What’s going to be coming the next few days

So I was thinking about the different topics I want to write about.

1. There is the Digital Humanities conference, for starters. It was brilliant, and completely worth participating in. Sadly it came to an end, but the amount that I learned over the few days is still staggering. 
2. The second topic was a question that came up during the conference. During the dinner, I was thinking about a better translation service that would operate in game to remove the need for a greater amount of servers operating for different languages.
3. The third topic is a question about collages being a form of art.
4. The fourth topic is about the lecture that I gave regarding literature in the mobile gaming environment.
5. The fifth topic is about the 20 years gallery that was held by AUB for the graphic design department.
6. The sixth topic would be about the piano use in West Hall. There are many different pianists that play there, and it is one of the more interesting things to walk in to listen, or to become a better pianist in your own right.
7. There was a seventh topic somewhere. About the metal scene in the Middle East, or about graffiti, or about the playboy culture found here.
8. And the eight topic is about an anime who’s art is ugly but that ugliness fits with the slow steady piece – called Flowers of Evil.

Well, this is what I’m going to be working on the next few days.

Poetry exercise

Foreword: This is perhaps one of my favorite things to create poetry. The exercise itself is simple enough, you take a paragraph, and break it up. I will be using an interview of Jean Francois Lepage by Anita Zechender called, “Shaking the Soul” page 83, Image in Progress N. 3.

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“The photography of Jean-Francois Lepage, a genial artist and a Parisian, reproduced finite and decadent traits. Female souls are models in a world whose contours are drawn by the human pen. Paradoxical stage sets eho an elegant and sophisticated fashion, which shows its infinitesimal plasticity, capable of invading the eyes with matter and fabrics but of preparing the mind to the surreal. Lepage’s art is complex, as it transcends the world of fashion, touches upon graphics and painting, calls to mind cinema to finally reach the philosophy of existence.”

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“The concept of woman as an inspirational muse, custodian of the mystery of seduction is abandoned in favor of transformist bodies, without sexuality, headless. “Avatars” that allow access to a mysterious Surreality, sinister and magic at time which is suggested as a possible safe haven. This are post-modern, unobvious images; they are subversive, nearly troublesome, never natural yet so fitting in all historical periods.”

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In order to create a collage out of it, I am also going to be introducing another paragraph as well to mix and match. One will be in bold, the underlying lines italicized, and the other plain.

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1: reproduced finite and decadent traits. Female souls are models in a world contours are drawn by the human pen. Paradoxical echo sophisticated and elegant fashion infinitesimal plasticity invading the eyes with matter and fabrics preparing the mind to the surreal. Transcends upon graphics and painting reach philosophy of existence.

2: An inspiration muse, custodian of seduction in favor of the concept of woman without sexuality, headless. Access to a mysterious Surreality, which is suggested as sinister and magic, a possible safe haven. Post-modern, images, subversive never natural yet fitting in all historical periods.

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Now that the key words that I want were selected, I will continue with mixing them together. As if it were a 10 by 10 poem, it should read together, yet become an understandable separate poem if split apart. It becomes a decadent assembly of words set together as a collage to form a new art – yet at the same time retains the original sensibilities.

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Finite and decadent        concept      reproduced

[by]female souls        ina           world[of]contours

are sinister         models      yet in a world drawn

by  inspiration  muse ofseduction thehuman

pen     SophisticatedSubversive      and elegant 

fashion    invadingtheeyes     with       a possible  

post-modern   safe/haven and      parado-

xical infinitesimal plasticity           preparing the

fitting          mind           all              tothegraphic

                 philosophy of existence.

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And there we go.

Loujain’s Exhibition Article on Rapture

Loujain’s Exhibition Article on Rapture

We were interviewed for the exhibition Rapture, and this was the end result by Loujain Rabbat.

Sektor 83. Jupiter Space Colony.

Some things you don’t want to forget

Mohawk

Oracle

Oracle. Mixed media on canvas and glass. 100 x 150 cm. Smoke series.

A young warrior approaching a dragon oracle for advice. Smoke on canvas, outlines of form on glass.