http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress Home of digital artist Steven Lareau, Clinton,TN Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:39:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's the postcard for the May show at Three Flights Up Gallery. Despite the card saying it runs in March, it runs the month of May. Opening night reception will be First Friday, May 2, from 5-9 pm. Come out and say hi. ShareThis http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2008/04/27/three-flights-up-gallery-show I'm very happy to announce that I've got a show in my first actual art gallery, during the month of May, at Three Flights Up in Knoxville. Link I'll be there for the meet and greet on opening night, which is part of the First Friday events. Opening night is Friday, ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2008/03/05/upcoming-show I live in a small town, Clinton Tennessee. For grins, I just googled: digital artist clinton TN I come up 1st and 4th ranking. Then I googled: artist clinton TN 1st and 6th ranking Then I googled: fractal artist clinton TN 1st ranking Then I googled: Steve artist TN Second place Then I googled: Steve fractal and came in on the 4th result Clinton fractal ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/12/21/search-engines-are-funny Dan over at my-fractals.com has written some code, and it's a thing of beauty. Download a few things, configure a simple ini file, and it can do some very cool stuff, like batch render flame files automatically when you dump them into a directory, then it can email the paramater file ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/09/24/apophysis-artists-you-want-this New releases- tile boxes, the boxes are now offered in a high gloss black piano finish as well as a high gloss mahogany color, the hinge is now spring loaded to keep it propped up, the bottom is felt lined, and the interior is lined in white satin fabric. One ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/09/14/new-releases The Thumbprint Of God: Fractals- The Colors Of Infinity. Arthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot set, the first type of fractal discovered. If you've been curious about just what fractals are, this is, by far, the best explanation I've run across to date. ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/09/13/fractals-the-colors-of-infinity A friend of mine came up with a cool idea for a web site, The Hate Project. People have endured being called hurtful names as a child, and as an adult. Those words sting, they hurt, they can stick with you for the rest of your life. Create a sign with ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/08/24/the-hate-project I thought I'd share something cool with you. Pandora.com is a streaming radio station. You can create your own station based on artists or song titles, then it learns which songs you and others thing can go togther, more or less a station based on similar tastes in music. It ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/07/11/pandora-streaming-radio There's a new place on Market Square, downtown Knoxville, called Abode. During the month of July, I'll be the featured artist, my first solo show, and I'll have a few brand new pieces. Some of my newer pieces will be one offs, they're signed and dated and marked 1/1. ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/14/my-first-solo-show I finally, FINALLY finished working on the way this site is laid out, and how it looks. I've learned more about how to tweak Word Press installations than I ever wanted to, but it's cool, I'm slowly getting the hang of what happens when you change this, move that, that ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/06/06/a-new-look-for-2007 For your viewing pleasure, there is a gallery online that I've long promised to put together for you. I spent the entire day sorting, resizing, tweaking, and choosing some of the coolest photos and put them online. I present 2,115 photographs of some of the coolest ancient coins you've ever laid ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/03/10/new-gallery-ancient-roman-coins During the months of March and April, I'll have artwork hanging at the Stir Fry Cafe at Turkey Creek, just west of Knoxville, TN. My artwork will be there for two months, so if you're in the area, pop in and take a look. And buy a print or three. ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/02/23/an-upcoming-show Shades of grey New explorations of fractal forms, no color, just white, black, and shades of grey. I use black in the background in most of my work, one reason is to hide things in the darkness. Things that aren't as visually appealing can be hidden in the dark. But this ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/01/30/a-new-gallery-shades-of-grey A fractal video I put together is now playing in a big loop on a plasma screen at the main entrance of an all digital inner city school, Cyber High School in Phoenix, Arizona. Now that's just cool. ;)ShareThis http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/01/28/this-is-cool This video clip is an animated flame fractal, with music I created from random samples of sounds and music. The video is a Flame Fractal, created through ElectricSheep.Org and used here under a creative commons license. The music was sampled, arranged, edited, and mixed entirely with Audacity, an open source ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2007/01/06/flame-fractal-video-high-quality For those visiting me lately, I've been thrashing around with code and hacking together some cool goodies for my site, namely the Wordpress installation, which is what you're reading right now. I've been cutting bits and pieces and learning quite a bit as I'm experimenting, moving things around, enabling widgets and ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2006/10/30/im-tinkering I created a video project a few months ago, and created and mixed a music bed for the video, which is here. As I worked on the music, I created quite a few mixdown versions, which are located here. I always enjoy glimpses of the creative process as people go about ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2006/08/16/music-bed-files-are-available I've put a couple of my video projects up on Google Video, so now you can stream them, now that they're much smaller in file size. You lose a little with the compression and resizing, but running these at twice the regular size doesn't look too bad- try viewing it ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2006/07/13/google-video Originally from 2002: I was invited to showcase some of my artwork in a gallery on the website of Nikola Kitanovic, a well known poet and novelist from Serbia, Yugoslavia. I'm posting this here as a reference, in hopes that one day I might have a clue as to what he's referring ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2006/06/22/guest-showcase Old news, but it's still good news. New digs! If you notice things a tad goofy here, it's not you for once, it's me. I've moved my domain to yet another web host, and I'm fighting to get things working properly, so pardon the dust. Prints are now available! It took longer than ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2006/06/22/old-news Welcome to the new and improved Hilltop Design. Yeah, I know, I know, another incarnation? What can I say, I get restless with website design. This is officially V13. Yes, lucky (?!?) 13. I'm livin' dangerously. I'm streamlining things once again, I'm going to use Wordpress as a content management system. That ... http://www.hilltopdesign.com/wordpress/2006/06/21/welcome-to-hilltop-design