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WHEN THE STRING BREAKS (HD) | Seth’s Body of Visual Art ‘952010

September 3rd, 2010
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Don’t for­get to love your­self. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

DON’T FOR­GET TO SWITH THE VIDEO PLA­YER TO 720p HD FOR MAXI­MUM VISUAL EFFECT, THEN GO FULL SCREEN :)

 

WHEN THE STRING BREAKS

Seth Dennon’s Body of Visual Digi­tal Art­work 1995 thru 2010

    Ani­ma­tion of selec­ted visual art­works from 1995 thru 2010  by  Seth Den­non. This ani­ma­tion mostly con­tains digi­tal work, 268 pie­ces to be exact pre­sen­ted in a 10 minute ani­ma­ted piece set to a techno beat. It inc­lu­des most work from the follo­wing series of works:

    • The Early Works

    • The Middle Works

    • The Galac­tic Fede­ra­tion of Light Series

    • Arch Faces Series

    • Frac­tal Beings Series

        If you follow my work it tells a very inte­res­ting story within the ani­ma­tion, sit back and let the art speak to you!

        What story comes to you? Please let me know & write it in the comments ::…

        + I am inte­res­ted in gathe­ring others per­cep­tions of my body of artwork!

        + JOIN ME ON THE SOCIAL WEB
        Like, Follow, Subsc­ribe and Friend me on the follow sites below ::…

             facebook      Twitter     YouTube    Flickr    deviantART

         Face­Book | Twit­ter | You­Tube | Flickr | devia­nART

         

        + VISIT MY NEW ART BLOG ::…
        The Offi­cial Visual Art­work & Ani­ma­tion Site for Seth Dennon!

         

        kreatorisms

        KREATORISMS

        Be sure and Subsc­ribe to Posts to get my art emai­led to your inbox ::…

        Ins­tead of uploa­ding all of my pre­vious art at once I will be load a cou­ple of pie­ces every cou­ple of days inc­lu­ding old and new work until all my work is loa­ded this way peo­ple whom observe my art may have a chance to see some of my older and newer work and how it has evol­ved.  My art blog is an art only blog it only con­tains my visual art­work and ani­ma­tions there is no writ­ten com­men­tary like on my dimen​sio​nal​bliss​.com blog.

        On krea​to​risms​.com you can view my art­work by series, or by tag­ged key­words such as colors or the­mes.  You may leave a com­ment on any piece or you may also just use the star rating sys­tem to rate my work if you pre­fer.  You may sign up for post noti­fi­ca­tion witch will email you each piece of art­work as I add it to the site, or you can join my face­book or twit­ter page which also are auto­ma­ti­cally noti­fied and post when I post new art­work onto krea​to​risms​.com.  So take a moment and let me know what you think of my newest ven­ture and be sure and help me spread the word about my art­work and web­si­tes with your friends.  I feel my art­work is star­ting to come home for me and I would like to start and gain a wider audience to par­ti­ci­pate and observe my work.

         

        + OBSERVE | ENJOY | CREATE ::…

                                                          

         

        HIGHLY RECOM­MEN­DED BOOK WHICH INS­PI­RES ME EVERYDAY
        Face to Face: Francois and Jean Robert
        HIGHLY RECOM­MEN­DED BOOK WHICH INS­PI­RES ME EVERYDAY

        Find a Face

        HIGHLY RECOM­MEN­DED BOOK WHICH INS­PI­RES ME EVERYDAY

        Faces

         

         

        BANA­NAS” by SETH DEN­NON | 1993, Lino­leum Reduc­tion Print with Colo­red Pencil

        BANANAS

         

        + DON’T FOR­GETJOIN ME ON THE SOCIAL WEB
        Like, Follow, Subsc­ribe and Friend me on the follow sites below ::…

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        When the String Breaks! – Artworks of Seth Dennon Animation

        August 21st, 2010
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        Art is science made clear. ~ Jean Cocteau

         

        When the Strings Breaks is an ani­ma­tion of selec­ted visual art­works from 1995 thru 2010. by me, Seth. This mostly con­tains digi­tal work (some 268 pie­ces) I could cram into 10minutes. If you follow my work, it tells a very inte­res­ting story with the ani­ma­tion, sit back and let the art speak to you and let me know what story comes to you in the comments.


