deviantART: by:ATYL http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:ATYL&section=today deviantART RSS for by:ATYL en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:19:41 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png sequences - statement http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/28205460/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/28205460/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:40:54 PST
After switching mobile phones, I began taking photographs of people during my commute. Originally, they were single, candid shots of faces that caught my attention. Then I began noticing and capturing little things about these people – a look, the press of their lips – and a single photo turned into several, where the output often showed ordered lists of objects/events, with reoccurring elements (people/actions).

Now, in the seconds and if I’m lucky, minutes, I have with these subjects, I shoot in sequences inspired by mathematics, keeping in mind the possibly infinite length of each sequence, whether there is a first or a final element, or neither; and whether subsequences could be made by deleting some of the elements without disturbing the relative positions of the remaining elements. Sometimes, like the Fibonacci series, the elements in the sequences spiral out of control. Other times, they are like Celtic spirals: orderly and predictable. Either way, they represent continuous creation, growth and awareness: of the photographer and expanding outwardly of the world/events around her.

(to see the sequences, visit: www.projectphotocafe.blogspot.com)

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]]> *ATYL loose ends http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/28131747/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/28131747/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:46:22 PST
Today, i seem to be feeling lighter. maybe it's that relative lack of baggage. it's almost like the slate has been wiped clean, and it's ready for new writings.

Can't wait to find out what's in store!!

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]]> *ATYL channeling http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/28005617/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/28005617/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:23:45 PDT
words of warning tho to those watching: work (and possibly working obsessively) also means dumping your in box - let me apologize in advance.

it's going to be messy, but it's going to be good. i can feel it in my gut. i'm still trusting my gut!

peace!

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]]> *ATYL Signs http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/28001543/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/28001543/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:12:29 PDT
maybe the song was fate's way of making me say something, which in turn shall point you to the ramblings.

certainly i thought the church and the museum were signs - significant somehow that you had pointed them out to me, just as you had shown / reminded me of so many of the painters i used to love.

and looking back, had i allowed myself, if i were honest - the signs, they were there...

and in a way, it was appropriate that it was AiOP:Signs, and the moths were "Signs of Our Time"...

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]]> *ATYL NEW WEEK! http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27978333/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27978333/ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:55:23 PDT
i think i'm finding my voice again. maybe 10 years is a long time to step away, but maybe it's a necessary journey/lesson. can't wait to clean up the apt, so i have a place to work, so i can see the new stuff coming out of my hands/head/heart!

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]]> *ATYL Been thinking... http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27923223/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27923223/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:18:22 PDT
very interesting...

oh, btw, if you're reading this, i'm very much having fun being friends and getting to know you more and more, and i hope that doesn't change, no matter what you/we decide after you've had time to process the poems / info or sometime down the road.

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]]> *ATYL 7 hours later http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27899828/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27899828/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:06:15 PDT it's been cathartic.
even if it was somewhat borderline.

today's another day
maybe more good art would come.
already i've done some of my best work.

2 more days til NYC.
yay...

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]]> *ATYL Re: 32nd Street Blues http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27890251/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27890251/ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:32:07 PDT
maybe it's the uncertainty... this unilateral want.

I should delete all these entries but part of me don't want to... and it's not particularly honest.

Ugh. sooo unclear.

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]]> *ATYL orange playground - statement http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27715239/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27715239/ Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:29:25 PDT
In a children’s playground, what do we learn? How does it prepare or affect us as we grow older? These are the questions this series asks.

ATYL 2008-2009

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]]> *ATYL sunday night already! http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27714325/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/27714325/ Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:34:46 PDT
again, i need 96 hour days!!

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]]> *ATYL catching up http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/26373929/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/26373929/ Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:51:12 PDT
once again, i'm art-bombing your new deviations box. sorry! but i want to take advantage of the portfolio feature that i just found. just in time too cuz my web hosting service is about to expire, i think.

ok, back to the grind!

