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			var txtarray = new Array("The Reclining Odalisque With Slave III is a watercolor I painted in 1978 after attending Rhode Island School of Design, where I studied Watercolor Painting, and Sculpture in Wood and Stone. Reflecting Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres similar pair of Odalisque paintings, I combined elements from both, creating a 3rd version. Unique to this version, the green rug has somewhat of a Jackson Pollock style.","With my Minolta SLR sitting on an old stump, I had to rush against the timer for this self portrait on Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard Island, off the Coast of Massachusetts.  I spent the summer there, camping out, and explored the entire island. Very few photographs of me exist from those days, and this is the only one I have from that trip, since it never occured to me, except for on this one occassion, to take my own picture.<br /><br />","This photograph is of a doorway on Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard Island. It is a selenium print, shot while on my summer camping trip in 1974.  I always liked this photo because it is so serene, and beautiful. It just is a reflection of quiet peacefulness.",   "In 1974, on safari, I shot photos of many wild, free ranging animals including these Rhino&rsquo;s grazing, at the Lion Country Safari Park, in Southern California.","In this photo, taken in California while on the safari trip, my friend Michael is in deep reflection, gazing out the window of a camper as we went down the highway.", "While in Laguna Hills, California, in 1974, I shot this photo of some avocados and a lens. The lens belonged to my friend Mike, who also shot similar pictures that day, and we were arranging the fruits in various ways for a while to see what we could come up with. He was shooting with a 4 x 5 camera on tripod, which yielded some impressive photos, without doubt. Still, my humble 35 mm didn&rsquo;t do too badly with this hand held shot, and it is one which I like, as I enjoy the composition. <br /><br />", " This photo is a solarization test strip which did not get the result I was looking for, but after 35 years of sitting in a box, I took a look at it in photoshop and added a little bit of color to it, to see what might happen. I kind of like it, so here it is.","This is another solarization print which I made of my friend and fellow photographer, Michael Somoroff, who was, at that moment, processing one of his amazing prints from that period. We worked together for around 3 years in the mid seventies, during which time enormous volumes of work were produced, and every one was a masterpiece. This print remained in a box and was completely forgotten about for 35 years. I like the dirty, unfinished, aged and spattered appearance. In fact, I like the image now, more than I did 35 years ago, so again, here it is.  ","Taken in the middle of Newark, New Jersey, I shot this from the drivers seat of a lumber truck, stuck in traffic. It was a rare photo opportunity, which remains interesting today, and speaks volumes.", "Nearby to the scene of the previous photo, again in Newark, NJ, I saw irony here. The ice skates in the window cought my eye in sharp contrast to the conditions of the sweltering sidewalk, where no-one standing there would appear to have a remote possibiity of enjoying such recreation.","While strolling downtown, one day in 1975, I took some photos around the Trade Center. In this one, the sculpture at the base of the twin towers seems to forecast the event of its own destruction as the impression of a jet crashing through the walls can be seen in the twisted chaos suspended in the face of a metallic circular force. If you look at the lines of the building behind it, they form wings at the base of the globular metal. To my eye, this sculpture foretold the awful events that would befall these buildings. Though even the artist did not know what drove his design, his art seems to reveal a premonition, and vision of the events which finally took place here.","As discussed in the previous slide, and just to demonstrate my point, I have overlaid elements from a boeing aircraft upon the sculpture, using photoshop. The wings are in their proportional location, relative to the sphere, without making any attempt to line them up with the trade center. They line up so exactly with the lines of the buildings, that the point I made about the lines of the building forming imaginary wings, seems to be true. I did not force this alignment, but simply overlaid a Boeing aircraft, while matching the shape of the sphere to the cylindrical body of the plane from the frontal view, and letting the wings fall where they naturally were designed. While this coincidence of structural comparisons can be observed in 20-20 hindsight, prior to the recognition of this image correspondence, I often wondered what this was supposed to represent, abstractly.  