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Radim's Laserpainting Art, Complexity Philosophy and The Surreal World
Radim's Laserpainting Art, Complexity Philosophy and The Surreal World
"The darkness is my canvas..."
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Latest Art (Link)
Intro
Welcome to this Art & more thread,
Since it has been stickied and enjoyed here for a while already, it needs some better first post to make it more comfortable and user friendly IMO. Anyway, you can see the original first post below. This space is therefore reserved for more structure to be evolved. :beer: I'm not completely decided about exact form yet, maybe I'll use standard content, but likely kind of keywords, previews with hyperlink structure accross the entire thread. As mentioned it is to be evolved.
And what will happen in this thread in the (near) future?
Hopefully a lot!
The Project A
The "A" stands for ART, the art of living, the art of science, the art of lasers... The art of The Surreal World we all live in.
The universe has split into new direction as the river flowing down from the mountains as stream bursting from the rock, through the forests, landscape, cities, catching other smaller rivers, streams and rain out of the air, flowing to the seas and oceans... Once, I was born, the world would not be the same anymore, once I found faith in the Surreal World of love, peace merging to friendship, I became the philosopher of the new age... Too many strong words, you say? Wait for it... Project A almost killed me many times, so I hope I've finally caught it in my hands and my fingers can shape it... With your help, I believe in the better world, in The Surreal World...
Let's see the list of some currently running subprojects:
I hope you will enjoy this thread further and all content here as well as the content coming...
Thanks for you being such an awesome community here, LPF has been my home and it will be even in the future.
R.
Safety
PLEASE DO NOT TRY LASERPAINTING UNLESS YOU ARE EXPERIENCED WITH LASERS, THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT RISKS TO BE MANAGED.
I'm about to put here more safety information for others feeling they wish to try it. However you might find some safety precautions and procedures in my earlier posts. My safety protocol is still evolving and becoming more complex. I can handle very complicated compositions in safe way, but without this protocol, I would be blind now (at least) for sure. Feel free to be inspired, but it is your responsibility to be safe.
What is Laserpainting?
Have you heard about light painting? Camera on long exposure, darkness and painting with flashlights and various light sources? Google it. I do it with coherent monochromatic light (lasers) using various optics, wave behaviour of light, tricks, games with viewer's mind and perspective, etc. I do not have any limits in creativity and art I can do. There is always a way, just passion and idea is needed. Anyway I do not use any computer graphics (I tried in my child steps before I took courage to use proper digital camera with lasers), all artworks are real photos of single exposure, no layering in postprocess or something. I even do not use noise reduction in computer. I tend to capture reality, that's why. If you are curious, feel free to ask me for more.
Complexity Philosophy - This mysterious phrase refers to the new philosophy direction (as I became philosopher) I'm discovering and evolving. All artworks here as published so far were first steps leading to this and during my absence here I did a lot of meditation, thinking, discussions and from strict definitionry and logic approach and observation (not only of course) I'm building broader framework and finding my sense of life and how I see the world (my own philosophy keeping me happy in this crazy world). There were too much inconsistencies found in conventional approaches and I needed to find some form of unity. It took me several years to come up with it in current form, many years of studies and my whole life journey led there (as I was always curious). Here it is and I'm about to present it bit by bit together with laserpainting artworks here instead of writing books. This should also express deep meaning of the artworks. And one more thing - I tried to implement it in practical way to my life and even further - and I was surprised it actually worked beyond my (sceptic) expectations, so no need to keep this secret, even it sounds crazy now as written here. Yeah, I refuse to be normal. :crackup:
Yeah, and thank you all a lot for your attention, support, discussions and for being such an awesome and inspirting community here... I see we go for better world what we do here...
Thread content
>>> This section is to be evolved. <<<
________________________________________________ ORIGINAL POST________________________________________________
Old 02-11-2017, 10:40 AM
Hi fellow laserists,
I have received a very nice feedback with many, many reps from you (thanks again) in Enchanted Beams Thread (recommended to subscribe) with requests for more of my artwork to be shared. Maybe it's time to make a thread for this stuff to keep it at one place.
