling a bit psychedelic.