Sparks!

So these are some pictures that I took at the

Spark Arts Digital Festival 2008.

These images are a trip.

I have always been fascinated with the human body

probably because I have learned alot due to my

little body not working all that great.

But these specific pictures caught my eye

Look at all those veins and arteries!

No wonder I'm exhausted all the time!!!


This is a cool picture of what the inside of our bones look like.

This is an image of a patient getting tests done for epilepsy.

Which I find particularly interesting.

My dear grandfather, Dr. Thomas, PaPa was a neurologist.

He founded the Epilepsy Foundation.

He spent his life creating equality and awareness for those

struggling with epilepsy.

He brought the first EEG to utah.

As my mother would say, he would sit with EEG reports in one hand

and a baby with a bottle in the other.

A true example to me of dedication to his two loves.

His family, and those who need a voice.

This is the internal bone structure of a dinosaur.
I think this is what my bones look like.
But hey they still keep all 6 foot 2 inches of me up straight.
Go fight win

Just freaking cool

If it werent obviously in a brain shape

one might think it might be some kind of coral

or sea creature.

Way cool

The agenda

So I arrived and spoke to about everyone that worked at that freaking library.

No one knew where this thing was. But I digress. So I finally found it and went into the

dungeon of the Salt Lake Library and saw these beautiful pictures.

To me this is what digital art is all about. But... I would learn later I was wrong.

So I gander and the neat photos and venture inside to the meeting room

hoping to find some modern way cool digital artist.

I was shocked.

All I saw was Dance Dance Revolution

Lots of guys huddled over laptops

patting each other on the back

and alot of talk that I didn't understand.

I hoped that someone would come up and talk to me,

but no as I would soon learn

this cool event had somehow morphed into

nerdfest

better said...

Gamerfest.

I found a lovely chap named Adam and I chatted him up about the digital art.

Well he wanted to talk about the digital art that is video gaming. He talked

to me about these conventions in Europe that is a convention center full of gamers

that are trying to one up each other in creating the best game from

a basic template. Cool idea, but Not what I was expecting.

For anyone that knows me, I do not like video games.

I am morally against them.

I was heart broken to hear this darling boy talk on and on about

ways I could make my own video game.

I don't want to make a video game I want to learn how to be a digital artist.

I think it would be my only chance at being a real artist. Cuz my handwriting and drawing

capabilities are crap. But no he didn't know about digital photography or how

any of the pictures outside were taken. My heart was sad.

I was excited to learn and it's true I was offered to learn

but I felt hoodwinked into attending a gamingfest.

Sad times.

people

sad times.