Getting close to the end of the year, spare time at last! Before the new year starts I have to finish some unfinished business. My apple has been my companion the last months. Sitting comfortably on the couch, sipping on a tea, a glowing telly in the background while moving digital pics over the screen. Over are those days. Moving over to the other room for some graphical stuff. I start up the old pc and turn on the heater. There it is, the typical MS tune from Brian Eno I have almost forgotten. Not your usual Apple "pong". Before I get started I realize I am running out of disc space. I take a closer look at my drives and realize why that laptop on the couch was so comfortable. Enough said, time for a major clean up. My folders are a mess. Backups and pre millenium back ups of old computers, double data all over the place. I wander through old files as I move along, restructuring big time this time. After two days most of the stuff seems in place. Cleaning up the whole Nomads section, an early attempt of online creativity. I end up with one folder filled up with over ten years of sketching and stumble on some old stuff I almost forgotten about. Shades of digital painting. The greed of old memories keeps me going, cleaning and archiving gigabytes of data. Is it coincidence or the end of the year syndrome? Three other colleagues are doing the same thing I hear later.
Anyway, back to cars. In between all those files I stumble onto some old forgotten sketches. Those were the days of digital painting exploration. Palette knives in Painter were razor sharp as I attempted to make some quick impressions on digital canvas. Gulf wars in blue and orange. Looking back, ....and forward....one of the resolutions for next year is to return to the digital canvas for more free work. Psychedelic Martini graphics anyone?
Please identiify yourself "editor", you've hit a soft spot here!
Posted by: Rik | 2009.12.22 at 09:45 AM
It's Mat
Posted by: Geert | 2009.12.22 at 11:31 AM
@Geert & Rik: it's me, and in this case: Matte
Posted by: Mattijs | 2009.12.23 at 03:39 PM
@all CFX: And by the way, our family of CFX blogs has hit the 50.000th page view this week. Kudos, up to the next level!
Posted by: Mattijs | 2009.12.23 at 11:43 PM