I'll put here the pics for your enjoyment. And when I experience something special during my night rides and walks in the forest with lasers and camera, I'll share the story together with photo posted as well.
I'll be happy for your feedback, opinions, feelings, comments, tips, critics etc. Follow up discusion is very warm welcomed.
Enjoy...
To begin with - my latest shot:
When laser touches a tree its soul becomes visible
(real photo, no computer graphics, just laserpainting & a bit of moonlight, for higher resolution click the image)
And here is the first artwork ever I'm proud of (shared in above mentioned thread already, I just wish to have it here as well):
Even the first version of the quoted photo is nice, slightly different perspective and lighting... I might share it later.
Radim's Laserpainting Art, Complexity Philosophy and The Surreal World
"The darkness is my canvas..."
First Book Download for Free:
TaoLiim v3.0.0 is in Progress
Topic: Probability and Statistics
#SurrealBird #ComplexityPhilosophy #LaserPointerForums #Reputation #Money #Theory #Story #Quantum #SurrealWorld #Holography #Composition #Cypher
Latest Art (Link)
Intro
Welcome to this Art & more thread,
Since it has been stickied and enjoyed here for a while already, it needs some better first post to make it more comfortable and user friendly IMO. Anyway, you can see the original first post below. This space is therefore reserved for more structure to be evolved. :beer: I'm not completely decided about exact form yet, maybe I'll use standard content, but likely kind of keywords, previews with hyperlink structure accross the entire thread. As mentioned it is to be evolved.
And what will happen in this thread in the (near) future?
Hopefully a lot!
The Project A
The "A" stands for ART, the art of living, the art of science, the art of lasers... The art of The Surreal World we all live in.
The universe has split into new direction as the river flowing down from the mountains as stream bursting from the rock, through the forests, landscape, cities, catching other smaller rivers, streams and rain out of the air, flowing to the seas and oceans... Once, I was born, the world would not be the same anymore, once I found faith in the Surreal World of love, peace merging to friendship, I became the philosopher of the new age... Too many strong words, you say? Wait for it... Project A almost killed me many times, so I hope I've finally caught it in my hands and my fingers can shape it... With your help, I believe in the better world, in The Surreal World...
Let's see the list of some currently running subprojects:
- The Hologram Question
Short note: From here there have been many experiments done, there are amazing results, which surprised me a lot. I had to develop completely new scientific concepts to cover the explanation. I'm currently preparing an article to release some secrets of my Black Monkey King notebook... - Laserpainting Artworks
"Unpublished sister artwork"
I have a lot of them unpublished and I became fascinated by one older one - test shot better than final artwork and I'm about to publish it soon because I fell in love with it recently. Seriously I see it as the best of all for me now. Even I and my artistic feelings evolve and this trial was not appreciated by me and its later sister shot has been published here already (you may guess which one it is).
Note: The artwork will be published as:
The Shape Of The Surreal World
...the shape of the soul...
You might look forward what is hidden there, what I've found and how awesome this hologram laserpainting is. I still have not explored this deep interference pattern and what it contains, but I've found the bottom - the resolution limit already (I observed computer imaging algorithm of QuickPic app).
:drool:
"Unseen artwork" - The Surreal World has taken it... I needed to pay for evolution... But I'm happy for this...
Further there is still another unseen (therefore resting on SD card as from camera - observer) artwork (related to Project A) to be processed from RAW and published (hopefully it will be nice, as I liked it on camera preview last year in the forest). And yes - 532 nm | 1.4+ W | Optotronics RPL-II (link) has been used in this artwork. This will be one of long awaited Beast review pics...
Further...
And many old and new ideas you could see in some Wazup posts earlier... - ...and more... - Plus some others not stated in the list linked... This list is not and cannot be comprehensive.
I hope you will enjoy this thread further and all content here as well as the content coming...
Thanks for you being such an awesome community here, LPF has been my home and it will be even in the future.
R.
Safety
PLEASE DO NOT TRY LASERPAINTING UNLESS YOU ARE EXPERIENCED WITH LASERS, THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT RISKS TO BE MANAGED.
