Random Etc. Notes to self. Work, play, and the rest.

Clayton James Cubitt meets Processing, Jim meets Flickr

Clayton James Cubitt is "one of a new breed of photographers no longer content to draw a distinction between the worlds of fashion, art, and porn" apparently. He also has an eye for generative artwork, and my Processing experiments with attractors and particles were enticing enough for him to get in touch and ask for more. A weekend of hacking and a flurry of emails produced user-unfriendly software which would produce images at print resolution, and then I left the rest to Clayton. Witness the fruits of our collaboration in the denim issue of Metropop magazine. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out, and you should definitely check out the rest of his work if you like what you see there.

Staying with photography, (but not at the professional/fashion end of the spectrum) Jim, my most well-travelled of friends, is posting a series of great and varied photos at Flickr, with especially flowery captions. I like! Plus, today he grabbed chocolate as his URL, which must be something of a coup as Flickr hits the mainstream.


2 Comments

Absolutely stunning images, old chap - very very impressed. I wondered as I saw them though whether or not it would be possible to use some of the relationships in the human form and the poses they were in to create generative shapes and forms that would fly off limbs and curl around bodies like weird extended human infoprostheses and vortices - to make generative form merge and flow fully into evolved bodies. That would rock so hard. Any chance?

Posted by Tom on 7 May 2005 @ 10pm

Yes, I’d love for my generated graphics to be sourced from the photographic imagery… definitely.I have a few ideas for where this could lead, but configuring the generative process based on a source image is top priority.I’d also like to animate them…

Posted by Tom Carden on 8 May 2005 @ 4am