tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80250892024-03-06T20:54:57.813-08:00FunkyEnoughTransformational Art: Inter Experiential ArtGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-67805468123540191812012-06-18T12:48:00.003-07:002012-06-18T12:48:50.138-07:00Maui Glass BlowingJust as the Colorbox is a one of a kind installation for a premiere event, Makai Glass Creations on Maui offers a travelling glass blowing performance that is unlike any other. Maui Glass Blowing.
Makai Glass features unique glass blown sculptures inspired by the sea and volcanic formations of the Hawaiian Islands. Artists Justin Brown and Randy Schaffer create each glass piece with the “Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-80691527867923826402012-06-15T20:48:00.000-07:002012-06-15T20:48:01.170-07:00Well it's been a long time. And I hope you have figured out that the best place to see current Funkyenough art by me, Gabriel Mott, is over at... well... lately I've been doing digital interactive video work. I still have fabulous giclees for sale. And I do commissions-- acrylic energetic abstract art, or a digital portrait.
Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-86234061414375728242010-10-16T18:54:00.001-07:002010-10-16T18:57:40.199-07:00Gabe Mott!!! Color in relationship, Mystical street art, video, digital interactive media, nui gui, transformative space, immersive artworkPlease visit my current website forall things color.all things funky (my hand done all time classic canvases and transformative space)megp (yes that's Gary Payton, long story, he's the man)Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-43303102114319023662009-08-07T03:06:00.000-07:002009-08-07T03:18:12.272-07:00Tonk The MovieI made this movie coming out of film class at San Francisco City College about 5 years ago. Every time I want to watch it, I go to google and search Tonk Movie and it comes up with all of this honky tonk crap. I'll even try to search Gabe Mott Tonk and it still doesn't come up very high in google. Hopefully this helps. And I hope you enjoy the movie. Someday I'll have a contest for who can Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-53693051180848765032009-05-02T17:02:00.000-07:002009-05-02T17:03:51.867-07:00Color Eyes: Come to your Senses! FranklinI was asked by Dick Nelson to summarize my experience of his most recent class. At the same time, Franklin asked me to Come to my Senses!Following other presentations on the senses, I shared revelations on the interaction of color that I learned in Nelson's class and explained some of them using biological insights from Margaret Livingstone in her book "Vision and Art: Biology of Seeing".Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-8439474601692404382009-04-20T18:32:00.000-07:002009-04-26T11:20:58.805-07:00Come to your SensesDate: Sunday, April 26, 2009 Time: 10:00am - 10:00pm Location: Mansion off N. Holokai City/Town: Haiku, HImapCome join us for a gathering that began as a pool party fundraiser and is now a full day of celebrating the senses. If you'll be at the Tarot Fest in Hana, stop off on your way home for a relaxing hot tub or sauna.sliding scale $30-$10 donation at the doorThis is a fundraiser to cover Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-55951251280125902202009-03-20T01:28:00.000-07:002009-03-20T01:52:16.890-07:00Amsterdam: Visions of Van GoghSix years ago, I had the opportunity to travel in Europe for 3 months. I had lofty visions at the time as I traveled to get clear on who I was and what I wanted to do.I arrived in Amsterdam with one question circulating in my mind intended to provide me with a focus-- "What do I Cherish?". After visiting the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, I was inspired to create a 6 foot canvas based on his Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-57761976920701154752009-03-19T11:38:00.000-07:002009-03-19T11:41:13.791-07:00show a little flavor, have a little funk"The paradox of progress is that imagination is always linked to style, and yet it also provides the seed for innovation that changes the face of function."-- Shoals talking about the slam dunk-- now considered the most efficient way to get 2 points and once disdained as too showy.Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-30197785031557456502009-03-13T12:48:00.001-07:002009-03-18T16:07:59.141-07:00Vision Thru Color: Art Show in AmsterdamMarch 21st, 2009.I'm in Amsterdam for two weeks, then on to New York City.I've got the interactive Color Box technology with me and 6 original paintings that I'll be showing on Saturday March 21st.If you are going to be in the area, I'd love to see you.Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-46286214257352568952009-01-30T01:15:00.000-08:002009-01-30T01:17:37.023-08:00Brilliant Jazz pianist enlightens our experience of Bush.Am I just getting old, or is jazz piano suddenly the most artistic and impressive way to get inside the George W. Bush experience? Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-70081547054137041512009-01-06T18:48:00.000-08:002009-03-18T16:11:09.645-07:00Proposal for A Color BoxA Color Box Proposal by Gabriel Mottcolor box blogTwo years ago I took a color class with Dick Nelson that completely changed my sense of color. As I made discoveries about how and why certain combinations of colors created brilliant luminosity, I was astounded and wanted to share this experience with everybody.Description:A Color Box is a portable room about 8 feet cubed. Using a computer, a Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-33478815809929696652008-12-19T02:33:00.001-08:002008-12-19T11:00:00.924-08:00Color Calendar 2009: Best Color Quotes of all timeIn twelve months plus one cover image, everything I've learned about halation, invisible boundaries, luminosity, pure color, parents and children, and relationships between single swatches of color is presented along with my favorite quotes on color from everyone from The Beastie Boys and John Lennon, to Josef Albers, Goethe and Kermit the Frog.Included are a few that are not in the calendar:“I Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-17297895376808852802008-12-10T18:04:00.000-08:002008-12-10T19:46:41.223-08:00Calendar coming soon from ColorisRelative.com“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.” Alice Walker (American