        + I am really inte­res­ted in gathe­ring others per­cep­tions of my body of work, please com­ment!

        + Don’t for­get to visit my offi­cial art­work and ani­ma­tion blog Krea​to​risms​.com.

        • Be Sure and ‘Subsc­ribe to posts’  over the next year you will see a variety of my past and pre­sent work as I get it uploa­ded to the site and create new art­work.  You can subsc­ribe to the RSS feed or by e-​​mail in the main menu.

         

        + OBSERVE | ENJOY | CREATE ::…

         

        P.s.

        The Pre­view Cover of The Coming Art Book :)

        WTSB

         

         

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        E.T. 101: The Cos­mic Ins­truc­tion Manual

        An Emer­gency Reme­dial Edi­tion

        by Diana Luppi

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        WELCOME!

        August 17th, 2009
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        To the Offi­cial Por­tal to Everything SethD8!

        If I am Not Willing to Change my Ways, Who is Chan­ging Our Worlds?

         

        My Orga­ni­za­tions and net­work of asso­cia­tes com­bi­nes seve­ral facets of modern digi­tal living.   I pro­vide web  solu­tions, tech­no­logy sup­port and trai­ning, design ser­vi­ces, digital

        Seth Dennon  a.k.a. SETHD8
        Seth Den­non a.k.a. SETHD8

        ima­ging, illus­tra­tion plus allot more!


        My work is more than a hobby for me. It is my pas­sion, the way I cap­ture and cele­brate life’s moments, emo­tions, spi­rit and the many facets of Rea­lity itself. I enjoy non-​​judgmentally obser­ving my mind and surroun­dings and just quietly watching where my mind will take itself on jour­ney deep into the sub­cons­cious and back again where allot of my crea­tion realms lye.

         

        Via my net­work of asso­cia­tes and my own uni­que skills and beliefs there is in all-​​ways a solu­tion to be found to aid you or your orga­ni­za­tion in buil­ding a stron­ger more pre­sent digi­tal uni­verse. Check out my web­site for more infor­ma­tion about me, my ser­vi­ces, asso­cia­tes, port­fo­lios and con­tact info. If you have a spark of inte­rest ini­tial con­sul­ta­tion is all-​​ways complimentary.

         

         



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        I Am Back with my New Direction and Alignment!

        August 22nd, 2007
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        Show me a tho­roughly satis­fied man, and I will show you a fai­lure.
        ~Tho­mas Edison

        GOTMIRJETZ!

        Ni hoa Everyone!

        I am now offi­cially back from my rea­lign­ment break. You may have noti­ced me futzing with ideas over the past 3 months with designs and dif­fe­rent web site con­cepts, after lots of pla­ying, lear­ning and focu­sing on what I am trying to achieve I redrew my game plan and all set to go.

        So here is the game plan I have deci­ded upon. First main­tai­ning mul­ti­ple blogs and sites as in my ori­gi­nal digi­verse con­cept is too much work, it takes time away from doing the things I really love like crea­ting art and per­cei­ving new pos­si­bi­li­ties. Even main­tain mul­ti­ple sites for the many facets of the things I am into is not prac­ti­cal. So I am con­den­sing, stream­li­ning and sim­plif­ying things for both yours and my experience.

        This is what the new SETHD8 Digi­verse will look and feel like:

        Dimen​sio​nal​bliss​.com

        This Will be my main art Art everything which ins­pi­res dri­ves moves and keeps me taking that next breath site. Basi­cally the real fun site. I am loo­king to attract a com­mu­nity of like-​​minded indi­vi­duals who would like to share a com­mon play­ground discuss/​debate/​challenge our beliefs and per­cep­tions and just be a spot to alls cha­llenge what you thought your current per­cep­tion could hold. Basi­cally a place which through illustration/​word/​sound any means of expres­sion through the site will cons­tantly poke at the edge of what today we now know as truth and tomo­rrow will know as a new reality.

