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!

The art work in this blog is fed­er­ally copy­righted. All repro­duc­tion and pub­lish­ing copy­rights are retained by the artist. Images are not to be copied, re-distributed, imi­tated, derived OR oth­er­wise used in any form with­out the explicit writ­ten per­mis­sion of the artist.

Work­ing on the Social Media thing.  Started a Face­Book fan page, AKA­Jake if you are inter­ested.  Become a fan!

I have no idea what to do with this fan page yet.  Tomor­row evening I am sup­posed to have an “Intro to Face­Book” class — I am hop­ing to walk out of there a bit more clued in.

For exam­ple I really would like to have a snip­pet of my blogs appear in other places with a link, but I have no idea how to set that up.  I did find my RSS feed address so at least I can link that.

Of course I have my “real job” to do and I am find­ing it had to make a bal­ance and still move for­ward with inten­tion.  Still I must endeavor.  2010 will be the “Year of Mar­ket­ing” for me because I have put it off too long and really need to fig­ure it all out. Art is a real job too.

Any­way, I have about a mil­lion projects.  OK it is actu­ally less than that, but I stoop to hyper­bole because some­times it feels like that.  Def­i­nitely got a few gators nib­bling on my butt and the bosses just called down that the swamp drain­ing project is on hold.    One of those alli­ga­tors is “the estab­lish a dis­tinc­tive style and / or the­matic ref­er­ence to make myself rec­og­niz­able as an artist”-gator. Once I have this con­sis­tent style I will build a body of work based on that… and mar­ket it of course.

That is the bat­tle plan.What is it they say about bat­tle plans? Oh yeah, the don’t tend to sur­vive first con­tact with the enemy.

Toward that end I painted some­thing last Fri­day; I already have a bunch of vari­a­tions on the theme in my head.  I like it of course, but then again I tend to like all of my art more or less, but some­body else liked it too.  It has already flown away to live in Wisconsin.

Bird on a Wire, rep­re­sen­ta­tional abstract by Jake

The ASCII Binary reads Twitter.com tweet. You can tell where my head is at. What do you think?

Alter­na­tively, got any Face­Book Fan page or other social media tips? Love to hear from you.

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

The art work in this blog is fed­er­ally copy­righted. All repro­duc­tion and pub­lish­ing copy­rights are retained by the artist. Images are not to be copied, re-distributed, imi­tated, derived OR oth­er­wise used in any form with­out the explicit writ­ten per­mis­sion of the artist.