Poetry

Some of the poetry I wrote this last year.

• Dreamworlds
  
• Afternoon
  
• Laughter

Works by other folk

Creative works that I love, or that inspire me, by various other people.

Music

• Natalie Merchant
  
• Dead Can Dance
  
• Robert C. Hood, especially the song Winter Gray
  
• Pink Floyd
  
• Sarah McLachlan
  
• Vangelis
  
• Shpongle/Hallucinogen
  
• Beats Antique, Devata, Loess, Material, big beat, dance, downtempo, Prodigy, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Moby, Nine Inch Nails, Crystal Method, Boards of Canada, Karunesh, Govi, Amethystium, Eluvium, Beethoven, Ladytron, Delerium, Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Patroux, Rock, Blues, Indian, game music esp. Nobuo Uematsu, and the tracker and demoscene (e.g. Nightbeat, Purple Motion, Skaven)
  

Fiction

• Terry Pratchett
• Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman, 1998
  
• Soldiers of Paradise, Paul Park, 1987
  
• The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K Le Guin, 1971
  
• Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990
  
• Biting the Sun, Tanith Lee, 1977
  

Poetry

• Kublai Khan, Coleridge, 1798
  
• Luceafărul, Eminescu, 1884
  
• Echoes, Roger Waters, 1971
  
• The Satrapy, Constantine Cavafy, 1910
  

Writings

• Self-Reliance, Emerson, 1841
  
• Walden by Thoreau
  
• Taste for Makers, Paul Graham, 2002
  
• What You Can't Say, Paul Graham, 2002
  
• The Invisible Barbacue, Eben Moglen, 1997
  
• Philistine and Genius, Boris Sidis, 1919
  
• On the Decay of the Art of Lying, Mark Twain, 1882
  
• The Evolution of Compassion, Dacher Keltner, 2004
  
• Discipline and Punish, Foucault, 1975.
  
• Positive Disintegration, Dąbrowski, 1964.
  
• The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, 1943.
  
• Post-Modernism, Steven LaTulippe, 2006.
  

Paintings

• John William Waterhouse
  
• Isle of Capri, William Stanley Haseltine (Princeton Art Museum)
  
• Gilles Tran
  
• J.M.W. Turner
  
• The Pre-Raphaelites

Painting

After the Wacom tablet, experimenting with digital painting. (Learning how to paint, also! :-)



Lady, interpretation, 2007. (High res)



The artist: a woman with paint, 2007. (High res)



People outside bar in rainy night, 2007. (High res)

I noticed these looked significantly different after I had stopped painting and slept on them. It was like the life drained out of them. To try and get the life back, to reassure people that art doesn't have to be fine-tuned for the hallowed consumerist tastes, and to try and recapture some of the feeling of wonder of an artwork emerging from a white page, I animated the creation of the works. (Animation).

Digital artwork

From before the Wacom tablet.



"Physics:" Poster of an simulated water interference pattern due to several hundred pebbles being dropped at precise positions and times to spell the word "physics," 2002. (High res)



"Sly:" A woman in black and white, ca. 2004. (High res)



"Goddess:" A pretty girl, unfinished, ca. 2000.



"Negative rose:" Wallpaper, ca. 2003.



"Last Night I Dreamt of a Princess," 2006.



"Face:" Self-portrait, ca. 2002, colored 2007. (Animated)

Start

I decided to merge all of my creative work into one blog. I'll make a number of posts initially to get old works posted, and then I'll see where things go.