It is now surprising to know that this frightening forecast was speaking, unheard, all along, without ever being obvious to anyone.", "About 6 months before the buildings were destroyed I was offered a job at a company, within the Word Trade Center. While interested in the opportunity, the commute to NYC every day was more than I wanted to do, so I passed on the job. Given my workaholic nature, I would probably not be writing this today, had I taken that job.", "Wildebeest&rsquo;s dominate the skyline as kings of the hill. These animals are really interesting and I have always liked this photograph from my  Safari at Lion Country.", "I saw this man, apparently standing on the wave, and photographed him. This is an actual photograph. Considering the laws of physics, we must deduce that a rock, near the shore, led to this photo opportunity.", "On the beach of Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard out at a far tip of the island, I photographed an unknown, and beautiful woman. Her graceful and beautiful form were captured in my few photos from that day. Her name now escapes me, but this photograph testifies of her beauty, even today.",  "This small boat was moored in a cove on Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard. It was so peaceful, and reminded me of a painting, which is why I decided to photograph it. With not even a ripple in the water it is hard to believe that the water itself, is a part of the Atlantic Ocean.","These leopards seemed fairly indifferent to my presence but they kept their eye on me none the less. Such powerful and graceful cats could easily capture me, but on this day, they seemed a bit too busy, catching the shade, to bother gnawing on my leg bone.", "There is true perfection in the form of woman, and in her graceful lines are the design of God&rsquo;s own hand. No wonder she is beautiful to behold.", "In NYC, 1975, Jefferson Starship gave a concert in central park. This photo, taken while walking to the concert, through the park, is expressive of the generation gap of the 60&rsquo;s and 70&rsquo;s. I like this picture a lot, and it represents an era that has now passed.","This beautiful girl was named Darlene.  Without her, the rock and the sea would not have much to offer. I met Darlene at Laguna Beach, where I noticed her and asked if I may photograph her. The result suggests that this was the right question to ask at that time.", "This photo always made me feel like maybe the stars were part of her dream...this girl was nicknamed Mac and was asleep on a couch one day when I just happened to be around to snap this shot. ","I really like the print of this picture, but unfortunately the negative is lost. I printed this with a mezzotint screen which, at the time, I thought was a good idea. Since I no longer have the original negative, it will have to remain with the mezzotint effect forever, since I can not lose the effect without impacting the appearance of the image greatly. I like the sculptural lines of this image, and that is what, in my mind, sets it apart from the rest.", "This is a photo of my good friend, Robert Roder. He is a great composer and songwriter, whose talent seems boundless. We spent a lot of time together, playing music and being friends in the early 1970's This photo was taken in the studio as part of a series of portraits of him, which I photographed in 1975. ", "This is a pen and ink drawing that I did in 1975. While I like it, it is a bit different from much that I was doing, artistically, at that time. I did not do a lot of pen and ink drawing, unless it was in the form of cartooning, of which I did quite a bit, in those days. <br /><br />","This watercolor painting was based on a photograph which appeared in Playboy magazine, and which I thought was really fantastic.  I don&rsquo;t know the name of the photographer who shot the picture which inspired this painting. This work required quite a bit of careful drawing and detail. " , "I found this beautiful statue and photographed it while strolling the grounds during a party in Short Hills, NJ, to which I was invited by my friend Crist Delmonico. This photo from 1975 brings with it a lot of memories for me. At the party, young Bruce Springsteen, was performing his music ( before the E-Street band days ). ","On the docks of lower Manhattan, these young sailors gave me a royal salute for this photograph, at my request. They were a part of a Maritime Academy, and were training on the vessel seen behind them, as far as I recall. They captured my interest, hence, the photo.","This line drawing shows the influence of Peter Max, whose works I duplicated on the walls of my bedroom, for which I have no photos. This doodle was made while I was thinking about doing a possible album cover for Titan Groan, which was to be the name of an album of music composed by my friend Robert Roder. The album never happened, and this scribble is the only thing that remains of that concept. The drawing is about 11 x 17 inches.","While at SVA I enjoyed to paint with pallet knives quite a lot. This is an abstract of John Lennon, employing this method.", "Another example of pallet knife usage, this is a picture of the sun setting over the ocean. This picture exemplifies the style in which a lot of my lost works were painted. An abundant amount of my paintings vanished over the years, and I do not know where they went.","This abstract was simply a celebration of color with no actual thought as to what form it was meant to express. It is fairly energetic and is intended to prompt a feeling of chaos and movement.", "The old man is a guru, of some sort who was depicted in a National Geographic Magazine, (don&rsquo;t know the issue). It is painted on canvas with alkyds, which are similar to oil paints, but dry more quickly."  ,"John Lennon was one of my favorite musicians and I painted several paintings of him, three of which were based on this famous image of him.Two are shown on this site, the one above and the pallet knive version in oils previously shown. The third piece may still be in the collection of a close friend of mine to whom I gave it about 30 years ago, but that is unknown. This one was painted sometime in the mid 1970&rsquo;s, most likely in 74 or 75.","Another Ingres painting of which I painted a copy in oils, was &quot;The Spring&quot;, which over the years suffered a lot of damage and wear. This is not fully obvious in the photo, as shown here, since it has been cleaned up to hide the extensive abrasions, and color corrected somewhat since it has also faded. I never varnished my oil paintings, which is a rather important step for oils, since it protects the painting. This probably accounts for the abrasions and for the fading.","Walking through a field on Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard Island, in Massachussetts, I found this old milk pail.  It made for a beautiful photograph which I have always liked. I printed it on Agfa paper, and it is selenium toned.","This cartoonish image is an intaglio print, of which I only have one, and for which the original plate is lost. The next image is printed on the same piece of paper and they were both made in one pass on an intaglio press from two seperate plates which I etched, using acid etching baths on coated and scribed aluminum plates. Cartooning and line rapidograph drawings were something I enjoyed doing and these images reflect that.", "As mentioned in the previous slide, this image was printed on an intaglio press from an aluminum plate which I scribed and etched. I studied intaglio at School of Visual Arts, as part of my fine arts curriculum. The character in this image is saying &quot;DIG&quot;, in the small cartoon balloon, as in the old colloquial term &quot;Dig it&quot;." ,"HAPPY FARM NUDISTS was a concept for a cartoon series that I created in 1977. I can&rsquo;t say all of these strips are exactly funny, but at the time, I had fun drawing them. The third one down is my rendition of Martin Landau of the Impossible Mission (IMF) Force, with the unbearable task of going undercover in a nudist colony. I never drew cartoons from photos, or life, only from what I remembered about a face, so my caricatures were usually close enough to recognise, but not absolutely dead on. I don't know if my cartooning habit came from reading too much MAD magazine as a kid, but I knew how to draw with a Rapidograph pen.  No Cartoons that I ever made had any kind of pencil draft stage, they were all just drawn fast and freehand.","HUNCH THE WITCH was another cartoon character I created, also in 1977. Here she is talking to Tricky Dick Nixon. As a previously undrawn, and undeveloped character, the likeness to Nixon could have been a bit better. He needs a nose job to be more accurate, but there is still an indelible likeness there, regardless. It was off the cuff and even surprised me that I was drawing it at all. I couln&rsquo;t stop cracking up as I created this particular cartoon and found myself bursting into laughter after drawing each panel. It was fun to be so inspired that this cartoon just shot from my pen onto paper. My cartoons were never scripted and they were just ideas that came to me as I was drawing them. I never knew what I was going to say or what I would draw in the next panel, but rather just drew each panel on sheer inspiration based on whatever I was feeling at the time.","HARLEM ANGELS came to me in 1976 and was drawn from my experiences in walking around NYC every day for a couple of years, and meeting people, getting an idea about how life was in the city. So Harlem Angels was to be a comic strip about life in the city. My cartoon strips were spontaneous, and were never developed beyond the few you see here, and several others, because so much was going on in my life in those days that I could not settle on one thing. With little time to devote just to cartoons, it became relegated to a small collection that I drew for myself and for friends. Sometimes, if in a bar, I would draw patrons as either cartoons, or as actual portraits. Usually doing so on a bar napkin, or a small pad I carried with me. This ability managed to fill my bar glass, magically, and broke the ice on every occassion, back in the day.", "I created this composite image in 2005. It touches several plateaus of thought. The title of this piece is &quot;Vision&quot; and it is intended to display the irony and opposition within the spirituality of man. The tree spawns a cross, the ice drifts upon the cracked desert, and the old medicine man can not speak what can not be explained, while the young messiah, born of a woman, hangs from the cross which was made from the tree, and which crudely is the antithesis of his occupation as a carpenter. The sky is turned to blood as the spirit is divided and takes opposing paths.","I created some renders in Maya this year, 2010, as part of a class I took on Lighting and Rendering.  