        If you are inte­res­ted in beco­ming a contributor/​author con­tact me and I will do the requi­red arraign­ments to autho­rize you as a contributor/​author or even an admi­nis­tra­tor (with time of course). But by all means be sure and become a regis­te­red user and com­ment away. Star­ting Now. The site is at basi­cally ver­sion 1.2 so it could use some feed­back, this site is as much for you as it for me. Sug­ges­tions are more than wel­come. Any hints and tips as well as I am still basi­cally a neu­bee at hos­ting my Word Press and making all the adjust­ment and stuff.

        Dimen­sio­nal Bliss will at this stage con­tain the follo­wing areas to explore:

        Blog/​Art Entries in the past I used others writ­ten con­tent and illus­tra­ted what the con­tent meant to me. This wor­ked for my break in period. I am still deve­lo­ping my wri­ting skills, after all I am a Visual artist, but for the next 30 days, the 30 day plan is to modify my mor­ning medi­ta­tion a bit, where first I will create an illus­tra­tion while I am having my mor­ning con­ver­sa­tion with god, then I will tell the story about my mor­ning medi­ta­tion, the illus­tra­tion and my con­ver­sa­tion I has with god that day. I hope you enjoy expe­rien­cing others per­so­nal jour­neys, may you climb the lat­ter of life with me.

        Krea­to­risms Sec­tion basi­cally this is all of my art­work which is avai­la­ble in digi­tal form, about the last 10 years or so. Once I get the sec­tions straigh­ten out you will be able to browse by dif­fe­rent periods and types of work. Write now there are about 414 illus­tra­tion all in a jum­bled mess which I have to straigh­ten out. This is avai­la­ble under the KREA­TO­RISMS tab.

        Ani­ma­tions Sli­der one of my newest artis­tic ven­tu­res is lear­ning ani­ma­tion, on the top-​​right side of most pages there is an ani­ma­tion sli­der which will always be up to date with my newest ani­ma­tions first. Just click on the thumb­nail and away you go. I have not con­coc­ted a good inte­gra­ted way for feed­back yet on the ani­ma­tions since they are hos­ted on rev​ver​.com, but if there is a tech­no­lo­gist out there I would love the sli­ding abi­lity with the abi­lity to leave a com­ment on dimen​sio​nal​bliss​.com, pro­bably would have to use their API? But for now you will have to log into rev­ver to com­ment. I chose rev­ver because they have the best pic­ture qua­lity I have been able to find. BTW, if you like any on ani­ma­tion and have the band­width, all of my ani­ma­tions are avai­la­ble in High-​​Definition, and believe me the dif­fe­ren­ces is asto­nishing. Just shoot me a mail and I will send you a link for download.

        DB GEAR is my cafe press hoo­king, currently I just through some ran­dom pro­ducts on there from my cafe press store. But really it is you store, so if you would like a print, mug, post card, note­book, t-​​shirt anything out of the 70+ pro­ducts cafe press offers let me know. I have no pro­blem let­ting you know my mark-​​up, since cafe­press who­le­sale pri­ces are fairly well known. In kee­ping with tra­di­tion of dis­tri­bu­ting my art Art for free, I only mark-​​up items $1-$3 over cost. Believe me this is not to score a pro­fit, it to keep the damn store open and web­site ser­ver bill paid ;) . My ideal hope for inc­lu­ding this sec­tion is that even­tually the com­mu­nity will deve­lop some of our own gear together and and this would be the spot to get it made to order to bring a bit of our digi­ver­ses into our uni­verse. AVA­TARS right now the temp solu­tion I have in place for looks was to port some of my friends over from tribe, but in the next cou­ple of weeks I will tac­kle the AVA­TAR thing so we can all have cool user pics to go along with our posts and comments!

        SOFT­WARE & TECH­NO­LOGY! This is the first hos­ted word press site I have ever hos­ted and most defi­ni­tely the most com­plex site I have had my hands in, thank god for all of the awe­some peo­ple who know what they are doing and are willing to share, so peo­ple like me can go in screw their awe­some work a cou­ple 100 times until I become the per­son the are being now! I am lear­ning, but not by a book, or even by any sense or rea­son. I find the gran­dest levels of trial and error work best with my stub­born per­so­na­lity, so then I not only know ho to do, but defi­ni­tely how not to do it as well. So please bare with me, and gui­dance is all-​​ways wel­come. I learn extre­mely fast, but have a habit of all-​​ways wan­ting to try every last little pos­si­bi­lity out, and some­ti­mes that just doesn’t keep things sim­ple! With hol­ding the inten­sion high of buil­ding a true com­mu­nity site com­for­ta­ble for all feed­back on all-​​levels begins NOW!

