A single apple was photographed from various positions, then brought into Photoshop and animated across three panels. This is what happens when Cezanne discovers rasterization…

Scatter brushes made using offset concentric circles in various hues and two generic German words. Oh horrible hedonism!

A simplistic cartoon-motif has been enhanced through the use of custom swatch patterns created in Illustrator. These demons are fun!

Another sketchbook sample, this one combining text, graphics, and a photo taken near Greifswalderstr. in Berlin.

A screen capture of an Illustrator work file created in October, 2007, featuring liberal use of custom swatch patterns and scatter brushes.

THE EXPERIMENT: Taking a page from my own work in the realm of experimental text, this sequence makes use of the notion of “process”, by taking and repeating a “source file” through a series of filters and gates.

• A sequence of ten boxes was drawn on a grid using the Metallic swatches.
• Over a series of 11 steps, a variety of filters were applied (see captions for more).

VR LINK OF THE DAY: John F. Simon Jr. — digital and code/info artist.

THE EXPERIMENT:

• A pixelated parody of an ancient script font called German Blackletter was created by tracing an example alphabet, using black squares on a grid.
• For #2, this was given rounded corners, then multiplied with green stroke colors to create the “glow”.
• #3: Playing around with the “dashed line” feature of the Stroke options, using a 1-pixel dash at various spacings and stroke weights.

VR LINK OF THE DAY: Adi Da’s “Da Plastique” — The controversial guru is also a phenomenal digital artist — Who knew?!

THE EXPERIMENT:

• A photo of George W. Bush was downloaded from Google Image Search, and the background was removed using the Magic Wand tool.
• The Stamp Tool was then used to create multiple copies of various facial features, starting from the center and moving out.
• The resulting layer was duplicated several times, shifted in position on each layer, and changed to “Multiply” or “Overlay”-style transparencies.

VR LINK OF THE DAY: Mazooka — very cool design and fashion label here in Berlin.

THE EXPERIMENT:

• A series of Scatter Brushes were created, 8 in total. These are each either a black or white square at varying opacities and brush spacing.
• The words “RUM DYAD AGAIN” were created and outlined.
• Each word was repeated horizontally a number of times, with each repetition given a different scatter brush.

VR LINK OF THE DAY: Turbo Milk — beautiful 3D icons and toons!

THE EXPERIMENT:

• Take a photo of a building, preferably with multiple colors on a nice day with good light.
• Select small, narrow sections of the photo with the marquee tool.
• Stretch these out using Tranform (Apple-T for Mac users). Work from the center out.
• Repeat, including stretching out previously stretched-out areas.

VR LINK OF THE DAY: Photoshop Tennis.