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]]> *ATYL 2 of 8 million things http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24973674/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24973674/ Wed, 27 May 2009 05:15:23 PDT
anyway, I wanted to post a "call for entry" for my latest project: a documentation of transformed barbies, which will also be an on-line juried exhibition of images of the artists-modified dolls at www(dot)barbietransformations(dot)com [link]. also blog page at www(dot)projectbarbietransformations(dot)blogspot(dot)com [link]
if you're interested, or if you know people who might be, please send in images / spread the word!! thanks!!

the other project is huge from my art-making perspective. it's also what i've been obsessed with lately - the silkworm. in the next couple, i'm going to put up everything i have done inspired by the cute little wiggly things to date. please visit www(dot)projectsilkworm(dot)blogspot(dot)com [link]
and comment!

thanks! now back to Lemon+Orange writing!

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]]> *ATYL Bombyx Mori http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24698276/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24698276/ Mon, 11 May 2009 06:04:04 PDT
In fact, so obsessed that I went to the Korean grocery store and bought a can of Beondegi (so i know what they look like, so i can draw them). I think i like the Cantonese-style ones i had better, if one could enjoy bugs "better". my cat though, definitely enjoyed his snack.

anyway, it seems "via italia" of the "poptown" series will have to wait a little...

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]]> *ATYL anti-dumping laws http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24613233/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24613233/ Wed, 06 May 2009 05:45:07 PDT
can you tell the differences between the cities? are they obvious? yes, critique wanted, please!!

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]]> *ATYL testing css http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24457649/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24457649/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:48:00 PDT Journal.gifJournalok, i've been eyeing this css option... being the luddite i am (you can't readily tell from my work, i know :P)... keeping fingers crossed that this 1st go would work! (not bothering with proper labeling etc right now - just testing the codes... oh, and the images are from external gallery: [link])

HOLDING BREATH...

(official DA template used)

Features.gifFeatures
Test Image One!
served_daily_400x400.jpg

Thumb.gifTest Image Two!

dont_look_400x400.jpg

Thumb.gifStill amazed for
Test Image THREE!
lemon_yearbook_277x400.jpg

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]]> *ATYL art 4 sale http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24451906/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24451906/ Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:53:05 PDT
at an art show (nfo xpo) today - partly because i had pieces for sale thru one of the artists' project. it was supposed to be "surplus / bargain" art...

then i was at a shop yesterday trying to figure out the price points for some of my prints...

i used to complain about people selling their art too cheaply and depressing the market/value of art. now i wonder why i think things are overpriced. because i started growing a collection and now the shoe's on the other foot? is that why i'm pricing my stuff more reasonably these days?

i still think it's crazy that you can get art (albeit sometimes sucky art) on *bay for a penny though.

anyway, just totally random thoughts.

it's cool to see so much good art in such a short weekend!

]]> *ATYL WANTED! http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24341283/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24341283/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:52:26 PDT
Then, this morning I finally cracked open the May issue of Art Calendar that's been sitting on the shelf next to my bed. As always, I start with the featured artist article. This painter managed to make a huge splash in something like less than 2 years, featured in magazines and got great press, and she spends 15 hours in the studio every day, and an hour on the 'net. So I automatically started doing the math, and wondering if she'd found the secret time warp that allows her to cram everything else, including marketing, in the remaining 8 hours. Then I see that she has a husband who devotes his time to market and promote her.

Oh, so "the something extremely important in [our] life in common" really should be my success... Plus this person would need to be my muse, cuz seriously, how can a person maintain a relationship (or health, really) in 8 hours/day?

So while I search for my personal Barbie / Ken with rhythm, there really is a point to this entry: I started another deviantart page: barbietransformation (www.barbietransformation.deviantart.com)
So far, I'm collecting deviations that involve transformed barbies. I'm in the process of putting together an on-line juried gallery for work involving transformed barbie and will put out a call for entry soon! So stay tuned and dig out your Barbies and scissors and torture some Barbies --

Barbie Wanted: Dead or Alive!!

]]> *ATYL Branching out! http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24127393/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24127393/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:30:47 PDT )

Here's a bit of the details: They have a 700 seat auditorium should I accept their invitation to talk about my work, and even hold a guest artist workshop!!