        SethD8​.com

        Basi­cally I am going to refo­cus this site sully on my com­mer­cial art busi­ness, as not to con­fuse the two.

        Digi​verse​.SethD8​.com

        Still under rede­sign, but will still be the my per­so­nal por­tal site to quickly link to all of dif­fe­rent sites and con­tent across the web. I like to keep track of the stuff I per­so­nally create and put out their for authen­ti­ca­tion rea­sons. You never know when someone inad­ver­tently starts using sethd8 as their screen name, and since I mar­ket this as my artist name I need to main­tain some mea­sure of authen­ti­ca­tion of source.

        FLICKR​.com I have upgra­ded my account, finally, so now all of my art in at least screen reso­lu­tion from the past 10 years, since I went digi­tal, is on flickr, in a mess, but there. As well all of my new art I am pos­ting high reso­lu­tion high defi­ni­tion archi­val copies on flickr avai­la­ble to you and ever­yone. Basi­cally, the stan­dard size I create in will print a 24x36 pos­ter in stun­ning detail and if you use a prin­ter who uti­li­zes frac­tal pro­ces­sing it could go up to the size of a bill­board, in OK qua­lity. I have dei­ced to sup­port flickr in beco­ming the most astound collec­tion and really offi­cial record of our time com­plete and they will house one of the archi­ves of my collec­tive works.

        JUST AN FYI: dimen​sio​nal​bliss​.com will now be the only active non-​​commercial site I will main­tain, with excep­tion to my social net­wor­king sites, so if you are rea­ding this and you are not on dimen​sio​nal​bliss​.com you are pla­ying in my school­books so to speak so come over to the new playground!

        IF YOUR ON THESE SITES LET’S BECOME FRIENDS!

        http://​peo​ple​.tribe​.net/​s​e​t​hd8

        http://​flickr​.com/​p​h​o​t​o​s​/​s​e​t​hd8

        http://​sethd8​.zaadz​.com

        http://​mys​pace​.com/​s​e​t​hd8

        http://​www​.face​book​.com/

        http://​rev​ver​.com

        http://​you​tube​.com/​s​e​t​hd8

        http://​friends​ter​.com/​s​e​t​hd8

        Hol­ding My Truth High and Proud Deeply Reso­na­ting a Vibra­tion al Spi­ral Throughout my Being Kno­wing the matching vibra­tions have already been put into place! Let’s Create Our Sac­red Play Space Here Now!

        In a moment of grand bliss­fully peace!

        I love Your Hand In Mine by Explo­sions In The Sky from the album The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place check it out!

        » CLICK HERE TO DOWN­LOAD THE ILLUS­TRA­TION IN THIS POST FOR YOUR DESK­TOP «
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        SETHD8 digiverse kre8tion Time Begins!

        May 30th, 2007
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        The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange pro­tein; it rejects it!“
        P. B. Medawar

         

        CHUCKERLAND TRILOGY!

        CHUC­KER­LAND TRI­LOGYQUAN­TUM ENCO­DED HEA­LING ILLUS­TRA­TION SERIES

        Hello You!

        This is my offi­cial update as to what I have been doing, what I have currently envi­sio­ned for my direc­tion, and hope­fully in there somewhere a more con­cise and con­sis­tent expe­rience across my digiverse.

        First many ask, What is your digi­verse? The SethD8 Digi­verse is my con­cept for sprea­ding seeds of awa­re­ness and sha­ring what brings the most amount of love and peace out from within my phy­si­cal uni­verse to a more tan­gi­ble expres­sed form, like a digi­tal one con­nec­ted to billions of peo­ple here on our mother earth. I recog­ni­zed that much like our current worlds­cape, natio­nals­cape and loca­li­ties, the Inter­net may remove allot of barriers, but it still rather seg­men­ted. I like blue, you like green some like red as so depen­ding on your con­di­tio­ning and beliefs par­ti­cu­lar web­si­tes and com­mu­ni­ties attract simi­lar types of peo­ple alig­ned with anything from there mis­sion to there ove­rall look and feel. My mis­sion is about inc­lu­sion, not sepa­ra­tion! So to begin to achieve this I began sha­ring infor­ma­tion which reso­na­ted with me, along with a cus­tom illus­tra­tion rela­ted to the con­tent as my con­tri­bu­tion across many, many web­si­tes. Seve­ral Blogs, Social Net­wor­king Sites, etc. Need­less to say the con­cept seems to be wor­king fan­tas­tic, I am achie­ving my goals!

