Before I got into Science and Technology, I was into art. I've always loved political cartoons. When I believe in something I usually make a point of standing up for it. These factors combined and here you have the results.
I'm officially releasing these because too many of my early unfinished works have gotten around and the authorship has apparently been in question. I would like to see my work used in demos (or whatever). Such permission is granted so long as I am credited. Demos like Duds, Macintrash and others have been nice but the artwork hasn't been great. So hear you go. Make us proud.
Also look for my UserGroupLogoArt collection and FishDrawings (Includes PETA logo, Mets logo, Halloween motifs, etc.).
Wanted: Nubile Vegetarian female who enjoys harassing people wearing fur coats.
Correspondence, Money, Work, Health-Care, Soy-Milk, naughty photos of your ex, to:
Pat Fish
948 Stark St.
Utica NY 13502-4123 USA
315-733-4064
* AppleJax.pic *
The now-classic "No Apples" logo based on my 1984 C=64 Doodle pic. Requires only 8 colors! Icon potential? Perhaps my earliest attempt at converting the great unwashed masses. Actually it was my entry in the INFO magazine art contest. It didn't even get mentioned, which is strange considering the entries that won.
* CPUGraveYard.Hpic *
640x400 beautiful cemetery scene depicting ghosties and tombstones inscribed with the names and logos of the unclean, heathenous non-Amiga computer systems :-). This could have been reality if Commodore's advertising was a little better, and the average person was a little bit more intelligent about buying computers. Digitized and painstakingly enhanced on a pixel by pixel basis. Special thanks to Brian Barnard for use of Digi-View and my ex-fiance for her patience (who has turned out to in fact be a really mean, nasty, evil person). Done in early Fall of 1990, but has been consistently re-worked since then.
* IBM-OS2joke *
Probably my best work to date. 640x400 painstakingly drawn images of the IBM PS/2 Model 30 and Model 80. Takes a swipe at the underpowered models and overdue OS. Earlier pics have gotten out unfortunately, but the final image is much better. I suggest zooming in and contemplating the incredible hand-anti-aliasing. Inspired by Jim Sachs' style (though I think this picture improves on his method). There was NO digitization involved AT ALL! There's no hardware around that could match this incredible attention to detail. This was another entry to the INFO contest, and it didn't get mentioned. Publishers from Iowa have a strange sense of aesthetics. Look at the detail: the lighting of the upraised 1 and 0 near the on/off switches, the different colored disks in both drives, etc....
* JustSayNo2 *
One of my earlier attempts at evangelizing via color cycling. Shows the Amiga logo (which incidentally was drawn on a C64 in 1985) with the rainbow checkmark, with two spinning Boing! balls on both sides. On the bottom half of the pic, we have the Atari, Apple and IBM logo with the Nancy Reaganesque "Just Say No" slogan. 32 colors and fully exploits color cycled animation. Also an INFO entry. Did I mention that Iowa has no optometrists?
* Macintosh.pic *
Not originally drawn by me. I got the original in GIF format from either an FTP site or some service. 16 color and I think it was drawn on an Atari ST. I improved it, and the final results are in the two below pics. This is not the very original picture but was an early one, with the fewest modifications that I could find.
* MacPlus.br *
The original didn't look at all right to me so I continued to work on it. This requires 16 colors or less. I could probably get this down to 8 colors if need-be.
* MacPlusCheckMark32 *
I can't remember why I added a colorful rainbow Amiga Checkmark on this final version. Maybe I'd heard rumors of the upcoming Amax emulator and felt inspired. Or maybe I didn't have a date that night. In any event this is good Euro-Demo art material, considering how pitiful the artwork is in the "Macintrash" Euro-demo.
* NoMacs *
A monochrome digitized "No Macs" type of pic. I added the MAC moniker. I got this in GIF format and I think it was done on a C64 or Mac.
* IntelOutside.brBW *
A wickedly funny pic that I wish I could take credit for. I don't even know who created it but my hat is off to them! What makes this even _more_ funny is knowing that all those 486/Pentium "Intel Inside" commercials are created using WOODEN LARGE-SCALE MODELS, not computer 3D raytraced animation. They do use SGI workstations for compositing some screens into the finished commercial ("talking head" in a MS-Window for teleconferencing or the screens flying by those geese) but even those came from "real" video sources, NOT Video for Windows on an Intel based IBM compatible as the commercial implied! This was revealed on either TLC or TDC, on a program like NextStep or FX Masters or Beyond 2000...I forget. Maybe somebody ought to show them SeaQuest DSV or Babylon 5, and then talk to them about doing their next commercial using Amigas and Toaster cards. Snicker. BTW, you can print this out (laser printer) and affix it with a gluestick to your Amiga or any other suitable target.
