Isabelle Hayeur

I found the lighting of these photographs interesting and very sterile feeling.

Ashley Wood

Similar to Templesmith, Wood mixes digital photos of oil paintings and digital text and graphics. I don't know that this is a specific medium I would use since I am not a painter.

Ben Templesmith

Ben Templesmith's work is compelling in the way it mixes clearly digital images with hand drawn images. I am a huge fan of mixed media and these works are a great example of that.

Stelarc

Stelarc to me is one of the most interesting of artists embracing digital technology. He embraces it to the point of body modification. Mixing the analog body and robotic additions.
He also has prosthetics implanted into his skin, an ear inserted under the skin of his forearm is one example.
There are many other projects that Stelarc has worked on than connect the analog world to the digital.

Edward Burtynsky

I am very inspired by Burtynsky, because of the way he captures space and large scale images. Where I like to take many landscape pictures, he takes images of man's destructive tendencies and makes works of art. His use of framing brings out the geometry in many of his images.

3rd Event - The Kernville Museum

I went to the Kernville Museum in Kernville (Imagine that!). I wanted to see what artifacts and photographs that might influence where I would camp that night and the price was right, free admission. Most of the artifacts were from the gold miners, but there was one section of the museum dedicated to Native American art and history in the area. There were baskets, photographs of glyphs (rock paintings), and various other artifacts such as shells, obsidian and carved stone figurines.
I enjoyed the museum and it's vary assorted collection, because of the different aspects of art and design that transcend generations showing the need to create is always there.

Art Event - Subhumans at Soma

The band Subhumans was one of the early 80's punk bands from England that broke up around '86-'87. At the age of 17 I thought I would never see this band play live and that their entry into punk history was complete. 21 years later, I see an ad for a show, do some research and find out that it is the original band. I have to go, even though it is in the middle of the week and I have to drive 60+ miles to see it.

The art of the music is one thing, but the art that goes with the punk records is another. There were cds, records, posters, stickers and buttons. The underground art was a mix of appropriated images, original art, and some digital design.

The show was a delight.