Color Phasing: A Step Forward in Digital Art

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The term “color phase” as it pertains to Abstract Automatism

and digital painting, seemed an appropriate reference in terms of its similarities to Audio Phase Shifting

Audio Phase Shifting defined...
http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/phasers/phase.html

In this instance... I was calibrating the color yellow as it relates to brown and green

After enlarging a small section of the painting
a peculiar texture emerged 

Surface Treatment: A

Surface Treatment: B

It was a texture not unlike, (and in combination with other enhancements) a magnified view of human skin with characteristic patterns. It was also reminiscent of aging oil paints

Clearly, the above image does not resemble skin in the classic sense It does however; contain an organic architecture often found, when observing samples under a microscope

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No Special Effects were used in the Making of this Image

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Of Special Note

A Tribute
to the People and Organizations who provide and train

Special Dogs for Special Needs Children

Anya - Dog Trainer

Although the portrait of Anya is not that of an actual person
it symbolizes the Dedication and Purpose by those whose daily activities are focused on others... far less fortunate

To the Men, Women and Children
suffering from debilitating handicaps

PBS has painted an extraordinarily touching view
of the People and Dogs, whose lives have been transformed
due to the loving efforts... by those who care

Through a Dog's Eyes

a PBS Special Presentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB0QM_bLd1I

Saint Lei Revisited

In regard to a recent question: How do you make people from different ethnic backgrounds look different?

Saint Lei 

Thank you Silvia Lopez for the insightful comment
and yes...the image on the right, draws on ancient religious roots

CHANGING NATURAL FEATURES AND APPEARANCE
At near completion, I abandoned the portrait (left frame) of an African American as she began to look strikingly... like Kim K

Changes included that to the subject's complexion, elongating a wide flat nose and a complete reconstruction to the eyes, mouth and general expression

What started out as a tight lipped... large round face, was rapidly becoming cliche. The image (although incomplete), was then uploaded to Photoshop for an aesthetic re-make

Now thinking...15th Century Russia / Eastern Europe Religious portraits with Iconic sensibilities and Stoic expressions

Historic References and Resource Link

The Russian Orthodox Church: Early History and Art
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mes/russia/moscow/history.html

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Nearscapes... et le Tube de Jésus

Transcription and Text: Henri Abideau

Contributing Editor

* After reviewing about twenty photographs, I have chosen

three to help define the Nearscape as a conceptual point of view

 On A Clear Night

Nearscapes... are essentially the nondescript structures we pass momentarily on the way to other places

They are sometimes off to the side of a road or in the

maintenance area of a municipal building, tunnel etc

I can best describe some of them as a series of aging Control Panels

slathered in protective paints- often attached or suspended from corroding structures of steel and concrete

Basically, it is a cluster of practical time-proven technologies on its last leg of functionality... just prior to an upgrade or replacement but not necessarily -

* How do these images relate to the new series of photographs going on display at the Galerie?

They are exploratory steps in an uncertain direction... each of them having components of an engineering or industrial nature

Structures that contribute to a particular emotional color (not a literal color), in terms of how we might perceive... or interpret this type of technological environment

The Motorman

* There's a noticeable difference in the composition of some of these photos. The Jesus Tube for example, seems to be lacking a central theme... was that deliberate and what is the Jesus Tube? 

Yes... the image lacks a certain focal point and is basically a one dimensional backdrop for a recent collage

What is does have- is a fair number of planes and right angles, perfect for inserting photo elements needed to create a visual dialogue and story-line

The term Jesus Tube originated in a New York Subway... more accurately, after taping a music video called Lorraine in the bathroom of my studio at the Ruxton on 72nd Street

Le Tube de Jésus 

État Corrosif de Béton et d'Acier

A number of the scenes were shot using a lens that had a tunnel effect when zooming out. I think it was the death scene with Gilda dans la baignoire, that brought the concept home

"As the actress was taking her last cinematic breath, smoke was being pumped into this confined area. When the camera pulled back, it created a tunnel-like pin hole effect that captured the moment"

We then cut to a series of flashbacks and peppered the scene with close-ups of Don's performance while fading out

During the playback... we stood captivated by the woman with a shaved head, as she gracefully departed. That, and the soft colored clouds embracing her body- sealed the day's production

