Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
CS4
I bought CS4 Production Premium the other day. I haven’t had much time to play with it, but I did download a few Flaming Pear plugins and make this desktop background for myself. I designed it for my laptop, so the 1440×900 is the original, and the 1600×1200 is just scaled up (non-uniformly) from that.
Some Photos
A cell phone is a poor substitute for a camera, but it’s all I’ve got right now.
Colorful
Resplendent iridescent fluorescent.
Nope, no reason.
Piano
I played for over two hours this afternoon. It felt good. This and that by Schubert, Autumn Leaves, and whatever fragments came to mind. A good emotional cleansing.
Here are a few more random pictures from the past weeks, in no particular order:
The Red Tree
Some of the trees are starting to turn, but not yet most. This maple’s between Noyes Lodge and Balch.
(I corrected the exposure and brightness of this image a little to better reflect reality, as opposed to reflecting my crazy cell’s camera’s idea of color/light balance.)
Nos-nos Leaf
I Guess It’s Autumn Now
The Blank Page
I have a new piano instructor here at Cornell: Blaise Bryski. He seems a very interesting fellow (read: he’s eccentric and sometimes incomprehensible, but he has good ideas and I like him). So far we’ve done more talking than playing, but it’s valuable talk. There is a lot I do not know.
One thing he said last week still stands out in my mind. “You’re looking for the blank page,” he said. That is how you interpret a score. You’re looking for the idea that the composer tried to write down. The writing is only an approximation of the idea, after all, and an anachronistic one at that: we don’t know exactly what those phrasing marks meant to Schubert in 1824!
Luckily, I only have to look for the blank page. I’m not expected to find it. Michelangelo: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” I am not there yet. More like here (also Michelangelo): “A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”
Evanescent Incandescent Effervescence
Shrug. I just liked the feeling of the words, and the image they conjure for me.
Cosmos Background
This is a white Cosmos flower that I photographed shortly before I left home for Cornell. I used this image as my desktop background for a while and liked it, so I made a few standard sizes should anyone else want to do the same.
Desktop-sized images: 1600×1200, 1024×768, 1440×900.
The 1440×900 one (with MacBook Pro screens in mind) has been cropped slightly to fit the wider ratio. A similar-size image with all the original data is available as 1440×1080.
