Rhea Myers

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  • I Heart Rhizome

  • Poem For The Day

    If you really love me,
    choose a younger wife;

    for I, being older,
    could not bear to live
    [with a younger man…]

    – Sappho, c.600BC.
    (Translation: Josephine Balmer, buy her book published by Bloodaxe).

  • I’m on Artocracy

    You can now buy some of my images at Artocracy.

    http://www.artocracy.org/buy/?artist=64

    These have been specially formatted to print well from your printer.
    There’s also an artist’s statement and photo. I must do better ones of both. In real life I have two ears. 🙂

  • Canto (For Liam) – In Progress

    I’m not sure “Two Worlds And Inbetween” is going to work. So I’m finishing my series of works based on a single image from “Remix Reading”. This is for Liam, whose birthday it is this week. 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Update: Erk! why is the background black? It doesn’t come up like that in the preview! Must fix…
    Update: Fixed it.
    Update: CC-BY-SA, contains elements from “Remix Broad Street” by Tom Chance.

  • Creative Archive Site Launch

  • Bear

    Bear

    I laughed until my stomach hurt. Then I laughed until my face hurt. Then I had to stop.

    “Bear” is a comic book by Jamie Smart, published by Slave Labor Graphics. Jamie seems to be from Norwich, just along the line from here. I’m told Slave Labor usually cater for the Goth market, but Bear is just generally funny, if dark.

    Bear is a teddy bear, Looshkin is a psychotic housecat and Karl works in a record shop. Looshkin tries to kill bear. That’s usually it, and what more do you need? Issue 7, the first I read, features Bear finding love, a 1960s gangster movie spoof, too many embalmed brains bought over the internet, a minor TV personality moving in next door, and Looshkin finding a flamethrower.

    Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Read and enjoy.

  • Hackers and Painters Backlash

    Dabblers and Blowhards

    Good to see someone taking Graham to task over the art historical details of the essay. I do get the same feeling lost in making art as lost in making code, but possibly a chef feels the same way about making a recipe.

    Graham’s comments on wealth and popularity are just wrong. It’s good to see someone recognising that ESR ain’t all that as a theorist (“The Cathedral and the Bazaar” is a thoroughly broken metaphor if you understand how cathedrals were built and the place bazaars occupy in society). I’m not a big fan of “Godel Escher Bach”, though. I find it tedious and chummy. If you are told you should read it, just read the last actual chapter for the useful content of the book and laugh hilariously whenever anyone mentions Achilles and the Tortoise. “Fluid Analogies” is much better.

  • Lemon Harangue

    You can’t say what we think, by Jingo!

    To paraphrase: how dare a foreigner complain about “Art Since 1900”, criticising pseuds is anti-intellectualism, never mind the ridiculousness feel the earnestness, think of the children, etc.

    Update: It’s not just me, then:

    http://www.artblog.net/?name=2005-04-11-11-34-iconoduel

  • How To Write Net Poetry

    string of contentious vaguely poetic fragmentary every day another
    markov chain me to a desk a substitute for a machine one in fact
    orphan drift tedious by hand atrixo and rhythm but never read whole
    democracy inverted a negative space better by association better buy
    sleevehearted ribbon on your breast alone the wind dragged sand
    pounding rhythmic three days blue-black bars over retinal lag
    anyone can but only those who do are anyone to be anyone good
    patti smith’s corpse between magnets drives the city lights to your words
    destroy rock and earth colours everything you seep from intermittently
    spinning bottle decades commodifying ignorance commodifying
    hi-hat flurries salivated for all tomorrow’s arty faux fire at will you be

  • Holes

    Evie suggests that draw-something’s shapes need holes. I agree, my drawings are riddles with holes, and it’s something I’ve put off far too long. So holes it is.

    The underlying design principle of draw-something is to start with code that does nothing and extend that. 🙂 So I need a do-nothing hole maker. Then I can build on that. I think I’ll start with convex-hull outer shapes, as I won’t have to worry about how to draw inside the “tendrils” that the unsorted shapes have.

    Should holes be drawn around or inside by the drawing algorithm? I think inside, to match how I draw holes, but this will require an inside/outside switch on the drawing algorithm. Shouldn’t be too hard.

    draw-something can now outline a 1000 line scribble in two to three minutes:

    Not bad. I’ll optimise it more another time.