363 - Cranky Monkey

Day 363. I met this cranky little fellow in the Sacred Monkey Forest in Ubud while we were in Bali a few weeks ago. I had my GoPro camera on a GoPole and tried to get a closeup shot but he wasn't so keen on the idea. Maybe I should have talked with his manager first. This clip was in the video I posted a few days ago, but I used a free tool called Gifyoutube to take those few frames out of the video and loop them as a GIF file. Hours of fun!

357 - A Week in Bali

Day 357. I finally got around to editing some of the video footage I collected in Bali the other week. This was all shot on a GoPro camera on a GoPole (basically a video selfie stick). Music is a Creative Commons track via Jamendo.com and it was edited together using Adobe Premiere Pro.

356 - Balinese Doors

Day 356. One of the lovely aspects of wandering around Bali is seeing all the beautiful doors that lead off the main streets: some highly ornate and others very simple. Some lead to family home complexes, some to temple areas, and others, who knows? But they look delightful and are a real part of the cultural landscape there. These are six doors that caught my eye, shot with my Nikon D7000, tweaked and treated in Adobe Lightroom and arranged with Diptic for Mac.

353 - Polarr Opposites

Day 353. I discovered an amazing web tool for working with images called Polarr. It's a pretty serious online image editor that offers a credible cloud-based alternative to Lightroom or Aperture. It even works with RAW files, and all just in a browser which is pretty amazing. It is mainly used for colour corrections and image fine tuning, not actual image creation, but the range and depth of the tools it offers is pretty stunning, and very Lightroom-ish.

Here's an image that I sort of went overboard on, but it's just fun to play with all the sliders.

352 - Bali Bluster

Day 352. There was a huge storm brewing over our hotel room in Bali so I set the GoPro to timelapse mode and took a shot every 5 seconds, then stitched all 118 photos together in Adobe Photoshop and exported it as a 256 colour Selective mode GIF with 100% dither to reduce the posterisation as much as possible. It still has a bit, but you can definitely see how the storm is swirling around.

351 - Poolside

Day 351. This photo of Linda was taken by the pool at our resort in Bali, but was treated with an app called Oil Painting then processed with another app called Distressed FX. Thanks to my friend Nicole Dalesio for the great app suggestions and the idea for the image.

350 - Door 30D

Day 350. While walking through the back streets of Sanur last night with Linda, Tony and Jane I noticed this interesting doorway to a Balinese family complex. Photo was taken in very low light with my Nexus 5, then treated in Snapseed with several filters and effects to create this result.

349 - Not a Ladyboy

Day 349. I accompanied Linda today as she got her nails done at a small Balinese manicure place, and somehow got talked into having mine done too. So why be normal?

348 - Bust a Move

Day 348. In one of those embarrassing tourist moments when one gets dragged up to "participate" in a bit of local culture, I submit this terrible clip of my Indonesian dance moves. I'll claim it as creativity because I was definitely just making it up as I went along.

347 - Game(lan) On

Day 347. While visiting a Balinese temple today I spotted this beautiful set of gamelan and  since nobody said I couldn't play it, I played it. Badly admittedly, but I played it nonetheless. I love the gong sounds they make, and the scale they are tuned to.  So different to the what the western ear is used to.

346 - Angry Birds

Day 346. This intimidating avarian is a carved statue in a Balinese temple. I took the photo on my Nexus 5 but then tweaked it quite a bit for contrast, drama, focus, and a bunch more stuff in the Android photo app. I like the drama it brings out in the carving.

345 - Florality

Day 345. Linda and I are enjoying a relaxing break in Bali. It's a beautiful island, and the Balinese are beautiful people. The hotel in Kuta puts these floral arrangements in circular pots, and I used Diptic to create these four circular designs of the flowers. These images were just taken on my phone looking directly down at the flowers. The last one was actually taken in Ubud.

334 - Street Art

Day 334. This image was originally taken as a photograph of a piece of street art. It was processed through a few iPad apps to create this finished result. Duchamp once observed that art could be about how you applied extra layers of visual ideas to existing artwork, so even though this artwork is based on someone else's existing artwork, I think it's still valid as a creative act.