One thing I never knew until recently was how much digital artists seem to depend on each other. Sort of like djs taking samples of each other’s music, photoshop artists put images and imagelets from every imaginable place, remixing them to new and unrecognizable shapes. Maybe it’s stupid that I never thought about this until a year or two ago, but there you go. I always liked the idea of art arising from the dusty depths of cloistered genius.  Sometimes it’s tempting to just spend days trolling the internet for, say, high res concrete textures, collecting and examining them, and then maybe never even using them. Alternatively, I have spent days photographing different parts of the ground, intending to use those image textures for “something.” I could fill hard drives infinite with little pieces of art waiting to be made. Funny enough, I never seem to get around to putting the pieces together these days. Is it time to clear my calendar, disconnect the internet and confine myself to photoshop’s company until I produce something worth keeping with all these pieces? To all of my friends, if you either don’t hear from me or receive an incomprehensible collage print for Christmas I apologise in advance.

Speaking of them, this is a really great resource: LostAndTaken.com, a blog dedicated to providing obsessive compulsives like me with high res textures and texture-related chatter.