dPression
It’s 3 am and I’ve finished this graphic I’ve been working on. A while ago I found this image of a statue with paint splattered like blood on it. I’ve been playing with it for a while but this is the first thing I’ve done that doesn’t suck. Here’s a caption.
“This is the letter d in Greek script, rendered in Garamond. I cannot remember where the hand is from. Tell me if you know. I feel bad just jacking it without a link.
It’s trite, but I’ve always had this image of depression as someone physically pushing the letter d down. To make the image less trite I used Greek letter Delta to obfuscate things.”
I used Photoshop to cut-and-paste stuff, and blending effects to make the physically impossible depth.
In the course of looking for (unused) stuff I found these excellent photos by Mike Schorr – a Renaissance Geek. Ron, you might like them. He takes close-ups of money and ethernet-jacks and stuff. He’s got some good Visual Stimulation, as he calls it, and I’d like to remember it here so I can sample it later. I’ve also been looking at Kerry/Edwards photos which just make me feel happy, perhaps because of their latent homo-eroticism. Anyways, it’s late and the mosquitos are out. Good night.
The Mahavamsa (a history of Sri Lanka) is full of conflicts between generals and kings. Usually, the more bloodthirsty and unscrupulous would win. Our current (elected) ruler Mahinda Rajapaksa has had his own general conflicts, namely with one Sarath Fonseka. In the old days Fonseka would have staged a coup, as in literally try to cut of Mahinda’s head, and Mahinda would – if that failed – tie him to four elephants and split his parts asunder. Can’t do that shit anymore. Instead Fonseka ran for office and lost and Mahinda tossed him in jail.
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