YAY! My first significant show outside of CHI!!

I wanna be a tree! A very, very BIG tree!! :D

]]> *ATYL Homeless... http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24106659/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24106659/ Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:17:36 PDT
So I spent a better part of last night looking at doll houses. OMG, never mind the expenses, people have so much time on their hands! And clearly, no cats! I saw this house that really struck a chord - a Victorian called San Franciscan. 7 rooms. 3 floors. pretty, pretty. except i'd like to be able to finish it before i die. :P

(Unfortunately the pre-made ones are either too expensive or too stupid looking or too small...)

Back to the original idea when the muses first visited - i'm going to try to build rooms with clementine boxes. (guess i'll be eating many in the near future) at least i can stack those up; and i already have 2.

Did get some furniture tho. I hope i have the patience enough to put those together!!

"They" just dropped an image - a wall of clementine rooms stacked up like beehives! guess i'll be a very busy bee. haha. :P

]]> *ATYL Barbie Hate? http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24087383/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24087383/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:23:48 PDT
And she asked, "what gruesome thing are you going to do with all your barbies? Are you decapitating yours too? Or are you chopping the bodies up for parts?" I didn't have the heart to tell her neither. :P

So I went away with 20 or so Barbie and other Mattel plus 3 Bratz dolls. and i noticed as i was cleaning them that the Bratz were much better taken care of. i thought maybe it was just that one particular little girl.

then, while researching the above Gumby-Barbie, i found this article: [link]

"As Haskins notes, Barbie is, essentially, a bizarro blank canvas for many girls; her shape and proportions are already ridiculous enough; for many of us, dying her hair and giving her "tattoos" and attaching her arms where her legs used to be was just an outlet for curiosity and creativity, though typing all of these things out makes it seem much creepier than it actually was at the time.

"As Steinberg notes, in 2005, Dr. Agnes Nairn concluded that the "mutilations" taken against Barbie were a symbol that she was, essentially, a "hate figure" for young girls. "The types of mutilation are varied and creative, and range from removing the hair to decapitation, burning, breaking and even microwaving," Nairn wrote, "The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity, and see the torture as a 'cool' activity in contrast to other forms of play with the doll."

Shrinks...

Funny all i ever did was try to blow dry my Kris Munroe doll hair (thereby accidentally frizzing it) and stuff her in a smaller Kelly Garrett doll bodysuit. Would I have done viler things if I had Barbie dolls? Somehow I doubt it. I was much more obsessed with designing clothes for my grandmother to make for them and my stuffed animals. (However I did punch out all the sleeping eye dolls eyes cuz they were just way too creepy for my 3 year old self!) Anyway...

Dang! Now I need to find something else sicker to do with all my Barbies! ;D

]]> *ATYL sometimes i wonder... http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24018267/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/24018267/ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:46:40 PDT
it reminds me of when i was doing fashion shots (undergrad, basically to trade portfolios with models - i have the clothes, they have the body and we both need photos), i'd get the "oh, you didn't bring lights? so-and-so always have x-number" and the hesitant first shooting.

it's interesting that people i shot with the fuji p&s were usually more surprised by the results than the ones i did with the dslr (people including my own mother!) can you tell the difference here: [link]
honestly, unless i look back at the source files, i can't.

if all the pro-cameras suddenly vanished from the world and Annie Leibovitz had to make do with a holga, will she'd still make the same recognizable pics? (yes, that's a rhetorical question :P)

some guy actually told another guy his camera bag doesn't make sense. maybe those weren't "normal" lens lengths, but the pics in his portfolio all made sense.

so sometimes i wonder...

