Dac 

24 creative works found

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  conversations in a room
  by Hop Dac

  oil on canvas / 100×120cm / 2008 this is a commissioned painting, just about finished. i was asked for something red with a cat in it. / it’s a bit dodgy looking because i took the photo on a dinky digital point-and-shoot under crap light conditions and used photoshop to clean it up. the burning and dodging is a bit retarded. the title came from a conversation with a friend who has schizophrenia. we were talking about hearing voices, how they mutter away in the background while you’re going about your life, as though you were hearing a conversation in a room that went wherever you did. i thought that suited this image nicely.

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  Moonscape Sunset
  by redhawk

  US$4.99–US$114.00

  An image of the moon layer/blended behind an Arizona sunset. This is a digital art compilation. All filters are in Photoshop. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008-2009 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.

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  Waterfall Mountain
  by redhawk

  US$4.99–US$114.00

  This is a digital art compilation. The main photo is of my pine cone interior recharacterized in flaming pear sphere warp B filter which gave it the brushed back look and I thought it looked like a mountain so I layer/blended water for a waterfall down the mountain, added water on the bottom of the fall, added a cabin within the mountain with snow, and a fish jumping out of the water. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.

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  Wolf in the Moonlight
  by redhawk

  US$4.99–US$114.00

  In honor of the wolf I have merged two images together for this challenge called In honor of the Wolf in the Spirit of the Native American Group. I used one of my moon shots and layered the wolf image over with overlay and then i cloned the square edges of the wolf pic with the moon and then layered the same moon over again for the final image. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.

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  Cliff Dwellings in DAC
  by redhawk

  US$5.32–US$121.60

  This is a digital art compilation image. I have several images added. First is the main image which is a pine cone interior reshaped using the Flaming Pear sphere warp B filter giving the impression of mountains, second is the cliff dwellings which I used the clone filter to make the cave entrances, third is the waterfall which i added using the layer/blend with multiply, the fires are layer/blended, the ladder is a picture of a telephone pole which I had to use several times to make the ladder and logs for the fires, the wolves are layer/blended, the fish are layer/blended in multiply, the tree, bird in the tree are layer/blended, the deer in the upper right corner is layer/blended, the bird in the high grass reeds is layer/blended, the water from the waterfall is layer/blended and all added items are done in Photoshop 7. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.

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  Treasure Trove Sunset
  by redhawk

  US$4.99–US$114.00

  This is a DAC image. I used a sunset image and recharacterized part of it for water. The crates, bottle and shells were layer/blended into the beach and water. The broken boat in the background is a brush and so are the birds. / All work was done in Photoshop 7 and use of Flaming Pear plugins. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.

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  Shipwreck Island
  by redhawk

  US$4.99–US$114.00

  This is a DAC image. I took a nightscape image and recharacterized the image with a beach and water. The moon was layer/blended into the sky, the crate, drums and burnt plank were layer/blended into the water and beach. The fire on the beach is layer/blended and the half boat was a brush. This was all done in Photoshop 7 and using Flaming Pear plugins for the effects. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.

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  Cabin in the Snow Peaks
  by redhawk

  US$4.99–US$114.00

  This is a DAC image. The mountains are my pine cone seeds recharacterized to look like mountains peaks. The snow coloring is from the Selective Coloring effect filter in Photoshop. The cabin is layer/blended on the mountain top, the logs and fence is a telephone pole I layer/blended to make those items, the birds are brushes, the fish at the lake are layer/blended, the wolf is layer/blended on the side of the mountain, the skiff is a brush and the water at the bottom is another image recharacterized to give the image of flowing water. / All this was done in Photoshop 7 and using Flaming Pear plugins for some of the effects. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.

• The Solar Eclipse
  by Hop Dac

  I’m trying to maintain a certain amount of composure. I’ve made a thin line of my mind, which I creep along slowly, like a tightrope walker.

  A short story from a book called “Croak & Grist”, published by Paroxysm Press.

• New Group
  by gemlenz

  Hi All; / We have a new group called Digital Art Compilations, or DAC. Along with spiritnme !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/users/size:...

  Hi All; / We have a new group called Digital Art Compilations, or DAC. Along with spiritnme (Cynthia) we are your hosts and look forward to having you join. There is a lot of talent out there that we are looking forward to coming out even more. So, the main premise of the group is that when you post your images share techniques/processes of how you did it. Most of you know that I do that with my posts. The intent is to help other artists become familiar with those techniques so they too can better utilize the tools that are available, and have more fun. So, please accept our invitation as we welcome you to the DAC Group. Tell your friends too! Group Guidelines: / 1. Limit of 10 images per member / 2. Limit 2 images per day; per member>>>PLEASE PLAY NICE<<< Basics: / 1. Post art which relates to the description of Digital Art Compilations / 2. Abide by the Group Guidelines and RB Guidelines at all times / 3. Respect hosts and other members / 4. Have fun!!! / 5. No nudity / 6. Clothing and writing is acceptable

• Thank you Digital Art Compilations!
  by RavenSoul

  Thank you DAC For Featuring Always Watched Over...