These next images are from that class and were some of my assignments.  I have not included everything I did, but here are some examples. This first one is called Sun Castle, and it was one I did at the very beginning of the class. The purpose of this assignment was to introduce environmental lighting and volume effects within an interior.  I created the castle from an element which was provided, which was a column, which I then duplicated many times and created some simple deformations to make the appearance of a castle. This scene is lit with several different kinds of lights including an environment ball, and fog effects, etc.","\"The Alley\" is the first of several images I created for my mid-term project. This alley is obviously trashed for some reason, and is a little too clean for my taste, even so.  Thus the next image is called \"Grime Alley\", which attempts to make it a little less sparkling, since it is a bit too pristine.","\"Grime Alley\", as explained in the previous slide is a bit less spick and span, and introduces some textures as well to make some of the materials a bit more grumpy", "Last of this series that I will show here is \"Volcanic Ash Alley\", where I have introduced some more effects to simulate the same alley as if it had been exposed to a nearby active volcano, or other source of ash.  The ash was produced by using an ambient occlussion render as a difference inversion layer, and adjusted for the effect, the smoke is a post effect as well, while the shaders are also different in this one. <br /><br />", " One of the most difficult liquids to render in Maya ( or perhaps any other 3D application ) is orange juice. The reason for this is the fact that juice is very translucent and has a degree of non-homogeneous subsurface scattering.  This being the case, my initial production of this image lacked the punch which I had to introduce through post effects, however this image is not a dissappointment and I can live with it.", "\"Night and Day\", represents my personal habit of having a beer or two at night and a cup of coffee in the morning.  I should have filled the glass with beer but was mostly focusing on creating the glass and the cup and setting up the lighting and somehow never got around to adding some beer.  Not a total loss there, because this still stands as a nice example.  <br /><br />", "\"Shot Glasses and Decanter\" is an interesting composition which initially did not look this way, I went through several iterations and compositions before I arrived here. There is no post on this beyond a mild boost of saturation. I think that Maya is a wonderful program and it is amazing what is possible to achieve using the computer to create images that do not exist in the real world.  This is just polygons, nurbs, virtual camera and lights, and nothing more.", "Creating a car ad was fun because I got to play with a car model and design my own vehicle.  This car started out as a sedan which looked a bit like a toyota.  I don't even know what kind of car it originally was, but I squished it and pulled and stretched it until I got what I though Batman might drive around in.<br /><br /> At the same time my initial thought was to make a \"Ferrari Red\" color, which is a proprietary and patented coloration. So I attempted to find a red that pushed the limit to get to that point. I had done two renders; this one, and a black version. The black version is what I used to create the ad for my imaginary car, called the \"Black Bat\" which you will see next slide.", "\"The Black Bat\" ad I created as described in the last slide looks like this. In general, this car is a total fake, and obviously is made very sleek, almost to the point of being unbelievable. The tires were given a motion blur treatment to simulate movement, and while this may at first appear authentic, depending on your mood or view, it is fairly contrived, but was fun to create!  I am not too serious about completely affecting the viewer into believing this is a real car. I want some element of disbelief, and perhaps the optical ingredient of being an impossible geometry, so that ultimately the viewer realizes that this car is imaginary.","Last up from my lighting and rendering class is \"Fruits On a Plate\". This image primarily uses fractal shaders, and should be using subsurface scattering heavily and translucence to produce the normally waxen feel of fruit, however, my effort was to try to accomplish the same effect using textures only without introducing raytracing manipulations. I will probably take this a few more steps down the road and see what happens with it. <br /><br />")
	
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