Artwork by Gnubee
There are some really great artists in the WebTV/MSNTV community that take advantage of WebTV-only tags to make some unique artforms. I am not one of them. My artistry is musical.
However, I do get inspired to make something graphic now & then. This is a collection of my personal "web art", some pieces that I'm proud of or still find interesting after some time.
Some were meant to illustrate table lessons from the HTML Cookbook & the html.help.gnubee newsgroup, "etudes" if you will. Some of them were entries in table art challenges. And some are just because, a bit of personal expression.
Most use audioscopes and/or gradcolors, which cannot be seen with a pc unless they have downloaded the WebTV Viewer.
This is where you get to see inside my personal world a little bit.
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Singing In The Rain
- My tribute to Gene Kelly and the musical, an email sig. This is an example of using audioscopes in a table to frame an image.
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Doodad Dancers
- Uses a gradtable "doodad" as a centerpiece.
The song rocks.
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The Gate
- Gradcolors don't work in audioscope tags, but you can layer thin scopes between thin gradcolor cells to get a "gradscope" effect. This is very simple, but shows the effect.
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Variation on a theme
- Another gradcolor doodad
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Pegasus
- From one of my wife's imaging lessons, uses an audioscope in the eye.
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The Duke
- Tribute to Duke Ellington. Select a MIDI file below the picture. This is from one of my wife's audioscope lessons at html.help.gnubee
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Teddy In The Land of Blue Squiggles
- Teddy is off on a great adventure! Who knows what wonders he will find? Will he be in danger? Or will he be in that special place where the most pleasant of dreams come true?
- This piece is an example of using tables to place images on another image. I came across the blue squiggle somewhere a couple of years ago & it just appeals to me for some reason.
- This year (2002) is the Teddy Bear's 100th aniversary. My newsgroup celebrated this event about the time I made this page.
- The song I really want to use with it is Chuck Mangione's "In The Land of Make Believe", but I haven't found an acceptable midi arrangement of it yet. Until I do, Chuck's Bellavia has the same kind of feel.
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Rise
- Originally titled The Mind's Eye, I really like what this MIDI arrangement of Herb Albert's Rise does for this table of zero-gain audioscopes. I like to pull this out on rainy days, turn off the lights & play different songs from my music pages. I may spend up to an hour just staring at it some days. I just like the way the colors dance. I'm easily amused.
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Audioscope Trees (1)
(2)
(3)
- #1 is an audioscope Christmas tree done up in "traditional" audioscope art style.
#2 is done "MrsK" style
#3 - Return of the blue squiggle, kind of my personal logo.
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Sailing with MrsK
- This is an email sig I use from time to time. I used to race sailboats on Lake Minnetonka in the 70's. Sailing makes me feel at one with nature.
- MrsK (aka MsV) is my wife, who makes my life smooth sailing. She happens to be the best internet artist in the WebTV community. She is also the fairest of all maidens. These are entirely objective opinions, mind you.
- I'm a bit of a clutz, so the thought of actually sailing with me terrifies my sweetie, but in cyberspace all things are possible.
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Sailing at Dusk
- Again with the sailing theme, this time as a Boat
table art entry at Table Doc's newsgroup (Table Tooters), a fine group of artists. The moving water effect seems to be a hit. I must repair those sails some day. I'm working on a JavaScript gradtable generator that should do the trick.
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Frosted Glass Butterfly
- This combines transparency with a frosted glass effect that my wife taught in an imaging lesson.
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Butterfly Links
- This is an example of a table that uses interlocking rowspan & colspan cells surrounding the MSNTV butterfly. I use it to link to some of my pages in my email sig.
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8 Brick Powerstation
- This piece was an entry in the "Cozmic Teazer" challenge at the TAG newsgroup, another group of very talented table artists. It uses alternating colspan & rowspan gradcolor cells, basically a basketweave effect.
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Basketweave
- Here's the basketweave effect again, the result of one of my early gradtable experiments. It would make a nice potholder, don't you think? Just the thing for Mother's Day.
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Dawn
- This is my entry for a "Lighthouse" challenge at Table Doc's that required the use of buttons. This is an artform that is strongly promoted by a dear friend, Paulie (the Button King).
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Church At Sunset
- An Autumnal offering for Thanksgiving
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Escape From Apocalype
- This is my first experiment with dhtml, another "Cozmic Teazer". The spaceship is a table comprised of bgcolors and gradcolor table cells with an audioscope engine. Paulie was reminded of Flash Gordon.
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Windchimes: (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
- These were made for a "windchime" challenge hosted by the Table Tooters in July.
#1 uses gradcolor cells to achieve a metal look.
#2 uses gradangles to get a "folded" look at the bottom of the chimes.
#3 uses transparency on gradcolor cells to highlight a wood image.
#4 is a tribute to our great country.
#5 is a little musical humor.
If you are interested in building web pages with WebTV/MSNTV, visit my newsgroup & say "hi".
This page is partly inspired by DogDaddy, who teaches webpage design. He's rather insistent that everyone make a "personal" web page. This is it for now, buddy. Perhaps I'll get around to doing a bio or an "about Gnubee" page someday.
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