Cyborg Artists — The artists of the future
Growing up I’ve always been the creative type. I was the black sheep in every social setting, but always flourished when I was creating. I’ve always bounced around different mediums from drawing comics to music production. My life changed when I got my first computer. I flocked to the default paint program unconsciously creating pixel art, square by square, creating the characters I saw in my head. As years passed, new software was coming out. The internet was starting to take off. I ended up joining many online forums we’re I eventually came across the all mighty Photoshop, it opened my eyes. I ended up finding tutorials online on how to manually create glow effects on text, basic stuff that you can do with a click of a button these days. This turned into my first computer art exploration. I started creating comics with pixel characters from my favourite video games (Final Fantasy, Sonic etc…). I would hand draw the scenes, find pixel art online and just put everything together with a beginning, middle and end. I’d then waste all our expensive ink cartridges to print out each scene on a piece of paper, stapling them all together into a shoddy, DIY comic book. I made a few dozen of these until curiosity struck again.
Grade 6 started, still actively living my social life online through forums and chats (specifically thepalace.com) I eventually came across this guy who would make the corniest rap music I’ve ever heard. Right away I started attacking him for answers “How do you do that!?”. He led me to the first version of Fruity Loops, now called FL Studio. I “resourcefully” found a copy online, there was no way my parents would put their credit card online back then. I fell in love, literally every day I would make at least one beat. This would progress through grade school and highschool leading me to work with some great artists like the homie Jazz Cartier.
“every one was doing it and I’m not one to follow a crowd”
Fast forward to after highschool, I blew all the money I made making beats and found my self lost with the rest of the original computer producers. It became to accessible, every one was doing it and I’m not one to follow a crowd. I ended up paying someone to build this song writing app for iOS hoping I could make an impact and few dollars to go with it. A few days later I thought to my self “why did I pay someone to create this for me” - this was not my personality. I ended up scouring the internet for tutorials on coding, literally the same process I did for Photoshop and beat making. One year later I got my first full time position as a front end developer modernizing the companies tech stack with Angular (https://angularjs.org/). The company was small but felt old school, not something I pictured my self doing. My anxiety kicked in and after a year and a half I left the company with titles such as Front End Developer, Designer and Consultant. It was my first “real” job, I made some good money that I’m hoping can hold me off till I figure what’s next. I’ve been playing around with three.js (http://threejs.org/) mixed with my current front end skills and thinking about making some net art, a medium I feel may soon have the strongest impact.
Point is there are so many options as a creative these days, that my curiosity keeps pulling me from one medium to another. Leonardo DaVinci painted The Last Supper at the age of 43, I can only hope to make a statement piece with as big as an impact. As a creative I fiend for people to understand my personality through my art. I fiend to live forever through my art.
I started a twitter called 404vanity, I post a lot of cool shit. Follow if you’re interested twitter.com/@404vanity
