10,000 Pixels: where's the art?

If you haven't been over to Ten Thousand Pixels recently, I'd encourage you to spend a little time over there and see what we've been up to. This past week's posts were a bit of a twist on the format - each image was a link to some other site on the web. I provided the image and the link, and Steven LaRose provided the commentary.

This arrangement got me to pondering where, if it exists at all, is the art in this past week's posts? For some of the 10,000 Pixels posts, the "art" is the actual image - it's meant to stand alone as the thing under consideration. For others, the art is more the connection between the image and the week's theme, or the title of the post, or the post's label. The connection between the verbal and the visual, and not either element itself, is the artwork.

What I liked about this past week is that the "art" is somewhere between two different spots on the web. The images - mostly details of fairly well-known artwork - play off of the content found when you follow the link. So the art is in the connection, and it's a connection that's fairly unique to the web. So it seems to me that the "art" is very specific to the medium, which for me was one of the goals of the blog in the first place.

The Red Menace

"The Red Menace" comes from this week's game of image ping-pong that Steven LaRose and I played over at Ten Thousand Pixels.

If-Then at 10,000 Pixels

Steven LaRose and I had a fun week over at 10,000 Pixels, tossing images back and forth. He would post an image, the next day I would post something responding to it, and so on. The animation above is a compilation of one of the two resulting image threads.

We'll be doing something similar next week, so keep your eyes open for that.

This Week After Dark

This week's theme in Ten Thousand Pixels is "After Dark". The top image in this post is Steven LaRose's first contribution as a new contributor to the blog.

one of the "Principals"

This week's theme over on Ten Thousand Pixels is "blood on your hands", highlighting the top Bush administration officials who discussed and approved the use of torture as one of our tools in the "war on terror".

I thought the image above stood out as just a wonderfully creepy and interesting composition. Those eyes going in two different directions, and that half-mouth, in that little square. . .

Circles and Snowmen

This week's theme for Ten Thousand Pixels is "Circling". Today's post is one of hundreds of glass eyeballs in my studio here. I think that one's for a deer.

There's only four days left to vote for FIMP's "Outsider Snowman" in the March Snowman Contest at Today's Snowman. Don't let "American Snowman's" flag lapel pin sway you - Outsider Snowman is the real hope for snowmen everywhere in these difficult times.

Tiny Preview

This week's theme for 10,000 Pixels is flight, and today's post is a detail of a block I'm currently cutting. The prints are going to be the title page images for a chapbook, and you'll see the finished results here in a few weeks, but I thought you might like a little sneak preview.

"How To" 10,000 Pixels

"But the images are so small, and pixellated - they look nothing like my work!"

You often hear artists bemoan the quality of reproduction of artwork on the web.

I've started a new blog that celebrates small images reproduced at 72 ppi. Why fight it? Embrace it. What CAN you do with a mere 10,000 pixels?





This week's theme is "How To". Last week was "anonymous".

Surf on over to 10,000 Pixels and check it out. Let me know what you think.

In unrelated upcoming event news, the snowman from FIMP's The Brief, Tedious and Unfulfilling Life of Mr. Snowman is going to be a contestant in March's snowman contest at Today's Snowman. I hope "Mr. Snowman" can count on your support in these trying times, when you need an experienced snowman who's ready on day one and the like.

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