Wednesday, December 16, 2009
MOVING
MOVING MY BLOG... Now I'm going to have only one blog instead of the many that I have had up til now... The new location is http://jeffthomann.wordpress.com/
Friday, September 11, 2009
Friday, June 27, 2008
Please pray for Jon.
My cousin Jon Thomann has been in the hospital the last week. He fell down a flight of concrete stairs and did some major damage to his head that required brain surgery. He has not fully become consious yet, but there are indications that he is becoming more active. This has been a trying time and has been hard on all of us.
Please pray for his recovery. If you would like to know more about his current situation, his girlfriend, parents and brother are keeping us all updated with this website/blog:
http://caringbridge.org/visit/jonthomann
If you would like to help out financially, there has been a new Support Fund recently set up. You may send checks to the
Jon Thomann and Family Support Fund
P.O. Box 1262
Columbia MO 65205-1262
For more information on the fund and its purpose, you may contact Cathi Harris at 573-220-6582.
Please pray for his recovery. If you would like to know more about his current situation, his girlfriend, parents and brother are keeping us all updated with this website/blog:
http://caringbridge.org/visit/jonthomann
If you would like to help out financially, there has been a new Support Fund recently set up. You may send checks to the
Jon Thomann and Family Support Fund
P.O. Box 1262
Columbia MO 65205-1262
For more information on the fund and its purpose, you may contact Cathi Harris at 573-220-6582.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Hi there. Welcome to Poet-Traits
Hi there. Jeff Thomann (aka Mastermesh) here. Those of you that may follow my works in some of my other blogs (see my profile) know that I like making sketches and doodles in MS Paint, Photoshop, and done by hand, and that I have a background in theater and painting.
I'm going to use this blog to make a form of visual poetry that I call poet-traits... that is Portraits (and other drawing types too but mostly Portrait-like depictions or drawings that have portrait-like themes, and philisophical or politcal meanings) that are made up of words arranged to create a visual image... The words are related to the image or images, and usually have one or more meaning to them, and/or sometimes the words may be quotes or speeches that have contrast or give deeper meaning to the visual image. I like this sort of idea of combining visual images with words, poems, or dialogue since it creates a sort of story or set of relations and contrasts that you don't usually get with normal line drawings or paintings that just are lines, hatch marks, or other doodles. By incorporating words in to an image as the visual elements of the image, there's a whole lot of deeper type of things that can be communicated than just words alone can communicate or visuals alone can communicate. It sort of makes the 2d plane in to a cinematic sort of event, or artistic happening and experience that sometimes can be interactive if the viewer has to move their location to read the words or has to move the work to read it. I think eventually, I may build some flash or similar type technology in to some of these works so that they can be viewed online somewhat more like they are in the real world, where a viewer may have to hold the page in their hands and turn it to read some parts that may be sideways text or upside down text (or maybe even use mirrors to read backwards text) in the real world...
I've always liked doing this sort of thing, and it sort of came to me naturally.
When i was in high school (way back in pre 1994 days), I had several pen pals that I would write letters too, and I got bored just doing normal letters to them, so I would sometimes make the lines of my letters in to visual images. I think the first couple of times this happened, it was sort of an accident because I still had lots to write but was quickly running out of paper, and didn't have access to another sheet of paper at the time. It was sort of a flow of concsious sort of rambling letter. Of course, at the time, I didn't realize that that was what it was called since I had not yet learned much about art history, and wouldn't til my college years. In college, I sometimes found myself doing little writings like this in my sketch books and even in class notes. I am a bit of a visual thinker, and when I took notes in various classes in college, I usually wrote small, and could manage to get a full lecture on one page, but usually that meant filling up the space here and there, connecting ideas by writting bubbles and squares around them and little arrows to connect this and that if there was some tie in between the ideas in the bubbles or boxes, and adding little dotted and dashed lines to seperate this idea from that idea... etc. I usually wrote all this stuff quickly so my 'cat scratches' usually ended up being non-cursive text since it was easier to fit words and phrases in and make them move around the page in various ways if the individual letters weren't all tied together with one running line like you get with cursive. I also didn't do a lot of cursive since to me, it takes longer to right that way than it does to just individually write out each letter quickly... with your hand being sort of like a moving typewriter on a page...