        NOW! It is review time. I have spent the past year crea­ting my hiney off to build the digi­verse v1.0. In total in encom­pass roughly 33 web­si­tes for which I hold res­pon­si­bi­lity for mana­ging. Les­sons lear­ned? Oh yes! That is allot of web­si­tes to con­ti­nually update! Over the year I enlis­ted seve­ral auto­ma­tion tools to stream­line this pro­cess, can we say tech­no­logy lear­ning curve? Also this only a small part of my evol­ving self. To put it in scien­ti­fic type ter­mi­no­logy, this is defi­ni­tely the year my string broke. Or in other words, I hea­led end began to uti­lize my ever evol­ving mind through new beliefs and thought pat­tern through which I feel as though I am on an expo­nen­tial lear­ning spi­ral. As an exam­ple of this you can observe some fairly large leeps in my most recent artis­tic expres­sion, as I per­ceive more so does my art reflect it.

        So after seve­ral months of spin­ning my wheels and truly have dif­fi­culty pin­ning my self down to fully com­plete a pro­ject, I just kept jum­ping around in this huge play pin of newly for­ming know­ledge. Artis­ti­cally is is fan­tas­tic, I am truly being able to fully express the dimen­tia­lity of my exis­tence. As far as everything else, well lets just say I have allot to get done.

        I AM OFFI­CIALLY TAKING90 DAY BREAK FROM ILLUS­TRA­TING AND SHA­RING (ACC­ROSS MY DIGI­VERSE) INFOR­MA­TION WHICH RESO­NA­TES WITH ME. I need this time to redo the infras­truc­ture, design and func­tio­na­lity of what will be my digi­verse v2.0. I have also inc­lu­ded seve­ral links below to sour­ces of infor­ma­tion which con­ti­nually ins­pire me. During this down-​​time so to speak, please feel free to explore these other websites.

        What will the SETHD8 digi­verse v2.0 look and feel like? Here is a brief over­view of upco­ming chan­ges and newly alig­ned priorities:

        1. New sethd8​.com Artist Com­mu­nity and Mas­ter Portfolios
        2. New digi​verse​.sethd8​.com web­site portal
        3. Com­plete rede­sign of current art​wa​rehouse​.sethd8​.com pro­duct website
        4. The Offi­cial launch of dimen​sio​nal​bliss​.com, this will be my “main blog” fully fea­tu­red and world class
        5. Gene­ral design adjust­ments to many of the various digi­verse com­po­nent sites to bet­ter inte­grate into their tar­get site
        6. Full attri­bu­tion and licen­sing using crea­tive commons
        7. Bet­ter cross-​​site inte­gra­tion to fos­ter exploration
        8. And to be honest, what ever else I decide to tac­kle, but can’t think of right now…

        I am fully bles­sed by all those who choose to expe­rience any one piece of my digi­verse offe­ring, so I encou­rage you to keep pos­ted for the Offi­cial Digi­verse 2.0 launch date (Roughly in Mid-​​July). And I always encou­rage and wel­come feed­back and sug­ges­tion so please share whe­ne­ver the thought hits you. I am crea­ting my digi­verse as an expres­sion of me and my beliefs, but at the same time I fully want to balance it’s look and feel and user expe­rience with the desi­res of the users (THAT’S YOU) so share on and let’s create some great things!

        Namaste and ALL-​​ways LUV your STRING!

