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Terry McCully
{K:9221} 1/30/2004
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YUMMMM... GRANNY SMITH.... YUMMMM
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luisa vassallo
{K:28230} 12/14/2003
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great idea!!
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Yutaka Itinose
{K:22586} 11/16/2003
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Wow! Science is science, and photoart is photoart! What a great expand of mind!
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B:)liana
{K:30945} 11/14/2003
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Ohhhhhhhhhhh JimDali, what have you done. oh.. instead take 2 apples and eat them, for your strenght. YOu have a long way to go my dear Friend.
This is extraordinary.
SEnding you all cosmic darkblue kisses,
Biliana
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michelle k.
{K:16270} 11/13/2003
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so like, when u got a book deal? i wanna book! this rocks jim. i want this on my wall!
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Maja Gligoric
{K:13528} 11/12/2003
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Excellent work!Great idea and very well executed.
Best regards
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Harlan Heald
{K:15732} 11/11/2003
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So much for the Garden of Eden! Excellent composition/construction! First rate design work!!!
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Dave M
{K:9043} 11/11/2003
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Jim, I have SO much catching up to do on your portfolio. So happy to see you are moving beyond the greyscale-toned-blue imagery, which was amazing -- but also glad to see you dabbling with pure elements of color. This is a terrific example. Wonderful work.
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G C
{K:12204} 11/10/2003
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I'm absolutely breathless over this one!!!
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Laurie J. Herndon
{K:5338} 11/10/2003
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Jim:
You're work is not only visually stimulating, but (as you said) reading the threads has become an obsession for most of us. Love everyones perspective of the philosophy of Newton' Apple on this piece, and your interesting interpretation. Guess we (all of your followers) have created our own little universe, living vicariously through your brilliant manipulations of photo and graphics. Bravo. You and Stephen King should collaborate on something. Wouldn't that be a twisted bit of heaven. Bella
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lisa .
{K:9370} 11/10/2003
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hm, pictures like this give me a headache........too much to think about and just wierd, not many people qualify as wierd to me, but apples defying the very thing they helped discover is all too much for a girlie like me..............are the trees a photo, or did u make them?..........very visual and bold colours..........im off to see the newtons muse one.and i feel my head throbbing already. :-)
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 11/10/2003
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Hi Stefan:
As usual, you make some excellent points. The "sparseness" was entirely intentional. The "solar" apples are headed for a complex composite where they will be just one small element among many, so I wanted to give them their day in the sun.
As for different angles, the idea never occured to me. But it's a good one. If my daughter hasn't eaten the apple, I think I might just reshoot while I have the strobes still in position. The "mechanical" feeling is also intention, but you're right. It's TOO mechanical. Actually, a couple of different types of apples might be best of all. Plus, if I can find a Washingon Delicious (not likely, but I'll try) I can make Craig happy. Thanks --jim
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Stefan Engström
{K:24473} 11/10/2003
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Very sparse, maybe too much so. Probably a choice on your part, but getting to view the apples from different angles would have softened the mechanical feel to the image, but then again, maybe that is what you are trying to create :-) Those are interesting clouds!
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^j^ .
{K:8554} 11/10/2003
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Wondering what I'm cooking for tea ?!
Well... Nothing really because it's a bit too early for me but...........
Revolutionary still !!!
:)
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 11/10/2003
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Hi Craig & Ursula:
There were many reasons for Granny Smith:
"Green is the color of spring
And green can be cool and friendly
And green can be big like an ocean
Or important like a mountain or tall like a tree.."
-- from "Bein' Green" on Van Morrison's "Hardnose the Highway."
Magritte used Granny Smith greens in many of paintings. And then, too, Granny Smith was what was what I found in the kitchen.--jim
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peta jones
{K:12615} 11/10/2003
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A crisply fleshed, firm and pleasantly tart work!
Maria Ann Smith
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ventrix drogo
{K:65398} 11/10/2003
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Very original composition and elaboration. compliments. Bye
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Mari Mar
{K:11469} 11/9/2003
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Genial! excellent work, Jim!
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Gregory Fiedler
{K:15439} 11/9/2003
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Jim, Beautiful photoart! Great colors. Deffinatly a step up from Taylor. A great upgrade. So are you going to slide in to Einstien and relativity? As always, very creative thought out and put together!
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Ursula I Abresch
{K:6515} 11/9/2003
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Very quick observation (I'm in a BIG hurry). Newton's apple is a Granny Smith? Just curious, any reason for that?
Ursula
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 11/9/2003
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Hi Jim,
Now don't get me on to apples!
I'm sure you don't want another sermon!
So I'll try and restrict myself to the image?
Which is, of course, intriguing and extremely well put together.
Is there no end to your creative juices?!
What lies at the core of your brain?
I'm gettin under your skin yet?
Giving you the pip, as we say in Blighty!
Sorry, but it is 11.42pm and it's been a busy day!
Two music practices, three services and numerous conversations!
So I'll bid you good night and look forward to the next McNitt masterpiece.
Have a good week.