  Thank you DAC For Featuring Always Watched Over I am truly Honored! Thank you so much!

• Thanks For Featured DAC Group!!!
  by saseoche

  Thanks once again to all host moderators of DAC Group for featuring / my Father and Son artwork…..........................................

  Thanks once again to all host moderators of DAC Group for featuring / my Father and Son artwork…...........................................................sa Thanks A Lot!!!!!

• Heralding All Divine and Dedicated Souls - An Interview With Hop Dac and His More Devious and Delightful Demons
  by Gordon Merrick Justice

  04/10/2009: This needed to be reposted to remind us all of a simpler time. The original was shortly after I joined. Look for Hop’s...

  04/10/2009: This needed to be reposted to remind us all of a simpler time. The original was shortly after I joined. Look for Hop’s, Grant’s, and, for you sappy ones who miss him like I do, David L’s . I recently had the privilege of “interviewing” Hop Dac, to most of us here just Hop, about the ups, downs, and round-abouts of life. Not having known his as well as some of the other RB Administrators I have interviewed so far, I had to do a little background first. None of it, however, could have prepared me for just how thoughtful, deep, and well educated the person I was approaching was. Later, repeatedly while going over his answers I found myself writing down things to go out and discover more about for myself. I hope as you read this interview, all of you will do the same, and remember that in this world, unassuming and unfamiliar often hides the simply unbelievable. / / Hop, though on your profile page here at RB you briefly mentions some things you excel in, you almost make it sound as though you are a receptionist – yogurt and permanent markers indeed! Why when you sent me an e-mail shortly after I arrived here kindly asking I remove my pornography collection from the galleries, I certainly thought as much. I have come to see, read, and overall learn, however, that you are quite the amazing… well, most everything. What, though, is your most driving passion in the artistic, literary life? Construction. It’s the simple enjoyment of putting something together from an initial idea. With painting and writing, that’s all done on my lonesome, but I also have some experience with theatre, film and publishing, and working with a group of people on a project is very satisfying. I’m pretty much the office bitch at RedBubble, though. I’m the dude who answers the phone. Recently (well, I’m always a bit behind… it was the end of last year), you got the honor of reading one of your short stories to an audience of slightly lubricated fans at the Collected Works Bookshop, what was the short titled? How did the entire experience go? I read out a story that I had been writing over the course of seven years called ‘The Solar Eclipse’. It started with one image. There’s a New Zealand musician, electro-folky sound, named Alistair Galbraith who had a song ‘Flickering Birds’ that I liked and the song rattled around my head and knocked something out. The story basically unfurled from those two words. The book launch was great. I’ve always enjoyed reading out loud, as opposed to spoken word performance, which for the most part I find detestable. But there’s something about the human voice wrangling with a well written sentence that gives me a lot of pleasure. Anyone who’s heard the wonderful BBC recording of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milkwood, narrated by Richard Burton, will know what I’m talking about. It was in the middle of the day and we got the crowd to sit at our feet like school children, then Shane and I each read out a story to them and they clapped and bought our book and then later we all got incredibly drunk. Good times. Now, you don’t have, well, let’s just say the “calmest” literary style around… indeed, your book of shorts (co-authored by Shane Christmass) entitled “Croak&Grist” included a cautionary statement. What, no pastures and butterflies? But I thought everyone here at RB was so normal and straight-laced… So, what is it that draws you to that which “may cause a contamination of the mind?” When I first met Shane, it was at a studio in Perth, Western Australia, that I was a co-founder of called 6A Non Institutional Contemporary Art Studios. It was a gallery/studio/performance space. Shane was the writer in residence at 6A. Each month or so, we’d have a performance night and Shane would read these epic, sprawling 20 page poems in the vein of the Beats that I found very impressive. That’s when I began to take writing seriously. This time was probably my most fertile period. Everyone at the studio grew very close, we were all damaged in one way or another, mentally, spiritually, and creativity was the salve that joined our broken parts and mended us. The contamination started then, and the virus has grown ever since. Croak&Grist was in the pipelines for three years. Each of my stories in the book was an exercise in form as much as content, so each one is quite different in the way they’re written. Lately I’ve felt that I’m finally writing in a way that I want to, but without these exercises, I don’t think I’d have gotten here. Who were some of your earlier influences? Or did you have any? I know many a fine artist/writer who delved into no one but themselves to find their artistic way (despite what my mother would love to tell us all)… I thinking delving only into yourself is limiting. You can’t think what you don’t know, I like to say, and ideas come from the orgiastic union of two accepted things that overlap to create something entirely different. So the more aware you are, the more you want to learn, the more likely you are to stumble upon an idea. You need to have an interest in the world, not only in art, to be an artist. My early writing influences were the beat poets, Baudilaire and Rimbaud, Jean Genet, Jorge Luis Borges, John Steinbeck, William Blake, the Chinese poet Li Po, and the great Indian mystical poet Rabindranath Tagore. I started off writing poetry before prose. Artistically, I started with the impressionists. My high school art teacher was mad for them. Then I got into German Expressionism: Kathe Kollwitz, mostly, and then the Symbolists, Redon and Moreau took over, and from them the Surrealists. There’s a new wave of German painting that I’m getting into at the moment, extolled by the painter from Liepzig, Neo Rauch. You also do some painting, and some darn good painting too (if I