        SOME OF MY RESOUR­CES & COMMNITY!

        http://​snoe​del​.punt​.nl/

        http://​www​.zaadz​.com

        http://​www​.glo​bal​-mindshift​.org/

        http://​www​.kurz​wei​lai​.net

        http://​rea​lityshif​ters​.com/

        http://​www​.seventh​ray​.co​.nz/

        http://​www​.mar​lana​.org/

        http://​blues​tars​peaks​.com/

        http://​www​.treeofthe​gol​den​light​.com/

        http://​www​.sour​ceo​flight​por​tal​.com/

        SEARCH GOO­GLE TO EXPLORE THE SETHD8 DIGIVERSE!

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        Hello Again My Friends!

        October 28th, 2006
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        smile_nerd Namaste Loved Ones!

        First I would like to express my deep gra­ti­tude and love for all of the peo­ple who have to cho­sen to read my blog as a resource for their con­ti­nued buil­ding of awa­re­ness. (More on this later)

         

        I would like to take a brief moment and let you know why I have been illus­tra­ting and pos­ting since Oct. 1.  Usually a cou­ple of times a year I begin to observe imba­lance in my being.  I have dedi­ca­ted a major part of my per­so­nal resour­ces to my digi­verse.  I also do vir­tually all of my pro­fes­sio­nal work on a com­pu­ter.  After seve­ral months of lite­rally being on a com­pu­ter living the digi­tal expe­rience, I tend to for­get that we live in won­dou­rous world filled with light and expe­rience in every moment whe­re­ver I am.  I also tend to for­get that I have social net­works outside of my digi­verse.  So I take a tech­no­logy break.  This one las­ted a little lon­ger than usual, but there was just so much fun stuff going on.

         

        I did keep brief tabs on my various blogs and social net­wor­king sites, but truth­fully, it was an exci­ting yet overwhel­ming expe­rience to go from 100 hits per day to over 7,000!  And peo­ple where having no pro­blem expres­sing how the infor­ma­tion I share reso­na­tes with them

         

        I would like to cla­rify what my blog is, why I do it and what exactly I intend by saying “Sprea­ding the Seeds of Awa­re­ness!”  At it’s very root I crea­ted my blog as place for me express and know at a dee­per level infor­ma­tion which reso­na­tes with me.  I am also a pro­li­fic artist, and one way I begin to expe­rience the awa­re­ness is by illus­tra­ting.  This is why every posing has an illus­tra­tion in it.  I con­ti­nue to create my blog because it feeds my soul.  I am a being of expres­sion, this gives me a terri­fic out­let.  And by simply sta­ting that my inten­sion is “Spread seeds of Awa­re­ness!” I am say just that, it means I have come into infor­ma­tion which reso­na­tes with me, I inurn illus­trate and share this infor­ma­tion with others.

         

        In no way am I, or will I, ever say that what reso­na­tes with me, must reso­nate with you.  I firmly believe in the way, is the way, is the way.  Mea­ning I honor each indi­vi­duals choi­ces and expe­rience kno­wing that everything is always in per­fec­tion.  I does not require any par­ti­cu­lar path be cho­sen, but encou­ra­ges one to follow their heart, intui­tion and fee­lings to guide them on their path of dis­co­very.  It also means that I can spread the seed, but it your choice whether to nur­ture the seed and let it grow and flou­rish, or stick in a dark clo­set never to be expe­rien­ced again.

         

        Another point to cla­rify, is I create my blogs and illus­tra­tions to freely share with who­me­ver would like to expe­rience it.  This is not some ela­bo­rate scheme to “con” you out of money or get you to buy something.  I will ack­now­ledge that some I blogs have ads, which I do make a small com­mis­sion on, but this again your choice to go there or not.  I am not affi­lia­ted per­so­nally with any of the adver­ti­sers on my sites.  And just to illus­trate my com­mit­ment to sha­ring my art freely, back in August I offi­cially launched a web­site where you can get any one of most current illus­tra­tion for only the cost of the print.  (Of which I earn nothing from, I just choose shut​terfly​.com because they don’t charge for sto­rage space)  If you are inte­res­ted check out http://​sethd8​.shut​teryfly​.com . And for refe­rence the ori­gi­nal blog post http://​sethd8​.word​press​.com/​2006​/​08​/​04​/​f​r​e​e​-​p​e​r​s​o​n​a​l​-​a​rt/

         

        Again I joy­fully express deep gra­ti­tude and love to ever­yone who has expe­rience my blog and truly bring its cons­cious­ness up a cou­ple of levels. Con­ti­nue crea­ting your expe­rience as you intend it to be.  We are chan­ging the world one thought at a time!

