Artsnova Digital Art and Space Blog
Blog Update
January 23, 2024: As a part of the redesign of the Artsnova website, I have converted the Artsnova Digital Art and Space Blog from the Wordpress CMS (Content Management System) to a custom off-line CMS of my own design. As deployment of this new website is driven by the plan renewal due date of my hosting plan - and wishing to avoid at all costs renewing with the company that bought the hosting company I had been using, my time has been dedicated to coding up the new website. Given the age of the most recent blog post on my 'heritage' blog, I will only add blog posts here that have been written after January 23, 2024. You can access older blog posts either via the categories listed below or via the Blog Archives Index.
Newest Blog Posts
A Redesigned Artsnova Website - Part 2
2024-07-01: Earlier this year I wrote about the website redesign challenges I faced in coming up with a new website design and site generation method. In this, part 2 of the series, I summarize my website redesign investigations into choosing a CSS framework, a new website generation methodology (dynamic vs static), my website redesign criteria and priorities, and my observations on the selection process.
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AI Generated Art - The Story Behind The Alien Biomech Portrait
2024-03-26: The story behind the creation of Alien Biomech Portrait generative AI artwork is that it was one of many generative AI artworks I created as a part of doing research for two generative AI workshops I taught in 2023. One was for a science fiction convention and the other for students attending a space development conference. In the processing of deleting the art that got created during that process, I decided to keep this one and a number of others based on their artistic appeal.
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A Redesigned Artsnova Website Part 1
2024-01-25: It is now 2024 and my deployment of a newly designed Artsnova website is finally a reality. I'm embarrassed to say that this has been a couple years in the making and is long overdue. I'm also embarrassed to say that during this period I have added very little new content to the website and wrote no blog posts. I'd like to share with you some of my thinking with respect to this website redesign.
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Newest Non-Blog Articles
2024-11-26: Here's an article about my experiences as the Operations Manager and Principal Art Judge of the
National Space Society and SmallSat Education Conference 2024 Roadmap to Space Student Art Contest that took place this fall. This was an art contest that was open to full time students on an international basis. I also served as creator and editor of an ebook about the contest, which you can download for free from the link provided in the article.
Read the full article: The National Space Society 2024 Roadmap to Space Student Art Contest
Creative Coding for Generative Geometric Art
2024-07-27: I recently designed and coded a generative geometric art program that surpassed my expectations as to variety of abstract geometric art I would be able to create when using it. In this tutorial, I share this adventure in creative coding and the evolution of the generative art program written using the Processing programming language.
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A Critique of 10 Habits of Successful Photographers
2024-03-01: In an email from Bayphoto, there was a plug for an article titled 10 Habits of Successful Photographers. Taking notes as I read that article, those notes became the basis for this review of that article.
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