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Old 10-20-2008, 03:19 AM   #1
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Old 01-09-2009, 08:50 AM   #2
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That's fantastic. Please post more, and bigger scans so we can really see your work.
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Thank you, Nate!

Another one (...for you ). It's bigger.

(I want learn english... and when you see my mistakes... please help me. )
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Old 01-09-2009, 02:00 PM   #4
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Are all of the sketches and photos scattered throughout your wordpress blog your works as well?

In a lot of them, I seem to catch the influence of early Escher works (before he got into his later obsession with topological impossibilities and tesselations [there are some good English words to test your mettle with, though I suspect that you, being Romanian, can probably parse them fairly easily since they're directly from the Romance languages]).

Is the influence of Escher intentional? Are you familiar with his work, especially the earlier stuff?
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Old 01-09-2009, 02:12 PM   #5
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My blog is for my "sketches", my "photos" and my "music".

I am an amator. I do this, beacause I like this.

"Is the influence of Escher intentional? Are you familiar with his work, especially the earlier stuff?"
No. And no. (But I will search... I want to see. Google is my friend. (And Google Translate, too...))
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Google is bad with translating Afrikaans.. Try this one.. Ek hou van die appel.. anyways. nice drawings dude =)
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Old 01-09-2009, 02:54 PM   #7
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Thanks, Dog_Box.

For me is funny to see how Google translate in romanian. (It's bad, too...) But it is a good help for me when the text is long. I can see the important ideea. Google is beginner, too...

"Ek love the apple."

(In romanian :
"Ek dragoste de măr"...
"Ek" = a name? your name?
or an error in translation?
"dragoste" = love
"de măr" = for apple)

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Old 01-09-2009, 03:21 PM   #8
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My blog is for my "sketches", my "photos" and my "music".

I am an amator. I do this, beacause I like this.

"Is the influence of Escher intentional? Are you familiar with his work, especially the earlier stuff?"
No. And no. (But I will search... I want to see. Google is my friend. (And Google Translate, too...))
I think you'd really like Escher. Forget Google, though. Just go to www.mcescher.com and click on "Picture Gallery" and prepare to spend the next few hours ooh-ing and ahh-ing.

In particular, the style and content of your "paradis-pierdut" reminded me a little bit of these three Escher works based on the creation / Eden account from Genesis:





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Old 01-09-2009, 03:28 PM   #9
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As a completely random aside, does that line from Dragostea Din Tei (also known as the "numa numa" song) really mean something like "your face and the love from the linden trees." If so, what on earth is that referring to?
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I think you'd really like Escher. Forget Google, though. Just go to www.mcescher.com and click on "Picture Gallery" and prepare to spend the next few hours ooh-ing and ahh-ing.

In particular, the style and content of your "paradis-pierdut" reminded me a little bit of these three Escher works based on the creation / Eden account from Genesis:
Wow! Fantastic! I like this style and I will study these sites. Thank you!
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As a completely random aside, does that line from Dragostea Din Tei (also known as the "numa numa" song) really mean something like "your face and the love from the linden trees." If so, what on earth is that referring to?
I can't do a better translation. I think the lyrics are not the most important thing in this song... Perhaps "the love from the linden trees" (dragostea din tei) is an improvisation. Or... my mind is limited and I can't see the logic of this ideea.

For me christian music is the best music. We have a lot of subjects for our lyrics. We can sing about another world and we can to escape from usual subjects. We are special and we are not limited in our lyrics. It was my opinion.

(My english is limited. I hope you will understand the ideea.)
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Old 01-23-2009, 05:19 PM   #12
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Thank you, RipVanWinkle!
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Cool.

You have a really neat sense of perspective. Your pieces are just a little off kilter, but not in a way that makes the picture look unreal or poorly drawn. Very cool.

It fits well with your semi-simplified forms and style. In particular, the trees and branches in the first two pictures in this thread, then the flowers, tree, and mountains in this last one, are in that kind of simplified / mathematical reality style that reminded me of Escher. Your trees and branches don't really look like trees and branches; they're simplified and stylized and cleaned up into something more like an "ideal form". Yet, somehow, they also manage to look exactly like trees and branches at the same time.

If you look at the Escher pictures I posted before (and, really, any other Escher works), you'll see something pretty similar. Everything is stylized and drawn with really clean, almost geometric lines, but it doesn't look sterile or unrealistic. It looks almost super-realistic, if you had to coin a term to describe it. I think the best example of this style in the stuff you've posted here might be that dead tree right under the moon in the second picture from the top. It's nothing like a "real" tree, but it has life and movement still.

Really good stuff. Please post more.
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