The Richter Scale^®

It’s been a busy last couple of months. Far busier than expected, and hence the lack of blog entries.

In addition to all my patent litigation consulting related work, I’ve also been busy working with my lovely and talented wife Linda on:

1) the launch of the Bonaire Creations 2006 Calendar:

2) A new on-line shopping site called Caribbean Art where one can now buy any and all of the art Linda and I produce (and hopefully art from other Caribbean-based artists in the coming months) - see www.CaribbeanArt.com

3) Launching a series of 20 new Bonaire postcards - 10 featuring Linda’s oil paintings, and 10 featuring my digital paintings (also can be seen at www.CaribbeanArt.com.

4) Getting the aforementioned calendar in item #1 above selected by the Tourism Corporation Bonaire as the Official 2006 Bonaire Calendar:

5) Helping with the guest exhibit openings for two sets of artists at our Cinnamon Art Gallery on Bonaire.

All of the above have required a lot of logistics in terms of production, marketing, and sales, never mind the technical issues.

After I got my new Nikon D2x digital SLR a couple of weeks ago I needed to go and put it into play. (It is a very nice camera, and my credit card company is very happy with me for buying it, no doubt.)

The results of my initial experimentation with the Nikon D2x produced four new prints in my digital painting series, shown below:

As Far As You Can See

Karel’s By Night

Towards Heaven

Bajena

The text which descibes these images can be found on my digitally painted art site.

I’ll try and post more direct results from the D2x here in the coming weeks.

I just posted a copy of my most recent TechWatch article, entitled Battling For The Sacred Living Room over on my articles site.

The article discusses the attempt by the big three game console makers - Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo - to justify having next generation consoles be the center piece of the living room, and why they still have a long way to go to make that happen, including still not understanding how to market to the people that really run the home, namely the wives, mothers, and other women co-residing with game-addled males.

My wife’s recently completed paintings both reminded me that I was long overdue on having expanded the collection of art I have produced and sell at the Cinnamon Art Gallery on Bonaire, and at the same time inspired me to create some new works.

So, over the last week I have let my creative juices flow, and created three special images to add to my portfolio, and I plan to complete several more before I go on vacation in July.

The images below start as photographs, and then I bring them into one or more computer programs to “repaint” them individually. For the first image, if you look at the water, it should be apparent it is not a photograph. For the other two, reducing them down to such small images reduces their “paintedness”, so I have included blow ups of the detail in each of them to show what they would look like if you could see them in person at the Gallery:

Descriptions of the above works, including short stories about these works, can be found at my art site.

I’ve just posted two of my articles from the May 23, 2005 issue of Jon Peddie’s TechWatch (where I play the role of Contributing Editor and Senior Analyst) over on my Richter Scale Article Site:

- Next Generation Console Support Strong - Provides an overview of which games publishers were willing to publicly commit to providing for the next generation video game consoles from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

- And Then There Were Ten... - An analysis of why the next generation game consoles and game pubishers might have problems meeting sales targets because of competition from older generation consoles as well as other home entertainment hardware and media.

As a point of reference, I only publish my articles from TechWatch online only after a newer edition of TechWatch has been released - thus, as today the June 6th issue was released to TechWatch subscribers, I’ve posted my articles from the May 23rd issue.