Creative Cogitation

NOOB is a third paint­ing inspired by online roll play, specif­i­cally first per­son shoot­ers.  I have been around long enough to remem­ber play­ing the orig­i­nal ver­sion of Doom — it was very pop­u­lar among the bud­ding sci­en­tists at my uni­ver­sity. It makes me laugh to see old time com­put­ers in movies from the 80s and 90s, which I remem­ber using.  It is all so very dif­fer­ent now.  You used to need a lot more imagination.

In gen­eral NOOB is an acronym recast from “new­bie,” which can refer to any­one not famil­iar with cyber­space, but in the con­text of RPG it refers to an unskilled player.

NOOB by Jake Beck­man. Two yel­low house finch gamers perch in a tree gaz­ing down upon a fallen com­rade as the first per­son shooter roll play con­tin­ues on.

In this paint­ing I harken to Halo, Half-Life, Call of Duty, and other vaguely mil­i­tary first per­son shoot­ers.  Although their com­rade has fallen, he can rise again and be slain again ad infini­tum. In cyber­space death is a tem­po­rary incon­ve­nience.   I kept the back­ground includ­ing the hel­met that as fallen off the dead bird in shades of soft blue gray to con­trast the yel­low house finch play­ers from the cyber game space.  In the mid­dle back­ground I have placed sev­eral vague mil­i­tary fig­ures engaged in the con­tin­u­ing game play. Update: Some­one sug­gested I put the size of the paint­ing in the blog; size and other par­tic­u­lars are avail­able on the NOOB art page.

Any com­ments? Do you like it, hate it, think its too dark, think its funny?”

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

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