(i also wonder how i could be Leibovitz, but that's another journal entry :P)

]]> *ATYL hello medium format! http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/23998834/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/23998834/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:36:14 PDT
talking to a friend and doing the math... even the cost of a sony A900 could keep me shooting in film for a while.

the shipping included cost of:
- bronica SQa + 80mm 2.8 lens + metered prism + 120 back + polaroid back - $350
- 110mm f4 macro lens - $220
- 2 x 220 back - $90
- extra polaroid back - $30
- waist level finder - $0
- the canonscan 8600f to make 80mb (5200x5200) at 2400dpi (it can do up to 4800x9600dpi) - less than $200
- no annoying camera noise / loss of resolution / cropping-to-square necessary - PRICELESS!

check out the first three scans in the photography folder. they're just snap shots taken on the day of the st. patty's day parade here in chi-town.

]]> *ATYL Analog http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/23977367/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/23977367/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:58:03 PDT
so, instead of doing something cliche, like stopping and smelling the roses, i decided to slow down, step back, and dig out the old cameras. still have to scan the 120/220 films and develop the 35mm, but here are the polaroids!

sometimes it's good to take back the process. :)

]]> *ATYL old and new http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/23753069/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/23753069/ Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:09:15 PDT
]]> *ATYL Reckoning Sara (Tarot Sarai) - Statement http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/21869652/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/21869652/ Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:13:12 PST
Sarai in Hindi refers to a place where travelers meet and swap thoughts. In the Hebrew bible and the Quran, she was a princess who resembled Eve, to whom God gave two-thirds of all beauty and who God deemed worthy to address directly. Meanwhile, Sarah is a dear friend who loves magic and all things spiritual and mystical, who regards the world with goodness and captivates with her infectious laugh.

Put together using various digital media, “Reckoning Sara” is driven by intuition, improvisation and spontaneity. The pieces are executed with minimal planning. Like unboxing Sarai, who was so beautiful that she had to be transported hidden in a chest, the layers are blended and lifted to unmask the beauty within the image and the subjects. By recognizing the tension between humanity and nature, and finding cohesions in counterpoints, these pieces strike a balance between visceral and the cerebral. They capture and examine Beauty.

]]> *ATYL Naked City http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/17662633/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/17662633/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:25:34 PDT
In a naked city of millions, there are many stories; do they show how far we’ve come?

ATYL 2008

]]> *ATYL JUST CitRUX http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/10631526/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/10631526/ Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:30:13 PST
Consisting of third-party commercial 3D models with custom morphs and textures, altered mass-produced children’s toys, digital photography and synthetic paints, Lemon and Orange is also about cycles, repetitions and clones, and technological advancements. Where will progress lead us? To the Holy Grail? Or a promised land of soulless vainglorious plastic existence?

Now, Come to Lemon, and hear Her story –

In the beginning was the Law, and the Law was with God, and the Law was God. And God said, Let us make Man in our own image, after our own likeness: so God created Lemons in Her own image. And God blessed and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth, and subdue it. And to each Lemon God said, Behold, I give you Orange, full of Grace: she shall be your acolyte. And to each Orange, I give a teddy bear Bohdi, for it was Truth: and it was so.

ATYL 2006


Note: so "JUST CitRUX" is the name I'm giving my show, and this, or a variation thereof, is the new statement. what do you think?

]]> *ATYL Plagarism? http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/9782218/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/9782218/ Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:17:29 PDT
Anyhoo, haven't posted for a while - been busy with a ton of stuff, one of which is cropping my Lemon Orange 3D pieces and making them into paintings. Finally going back to the beginning of the circle as the 3D pieces were originally intended to be "sketches" for paintings.

Hm... is a painted reproduction of a digital print original art? ]]> *ATYL new Lemon Orange statement http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/8965958/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/8965958/ Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:29:42 PDT
In the future, do we live in hyper sugar-filled reality? Some sort of utopic Dystopia? Eutopia? Who or what then do we worship? Is our will free? Or, are we drones rolling off the great conveyor belt in the sky? What then is humanity’s Holy Grail? Is it Love? Do you believe in the justice divine? Fruity innocence?

In the end, kings fall and civilizations become extinct. When we come in full circle, let’s just hope the Mother is merciful and kind.

