Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby,
I hope you had a nice day. I see that you have a show of some type coming up, the post only came up once so I don't recall the name of the band (or if it was a multi-band thing or radio station showcase), but it was listed in a "planning to attend" post on FB for February 6, I believe. A new client, maybe? I will keep my fingers crossed.
I also saw your photo of Tristan. You remarked about your use of bold, colorful backgrounds recently, and I like it. It reminds me of the concept of Pop Art in the 1960s, which also made use of bold colors and things like Day-Glo, spiral patterns and geometric frameworks in artwork, distinctive makeup, and just all kinds of eye catching motifs.
I think it's a good idea that once you start exploring a style, to keep doing it for a while and see where it leads you. It doesn't mean you have to exclude all the other photographic modes you are working with, but if you have discovered something you like, it is good to see what you can do with it.
Yeah, Pop Art in the '60s just exploded, and suddenly - about late 1967 or so - the patterns, colorings, fonts and other stylings were everywhere - in print ads, in photos (advertising, fashion), on album covers. I loved that look as a kid, and it was part of what made the '60s so exciting.
Things need a look, y'know? :)
So keep exploring. You could add all kinds of backgrounds and set dressings, including hand drawn, hand painted or created.
Plot things out in your head, even if the ideas are not feasible at the moment (and some that are feasible, too), and just see where you can go with them. Think like a graphic artist. What if you were creating an album cover for a band and wanted to really make it stand out; what would you see in your head?
This is a good "thought experiment" kind of thing, and it's kind of like storyboarding in the movies. It helps you to visualise stuff.
At any rate, I hope things are going well. The current FB setup has made it very difficult to see posts, and thus to communicate, but I am trying and will continue to, if you want me to.
The last couple days have been cold and windy in The 'Ridge. Good singing in church yesterday. Tonight we watched "X-Files" and followed the Iowa caucuses. I kinda figured Bernie Sanders was gonna do well there because Iowa is usually pretty liberal on the Democratic side and it's also iconoclastic because it votes first and so the people there have a chance to make a statement. I know a lot of young people are for Bernie (you may be yourself), and it is good that his ideas are being heard (see Jerry Brown in 1992), but in the long run I am hoping that Hillary will win the nomination (if you are a Bernie fan, then sorry about that).
I just think that we need the Clinton Experience Factor, and we are gonna need a strong candidate to defeat Trump (who, despite Cruz this evening, will be the nominee), and besides all of that I am just plain not a socialist. Socialism as a whole can only work in smaller, ethnically homogenous countries where everybody is on the same page. Now, we already have had many socially oriented policies in America for decades (see Franklin D Rooseveldt). But to try and run the whole country that way, all in one fell swoop, ain't gonna happen. The corporations would fight back so hard it would make Bernie's head spin, and I'm sure he is aware of that. So, as Hillary says, in America change has got to come in increments. That's because we have truly immense power in this country, and that means also - besides money - police and military power. And if there ever was a push-comes-to-shove situation here, as we have seen in China in 1989 and also in Russia under Putin, then the powers that be (Democratic or Republican makes no difference) would use extraordinary measures to shut things down.
But if you change things incrementally, with diplomacy, without alienating your opponents (in this case the powers that be), than you can indeed make things better in America. You can do it by working within the system, but a revolution is never gonna happen here, not in the near future anyway. So thanks to Bernie for the good ideas and moral support, but.....Go Hillary.
And it's long past time we had a woman President anyway.
Well, that's all I know for tonight. Post if you can, if you feel like it and when you get the chance.
See you in the morning. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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