I believe it was Don (a songwriting partner) who referred to the final scene as, Gilda in the Jesus Tube... and thus it remained

Catherine G
Featured Photographer and Visual Artist

Certain Days Go From Top to Bottom

As a Multimedia Author living in France
Catherine specializes in Visual Analysis and Infographics
Her articles contribute to Newspaper, Magazines and Radio

Additional Credits
Lorraine: performed by Morphine Sally
 Music and Lyrics
Don Greene and Bill Cote (Madder Rose, Saint Low, Jazz Canon)

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HOLIDAY GREETINGS

The People Who Truly Care, Are Never Too Far Away

To another year of Life... Good Friends and Family

Best Wishes to all... HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Galerie de Maubidea

December Gallery Events

For the New Year... Galerie de Maubidea

will be undergoing a complete overhaul of content and theme

FEATURING

  Dialogues In Architecture

A new series of Photographs and Automatist Digital Sculpture

Rebarbative Coexistence (redux) 

Herrschaft der Palisades
- Dominion on the Palisades -


Gated Metropolis

Ron Maubidea
Photography
 (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved
 
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Gallery Mail Room - Resources

Inverted Statue of Kate Moss   

Facebook Virus Update

A recent issue: Obama Youtube Video   
DO NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM A FACEBOOK FRIEND ASKING YOU TO VIEW THIS VIDEO  Confirmed by...Kaspersky, Symantec, 
Snopes.com etc, it is a Trojan Virus called KOOBFACE   

Facebook Solution For Virus Removal   

Step 1 - Click on Account

Step 2 - Click Application Settings (showing all your apps)

Step 3 - Click the blue X to remove the application (according to Fb)

Re: Hounds 

The main character reads like a cliché with a troubled mind – Gabby  

What about him and Jolene at the trailer park… Stephanzie 

Now I’m stuck… it was very bad choice (anonymous)

@ la Lettera: Stay chill… conditions will get better, Ron 

Situation Wanted

@ Regina: Emotionally tormented woman seeking similar to cohabit and share expenses  

  

Re: Steel Wheels

Love this… Rust Belt Industrial is one of my favorite subjects- 
Hey, remember the bistro pumpernickel stuffed with ratatouille you created as our first vegetarian dish at the Library Restaurant?        We must have sold 30 a night… Michael

Ron: Yes… do you recall the $20 bill Caroline Kennedy sent back to the kitchen for a fire hazard called, Flaming Ginger Duck w/hot peach and kumquat dressing? What about that reunion? 

happy monday… and tell them pizza is not a vegetable!!! Petra :*  

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2011/11/16/eat-your-veggies-congress-wants-to-classify-pizza-as-vegetable   

@ Ron: What’s this Contributors Only business…!! Audrey 
@ Audrey- It’s more of a workshop... and you have to add something to the dialogue 
@ Ron: I can yodel and scream pretty loud? : ) 

your menus make me Smile… Ray 

Poetic Ramblings… by ikye and Regina

Charles Bukowski: Born Into This (NATO PER ESSERE) 1972  

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OApPW7QxgD4 

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Shades of the Autumn Moon

Substream - November
The Evening Walkabout 1:AM

 Stages

Understanding Why Colors Change

During the winter months, there is not enough sunlight or water
for proper Photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food
they stored during the summer weather

Shortly after... they begin to shut down their food-making process
and as a result, the Green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves

As the rich greenery starts to fade
we then see the various shades of Yellow and Orange

Please Note
Small amounts of these colors have been present
in the leaves all along. We can't see them during the summer,
because they are masked by the abundance of Green chlorophyll

In some trees like the Maple,
glucose is trapped in the leaf after the photosynthesis stops
Sunlight and the cooler weather, cause the leaves to turn the glucose... into a reddish color

Brown... in trees like the Oak, is made from plant food waste
and is due in part, to the lack of nutrients in the autumn soil

It is the combination of all these factors
that contribute to the beautiful colors of the Fall Season yearly

 Landscape in Silhouette

 Autumn Landscape Reconfigured

Ron Maubidea

   PHOTOGRAPHY (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved

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EDITORIAL and PROJECT MANAGER

