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Paintings created with Brushes.app on the iPhone / iPod Touch.

The Gated Key

Jun 12, ’09 1:44 PM

A small junk passes before a gated key device half-sunk in an unidentified body of water.

The attached illustration recently turned up in the estate collection of a little known 20th century American artist. The illustration depicts a small junk-rigged sailboat passing between two sea stacks in a coastal area (possibly Thailand?). We note a distinct similarity between the central structure depicted in the Site 12 illustration titled “Kalopsian Abyss” and the far “sea stack” depicted here.

Both objects feature a ring structure which surrounds — but is disconnected from — a cylindrical object of approximately half the ring’s diameter. The TABLET RUBY DOOR program identified anomalous devices with this topology as “Gated Key” devices and recommends their immediate quarantine or demolition when discovered.

The Gated Key from Jon Fuller on Vimeo.

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Site 12: Kalopsian Abyss

Jun 10, ’09 11:55 AM

Illustration depicting the ZRS-5 tethered within the cavern at Site 12.

The second illustration related to the FORTUNE BLACK IDOL expedition’s discoveries at Site 12 (abbreviated record). The image is labeled ‘Kalopsian Abyss’ and depicts the interior of a vast cavern from a perspective high on one wall. A complex structure is suspended in the approximate center of the cavern. The expedition airship is tethered near the middle of the construct and provides a convenient measure of the construct’s immense scale.

There is enough evidence present in this image to tentatively classify the central construct a ‘gated key’ device as defined in TABLET RUBY DOOR. Given the scale of the artifact—and our conjectures regarding the origin and purpose of the other anomalies identified during FORTUNE BLACK IDOL —we strongly recommend the immediate quarantine (or demolition) of this construct.

Site 12 – Kalopsian Abyss from Jon Fuller on Vimeo.

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Site 12: The Vacant Preception

Jun 9, ’09 11:49 PM

A view into the cavern of 'The Vacant Preception'. Ancient structures and curious light are visible within the cavern.

This is the first of two illustrations documenting the FORTUNE BLACK IDOL expedition’s discovery of Site 12. The first illustration is labelled ‘The Vacant Preception’ and appears to concern the interior of a cavern. The walls of the cavern are lined with structures. The design of the structures appears to be similar to those depicted in illustrations of other sites—most notably Sites 1, 2, and 16.

The airship of the expedition is not visible in the illustration. Given this, our historians believe this work was based on the view from the observation platform at the bow of the airship on its approach to the anomaly.

Site 12 – The Vacant Preception from Jon Fuller on Vimeo.

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The Space Within A House

Jun 8, ’09 1:28 PM

A painting depicting the morning light and color within the artist's kitchen.

Take a moment. Take a look around. Look at the organization and structure and color of the spaces you occupy. Observe the way that vessel is filled by light. Today is the birthday anniversary of the greatest architect in the last 500 years.

“Space is the breath of art.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

(Hat tip to Dornick for the reminder.)

The Space Within A House from Jon Fuller on Vimeo.

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The Dark Mouth Of The Earth

Jun 3, ’09 2:42 AM

A human figure stands at the mouth of a dark tunnel.

Posting today under the influence of rather severe and demoralizing allergies.

I can’t explain why, but such moments strongly lend themselves to the confabulation of distinct, evocative images. When I’m sick or depleted, this one always comes to the fore: a figure standing at the entrance to a dark tunnel. It speaks of mortality, a search for sanctuary, the influence of unseen rivers, of tunnels and passages into darkness.

This image originally came to me as I descended into the grasp of a terrible flu last February. At the time, I was reading Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. (It is a terrifying book. Murakami — and his English translators — possess a gift for exactly relaying the more frightening vistas dormant within the human subconscious.)

In any case, there is a passage in the book in which a character describes a memory from her childhood. In the memory, she is playing with some other children beside a stream near a field. It has just rained. The stream is swollen with the rain. The other children are pulling her along in a small boat when they somehow lose their grasp. In a moment, she is swept away from them toward the mouth of a culvert. An entrance into the underworld, a mouth into the earth, a portal to the unknown.

(Apologies for these undeveloped thoughts — I’m not completely up to par right now. What imagery — if any — do you associate with your varied states of being?)

The Dark Mouth Of The Earth from Jon Fuller on Vimeo.

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Outlaw Cat Via Brushes Redux

May 29, ’09 8:30 AM

A picture of Outlaw Cat painted entirely using the iPod Touch app Brushes.

This week’s New Yorker cover was painted by artist Jorge Colombo entirely using that spiffy iPhone/iPod Touch app named Brushes which I wrote about in early January.

Steve Sprang — the developer of Brushes — also put together a neat companion application named Brushes Viewer which allows the replay of the process of painting.

Even though I’m still not used to painting on an iPod with my knobbly, misshapen fingers, I put together a little demonstration of this amazing software just for you. Take a look.

Outlaw Cat Via Brushes from Jon Fuller on Vimeo.

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Outlaw Cat via Brushes

Jan 5, ’09 1:32 PM

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I’ve been playing with a neat little application named Brushes. It was developed by some hoopty frood named Steve Sprang.

Look at this result! Simple at first glance, but quite advanced given its context. How many people were responsible — really — for bringing this fearsome portrait to fruition? Think of the centuries of generations which have passed in an effort to elevate my art to this point!

Are exclamation points appearing spontaneously above your skulls yet?

(I think my finger is broken.)

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