Best regards,
Chris
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 11/9/2003
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JIm... it was only a matter of "time";>)
I think you've made the right choice in using green apples, but I was wondering what it would look like with a nice red Washington Delicious. This looks like it belongs on the cover of a science textbook-- hope you're not offended by that idea. You really do have outstanding vision, capabilitiy, and talent. Nice work. Craig
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Rhonda Prince
{K:17687} 11/9/2003
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"How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint? Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint."
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
I knew the apple would show up soon! Beautiful photoart and I love the concepts behind it. They are fascinating to read!
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Kliton Ceku
{K:461} 11/9/2003
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i thought we're talking photography here not computer graphics. well... cool graphics work.
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Kristina Kohut
{K:49990} 11/9/2003
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Aaaah... you did it again, Jim! Absolutely.... SUPERB!!
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cecilia tovini
{K:29423} 11/9/2003
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Another surprising work. Hi Cecilia
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Carolyn Wiesbrock
{K:14051} 11/9/2003
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Wow, what an idea!
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Naty Z
{K:16436} 11/9/2003
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well, i can't talk about Newton and deep things, but i can tell you thanks for these works, they're an escape from reality to me.
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 11/9/2003
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Hi David:
I think you're giving more credit than is due regarding numeric symbolism here. Alas, I used the three apple trees and the three-plus-one "solar" apples because those were the combinationations that provided the best visual balance. Although, reflecting on your comment, the three-plus one configuration does rather neatly symbolize the three laws of motion, plus gravitational attraction.
--jim
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Tiro Leander
{K:19060} 11/9/2003
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I can only smile when i see this - it makes me happy. Good work.!
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Armando Jorge
{K:7937} 11/9/2003
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Great composition !!!
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sandy c. hopkins
{K:17107} 11/9/2003
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fantastic idea jim..
i mean on all levels..
newtons theory..
now that is what i call some deeply rooted thinking of a piece..
i am sure he would be honored..
you have yet again made me think ..
wonderful!!
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Ragnhildur Ragnars
{K:1573} 11/9/2003
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Great surrealistic work. Really enjoy your images.
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Aykan OZENER
{K:5996} 11/9/2003
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Hey Jim you are super.Very good idea.
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Alberto Agnoletti
{K:12811} 11/9/2003
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Another fantastic work!!!!
Best regards, Alberto
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Mário Sousa
{K:16985} 11/9/2003
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fantastic
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David R. Fink
{K:1792} 11/9/2003
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Hi Jim,
Well.....this is almost a case of over-stimulation! So much to think about. You ARE an interesting chap, aren't you?
What strikes me most powerfully is your use of the symbolism of 12....the four and the three. Four elements, three modalities. Newton's thought was grounded in the mechanisms of creation.....how it all functions together. And 12 is the number that is best associated with that. Fire, earth, air, water, expressing as cardinal, fixed, and mutable forms.
(I wish you had chosen gear rings divided into 12 segments between the notches, rather than the 10 that I think I see....But maybe that would be pushing the 12 idea a bit heavy-handedly.)
I can't wait to see where you're going with all of this. So intriguing to see the philosophical, scientific, and mystical expressed VISUALLY so well.
Oh....I almost forgot! Strictly on its merits as photoart, this image is pretty darned good, too. :-)
Best wishes,
David
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Adrian Nitu
{K:238} 11/9/2003
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Excellent!
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Hugo Pierre
{K:15692} 11/9/2003
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Very well done, you've created an extraordinary abstract image. Congrats!
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 11/9/2003
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Hello Friends:
I?ve been enjoying the dialog on the threads almost as much as creating the composite images. Some of the comments on the last image, ?Newton?s Muse,? so well describe where I'm heading with the Newton Series that it?s almost eerie -- especially since I haven?t even gotten there yet.
** "The evidence is Newton most likely was a kind of Deist, believing in a "watchmaker" God who started the universe but did not otherwise "interfere," i.e. did not give us special revelations, create miracles and the like." --Peta J
** The atheist pooh-poohed the very idea of such a complex model coming together purely by chance, to which Newton said something like, 'But that's what you believe about the real thing.'!!-- Chris S--
** The manner in which we perceive our environment (including the celestial canopy above us) is intrinsically connected to how we function psychologically.-- David F. (on ?Scorpio Rising?)
** Yes, Newton opened a great many doors for us. I like his cookies too! --Gregory F
Although the perspectives are somewhat different, these comments all go to the heart of Newton?s discoveries. Behind his laws of motion and gravity was a profoundly new idea. Namely, that the universe is governed by natural laws and not divine intervention -- which after a 1,500 year hiatus, re-introduced Western Civilization to the concept that humanity is in control of its own destiny. That?s what I had in mind when I started all this.
Stefan, I hadn?t thought about the spectrum, but you?re right. Now, if I can only find a prism.
Ursula, your specific suggestions about the Muse are deeply appreciated. What I posted is basically a rough sketch done mainly to see if the premise could be made to work. Your comments will be a big help in fine-tuning the Muse?s clockwork armor.
Rhonda, you inquired about Newton?s Apple. Here it is?
Thanks everyone. Your generous comments are what keeps my imagination in motion. --jim
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