I don't know about you, but I sometimes feel a bit of an overload when it comes to the daily news. I'm still paying attention, and I still plan to play at least a modest part in taking the country back from you-know-who and his mafioso thugs, and yet, as I'm sure many others can relate, every now and then you need a change of pace, something else to contemplate—at least for a minute or two.
(I have no idea if it's helping or not, but why do you suppose I keep shifting my focus to Kafka?)
So it's in that spirit that I'm posting this mini-gallery.
The reason it's called ArtAttack mini-gallery is because that's the name of an app that I developed—single-handedly, I might add—for the Android, years ago. ArtAttack is, in simple terms, just yet another of the many drawing or Paint-style apps that many have developed for Android or Apple or whatever. But I feel that the design of this particular app offers quite a few features that are not commonly found in similar apps.
Some of the images—or I should say at least one of the images (namely, the title image)—presented here have been postprocessed outside of the ArtAttack app. Now, I haven't worked on ArtAttack in years, but I can say that back when I was working on it, I wasn't sufficiently proficient in working with digital filters (e.g. cartoon filters, or sepia tinting etc., or filters that blur or sharpen the image, just to name a few) such that I could have added them to the app at the time.
Which is to say that anything in this mini-gallery that looks like it has been postprocessed with some digital filter or other probably has been altered or enhanced in that manner, and therefore, is not strictly a product of my app and nothing else.
So yes, I admit that the title image, which was originally created in October 2016, was postprocessed nearly two years later. That's the image that appears above. I've also just now verified that that image is the only one in this mini-gallery that was postprocessed.
Here are some images from November 2016:
Up until November of 2016, I had been posting a #DailyArtAttack series on Twitter. However, as you all know, something unthinkable, disgusting, and unspeakably catastrophic happened in the wee hours of November 8-9, 2016. In honor, if that's the right word, of that dark moment in this nation's history, this was my very last Twitter posting, on 11/9/2016, for #DailyArtAttack:
You can squint all you want, turn up your display's brightness setting, but this is not one of the Black Paintings by Frank Stella. No, in terms of the hex code, every single pixel in the image is #000000 (RGB code for black). Yeah, the day everything went dark.
Here are a few images from October 2016:
As an added bonus, since you've been a very good studio audience, here's one last one from September 2016:
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to rattle my cage. The images posted herein are just the tip of the iceberg as to what my modest little app can do.
I should note, just for the record, that recently I was able to figure out how to incorporate the OpenCv libraries into an Android app, so now I know a little bit about how to add digital filters in my own app.
Footnote: BTW, the originals most likely look more impressive; they were done fullscreen on a 1920x1200 device. Depends on how much image sizes are reduced when uploaded to this platform.