Mouse Liberation Front

Because it's pouring on us this time of year.

Huge Maybe

In reality a tiny portion of my image, due to my own folly and failure in image sizing..

nov23

A mock up I made inresponse to an email today from a psych prof that wanted a very shitty stick man drawing turned cool for a psych journal. Unfortunately someone else got to her before I called her, and a cool 100 dollars slipped between my fingers. Drat. So I figured I'd post the funny little diagram.

Nov22

I want to start a website to discuss videogames in terms of their lack of respect in comparision to other mediums. Very open minded people suddenly shut down when it comes to even acknowledging video games to be on the same grounds as a book. IIIIIIIIIII want to be able to better talk about things like this, because I feel like I will have to defend my own views on video games till I die.

Realization

woops though I posted this yesterday but I left it open in the browser.

Weekend

The lower image is from yesterday, the upper image is done from a shot of amanda larner, and using her tablet which I borrowed =3

nov18

Tablet=love. Im def gonna have to spring for a mini one. It was so much easier to make this image, and it actually has the touch of my hand as opposed to previous entries in this project.

unknown proccesses

A revamped version of a narrative project to due with the process of iron ore, the original I traded away for another awesome painting. I plan to do a print of this so to submit to some exhibition, the future of work I think its called.

Nov16

A much better image to make up for yesterdays shit.

Nov.15th

Sunday.

I fell down on the job this weekend, and didnt make friday's, nor saturday's images, but fear not, for I have made them all today =3.
Im not sure about the middle one. It intrigues but I dunno. filtering parts of images are fun.
I think prints are soon in order.

Nov11

Its remembrance day. I feel like holidays like this one make less of an impact on me when I don't have cable to yell about them to me. :S
Another image, I notice all the images ive created this far are similar in color scheme, maybe im in a phase.

Triumvirate

the following, from a gamespot article on the xbox360's Kinect "the gaming triumvirate has completed its transition into the world of motion controls" in reference to Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft now each having their own motion control hardware.

the preceding piece is thusly titled after the intriguing word ..triumvirate

Space Beer

New Media Second Reading.

Our prof has assigned some readings for us to wax philosophical over..

Here an excerpt from pg 49..
6. New media is interactive. In contrast to old media where the order of
presentation is fixed, the user can now interact with a media object. In the
process of interaction the user can choose which elements to display or which
paths to follow, thus generating a unique work. In this way the user becomes
the co-author of the work.

the point talks directly about gaming as new media, I have always felt that a defining difference between a videogame and a book or movie is that a book or movie you can consume from end to end with confident feelings that you have experienced everything it has to offer. Videogames differ vastly in that the user defines their own experience as the consume..

just recently I went to talk to the mech game man in 3d Game Dot Heroes to advance him developing his game, and due to my own error of failing to talk to him some other unknown time, i was greeting with a sign stating 'development cancelled'. Now I am deprived of the experience of a game developed by a sprite in the game. =0 To my chagrin, my game experience is thus far altered irreversibly. If I want to fix my mistake, I must make a new file, and invest in a large amount of hours to reach the point of my mistake. Needless to say I am filled with feelings of chagrin. The exploitation of the ability to vex players with unfixable mistakes is oft abused in gaming, and I myself harbor both ill feelings due to my own blunders, but I do embrace it as a unique part of gaming in that I must employ skill to experience whatever it is I desire.

Although there are choose your own adventure books. but still, whats there is there and just a page turn away.

I know its past one

I just don't have anything to textually say in this at
this
very
moment.
but there is the art.

Nov.7

Another day, another image.
this time I used some pics of my roommates..=3
I think I will work on this image again tomorrow, and add a different background to play with scale.

Saturday

About to sift through my images to edit another piece for today... And this is the result! Mixed together this photo from home, with some selection bits of a picture of rubble I took in pompei. Realizing that I have a lot of my own source photos for things like this, pictures I haven't had a second look at in a while.
And now from here to Amazon to trawl their buy 2 games get 1 free deal..
Ive been considering titling these pieces but the idea is daunting. Right now Im thinking of cheesy options regarding coldness, so I'll leave it untitled.

Nov.5th.

And so the.. 2nd entry
trying things

First Image

Just a colors study for a painting to start off my project. =3

Pro pro pro pro POSAL

Proposal for Digital Independent

My proposal for this independent project, is to do a primarily web-based work consisting of

photoshop images. My work is geared towards my eventual desire in life to create concept art for

video games, and thusly I need to be able to create many images quickly, with photoshop being

the medium I see as the most efficient for this. Therefor I would like to do a project where I

create a single photoshop image and corresponding blog post each day.
My blog however has a limited readership, and so for this project I would join the site

DeviantArt, and concurrently post each image daily to this site as well with the aim of garnering

as much feedback to improve my work as possible. I see this project as a means to start a

presence on the web, and begin working daily on photoshop. The works will have no set theme,

as in not all being pieces of concept art, but will explore a variety of themes related to real life,

the web, and video games. This project will evolve continually over the course, and potentially

expand into other online or digital artist collectives as a I discover them.

And so, here is a link to my so far blank profile http://gamingkage.deviantart.com/