I'm about to put here more safety information for others feeling they wish to try it. However you might find some safety precautions and procedures in my earlier posts. My safety protocol is still evolving and becoming more complex. I can handle very complicated compositions in safe way, but without this protocol, I would be blind now (at least) for sure. Feel free to be inspired, but it is your responsibility to be safe.
What is Laserpainting?
Have you heard about light painting? Camera on long exposure, darkness and painting with flashlights and various light sources? Google it. I do it with coherent monochromatic light (lasers) using various optics, wave behaviour of light, tricks, games with viewer's mind and perspective, etc. I do not have any limits in creativity and art I can do. There is always a way, just passion and idea is needed. Anyway I do not use any computer graphics (I tried in my child steps before I took courage to use proper digital camera with lasers), all artworks are real photos of single exposure, no layering in postprocess or something. I even do not use noise reduction in computer. I tend to capture reality, that's why. If you are curious, feel free to ask me for more.
Complexity Philosophy - This mysterious phrase refers to the new philosophy direction (as I became philosopher) I'm discovering and evolving. All artworks here as published so far were first steps leading to this and during my absence here I did a lot of meditation, thinking, discussions and from strict definitionry and logic approach and observation (not only of course) I'm building broader framework and finding my sense of life and how I see the world (my own philosophy keeping me happy in this crazy world). There were too much inconsistencies found in conventional approaches and I needed to find some form of unity. It took me several years to come up with it in current form, many years of studies and my whole life journey led there (as I was always curious). Here it is and I'm about to present it bit by bit together with laserpainting artworks here instead of writing books. This should also express deep meaning of the artworks. And one more thing - I tried to implement it in practical way to my life and even further - and I was surprised it actually worked beyond my (sceptic) expectations, so no need to keep this secret, even it sounds crazy now as written here. Yeah, I refuse to be normal. :crackup:
Yeah, and thank you all a lot for your attention, support, discussions and for being such an awesome and inspirting community here... I see we go for better world what we do here...
Thread content
>>> This section is to be evolved. <<<
Philosopher's Table 4
For Peace and Love.
More coming soon...
From Philosopher's Diary for LPF:
... For more click here ...
Let's play a thinking game now... :tinfoil: :san:
Safety Warning: Never ask philosopher about the time, he has answered you yesterday.
________________________________________________ ORIGINAL POST________________________________________________
Old 02-11-2017, 10:40 AM
Hi fellow laserists,
I have received a very nice feedback with many, many reps from you (thanks again) in Enchanted Beams Thread (recommended to subscribe) with requests for more of my artwork to be shared. Maybe it's time to make a thread for this stuff to keep it at one place.
I'll put here the pics for your enjoyment. And when I experience something special during my night rides and walks in the forest with lasers and camera, I'll share the story together with photo posted as well.
I'll be happy for your feedback, opinions, feelings, comments, tips, critics etc. Follow up discusion is very warm welcomed.
Enjoy...
To begin with - my latest shot:
When laser touches a tree its soul becomes visible
(real photo, no computer graphics, just laserpainting & a bit of moonlight, for higher resolution click the image)
And here is the first artwork ever I'm proud of (shared in above mentioned thread already, I just wish to have it here as well):
If you have asked me why I love 589 nm laser, I would have answered because it's DPSS, because it's unique pure golden light, because...
The Laser Sun
It's a day at night in the forest. The sun is shining on the sky – is it real or is it not? What is real? What is dream? The souls of the trees, the souls of the light? The esence of reality is surreal… Many words all spoken by single picture…
(for higher resolution click on the photo)
About
Yes, it‘s a real photo, no computer graphics, just pure laser painting of my style. Four high powered lasers were used for this photo including starring 589 nm "Yellowie" with 2X beam expander optics.
Warning: Proper eye safety wear and strictly following laser safety protocol are absolutely necessary during composition setup and exposure of photos like this one.
