My 365 post today shows how I created yesterday's "Gingered Torso" work using images from my iPhone and several apps on my iPad. 

Additional details as well as info on the Contemporary Photography in Hawaii 2011 juried exhibition the piece was selected for is available on my website at: http://www.shanerobinson.com/contemporary-photography-in-hawaii-2011-my-photo...

A departure tonight from both my "Self Portrait March" and my self-imposed rule of only posting my daily 365 via my iPhone or iPad.
Today's 365 Project post is one of my favorite works to date. "Gingered Torso" was created entirely on my iPad, with photos taken from my iPhone, using several iPad applications. The details of the applications used, including a QuickTime video of the entire process, is available on my main website at http://rsr.me/makingtorso

I'm also thrilled to announce this work was selected for the "Contemporary Photography in Hawaii 2011" juried exhibition and was awarded the Juror's Award. Information on this event is also available on my website link above.

If you've been following my 365 Project, you may have noticed that for the month of March I somehow started down a "self-portrait" track. The reviews (comments on Flickr, mostly) have been kind but few in numbers when compared to earlier postings in the Project. Which is fine. I remind myself that I'm not doing my 365 Project for reviews or comments.  I’m doing it mostly as a test to see if I can stick with it for 365 days and out of curiosity to see where it takes me and what I discover along the way.

Early in the project, I had some time in the evenings when I was able to spend a few hours on some of my favorite pieces so far. For example, 1/365, 2/365, 18/365, and 32/365. I'd love to do more of these but I don't always have the time or energy at the end of the day. 

Last night, I had both the time and the energy to create another favorite. 72/365 - Gingered Self Portrait, like the others linked above, was created in the amazing Brushes app on my iPad using several photos from my iPhone. In addition to being an incredibly powerful and intuitive painting and compositing iPhone and iPad application, Brushes allows you to export your finished work as a high quality  QuickTime movie that shows each brushstroke as a frame. The final effect is that you can watch a work of art being created. 

My work is a little different than the regular Brushes galleries you'll find on the Brushes website gallery and Brushes Flickr group.  Because I'm using photographs, textures, and layer blending modes, my video exports look more like flashes of photos and less like automated drawings and paintings. But, for photographers that are experimenting with the amazing photography and painting apps on their iPhones and iPads, I thought my creation process would be fun to see. 

The video is only 1 minute and 8 seconds long. 18 seconds of that is title and credits (created in Apple's iMovie). 5 seconds is a still frame at the end showing the finished image. The remaining 45 seconds shows 1350 individual video frames. 45 seconds at 30 frames per second = 1350 individual frames. Each frame represents a change, a stroke, a blending mode change, a photo layer import or deletion, a layer opacity change, etc. 1350 different decisions over the course of  about 2 hours that it took to create the final image. And you can see at the beginning and for most of the video, I ended up with something very different than where I thought I wanted to begin.

Hope you enjoy this little peek into my creative process and I hope I have many more evenings with both the time and energy in which to create this type of work. 

Oh. And the audio soundtrack in the video I threw together with 3 different loops in Apple's GarageBand. 

PS: The rules I broke for my 365 Project? The final piece, the video and audio, was created on, and uploaded from, my MacPro, and not my iPhone or iPad. 

Got back into the Brushes app on my iPad tonight and had fun combining one of my Ginger Abstract photos, a self-portrait from my iPhone (which contains my reflection in a mirror), and one of the photo textures I collect and save on my iPhone and iPad.

A re-working of one of my iPhone self-portraits using Brushes, Percolator, and Iris Photo Suite on my iPad.

It's a crazy amount of fun to sit down with the iPad, not having a single idea of what I want to crate, browse through my photos, and just start adding photos, layers, and textures.

Just a fun Friday entry for my 365. Rox had just thrown the toy for Lexi and struck pose when she noticed I had my iPhone pointed her way.

I took out a little boat and some people bobbing in the water using the Brushes app and then ran it through CameraBag to give it some fun color punch. Happy Aloha Friday!

If you're reading this, it's likely you spend a majority of your waking hours in some way plugged in to the Interwebs. The words you're reading, the images you're viewing, the videos you're watching, and the very work you're probably doing is nothing more than bits and bytes, 1's and 0's being switched off and on, faster than the speed of light. And your brain is reassembling these bits into characters, words, images, sounds, and meaning. The same is true of our bodies. Our physical presence is just a collection of tightly packed atoms and molecules, directed to work in harmony for the main purpose of allowing our consciousness to simply experience the physical sensations of this corporeal form. So if all of this is true, is it not just a matter of simply deciding Who we want to be today? How we want to be today? Of deciding which "suit" to wear...

Just a fun photo for today's 365, taken at Aloha Tower Marketplace in Honolulu. I was walking to the car, looking for something interesting to shoot and noticed how much the light poles in the parking lot mimicked the palm trees that surrounded them. The problem was there are SO many palm trees at Aloha Tower that it was difficult to find an angle for a clean shot. Quite a few people were looking up trying to figure out why I was waking around and crouching down while pointing my phone toward the sky.

Yesterday, Sunday, was my first full day to just work creatively in our new studio in Haiku, Maui. I haven't yet shipped any of my canvases or panels to paint on from Oahu, nor any of my tools with which to build them. But I had two tables an an iPhone...

I love the show, NCIS, and have a mildly perverse fascination with alien abductions and stories of Cold War government / military experiments. I had these in mind when creating this "clone" photograph.

I also got a TON of exercise running up and down the stairs and hopping up on the tables and getting positioned before the 10-second timer on my iPhone app fired off the shot using the GorillaPod app.

Once I had several shots of each "position", I transferred all the photos to my iPad. I used Brushes to layer and composite the images, Iris Photo Suite to add texture and vignetting, and CameraBag for additional flavor. I have over a dozen different final edits of this shot but this is currently my favorite.

I fully intended to just pull a previously created image tonight since it's Sunday and I just spent the last 3 hours manually pressing almost a gallon of tangerine juice from about 100 tangerines I picked from our tree today. But I just wasn't inspired by anything I've previously created sitting in my iPad's photo album...

So, I grabbed a photo I took of myself in our outdoor shower a couple months ago (that I've never liked and almost trashed several times) and started playing with it in Percolator, Iris Photo Suite, and Brushes. Same "app recipe" used in yesterday's post. The door to our outdoor shower is mostly glass and on sunny days acts like a mirror. There are 4 flections of me in the image above but only 2 are easily visible.