True is True Returns
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- joshboston
Michael Cina updates with some amazing new work.
- utopian0
Amazing?
- neue75_bold0
thanks, josh!
- hellogrid0
Liking the brush/painting images, would like to see more of the Josef Albers inspired stuff.
- 23kon0
Amazing? +1
Talk about riding on a name you made for yourself years back.
If this was anyone elses portfolio of splattered paint and random photos and unexplained/out of context logos/typography it wouldn't get a second look. Certainly wouldnt make the EC!
- 23kon0
They are high quality images that load in quite fast though - so cudos for the jpeg compression.
- detritus0
Is there a name for this kind of technique/effect?
I've seen it online quite a lot over the past couple of years (elements of that bloody kdu thang used it quite a lot, right?) and as portions of real world paintings.
It's something I'd quite like to play around with - what do I need?
I'm thinking oils, solvents and a sheet of glass... but perhaps there's a photoshop plugin? ;)
- Ink in milk > Photographed > inverted in Photoshopneverblink
- stuff between 2 sheets of glass? Is that a cloth below? dunno.Corvo2
- in'resting, thanks neverblink!detritus
- Horp0
Has anybody seen my whelm? I had it a minute ago.
- must_dash0
Nice stuff... takes me back to the testpilotcollective days... when there was a great layout everyday on the front page
- SumWurk0
Interesting, but not "amazing".
- lukus_W0
I like portfolios where you simply need to click to see the next image, so I thought that was great.
Maybe the work is reasonably interesting, but there's no context - and the I don't think any concept behind the order / format used to show the work is strong enough to be obvious.
Symmetry / chaos / order, perhaps .. but that's stretching it.
- -> came across as 'lazy' to me.lukus_W
- It's not a portfolio, perhaps?Corvo2
- Would you prefer to call it an exhibition? (Personally I think that would be an overstatement)lukus_W
- I dunno, I'd just like to have a 'way in' to appreciate these images ..lukus_W
- Looking at them now, it seems there's no obvious starting point and no obvious thread linking them.lukus_W
- dog_opus0
I don't find myself amazed with this work, although I did like a few of the pieces. Art is subjective, though, which is one of its principal differences from design.
- combustion0
oh people with no ears and big mouths
- must_dash0
Michael Cina updates with some amazing new work = true
- set0
A few lovely bits, some ok bits and a lot of crappy bits I guess.
- bigtrickagain0
someone please explain the "amazing" in that. i know cina did awesome work back in the day (i have a mike cina t-shirt!) but this is more like... baffling.
- the only paint samples available at home depot?iCanHasQBN
- bzsaw0
experimentation = http://www.trueistrue.com
work = http://www.michaelcinaassociates…
- bigtrickagain0
hey thanks for the link bzsaw... i quite like this:
http://c argocollective.com/michaelcina/5...
- bigtrickagain0
ugh. link again: http://tinyurl.com/yeacgk5
- dog_opus0
Wow, thanks for posting his work site, bzsaw. The stuff there qualifies as amazing, in my opinion. Love it.
This thread kind of underscores the vital issue of design's relationship with art, I think. I feel that so much decent design is informed by a well-rounded knowledge/understanding of art. In design, though, the sheer aesthetics must be secondary to the need to communicate (unless, of course, they are the primary means of communication).
- lukus_W0
I wonder if a great designer stands a good chance of ever becoming a great artist?
- leonardo da vinci?bigtrickagain
- yeah, very true :)lukus_W
- He's not exactly fighting for that lofty position though is he - anyone else?MrT