Ok so you may have seen the awesomeness that is my new portfolio page already. Perhaps you haven't - in which case I salute you, for the gates of heaven still awaits! Yup this is level A, topnotch, angels dancing on a pin, naked people kind of good awaiting you!
Lets start by saying that none of this would have been made true without the help of Anders Flink who works as tiny-tiny-codemonkey at Dear Friends. Not only did he supply the tiny-tiny-codemonkey-skills that was needed to make my mad ramblings and silly images appear on a screen, he also happily added fun things and sort of riffed of my silly images. Fun.
Co-conspirators are always better than co-workers.
Second! Is this page cluttered? It lacks that sleek-lean-scaled-down-swedish-look you might expect? Did it break the laws of graphical design and turn it into a jumbled mess of colorful images that requires a Higgs boson of fancy-design to tie together? Hell yes.
Let me tell you why that is a "good thing": The Baroque. The Early Roman Baroque to be precise.
What a former teacher once described as "The Baroque was really Rock & Roll" while swiveling his hips suggestively at the class room.
The baroque was, as any wikipedia page can tell you, the architectural movement of taking the strict, retro-hellenistic or Roman, imagery of the Renaissance with its obsessiveness with Vitruvius, and just throwing it all out of the ballpark with a new found love of weird shapes, over worked details and dramatic gestures. Light and shadow, movement and an almost organic formation of theatrical gestures. All there.
It was the precursor of the Rokoko art-movement in kinda the same way the Rolling Stones was a precursor to the Punk era (a statement which is true in more ways than one, since Rokoko kinda was the "upper-class punk" of its day).
Anyway thats where it was headed from the start. "More is more", "Horror Vacuii" and spandex leopard pants.
Hope you like it and prepare for more blogg-entries in the future!
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