philosophy

What haven’t I done in a while? Posted on the Blueshift Design Blog! So let’s rectify that today and bring to your attention some pretty art installations I’ve recently run across, and one that is so overdone and trite that I had to mention it out of anger. First off, the one I didn’t like, an installation called “wander through the crystal universe” by teamLab. Though, allow me to clarify that earlier statement: it’s not that I found the artwork distasteful, or poorly-done – it was done very well and it’s aesthetically pleasing. But this particular concept, which we’ll call “Buying A Lot Of A Stock Video Product And Hanging It In Straight Lines And Calling It Art”, or BALOASVPAHIISLACIA… Read More »Interesting Art, Overdone Art

Let’s start with a visual that I find…amusing. These were my feeling the other day when I was working on a design for a client that I have a great professional relationship with and have worked with for many years. I was serving as as the designer (and most of the programming) this time, with a good friend of mine serving as the LD out on the road. I had just finished programming one of my favorite songs, one with a really cool backbeat that just screamed some kind of cool snappy color chasing thing. I ended up applying a snap-up-ramp-down effect to the color wheel to make the fixed red filter jump into the beam, then slide back to… Read More »The sliding scale of art verses pragmatism