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About Me Premium Member Old Fart Cluke11151/Male/United Kingdom Recent Activity Deviant for 5 Months
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A small celebration

Tue Nov 24, 2009, 2:52 PM
Well there's a turn up for the books - over 1000 page views and more than 2000 views on my piccies and fractals! Now I know that may not seem a lot to some of you hitting your 10 or 20 or 30 thousand page views or for some in the stratospheric hundreds of thousands or even millions!!! But the fact that people even bother to pop by to have a butchers at my stuff is still a continuing source of amazement to me.

In a past life I'd be lucky if just a tiny fraction of that many would get to see my work in local exhibitions and galleries and I'd also have to go to considerably more expense and effort to get my stuff "out there". The power of the internet eh? Mind you, it's probably put paid to a lot of local exhibition spaces.

So just big hugs(yeck? too personal?)and big thankyou's to all that have called around -you've made a middle-aged fart very happy.

Cluke

  • Mood: Amazed
  • Listening to: My tachycardia - wow what a beat!
  • Reading: The Mammouth Book of Best NEW SF 22 - still!
  • Watching: My bank balance plummet - nearly Xmas!
  • Playing: The Killers - that just killed their cred
  • Eating: Healthy stuff - still
  • Drinking: Healthy stuff - still

deviantID

Hi... Well....What to say...

I suppose the simple truth will do.

I hit the big five'o last year and I've been doing art and/or photography from a very early age - in fact I got so serious with my photography that in the late eighties I had my own studios and worked as a freelance advertising and promotional photographer but the recession of the early nineties nipped that one in the bud.

A change of direction in my life led to my camera's being hung up for some 15 years and it was only about 2 years ago that I started to play with a cheap digital pocket camera.. and well... WOW!, what a difference a decade or two makes! Anyone starting photography now with a digital camera can have absolutely no idea how archaic the mechanical and chemical processes are (yes they are!) and what a liberalising transformation to the visual arts has been brought about by the digital age.

For my part I always had a hankering and fascination for fractals but early software and veeerrry sssssllllooooowwww computers (about 16 years past!!) put me right off any further attempts. Not any more though! My introduction to this and other similar sites only eight or nine months ago showed me that these are easily within my grasp and what you now see in my gallery is nearly 20 years of pent up creative frustration.

Now here's the rub. having rediscovered my art and photography and having the tools to go do anything beyond what was possible 2 decades ago I got hit with a life threatening condition in June this year that required some minor surgery on the old ticker, a lifetime of drugs and a complete lifestyle change.

So far so good but the upshot is that even though I may well be around for another half century I'm acutely aware that the end may happen in the next ten minutes and that puts a unique perspective and urgency on a lot of things including, if not especially, my art.

So my philosophy these days is simple and a few well worn phrases can sum it up;

Life's too short

There's no time like the present

Just do it!

Keep it simple!

Get rid of the baggage cos' you can't take it with you.

And that's all there is really because we have no idea how fleeting our lives really are until we have that little dance with the grim reaper

Anyway on a happy note Helmut Newton is reputed to have done all of his best work after his first heart attack so here's to a bright and productive future - for all.

regards

Cluke

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Warrington UK
  • Interests: Lots
  • Favourite movie: 2001
  • Favourite band or musician: 2 many 2 mention
  • Favourite genre of music: Dance
  • Favourite artist: Bridget Riley
  • Favourite photographer: Jan Saudek
  • Favourite style of art: Abstract
  • Operating System: Windows XP

Comments


:icongrim-jester:
Thanks for the fav :)

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Fire walk with me
:iconmoremdm:
Thanks so much, Cluke, for the faves!!
:iconeresaw:
thanks for the many favs :sun::sun:

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it´s me
:iconsunowl:
Thanks for faving. :thumbsup:
:iconkram666:
:weed::weed::peace::weed::weed::peace::weed::weed:
:-)
thx for the fav

"Turn on, tune in, drop out."~Timothy Leary

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mark
:iconlilac-bush:
Thanks for the favorite :)

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I miss being a kid. You could cry for no reason only because you felt like it. <3
:iconlilac-bush:
Hey, did you save it? >:(

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I miss being a kid. You could cry for no reason only because you felt like it. <3
:icon2born02b:
Cluke, thanks for adding 'Ode to the Tire Iron' to your faves. Take care!!

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Mark :flagcanada:

Carpe Surrealus! (Seize the fish!)

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