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thanks for all your commenting
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And thanks for sharing all of your great work
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Your sense for figures, you feeling for colours . . . everything is so amazing!
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I know what it is! A stereo being attacked by tye-dye packing peanuts!
No, probably not, but I still love it.
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thanks much 
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excellent, makes me feel like im living in the 60's, regardless of having no clue what thats like!
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WOW! You did that? This is first time for me to make a comment through your gallery, finally! That is oemthing that caught my eyes..very creative and magical artwork, good job!!!! 
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hmmm, I missed this magical piece of yours somehow, can't find anything wrong with it 
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hi there, thanks! been so busy, today will be the same, must be the season too.
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love all the colors and fluid shapes and those alien artifact-like things being present in this piece made my day!
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Pardon if this amounts to nearly "two comments in one," but there've been two in a row from you now that kick my ass. I had a DAMN hard time choosing which to fave, because I like them both for the same underlying reason, but this one got the slight edge for me.
The "underlying" reason is that I don't think I've ever seen your designs overflow so profoundly with their emotional "story" as these two. In fact, Celebration would do so even more blatantly. But if your art boils down in a nutshell to brillant mixture of abstraction and design genius, then these two seem to me to take the mixture to a new level. One simply cannot help but emotionally, as well as visually, participate in these images. It's not that this resulting effect is new, but rather that I don't think I've seen it so powerfully from you before.
By this standard, Celebration is perhaps more wildly successful - it's overwhelming from first glance, an invitation to sing along, and amazingly kinetic. That such merriment could be communicated so clearly and unambiguously, and yet with such "unfamiliar" cues (rather than, say, party hats), rather astounds me.
But it's this piece that's the "mesmerpiece." It reminds me of aspects of both Jim Woodring's and ^ ndifference 's art that I love, the fabulous illusions of depth, relief, and contours. But perhaps exactly because it's not so crowded, that there IS so much negative space, each element can be more sweetly savored and explored, both for their own sakes but then also as relative parts of the whole.
(That strange form in the box, center, really gets me too - I finally figured out that he reminds me of Opus.)
I really like that you blurred some elements "back," and I'd encourage you to play more with this in future pieces. I'd be interested to see what you could do with implied planes (whole or made of objects) at skewed angles from the basic x/y/z axes, mixed in among other floating elements, and using the gradiated blur effects that could enhance that direction (no pun intended).
But the fundamental appeal of this one is rock-solid, and even a little more amazing to me than Celebration. In that piece, you married a hugely-abstracted visual image to a pretty concrete concept, and entirely pulled it off. But in this piece, you manifest a concept that's much more ambiguous, and still entirely pull off the correlation.
Is this a magic show? Yes, absolutely, undeniably. But what IS magic, or a magic show? But what IS this image? Those questions (or those answers) simply do not matter, because it's the correlation itself that's done so well and true here. You have captured a spirit, and it stuns me how well.
We gaze in wonder.
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Thorne I can't thank you enough, and I'm still savoring your words and am humbled. Your suggestions for the depth of field is a wonderful one, and will give that a try. ~ you know I love combing photos with my hand drawn objects. The fact they also have that depth of blurry background and sharp foreground is what I like and it'll be interesting to see what I can come up with. ~ thanks again, . . . !
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hehe, hey Miss,. . . thanks and an "almost" ~ happy birthday to you.
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i made it over for the last hour - lol. i was kinda disappointed - it was so small...
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yeah, it seemed like a blow-out if you weren't registered to any classes, and you know, in looking back, most of that info we can get online, it's just knowing where to look.
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"... so dude, what 3D program did you use to make this?"
... this is a profound sight to behold... your dominant kidney shapes are reminiscent of an early 60's motif that I vaguely remember as a child (and, no, it wasn't "The Jetsons"), but your spin on adding such bright colors and bold lighting to the shapes make them want to dance on their own... the polychromatic dandelion leaf in the center seems to play the part of a pointer or a "master of ceremonies" in your magic show, leaving the eye to drift from shape to shape in one discovery after another...
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hi there,
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... can't find the runway link you mention, but the rest of the site is topnotch...
... the only problem I have with couture is that it seems so otherworldly to me; I have a tendency to look at it and shrug it off despite the hard work that brought them there (aka: holograms, fiberoptics, prismatic fibers, e-pluckt eyebrows, anorexia cannibalosa, etc.) and think, "okay, but how does that apply to me in the real world?"
/me thanks gawd for Levi Strauss and the conception of "non-itchy prewashed denim"
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i love how all the shapes interact with one another, but my most favorite part is the dandelion leaves! the bitter greens are always healing to the body! your work is so pretty!
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ha, hi! thanks, i think the biggest thrill for me is arranging all the "parts" or frosting for the cake.
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he is bart@solozone.com
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man this is just wild
its not like anything else i have seen
truly fantastic
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INSTANT 
truly original digital art!
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hola! Yoo mush welcome, Gringo!
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hi, how are ya?
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well i would have been close
if i was still there
i am back in NYC
nothing much at home though
no damage
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I really did think you were living there on the islands. excuse me. . . back to fast pace. heading there in oct.
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ah great
it should be fun for you
i wish i were back on the islands now
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i'll bet that was a hard place to leave. I did a little digging through their B&B/Hotel websites and I was ready to pack my bags.
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lol
i know
awwww
where is my luggage
let me gather myself
and
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