156 - Art For Art's Sake

Day 156. I was playing with a new app tonight called Repix, a very interesting painting app for iOS. It has a series of brushes and filters that can be applied over a photograph to create effects that range from painterly to other-worldly. It's quite cool.

This completely abstract image started life as a small cropped corner of a larger photo ( this actually started out as a picture of a teacher and kindergarten kid using a iPad together, not that you can tell that now.) After applying a few effects and brushes it quickly distorts the image beyond recognition. I'd like to get my kids trying this app.

"But what's it a picture of?"

Nothing now. I just found it to be an interesting arrangement of colours and shapes. Does it have to be "of" something.

005 - A Cleaner Engine

Day 5. I don't know exactly what constitutes a creative act. But after this activity I will have created a cleaner engine with better fuel economy and that has to count for something.
Seriously though, any time you do something for the first time, you need to solve a number of problems. For example, the red drain bucket would not fit under the car so I had to rig up a couple of ramps to raise the front end. To me, solving life's little daily problems is just as creative as a photo or a drawing or a poem. Different, but still a problem requiring a creative solution.

What do you think?