In a state of organizational chaos, some random pictures

 

I currently have a show of my pictures at the library. C'mon by! 

These pictures in the show are in a state of flux and change and rotate at all times. Except I am off work for a whole week to practice for my never working again forever, which is coming up soon and so needs lots of practicing! 

Since I am not at work then, my 100 plus pictures at the library are free to just remain as they are for awhile. And I can, I can, I can...

What can I do?

I can get organized?

No no no!

I can make more pictures!!!

I can throw these pictures onto my gigantic pile of pictures because that will have to do for now.

And I would love to show you some of these pictures, but at this point I have no idea... 

1. Where any of them are.

2. If you've already seen them.

3. Why I made them.

or

4. What they're supposed to mean anyway.

I'm sure we'll work it all out...

The last July 4th

 

You may not pay much attention to politics, which is sensible to a point, but if you don't pay attention you may not realize that in my country things are getting very, er, wicked.

Weirdly, though, I am leaving this country soon and will not be back for awhile, or even forever. It ever so slightly numbs the sting.

I'm not gloating.

Everywhere's got problems.

But metaphorically some countries whack themselves in the head with their hand, some with a brick.

Anyway, it's Independence Day in my country today.

Though the meaning has apparently been lost to time.

Here are some pictures.

Ephemera from a library show

 

My current and final library show is up at my library!

How's it going? you may ask.

I dunno. There are two people looking at... nope, they've lost interest.

Anyway, there is tons of stuff up on the art display racks. I think it's a lot for people to absorb, except for small children. Small children, with their superior attention spans, are interested in my pictures and even read the cartoons! 

Some of these pictures have been featured here, some haven't. Here are a few special pieces I designed for the show, including the first one which is a sort of title piece for the show, and then a few more I made on a walk this morning as a tribute to my library.

The Dioramas: fox and skunk

I have been working on a variety of diorama pictures. These are an example of something I would totally make for real, if I could. Since here they are, and I am showing you them, I sort of can make them, but physical versions might be even nicer. 

I have made a lot of these diorama images for a show I am having at my library, all featuring my library throughout my career, but these below, having nothing to do with the library, might be the best versions of this method so far. 

They feature good old fox and skunk, classical mainstays of clerkmanifesto.

 

Variety pack, my co-workers

 

As so often has been happening in the current generation of photo generation and ai photo editors, I am chest deep in experiments. I am never entirely satisfied with how I end up showing these wide ranging collections to you, but I always love showing what I'm up to here, so I am ever fiddling with how to do it. I have a new idea for this go around: I will show you small related but more diverse groups of pictures. 

Today to start off, since it is what I started working with this round, I am going to show you a random selection of portraits of my co-workers done in various styles. I took some pictures of my co-workers to create some Moebius style sci fi versions of everybody, which seemed to go over well with everyone, and certainly pleased me. But I since branched out into a range of other styles, and while I might usually stick to a collection of the Moebius pictures in a first post like this, I will instead start with an assortment across various styles today to try and give you a taste of what the portrait range I'm working with is like.

I am also working with a lot of non portrait images. But we'll come to that later in addition to exploring these studies some more.