may express a bit of my own personal taste here). Does your visual art come from that brilliant literary talent inside you, or from some other place entirely? Both forms diverge from the same creative source and I don’t favour one over the other as they are like two dialects of the same language. David Lynch talks about ‘Diving within’ when he meditates and the world of ideas is opened to him, and in this way, I think it’s important in creative work to find a way to get to this world of ideas that you can rely upon. Meditation is good for this, guys like David Lynch and Leonard Cohen have been practicing transcendental meditation for decades. Some people use drugs, but this is a hapless exercise that squeezes the creativity out of you until you’re spent and mad. Instead, you want to find a way that will ‘open up the valves’, as William Burroughs says. Others will exercise, or perform their own little rituals that get them into the headspace. For me the world of ideas is omnipresent, I just have to tune into it by forgetting about myself. It’s a watchfulness that allows me to see the world outside and in as one movement that has the potential for anything. Ideas emerge from that and I just write them down when I get them. It’s a method that has no room for cynicism. The writing dominated a bit for a while as I had stopped painting for a couple of years to concentrate on it. I was spreading myself too thinly to be getting anywhere with either disciplines, as I was also working full time, so I opted to write, even though painting was my first love. Now the writing is rolling along, I can get back to the paint. You were not one of the originals to RB, coming on later to supplement a short-handed staff (isn’t it always). What drew you to the open position? I was already a member before I was a staff person, but hadn’t been active on RedBubble at all. What drew me to RedBubble was that it was a creative space. After kicking shit in office jobs for too long, the idea of being surrounded by creative activity was very appealing. Then, when I had the interviews with some of the staff, I finally caught the excitement and saw a great deal of potential in what RedBubble was doing, and thankfully, still see that potential. It’s growing exponentially by the day, it seems. AND you edit? Anything of note, or do you simply work for one of those online “We’ll write your research-paper for you!” Sites? After all, for most writers, editing is not their favorite part of the process, somewhat akin to the disposing-of-raw-matter-after-intense-liposuction” part for surgical cosmologists… What drew you to the technical/mechanics side of the literary process? English is my second language, although it’s superseded the mother tongue (Vietnamese). All my life, without realizing it, I had tense problems with my writing, stemming from the differences between the languages. I studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT and although it was dry and incredibly difficult, what I enjoyed most was the class in punctuation and grammar. That straightened me out pretty good. I got hooked on the structure of language. Since then I’ve edited a music magazine for a community radio station (3PBS), some stuff on the net (Gangway), helped edit a couple of anthologies and started up a small press with my special lady friend that we called Sunday Drivers Press. We launched a book last year that did quite well. Last month, the publisher of Croak&Grist, Paroxysm Press, asked me to join their editorial board and we’ll be putting out the 10 year anniversary anthology later this year. And fortunately, I get to use some of these skills at RedBubble too. I’m a believer in knowing the rules before you break them. All great, successful writers will know their punctuation and grammar. Even those flakes who did the automatic writing, like Kerouac, they knew the structure, and then they used it to purge their consciousnesses for musical serendipity. Who (or what) are you when you are not a writer/artist? Is your life outside the viewfinder and ink like the life through them, or are they split worlds entirely? Everything in my life comes from the creative source I mentioned before. It describes everything. My relationships, my life choices, the activities I do. A creative life is a life lived deliberately, that at no time identifies with anything, and at all times is aware that the moment moves inexorably regardless of whether you’re in it or are still waiting at the station. I’m pretty wary of people who say, ‘I am this, or I am that’, because as soon as they do, they’ve just told me that the part of them that likes to inquire and learn has gone into hibernation. If you could be any classical figure in literature, model in a visual work, or artist behind a camera, who would you choose to be and why? I would be Albrecht Durer while he was painting that great watercolour of the rabbit. In that moment, in the 16th century, dealing with unwashed Germans who styled their hair with rancid pig fat, or the teenage Arthur Rimbaud, writing Une Saison en Enfer (A Season In Hell), in a farmhouse, smoking opium and recovering from the shotgun wound inflicted upon me by my lover Verlaine. The bastard. Ok, how about some personality test questions. Give me short answers to the following: Glass half full, or half empty? / Neither (I’d rather watch the meniscus bulge before it bursts) Friends close and enemies closer? / I don’t really have enemies, but there are a couple of people I would cross to the other side of the room if I saw them walk into the pub (sorry, these aren’t one word answers). Right handed or left? / Right, although I can throw with both and am working on kicking with both feet. Pen and ink or word processor? / Bit of both. I touch-type, so it’s easy enough sitting in front of a computer, but I carry a notebook around too, and a few stories, poems or paintings have been started sitting on public transport. Finally, (and as tired as I grow of asking this, the answer never fails to make me hungry), if you could have a meal of any three things, food or drink, what would the three things be?* It would be some kind of seafood feast. I would have a large table covered in white linen, on the shore where the water meets the land, a platter of crabs, a platter of prawns and some crayfish. I’d have a bowl of lemon juice, salt and pepper to dip it all into. I would eat it standing up and I would throw the shells back into the ocean. And if permitted, I’d have a sixer of Peroni beers in an esky under the table.