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Gallery Coordinator

November Substream: New Additions

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 On The Wire

Avian Unemployment Line

 Quid Pro Quo and the Exodus

Memories of Forgotten Towns

 Der Abend Walkabout 3:AM

Photography: Ron Maubidea  

(c) 2011 All Rights Reserved

 Gallery Mail Room 

To be Uploaded shortly 

Sucking-Up to the Rhetoric

Privacy and the Internet

Shortly after reviewing a few links on a subject of concern to many, 

I found the previews of an interview with Facebook CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg anything but enlightening 

I am certain that in real life Mr. Zuckerberg is probably a very decent person, but his views no longer represent that of the average person. In short, his perspective was Big Business as usual while ignoring the probable solutions. Is the rhetoric of Mega Corporations finally the New Status Quo? 

An Open Letter to Suzanne Horowitz

Quite simply Dear Friend, I find him somewhat annoying... 

 

In regard to the Companies who Steal our Personal Information - 

Have you ever noticed how many times Farmville will ask to store some things on your system, to make the game run faster? 
 

The speed of an app is not determined by dumping whatever’s on your computer- it is determined by the speed of the processor and the amount of available RAM   

By clicking YES, you allow the program access to the Hard Drive. Every time you play the game, a link installed by the app maker becomes active... and opens a dialogue between the program and your personal computer 

If you listen to the Fb CEO (the video you sent)... he talks about Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, taking certain info off your Hard Drive. This shows them where you go and what you like, how much time you spend there in addition to Personal Information e.g., 

A) How a person uses their computer (very important)   

B) The amount of time you spend on it, saving them billions in out-sourced Market Research

C) Most important to remember... the Open Door command was built into the software (a euphemism)

Historically… the above mentioned have been doing this from the beginning, the onset of the World Wide Web

One reason users became aware of the process, was because software techs (understanding the value of an open link) began to speak out, publishing articles on foreseeable privacy issues 

Topics ranged from... potential or deliberate intrusions, spying, the loss of Intellectual Properties and so on

In essence... and in regard to these industry giants- they are All harvesting little bits of your Life and that includes Fb  

Mark Zuckerberg refers to the relationship between these companies as a Partnership

That partnership allows for a Live and Let Live understanding between the largest information gatherers on the planet and they are talking about, forward considerations into the next decade-

The only obstacle between them and our personal privacy, are the Laws that govern the Internet and few exist actively for that purpose   

Curiously enough, all of these companies have Lobbyists in Washington pouring millions into the champagnes (I don’t like the term pockets) of those who write the Laws in their favor 


As long as this continues... (and it will continue), as Prosperity is the foundation of Modern Capitalism- i.e., to make an offer they can't refuse, that, or until Internet Legislation sets a limit to what person or persons unknown... can remove from our computers 

I think it's time to start closing the Door... don't you?

Interview excerpt with Charlie Rose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KQlPCflWP9k 
Huffington Post article with Mark Zuckerberg: Google and Microsoft Are Violating Your Privacy, Not Us http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg_n_1080663.html?ref=technology&icid=maing-grid10

Hurricane Survivor

Substream - November

 Silhouette... points of light 
for Little Dragon

Le Gymnaste: Relèvement de la Barre 

Gallery Mail Room to follow shortly

Rust Belt Industrial... Steel Wheels

Special Purpose Trains  2010-11

Steel Wheel Power Converters- LIRR

Detailed... HIgh Contrast B&W 

Massive Hydraulics for Track Replacement - LIRR

Photography: Ron Maubidea 

(c) 2011 All Rights Reserved 

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Infra-Blue by Ron Maubidea

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Technically Speaking... a Working Definition

The term Infra-blue is not a recognized color, nor does it exist on Google or in any book of reference. It is for that reason, I have elected to use it in these works to describe a digital shade of Navy Blue (thus-far unnamed) having peculiar iridescent properties... to be continued   

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Ghosts of Shadow and Form

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Distressed Wooden Structures

Arch Reconstruction - Perspective A

Arch Reconstruction - Perspective B

Work Site 

The kitchen at Berlanda Chateau 2010

(an abstract rendering)

Photography: Ron Maubidea

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Reflections of the Heartland

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Vortex in (not so rural) Connecticut... a Still Life