This is the story of Lemon and Orange, Love in 2300A.D. ]]> *ATYL obsessions http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/8927151/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/8927151/ Wed, 31 May 2006 05:10:18 PDT

so this is a new series. still Lemon+Orange in its way:

PLACEBO BUNNY
It’s an ongoing “story” about emotions and technical and abstract things. It’s also about the perceived choices we have, in life and in everything else. Is our will truly free? Will Bunny die in the end? Do you want him to?

feedback would make a girl happy :D ]]> *ATYL Fig Leaves anyone? http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/8326350/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/8326350/ Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:31:46 PST
Still, to satisfy my own curiosity, I went and did a search on the word "nude" in DA. Lo and behold. The person was right. Even the most abstract sketch (if the artist hadn't labeled it "nude", i might not even think it was a body) had mature content warning. What gives? What the hell is wrong with this community? What century are we in again? Are we going to keep our kids away from museums because of all the naked people in paintings and sculptures? It's one thing if they're engaged in blatant sexual activity, or there's violence or something, but just plain naked people standing / sitting around and just otherwise posing?

someone once told me that Brigham Young University banned a Rodin sculpture. a Rodin sculpture! but that's Provo, Utah for crying out loud. I mean, even the Holy See takes you through an online tour of the Sistine Chapel. with pictures! [link]
the last i heard, they removed the paintover from Michelangelo's naked people!!

SHEESH!!

yeah, so i added mature warning to "Samsara" and "Tantra", under duress, since the last thing i want is for DA to censor yet another piece of my work. but i ask, aren't we in a community called "Deviant" Art? have we somehow gone back to Victorian England or something? Why? because people get turned on by little kids' Barbie dolls? ]]> *ATYL wordy wordy http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/7976210/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/7976210/ Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:59:37 PST
It’s pop; it’s pulp. It’s high; it’s low. It’s non-conformist and risk-taking. Mostly though, it’s about hyper sugar-filled reality, candy-coated justice, faulty politicians who act like gods, and our starry-eyed worship of gloss. It’s about our lust for the banal, and wondering if we will ever rise from it, or if we’re sinking deeper and deeper… into the glitzy, the glorious vainglory, the super flat.

What’s humanity’s holy grail? Is it love? Do you believe in the justice divine? Fruity innocence?

These are the questions of Lemon and Orange – the Sun and her satellite.

ATYL 2006



What my Lemon Orange work is NOT about:

1. 3d modeling – I leave that to people who are much more technically competent. (I do, however, make most of my own textures, or at least modify the original ones)

2. Hyper-real 3d renders – if you want those, go here: [link] , read my statement here: [link] and see the rest of the WAR PAINT series. You’ll have “Real” then… something way too real. (adult content warning).



Now, onto a more personal note:

THANKS to all those who clicked on my adcast ad – it’s a fun experiment. MANY, MANY THANKS especially for all the much appreciated devwatches and comments of support. I realize I can’t please everyone. ‘Sides, negative comments are still better than ambivalence, as long as they're well informed... :)

Cheers!
Alex :D ]]> *ATYL more on Lemon Orange Story http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/5282823/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/5282823/ Fri, 06 May 2005 08:39:28 PDT


]]> *ATYL Love in 2300AD - Statement http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/5162181/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/5162181/ Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:06:32 PDT
So, the two characters in this series is "Lemon" and "Orange". The pictures tell their story (well, in theory). They also present the questions in my mind about the future... ]]> *ATYL Alpha Bits - Statement http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/4941389/ http://ATYL.deviantart.com/journal/4941389/ Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:15:14 PST - Gorybets;
- Lollybets; and
- Ghastlybets
Started working on them in 2002 to 2003, when I first discovered this nifty silk screen printing kit. Revisiting again with new coloring schemes and finishing drawing the little bits.

*******

ALPHA BITS are inspired by Japanese Manga; they're Power Puff Girls meet Edward Gorey. These sinister little darlings are dark, and darkly intense. They can kill you or love you with just one look. Beware, for they'll blow you kisses as they stab you in the back. They might even be contemplating taking over the world. You never know... ]]> *ATYL