         

        Sin­cere Thank You’s!

         

        Dis­co­ver New Music!

        I’m Lis­te­ning to Hear Me Out by Frou Frou on the album Details!

         

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        Artistic Acceptance — My Journey

        July 16th, 2006
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        Artis­tic Accep­tanceby Seth D8 - July '06


        + Since about 1991 I have been on a jour­ney of artis­tic accep­tance.  It all star­ted out my fresh­man year in high school.  I never had inte­rest in the art, nor did I even con­ceive of myself being an artis­tic per­son.  I was a very outs­po­ken, proac­tive and fashio­na­ble indi­vi­dual, but never as far as art was concerned.
         
        I was taking a intro­duc­tion to art class, taught by Lynn Saad, because I had to take cre­dits for art in order to gra­duate.  Believe me when I say I had no inte­rest in taking the class elec­ti­vely.  During the first have of the tri­mes­ter I spent most of time socia­li­zing or making an excuse to get out of class.  I lit­terly did nothing, I was, I mostly always am, disen­ga­ged because I had no inte­rest and did not serve me.
         
        One day Mrs. Saad came over to have the, your fai­ling and you bet­ter get your act together talk.  She brought me into another stu­dio, which was empty, to have the talk.  She told me I was currently fai­ling the class and there was no rea­son why that would be the case.  I quite rudely told her there was pro­bably a slim chance of me get­ting a “D” because “I was not an artist or even inc­li­ned to be an artist!”
         
        Mrs. Saad just loo­ked at me, wai­ted for me to finish, and with a warm loving smile began to speak.  She told me that ever­yone, yes, ever­yone is an artist.  The very sim­ple act of living life gives you every skill you need to be an artist.  So if you are living, you are an artist of your life.  The only thing that trans­la­tes what we recog­nize as an artist is their willing­ness to put their life into another form in any way they see fit.
         
        She then grab­bed a blank can­vas and some acry­lic paint and ins­truc­ted me to stay in the empty stu­dio.  She said observe your thoughts, what is the first thing that comes to mind, I want you to use this paint and just put it on the can­vas.  Don't hold any judg­ment or attach­ment to what it looks like, just create.  I don't want you to come into the other room until you have create something.
         
        I sat there for about 10 minu­tes all pis­sed off that this teacher was making me paint something.  I kept having all these fee­lings of supe­rio­rity and judg­ment rise in me.  I had a ton of self doubt and my mind was swir­ling.  Then I just deci­ded to give it a shot, what was the worst thing which could hap­pen, I waste a can­vas and some paint.
         
        I took the paint brush an drew a crude out­line, in black, of a face.  Then I began to color it in.  Some where bet­ween the black lines and star­ting to color it in with color I began to per­ceive my artis­tic side for the first time.  I wasn't sure where it was coming from, I just kept pain­ting, and laye­ring color after color.  My god, a really nice image was star­ting emerge.  After about 30 minu­tes I was finished.  I had just crea­ted an asto­nishing pain­ting of a abs­tract man in a suit with wild multi colo­red hair.  I couldn't believe I had just pain­ted the pain­ting I was loo­king at!
         
        I went and got Mrs. Saad and sho­wed her the pain­ting.  And again, with that caring loving smile, she said “See, I told you ever­yone is an artist”.  I brought the pain­ting home after school and sho­wed it to my parents.  They where ama­zed and promptly hung it on the wall above the couch where we all sit and watch T.V. every­night.  It still hangs there to this day.
         
        I lear­ned something valua­ble that day, that yes, ever­yone is an artist in their own right, it just their abi­lity to per­ceive it that dif­fe­ren­tia­tes us.  I also quite quickly and deli­be­ra­tely began explo­ring everything about crea­ting art in any form.  I was so exci­ted about my new self dis­co­very and on deve­lo­ping what was obviously my dis­tinct style from my first painting.
         