Behind the scene (this story is written exclusively for LPF)
It was a bit sad that evening at the beginning, I've had clear idea about the photo and everything. I supposed to used 532 nm 800+ mW (I call him "The First"). I was getting everythig ready, unlocked and tried to switch him on. No emission... Ok, let's change the batts. Nothing. Another pair. Nope. Again. Damn it. It was dead. Bad for start and it made me very sad. But why to return home, when I have four other lasers with me? I prepared the scene, found the right place for camera, composition, alignment of 589 nm (I still do not have these little tripods - so I use various objects to put it on - the harder way
...
During the exposure in normally calm and quiet forest I heard him nearby... To me well known alfa male deer. For those who read my intro - he has not been shot yet as I meet him from time to time, when riding my mountain bike and even once during laser painting. Well, he was not that far from me to make me feel comfortable as I have had all lasers, optics, camera tripod and all necesary accessories out of backpack and it takes a lot of time to get everything packed and fitted inside... Usually I'm very confident being in forest at night, but based on my prior experience I'm always a bit nervous with this beast.
Well, the exposure was done and camera was taking its time to process the photo. I was preparing for next shot and he was still there making his typical noises towards me. I saw his bright red eyes reflected from my head 1 700 lumen flashlight. It was him, I recognize him only by his voice, but I even barely saw him. In addition he is the only one not scared when I do some loud counter noise at him like clamp, shout etc... This confirmed me he is my well known "friend" I met in the last summer first time... And he was slowly approaching...
"Click!" Photo processed. Checked: "Ok, I need to adjust the scene to get what I came for." Deer is still shouting at me. Me, just for sure, keeping some laser handy. Adjust yellow laser, composition, yellow laser composition... A lot of walking. Still deer noises of anger... Still coming closer and being more and more loud... I shot a flash of laser in the area where he was to keep him far (not hitting him of course - I could see where he was, just flash of bright light of laser light nearby would be sufficiend to keep him away, I was hoping). Anyway, I was quickly ready with scene as I got some little experience already and it was the time for a second shot. Last check of composition and camera settings. Mobile phone with DSLR IR Remote app ready and here we go: Illuminate focus area, tap, focus - ok and light off before exposure starts. Now it was time to be creative... The deer still there and me walking in darkness in not really easy terrain illuminated just by 589 nm beam with laser in hand and laser glasses, laserpainting the forest.
It took five minutes and 2 seconds. After exposure I told myself this one has to be OK as the deer was becoming very annoying. I'm really affraid the moment, when he will not be scared by laser anymore - I do not have that heart to hit him directly, but what if? How would I defense myself? I have had just bare hands, lasers and sccissors in backpack. Not that huge antlers as him to stand as equal to equal in case of entering unitntended fight. So it was time to leave. However no attack occured, but I was exhausted from still paying attention to everything - exposure time, laser light emitted on objects, laser safety, the deer, not hitting the camera accidentaly, not slip or injure myself, not crossing the 589 nm beam with any part of my body and to be fully creative... I secured the lasers and was packing everything to leave when the camera proccessed the picture finally - quick check: "Wow, this is it!"
During my excitement from the photo the deer was probably bored of me and dissappeared. I did not even noticed him leaving as I forgot to pay attention to him. Anyway i knew, that other photos taken that evening would be just additional, so I got on my bike and followed the snowy and icy path through the forest back. I was happy with the shot stored at my SD card and the last mission was to get home safely...
And back home, after the lasers were stabilised with temperatures to prevent condensing of moisture and thermal shock. I took a look at the dead 532 nm. I put the batteries in (all were fully charged of course and I even measured the voltage), pointed the laser out of the window to infinity and - nice green beam slices the sky in full power again! Oh, amazing! That evening I was very happy! The laser is still alive, I took the photo above and I survived another encounter with the beast...
Thanks for reading and sorry for a bit longer post, ArcticDude, but this picture has a longer story to share.
Note: I really need to get something better than these Trustfire's 16340 (they were cheap and the best available to me at the moment when I got them). I realized that maybe they were too cold to deliver required current - in deed they delivered 0 or near mA as even the standby/emission indicator was not working - just at the beginning.
Even the first version of the quoted photo is nice, slightly different perspective and lighting... I might share it later.
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