Velodynamic
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Posted: Aug. 03 2007, 14:33 |
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Quote (Matt @ Aug. 03 2007, 11:24) | I like it, though the lighting on the foreground spheres doesn't seem to match with the glow being in the centre of the rings of spheres? Or is that just me being CGI-pedantic... |
Well I think that it's just one interesting thing about this image. Too really put my analytical glasses on my thoughts are these...Where exactely is this orange/red glow? Is it in the middle of the sphere formation, is it behind the formation or in front of it? It's like some kind of glowing mist floating around everywhere in the middle of the image, surrounding the whole scene, perhaps in a dimension you can only feel and to me it gives a "hot" feeling to this artwork because of the colors. The formation of spheres looks to me like a pair of circles crossing each others paths and are lit from a light source somewhere from below the image and I feel like I would like to "bend" these two rings a bit so they're 90 degrees straight against each other where they're crossing each others paths, like a strong human need to create order in the chaos. On the other hand if you're not thinking of it as a 3-D image but rather in flat 2-D the sphere formation can also look like the form of two hearts, one straight and one upside down.
Of course I couldn't keep my fingers away from the image the first time I saw it and took it directly into my Photoshop software and then it's like a whole new world opens up. There're millions and millions of things and combinations you can do with this picture. This is actually why I think the basic concept of this artwork is so frigging brilliant. Without any softwares it is your brain and mind creating all those mystical illusions and it really triggers your creativity, kind of suck you in and it makes me want to look at it for a long period of time everytime I see this artwork. It's not very complicated to make but that's not the point...simple solutions use to be the best, less is more. That wasn't the case with the tubular bells symbole either...the hard part I think is how to come up with these very special forms...how to think 'before' you're making the actual artwork. In this case it had a theme, "music of the spheres" and with all the song titles in my head while looking at the cover artwork I have to say that everything fits perfectly together. I think it feels like the overall concept are becoming stronger and stronger. Now it feels like it's up to the musical part to "prove" that...and that can't have been an easy nut to crack I would guess.
Ok, so these're the thoughts this artwork gives me and no...I'm not that drunk...yet I hope.
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