• interview
  by Hop Dac

  hola i can’t sleep, so i’m on redbubble. that’ll learn me for drinking coca cola after midnight. if you find yourself in a similar pre…

  hola i can’t sleep, so i’m on redbubble. that’ll learn me for drinking coca cola after midnight. if you find yourself in a similar predicament, you can read G-Man Merrick Justice’s interview with me. peace out

• "Bodybag" excerpt playing at Short+Sweet 2008, Melbourne
  by Hop Dac

  For those who don’t know, I’ve started writing with a new theatre c…

  For those who don’t know, I’ve started writing with a new theatre company called ITCH Productions. From Wed 10th to Sat 13th December 8pm at the Fairfax Theatre, you will have a first opportunity to see a short excerpt from our new work ‘Bodybag’. Our piece is on the second week with the other Independent Theatre Ensembles, but I recommend checking out the plays from the other two weeks as well as there’s always something for everyone. Directed by Alice Bishop and featuring Des Fleming and Olivia Connelly. Tickets and Short+Sweet Details / Itch Productions “Bodybag” will premiere at the Mechanics Institute, Brunswick on Thursday May 28th 2009. “A story about ‘addiction and the cult of celebrity’ our central character wakes up after a car accident believing he’s a famous movie star. As the lines between his actual reality and his desired reality begin to blur, he peoples his life with film stars, mistaking his friends and family for cinema icons. His story becomes a cinematic landscape, tragically echoing the story of numerous celebrities who have gone before.”

• Digital art Compilation
  by SylviaHardy

  I have just joined this group DAC for short and was asked to spread the word a…

  I have just joined this group DAC for short and was asked to spread the word about this group to my friends? / So here we are, anyone who enjoyes using more then one image to put together check out the group link! Best regards, Sylvia

• Thank you Redbubble and Hop Dac
  by sword

  I would just like to say a big thank you to Redbubbles Hop Dac for being so helpful and patient with an old duffer like me ,when i could …

  I would just like to say a big thank you to Redbubbles Hop Dac for being so helpful and patient with an old duffer like me ,when i could not see any images on RB over the past few days.Every thing seems to be ok now.This techno stuff was doing my head in.

• "Croak & Grist" - Book of Short Stories
  by Hop Dac

  Published by Paroxysm Press...