        I have always been a very pro­li­fic per­son, espe­cially as a deve­lo­ping artist.  I took more art clas­ses in high school.  I also, with the encou­ra­ge­ment of Mrs. Saad, took two week long art semi­nars taught by north west artist.  One was for pain­ting and the other was for print making.  During my senior year in high school I went into the run­ning start pro­gram and began clas­ses at a com­mu­nity college for both high school and college.  The pro­gram I was in focu­sed on prin­ting tech­no­lo­gies and digi­tal imaging.
         
        This pro­gram was more gea­red towards get­ting you ready to work in the pre-​​press area of the prin­ting industry, rather than on artis­tic deve­lop­ment.  It was good because I quickly mas­te­red the latest ima­ging tech­no­logy and unders­tood the tech­ni­cal requi­re­ments of pro­du­cing an image from an elec­tro­nic for­mat to an actual piece of paper.
         
        During my young adult life I went through spurts of crea­ti­vity crea­ting a series here and a series there, but still I hadn't fully built my awa­re­ness around the fact that I was an artist.  I just honestly felt that I was just a guy who could manage to make things look good on paper.  This con­ti­nued over my 20's till this begin­ning win­ter, when I had offi­cially tur­ned 31.
         
        I was really pon­de­ring where I wan­ted to create my life next, from my mid teens till now I had achie­ved so much.  I had owned my own com­pany, been an exe­cu­tive for a multi-​​national prin­ting com­pany and I even mana­ged to be a pro­fes­sio­nal body pierce for a cou­ple of years.  I spent allot of time obser­ving myself, what made me the most joyous I could be and as little dis­tur­bance to my inner peace as possible?
         
        Well, I do like crea­ting images…But to do that as life's work I would have to be an artist right?  The expe­rience of my entire life to this point finally had built enough awa­re­ness to rea­lize that, YES, AM AN ARTIST!  If I am an artist then I should really start BEING an artist.  My whole cons­cious­ness shif­ted and a com­ple­tely new world sud­denly ope­ned up for me to see.
         
        My spi­ri­tual life had pro­gres­sed during all of this life living as well, so I deci­ded to apply my spi­ri­tual beliefs around my new being an artist.  This period is allot like my coming out of the clo­set about my spi­ri­tual beliefs as well. I begun crea­ting new ima­gery as quickly as I could per­ceive it.  I was always patiently obser­ving ensu­ring that I wasn't hol­ding attach­ment, pos­ses­sion or judg­ment towards anything I was crea­ting on paper or in my life.  Obser­ving my highest thoughts and ins­tantly put­ting those thoughts into action without even a second guess.
         
        WOW!  has it been an ama­zing year so far.  I am cons­tantly per­cei­ving new ideas, con­cepts and ways of being.  My artis­tic style has pro­gres­sed along the same path.  I began buil­ding a artis­tic and spi­ri­tual pre­sence in my world.  I have crea­ted mul­ti­tu­des or art spor­ted around the world.  I have inva­ded as many sphe­res on the inter­net and com­mu­nity as I can pos­sibly handle.
         
        I have been sha­ring my crea­tions and beliefs across the world lands­cape as not to leave anyone out.  I recog­nize that peo­ple are still living in the illu­sion of sepa­ra­tion, so I must to live in that world at times as well.  This is why I have cho­sen to have so many blogs and pla­ces to view my crea­tions, I can see that each of these sites speaks to a dif­fe­rent audience, so the only way to break down the illu­sion of sepa­ra­tion in to exist in all these sepa­rate sites at the same time, yet adjus­ting my style to fit their needs.
         
        Since I have begun the pro­cess of truly rea­li­zing and being an artis­tic, expres­sive, no holds bar trans­pa­rent per­son my life and per­cep­tion of my uni­verse has grown by leaps and bounds.  It is a very real situa­tion to cons­tantly amaze myself by what I have crea­ted.  I am truly rein­ven­ting myself to an even gran­der ver­sion in every moment their is.  I am so astoun­ded by the pos­si­bi­li­ties which exist for me to per­ceive and expe­rience some­ti­mes I can hardly con­trol my self.  But like devote per­son, I con­ti­nually observe my uni­verse, follow my highest thoughts and keep crea­ting„ crea­ting to my hearts content.
         
        This has been my artis­tic accep­tance up to this point. I encou­rage you to just start out the way I did and dis­co­ver how to put your life into another form.
         
        Namaste!
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