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The idea is this:You can do a Google Image Search of

Terry Sawatzky

to find the visual link back to this blog entry

and this is where I'll put links to

IMAGES.

(This will roll out over time as all things change constantly.)

My Tumblr Blog - has some images of my sculpture among other things.

From my digital deconstructivist phase

Two Mac classics

From the

Deconstruction:Classic Show.

The top one actually worked for a couple of weeks,

until a random bit of static 

caused a catastrophic failure.

I modified the relic into several non-electical sculptures

after that.

The bottom photo documents the process of PhotoChopping (my word)

some images in Photoshop on my MacBook Pro

and

saving them to a USB floppy drive (purchased for this purpose alone).

The floppy was then inserted in the modified Mac Classic

(note the vertical screen)

and put into a database to be accessed by

a program I wrote (on the Mac Classic)

in Chipmunk Basic.

Orange on Pink

Orange peel displayed.

So many options...

Here's a random selfie from last year sometime.

I'm still trying to sort out all the

AutoMagic

Settings

And

Choices

available in the world of all things

iPad.

Easy. 

If you have several lifetimes to sort out 

all the options.

DYAC

Post-Contemporary

This was built in Flash.

A beautiful but time consuming technique

known as a Shape Tween.

Flash has become difficult to integrate into the net,

but non Action Script bits can be saved 

as a gif! 

Bookshelf on my Mind

Too much information.

I got my first computer about 

30 years ago.

I can't tell you how many times

an 

upgrade 

has completely destroyed

everything I had built up to that point.

House of Cards!

Bad Photoshop - Quick and Dirty

I feel a series 

coming on.

The Devil is in the details.

So why not just 

leave them out?

Too many notes,

just take some of them out

and it will be fine.

Insidewalk

Only 11,000 others

in the digital

world

put together

inside

and

sidewalk

and came up with

insidewalk.

and most of them

appended it with

sale.

The Original Terry Sawatzky Infinite Feedback Loop

Okay so I had this idea 

that talking about 

myself 

was kinda like this image of 

my head infinitely popping 

out of my mouth. 

So, 

I said,

"Fine, I can whip that image up in 

Photoshop - 

my Favorite program since Flash upgraded 

from AS1." 

Later another related idea crossed 

my sketchbook - 

"If I Like my blog posts, 

and like all the sites that report 

that I like my blog posts and like all those posts as well..." 

You get the drift? 

It could go on and on. 

As an infinite self appreciating 

feedback loop. 

Now, you can tell what happened, right?

I combined the tongue-transforming-into-a-head 

image 

with the 

'I like Me' 

text 

-or is it subText?- 

and created this 

Good Olde Fashioned PostModern Self-referential 

Blog Post Post! 

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In The Livingroom

You can get a slightly

larger

version by clicking on the image

but I'm still not entirely

happy with the results I'm getting

here.

After all, I started with seven

60kb images and

the Photoshop animation technigue

turns it into 150 images.

Almost as bad as video.

Well, at least I've got

a handle

on

the uploading elsewhere and

linking process.

Preview of Digital Photo Based Collage #2

There

never

seems

to be

any

time,

space,

soul...

The After Picture

Wow!

That was a long break -

so much has happened.

I am planning to simplify my web plans by putting more stuff on my Blog.

We'll see how the organization works,

I think I'll have to sketch it out on paper and then

translate to the digital version.

I don't seem to be able to work directly on my laptop

right now.

But for starters I'll add more pictures

and see how the balance of time, space, and soul work out ...

Even if some one in the other room is singing

while I try to do it.

Stretch

After all the years I've spent investigating Multimedia
there are times like this
when I just want to go back to
building animated Giffs!!
I've spent thousands of dollars
and thousands of hours
learning the conventions,
and the techniques ...
...and yet...
it's the stuff that I initially did
when I
"didn't know anything"
that keeps calling to me.
I've stretched, sure...
But it's time to reintegrate.

The Natural

I so rarely post unmodified
images that I feel
like I almost have to apologize or explain
when I do.
Yes, this is what I really look like.
Yes, it's a webcam shot, you can tell, right?
It's funny how in a very short period of time
-my lifetime-
photography has moved from being
a black art
to
ubiquitous.
Once
"seeing is believing"
applied to photography,
now we look at photos and nod knowingly -
"gotta be Photoshop"
or, my term,
"Photo-Chopped".
It's so expected that unmodified pictures
give me pause ...
"What? A natural?
I didn't know they still existed!"
I'll add the modified version later,
see if you can tell what I was thinking
and why.

Terry Sawatzky

This self titled blogspot does
connect to me, 
Terry Sawatzky, 
the guy in the picture, 
the guy who builds sculpture. 
And works full time at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. 
(KPU)
As a Sculpture Technician.
And occasionally at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
(ECUAD)
In the Metal Shop or Industrial Design.
And occasionally at the University of British Columbia.
(UBC)
Robson Square Media.
So this does seem like a good spot to put further news and links.
...
I probably will.
We'll see how long the edits take to show up.
UPDATE:
2017
I'm still at KPU
but now I'm called an
Instructional Associate.
My most recent notion
on the thread of
Web Presence
is
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