  Published by Paroxysm Press, Croak&Grist, a collection of short stories, is out in bookstores in Melbourne & Adelaide. / Melbourne: Dymocks Bookstore (city store) Collected Works Bookshop (city) Polyester Books St. Fitzroy) – online sales and Readings (Lygon St. Carlton). / Adelaide: Dymocks Bookstore Big Star Record Store Mary Martin Imprints ’’Read with caution. Croak & Grist is a psychotic collection of work from two thoroughbreds of the Paroxysm Press stable. The stories are host to paranoia, schizophrenia, illusion, delusion, mysticism, love and redemption, themes that are excruciatingly extracted, and transmitted in such an unflinching manner that they may cause a contamination of the mind.’‘

• Theatre: Joe Orton's *The Ruffian on the Stair* The Dog Theatre, Footscray
  by Hop Dac

  Joe Orton’s The Ruffian on the Stair is being put on at the new The Dog Theatre in Footscray. / Directed…

  Joe Orton’s The Ruffian on the Stair is being put on at the new The Dog Theatre in Footscray. / Directed by Alice Bishop, who directed my play Pawn Shop for Short & Sweet a couple of years ago (and who I write with for ITCH Productions) and featuring Matthew Molony, who was also in Pawn Shop. I think this is the first time this Orton piece has been produced in Australia and it was chosen specifically for this theatre. Deets: / When – Nov 19 to 30. / Where: The Dog Theatre / 42a Albert Street, Footscray VIC / PH: 0413 998 057 “Mike and Joyce are a poor London couple living together in a small bedsit apartment. She is a former prostitute; he an ex-boxer turned hitman. Their miserable existence takes a turn for the worse when a menacing young man named Wilson (Molony), arrives on their doorstep, looking for a room and revenge. Alice Bishop directs the play, originally written for radio, which presented audiences of the day with a confronting mix of murder, incest and homosexuality.”

• National Young Writers Festival, Newcastle Australia
  by Hop Dac

  if anyone is in Newcastle for NYWF, I’ll be doing a reading on Friday as part of the Reading Serie…

  if anyone is in Newcastle for NYWF, I’ll be doing a reading on Friday as part of the Reading Series: Short Fiction event. When: Friday 3rd October, 12:00:00 – 13:30:00 | Where: Mulubinba Room (1st floor) | Event type: Reading | Categories: Short Fiction Paroxysm Press will also be launching its latest book 10 Years of Things that Didn’t Kill Us Saturday 4th October, 6:00pm-7:30pm, Festival Club for those who aren’t aware of NYWF or the This is Not Art festival, it’s well worth checking out to see and meet young Australian writers and independent publishers who are passionate and obsessed about wordsmithery. the train ride from Sydney to Newcastle is fantastic, weaving through the Hunter Valley region. bring your cucumber sandwiches!

• Another Feature in "Wolves in Art" group. "Cabin in the Snow Peaks"
  by redhawk

  Thank you Wolves in Art hosts and artists for making Cabin in the Snow Peaks a featured work in this fantastic group. I am howling for jo…

  Thank you Wolves in Art hosts and artists for making Cabin in the Snow Peaks a featured work in this fantastic group. I am howling for joy. Winona aka redhawk

• Thank u DAC for featuring my collage
  by bev langby

  Wow my collage The Dance of Love has been featured at Digital Art Compilations and i am so thrilled, so thank u so much , doing the happ…

• Featured in Digital Art Compilations group "Treasure Trove Sunset"
  by redhawk

  Thank you Gemlenz and Spiritinme for making this image “Treasure Trove Sunset” a featured image in the DAC group. Thank you to all the Ar…

  Thank you Gemlenz and Spiritinme for making this image “Treasure Trove Sunset” a featured image in the DAC group. Thank you to all the Artists who viewed my image and commented. Appreciate RB’ers for all their friendships. Winona aka redhawk

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  Well. Not quite.
  by MrJoop

  Explanation here! / . / Present location of the D.A.C.C. archives, 85 Market Street, Smithfield, through the Dutch Shop, restaurant and furniture section: / / . / This location was gratefully accepted, when the D.A.C.C. had to leave its building. / . / / . / The building is in a light industrial area and, of course, not designed to function as a museum. / . / The way things were....... / / ...when the archives were still in their building. / . / The Abel Tasman Retirement Village was established through the support of the Dutch ‘community’ obviously, to ensure that there is an opportunity for Dutch-born immigrants and others to live in safety and comfort in the ‘declinging years’. / . / / After looking after my father (as well as my mother, who passed away 2004) for quite a few years, I was very pleased to find that he could be accommodated in the Abel Tasman Retirement Village. / . / / On my own, as a retired primary school teacher, with no medical training, it is so pleasing that I know my father (92) is in good care at “A.T.V.”. / . / It’s a shame that the D.A.C.C. had to leave the premises. As I understood the situation, the D.A.C.C. building was intended to serve the ATV residents and the rest of Sydney (NSW)’s Dutch-Australian Community, particularly the subsequent generations. / . / The current location of the D.A.C.C. has advantages. / It’s where Dutch-born people go to visit the Dutch shop and to gather in the restaurant. It has disadvantages. It’s not a museum. / . / Hopefully a solution can be found.