Showing posts with label computer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

A basket full of Diskettes...

My technical museum is being renovated. That's what keeps me from making art at the moment. I opened all these disks, my old archive (I deeply dislike cds, they are an evironmental pest) had to be given up, my new computer doesn't have a disk drive, of course. However I used to be very fond of this medium. In 1988 when I started working with it, it was a very practical and sufficient store medium. A number of boxes waited to be revisited. I had to look what is inside and save it to a modern stick. It contains my collection of vector graphic decoration which I created in the 90s. I made drawings like this by the dozen and sometimes used them, sometimes just made them for pleasure. I stored them and other things like business letters and my first digital photos on these diskettes. The complete collection of data is on this small stick now. Almost weird.
And it is not environment-friendly to dump all these diskettes. I had to break them to make sure they will not be read again. At least I will take them to a place where they will be recycled properly.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Dim Turtle

What if I let the other creatures appear as very dim silhouettes or just outlines? True, as Susan said in her comment, it would not be bad to let the feature of the tatzelwurm be more or less undisturbed. I'll try to surround him by fish and turtles in very subdued, light shades, maybe just white, or mere outline -- I have to try what works best. Your opinion is welcome.
Today, my new computer arrived. My friend Anna who is very experienced with building up configurations will help me to reconnect. So hopefully I won't be offline for too long!
Wonder why all the computers are black nowadays. That old grey wasn't beautiful either; but entirely black... why not blue, pink or green? Yes, light green should be prescribed for offices.
See ya!

Update: Ha! I'm back. On a new computer. The old one was 10 years old. Tantalizing slowness!