So that’s how it’s done.
APPstract RESULT: Weekly APPstract #6 No Theme
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I’m glad you said that, because I read most of Name of the Rose, but skipped the long history lessons, so I might have missed things too.Umberto Eco is a great writer, but F’s Pendulum was too dense & complex for me. Name of the Rose was more accessible, but I still had to skip great swathes of dense prose — and thus completely missed great swathes of the plot
I reckon Salman Rushdie is a much better indicator, Ann - have you read Midnight’s Children or Shame? Bliss
I notice he has one background reference while driving along the country road but when he gets home it will be lacking from his windshield view. Hmmmm, that’s not the way I saw it.
I came back to this post to see if you could add some more details how you did this. But now that I’m reading it more carefully step-by-step-step I can understand it quite well. Starting right away with Imaengine puts all of your elements into abstraction at the first formative stages of your work. I tend to hang on to the photo elements too long into the process.
These references to reading a book in a language you don’t really understand gives me the impression that a person would end up with an abstract view of the book.
Well, I should understand it, because I read it in English.
But there were long boring bits (well, I thought they were) in the middle.
Ah, yes, English. I can relate to that wit some books. Even so, skipping sections of the book is sort of like dropping out tonal areas of an image, for instance posterizing, which leads to a fractured understanding of the image. I was thinking of other references to Spanish and, I can’t remember the other. I can get by in French but I miss quite a few words.Well, I should understand it, because I read it in English.
Here are some iterations of a face made in Face Model and edited only in ameraC.
They tend to come out rather plastic looking and not very high resolution so they need some post processing. Also they come out with no hair so this hair was added in the HairBeardLite app.
They tend to come out rather plastic looking and not very high resolution so they need some post processing. Also they come out with no hair so this hair was added in the HairBeardLite app.
I have engaged the abstract winner selector app which is similar to RoseCat’s art describer program.Meantime, while Starzee and I quietly gibber at each other about intentionality
in the nice padded room, it’s time for FundyBrian Brian
to choose his favourite/s for this week
And Weekly APPstract #7 is here !
APPstract #6: The Winners!
I appreciate that people were willing to try the concept of creating with intention combined with the making of abstract images. In fact, it never occurred to me that this would present a problem to people. From where I am in the abstract biz I’m no further ahead, or behind, using some planning compared to not planning anything. There are so many avenues to explore and I haven’t yet established any particular way of working so it’s all the same to me.
Maybe it’s just where I am at the moment but I want my work to mean something or to convey some sort of meaning or emotion. I find when I work randomly I sometimes produce interesting blobs or patterns but they don’t say anything to me, besides, well there’s an interesting pattern. In order to express something I need to be thinking about it before I start opening apps, and each thing I try I can ask, is this getting closer to where I want to go, or not.
As a friend, I feel some concern when I see creative people limiting their way of working to the way they have always done it before. Abstraction is SO HUGE, so wide open you need to be ready to try anything. Deliberately start out differently every time. Coincidentally, I just recently listened to a podcast called “Breaking Out of Our Resistance Bubble” so I’m feeling especially conscious of areas where I have resistance to entertaining ideas different from my current experience. Another good topic would be to make an abstract using methods you have never used before. So enough of that. Let’s get down to handing out the virtual gold.
I felt every entry showed considerable merit and it wasn’t easy to pick a winner. I’m endlessly in awe of the APPstracts people make on MobiTog.
Numero Uno: zenjenny with her anxiety inducing image -
In spite of zenjenny’s misgivings at the results this is quite fascinating to look at.
Peacefully coexisting in Second Place: ImageArt & JillyG, and JillyG & ImageArt. It’s impossible in our linear method of expression to list both at once but that’s the way I’m thinking about it.
So much to explore in this image, but I think the perpetrator is getting away with no one in pursuit.
The bird has taken on a very prehistoric look, perhaps the rough hairiness of the edge lines helps to give it that dangerous appearance.
zenjenny - it’s up to you to wipe the slate clean after the way I messed things up and get things back on track.
