Bruno Gentile, an inspirational concept artist/illustrator has shared with us a couple video tutorials showing how he made the following images:
Processes can be found at:
http://www.hydropix.com/tutorial.htm
Thank him too š
Being unaware of the potential WordPress had to offer, I simply installed it to /blog of the root of āmattvogt.comā. Most people’s portfolio/tutorialio sites have a blog that they share their news and thoughts etc… My entire site is my blog (without the complaining).
Doing this spawned an issue: How do I get people to go from mattvogt.com to mattvogt.com/blog ?
For your information, Google doesn’t index URLs that use 301 redirects by writing a htaccess file in the root (oops).
For the time being, my site isn’t listing in Google because of the above experiment (Read why here). I’m currently trying php forward that can be found at the bottom in the link below:
http://www.seocompany.ca/seo/url-redirect.html
The ball’s in Google’s court now….
The best time of the year is upon us. Nature varies her colors and I get excited to go snowboarding.
I finished a painting using the Fibonacci spiral as a composition tool. The ratio used for creating such a spiral is one of those “found everywhere” ratios that even the greeks used in there building plans. Flowers, our finger’s porportions and the way people increase mentally show signs of this spiral/ratio. Reminds me of a shell, nevertheless you can get the files here:
http://mattvogt.com/images/Fibonacci_spiral.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fibonacci_spiral.svg
Looking for an open source vector program? Try Inkscape
Also if you want to impress ladies walking by your desk, you can read some interesting things about how it works and where else it’s found in nature here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
This link, thanks to Jon (http://surrient.com), has some amazing discoveries as well:
http://www.miqel.com/fractals_math_patterns/visual-math-phi-golden.html
The final!
I blew off the dust of my old art archive!Ā My photoshop artwork from grade 12 (2003) is now online!Ā This definitely deserves front page:
Click above to check out paint gallery!
The last month I’ve been getting up a couple hours before work and painting some art which will be auctioned off. This was great – I commited myself to submitting art which resulting in strong a focus and all proceeds go to help the youth!
A day away from drawing, you’ll notice the difference. Two days away from drawing, everyone notices a difference!
-John Delaney
What do you have to do? If you asked me at the start of April I would probably pull out a massive list. The list would have around 50 thoughts on it, scribbles, coffee stains, easy tasks crossed out… and difficult tasked darkened with ink from me doing multiple pen passes pondering when I’d get these terrible tasks out of the way…
http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
Thanks to Jon (of Surrient) finding out about this handy tool, I now have a spell check on any editable text on any website, even a search box! Although nothing beats dictionary dot com, this does save time checking in browser opposed to copying and pasting into openoffice! Simple setup, just make sure you download your language pack(s) by using the bottom right drop down menu.