I think some of the images I'm going to use to do this sort of stuff will either be stuff coming out of my head as I doodle, or possibly based on photographs and other image types. I'm going to try to be careful not to abuse anyone's copyright, but that's sort of hard to do sometimes since some of the political type stuff that has the most power in doing these sort of drawings, paintings, and doodles, are somewhat political and/or may in some way be tied to the mass media. There are other areas that I can and will focus on too though. I'll post some pics as I get more stuff to put in here and get the images uploaded elsewhere that I can link to in here...
I'm going to use this blog to make a form of visual poetry that I call poet-traits... that is Portraits (and other drawing types too but mostly Portrait-like depictions or drawings that have portrait-like themes, and philisophical or politcal meanings) that are made up of words arranged to create a visual image... The words are related to the image or images, and usually have one or more meaning to them, and/or sometimes the words may be quotes or speeches that have contrast or give deeper meaning to the visual image. I like this sort of idea of combining visual images with words, poems, or dialogue since it creates a sort of story or set of relations and contrasts that you don't usually get with normal line drawings or paintings that just are lines, hatch marks, or other doodles. By incorporating words in to an image as the visual elements of the image, there's a whole lot of deeper type of things that can be communicated than just words alone can communicate or visuals alone can communicate. It sort of makes the 2d plane in to a cinematic sort of event, or artistic happening and experience that sometimes can be interactive if the viewer has to move their location to read the words or has to move the work to read it. I think eventually, I may build some flash or similar type technology in to some of these works so that they can be viewed online somewhat more like they are in the real world, where a viewer may have to hold the page in their hands and turn it to read some parts that may be sideways text or upside down text (or maybe even use mirrors to read backwards text) in the real world...
I've always liked doing this sort of thing, and it sort of came to me naturally.
When i was in high school (way back in pre 1994 days), I had several pen pals that I would write letters too, and I got bored just doing normal letters to them, so I would sometimes make the lines of my letters in to visual images. I think the first couple of times this happened, it was sort of an accident because I still had lots to write but was quickly running out of paper, and didn't have access to another sheet of paper at the time. It was sort of a flow of concsious sort of rambling letter. Of course, at the time, I didn't realize that that was what it was called since I had not yet learned much about art history, and wouldn't til my college years. In college, I sometimes found myself doing little writings like this in my sketch books and even in class notes. I am a bit of a visual thinker, and when I took notes in various classes in college, I usually wrote small, and could manage to get a full lecture on one page, but usually that meant filling up the space here and there, connecting ideas by writting bubbles and squares around them and little arrows to connect this and that if there was some tie in between the ideas in the bubbles or boxes, and adding little dotted and dashed lines to seperate this idea from that idea... etc. I usually wrote all this stuff quickly so my 'cat scratches' usually ended up being non-cursive text since it was easier to fit words and phrases in and make them move around the page in various ways if the individual letters weren't all tied together with one running line like you get with cursive. I also didn't do a lot of cursive since to me, it takes longer to right that way than it does to just individually write out each letter quickly... with your hand being sort of like a moving typewriter on a page...
I think some of the images I'm going to use to do this sort of stuff will either be stuff coming out of my head as I doodle, or possibly based on photographs and other image types. I'm going to try to be careful not to abuse anyone's copyright, but that's sort of hard to do sometimes since some of the political type stuff that has the most power in doing these sort of drawings, paintings, and doodles, are somewhat political and/or may in some way be tied to the mass media. There are other areas that I can and will focus on too though. I'll post some pics as I get more stuff to put in here and get the images uploaded elsewhere that I can link to in here...
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