writer, b.1944)"You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still. It moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-34174072896023534982008-11-20T18:49:00.000-08:002011-03-29T01:00:58.143-07:00Dick NelsonThis page has been updated and is current here Dick NelsonDick Nelson is the teacher who deconstructed my sense of color. After his 8 week course I was for the first time able to look at colors and begin to understand how much of the three primaries each contained. I was able to understand how luminosity was created by combining colors of similar families. He taught me about halation.Dick Nelson Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-70783173603881549292008-11-04T03:16:00.000-08:002009-07-01T00:40:01.840-07:00How I met Barack Obama's sister MayaLast summer, in August of 2007, we had a huge anti-war art show with almost 100 artists who put up over 200 works of art for a month.The show was called "War and Peace".One morning days into the show, while we were hanging out in the sun room, someone said that Barack Obama's sister was in town campaigning. Everyone in the room got excited."Let's invite her over!"She was able to come to the showGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-69476642367381793282008-09-17T19:54:00.000-07:002008-09-17T19:59:26.577-07:0032 PolesWith 32 Poles, I was going for a much more subtle effect than in the 3 other pole pages. By using a blue and orange that are complements and are closer in value and as well using a greater number of poles, the steps are more subtle and the effect is more powerful.In addition the grid on the far left allows you to see the poles against a strong blue, strong orange as well as black, grey and white.Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-40324675905180754442008-09-12T14:34:00.001-07:002008-09-12T15:07:40.411-07:00What's Going On? Some good advice.I've been feeling stuck, wondering what I can do to ensure that Barack Obama becomes the next President of the United States. I have great difficulty relating to anyone who supports the Republican party at this point. These have helped:1. I received an email advising how to and how not to talk to people who like Palin.When Progressives make "elitist" attacks on Palin, they just reinforce the Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-83059156759570970542008-09-10T03:25:00.000-07:002008-09-16T02:37:56.384-07:00El color es relativoDoes anyone who speaks Spanish care to translate? Color is relative is mentioned in an Argentine publication-- Tam Tam.Nuestra percepción del brillo y la luminosidad de un color depende de sus colores vecinos. Lo podés comprobar con algunos pequeños experimentos. En el primero, deslizando el mouse sobre el panel central cambiás el color del fondo. El segundo es similar pero ofrece la gama Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-16841034555285728032008-09-09T02:56:00.001-07:002008-09-09T03:11:53.058-07:00Comments on Color is RelativeSome of the best comments so far have come from a community blog called metafilter.One of the members of this very smart community presented this illusion in which square A and square B are the exact same shade of grey.Other comments include:"When painting in Photoshop I find I have to set the little swatch to what looks like a darker color than I need. Large areas of the same color look lighterGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-32697361948745049762008-08-29T02:35:00.000-07:002008-08-29T03:22:37.509-07:00Whats the Point? Back to the BasicsFor all of you saying "What's the Point?" this release is dedicated to you. The point is, you are not seeing what you think you are seeing. Your eyes are constantly adjusting to the context around them.In the image at left, the two swatches are the exact same color. Now that I have told you that, you can see that. You probably even predicted there was some trick to this and guessed that the two Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-20559351691845675192008-08-26T03:29:00.000-07:002008-08-27T09:16:06.084-07:00Color is relative, "(Yellow to) Blue Poles" pre-releaseWhen you click on a bar from the color array, the background of the webpage will match the color of the bar you chose.There are sixteen steps of poles. The background of the page entirely affects our perception of the color of each pole. Sometimes, a yellow pole looks as if it is glowing in blue.I originally created ten poles with yellow on the left and blue on the right. The blue is a Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-71564294999931879722008-08-26T02:36:00.000-07:002008-08-26T03:01:47.871-07:00Halation Horizons in the NY Times for Obama In this article, the writer is juxtaposing Obama's journey to the classic American outsider icon. I was amazed to see the background of the image contain the straight horizontal lines I've been obsessed with from Dick's homework assignment.In the class, we took the colors from a matrix (groups of families of color based on four chosen outside corners) and put those colors down as straight Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-6534889995914826912008-08-24T23:00:00.000-07:002011-03-12T21:57:59.790-08:00Happy Birthday Dad: Plum Halation[the definitive page for halation has moved]I was thinking my dad would like this set of colors, no idea why, but it's his birthday. Hey, Happy Birthday Dad.When you move your mouse over the individual swatches, the background of the webpage changes to that color. As you move the mouse around to each swatch, you can see halations in the swatches.The colors seem to change in the matrix as the Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-13934255094343218472008-07-16T20:50:00.000-07:002008-11-18T19:15:09.267-08:00ColorIsRelative.com launchedColor is Relative is a website dedicated to showing luminosity achieved through simple color combinations. On the site, the image at left is interactive. By moving the mouse over a single swatch the background color of the page will change to the same color. The effect is intended to show the impact of changing the context of color.In the next month, I will be releasing my next series of Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8025089.post-29910320925775883382008-06-27T22:16:00.001-07:002008-11-18T19:15:09.542-08:00New Halation HorizonsGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913159433517356475noreply@blogger.com2