Emulating shades of Ancient Chinese Yellow and Brown

Photography and Photoshop
Ron Maubidea

Cigarettes and Hot Coffee

Sunday Blues: Winter Windows 2010

Photography by Ron Maubidea

(c) 2011 All Rights Reserved 

Gallery Mail Room

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The way you mix color and style!! ;)
Mein doppelganger arbeitet nicht zusammen... Nabila  
Pigs pussy and colt 45 rocks... sikK   


To the allure of the confident and unavailable...
Uber Cathy  


Hounds- maybe the best I read on the subject... JS
If I buy da food will ya cook for me... say yes !!
@ Ron.. re-blogging this now, Wiski

Arno: Do you remember the chef saying
I'm surrounded by MORONS- the jerk is still there!
@ Arno- Yes, and thank you for the hit in the Philippines 

Re: March of the Toopid Bastardo's

Toopid bastardo's- all of them... ah hahaha- Georgia Rhu 

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Deconstruction of Infra Blue

New Arrivals for October

Industrial Sky: Lullaby in Concrete 

Lullaby in Concrete is more of an example, and not a finished piece We chose to post it as a remedy to certain reader questions

Basically... it reflects an an early stage in building an image, prior to any cleanup and began with a photo template in Photoshop CS 

The image demonstrates the stark contrast between background colors (black and infra-blue), that… against the yellow and greens   

White and gray were added to create a foreground dimensional effect. It then became a focal point (due to the lightness) and depending on one’s preferences, the starting point for exploring an image 

Conversations with Henri Abideau (excerpt) 

Monologue in a Vacuum 

The above image is a Horizontal Reversal of Industrial Sky. It was then Inverted for the purpose of experimenting with color options I rarely use for this style 

Like the first image in this post, it too is a rough and has not been altered in terms of any sculpting or cut and paste 

The Inverting process added a textural quality which eliminated most of the touching-up - something to consider for Digital Abstracts     

Off the Grid: Inserts

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Graffiti Interruptus (Detail 1)

Graffiti Interruptus (Detail 2)

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Progressing From Origins

The zero point in this demonstration begins with a simple photo of concrete slabs. This material is now the preferred replacement for aging Rail Road Tracks

Fig 1

Casts of Pre-stressed Concrete line the street
and have replaced the traditional Wooden Sleepers

Fig 2

A change in perspective

Fig 3

It was an image of 3rd Century BC, Chinese Terracotta Warriors 

I had in mind when taking the photos in Fig 1-2

Fig 4

Offsetting the absolute symmetry

Fig 5

Reworking the image into a rough

Fig 6

Which evolved into this... Perspective A

Fig 7
Taking the image in a different direction... Perspective B 

Dialogues in Architecture
Overture in Pastels... Fig 6 

The Iron Hand - Chechnya (Чечня́) Revisited, Fig 7

Appetites and Hunger

Cover Art and Working Theme

Possibilités Culinaires - Inclinations Sensuelles

A series of Meditations... by Ron Maubidea

French Translation: Henri Abidaux

Ode to Man Ray

End of the Line

Subtitle

An Illogical Attempt at Pointless Emulation or- 

The Absurdity of Digital Posturing in the 21st Century 

Merci Catherine et Hiro

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3 Bodies 4 Hands and 2½ Working Brains

Art should be fun… and at times, 

collaboration will kick it up a notch and why not!  

Psychedelic Party Girl (60’s style), was one such effort

by Ron, ikye and Regina Queens
 

Papua New Guinea... I think not

 The result of a visit to the amazing Bronx Zoo sometime back

After a very pleasant brunch (and quite a few cocktails) 

we jumped into the bush, went Native and started snapping pics 

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From the Collection

Thelonious Thrombosis de la Diagnosis 

Of The Sea - Worthy or Not

Rotting Onboard Tech 

Amping the Grayscale to full Battleship

Dry Dock Color Experiment ll

Image Reversal... a la Caribbean

Rusting Crab Trap in Disrepair

Location: Woodcleft Avenue 

Freeport New York 2010

Photography and Editing

(c) 2011 Ron Maubidea - All Rights Reserved

The Classic Feminine: State of Visual Flawlessness 

by Ron Maubidea

Since the beginning of time... women have

always possessed the power of Change and Evolution

They are the guardians of Life and Human Emotion

- Thoughts on Prehistory -

Revising text... our apologies for any inconvenience

Photo Credits: Nana Thurler