I appreciate that people were willing to try the concept of creating with intention combined with the making of abstract images. In fact, it never occurred to me that this would present a problem to people. From where I am in the abstract biz I’m no further ahead, or behind, using some planning compared to not planning anything. There are so many avenues to explore and I haven’t yet established any particular way of working so it’s all the same to me.
Maybe it’s just where I am at the moment but I want my work to mean something or to convey some sort of meaning or emotion. I find when I work randomly I sometimes produce interesting blobs or patterns but they don’t say anything to me, besides, well there’s an interesting pattern. In order to express something I need to be thinking about it before I start opening apps, and each thing I try I can ask, is this getting closer to where I want to go, or not.
As a friend, I feel some concern when I see creative people limiting their way of working to the way they have always done it before. Abstraction is SO HUGE, so wide open you need to be ready to try anything. Deliberately start out differently every time. Coincidentally, I just recently listened to a podcast called “Breaking Out of Our Resistance Bubble” so I’m feeling especially conscious of areas where I have resistance to entertaining ideas different from my current experience. Another good topic would be to make an abstract using methods you have never used before. So enough of that. Let’s get down to handing out the virtual gold.
I felt every entry showed considerable merit and it wasn’t easy to pick a winner. I’m endlessly in awe of the APPstracts people make on MobiTog.
Numero Uno: zenjenny with her anxiety inducing image -
In spite of zenjenny’s misgivings at the results this is quite fascinating to look at.
Peacefully coexisting in Second Place: ImageArt & JillyG, and JillyG & ImageArt. It’s impossible in our linear method of expression to list both at once but that’s the way I’m thinking about it.
So much to explore in this image, but I think the perpetrator is getting away with no one in pursuit.
The bird has taken on a very prehistoric look, perhaps the rough hairiness of the edge lines helps to give it that dangerous appearance.
zenjenny - it’s up to you to wipe the slate clean after the way I messed things up and get things back on track.
Please join in Tom. We’re here, following a theme if there is one, and doing our own thing if there isn’t. Making an abstract image and then telling everyone what apps we used.
Thank you Brian for my joint second with the wonderful artwork of ImageArt Ann. And congrats to zenjenny Jen - that’s another of your amazing artworks. I don’t think you messed up Brian. It never does any harm to get us all thinking outside the box - or at least trying to get us to do that.
And I think it sort of worked.
I LOVE this idea. It’s brilliant. And perfect for this Challenge.
Love that image of what looks like a tired grandson in one of the safest ‘places’ in his little world
(half my working life is about what happens when people don’t have these experiences - so i these pictures are particularly beautiful to me).
Well, I should understand it, because I read it in English.
It was in English ? ? ?
FundyBrian thank you for your tireless efforts to educate and inspire us — I don’t think any of us emerge from APPstract #6 quite the same artists that entered 
But with fewer syllables! Thank you for the honour of first place, (even if it was decided by a selector app
) and congrats to the peacefully co-existing ImageArt Ann and JillyG Jilly 
And I think after all this we should all go and have a cup of tea, a Bex and a nice lie down with tea bags on our eyes — but I have something different in mind for #7
So please, in your own time, stagger over to the new thread for Art Games !
https://mobitog.com/threads/weekly-appstract-7.23683/
But with fewer syllables! Thank you for the honour of first place, (even if it was decided by a selector app
) and congrats to the peacefully co-existing ImageArt Ann and JillyG Jilly And I think after all this we should all go and have a cup of tea, a Bex and a nice lie down with tea bags on our eyes — but I have something different in mind for #7
So please, in your own time, stagger over to the new thread for Art Games !
https://mobitog.com/threads/weekly-appstract-7.23683/
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Thanks!
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Gracias Jen. Y sí, es Fold Defy la app que crea esa ilusión.
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Muchas gracias Catherine. Me alegra te haya gustado.
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Muchas gracias Jilly!
Well done, Jen! And great manip, Jilly. Thanks Brian for my third.