highly sensitive power

In my constant quest for creativity with a wow-factor, I followed a Flickr photo search to the discovery of Kevin, a man of inspiring creativity, humility, and generosity.

Among other things, Kevin created a couple of digital art freeware programs – VEXER (left picture) and Agony (right picture). I’ve played around some with VEXER, which I downloaded for free from Kevin’s website, and am boggled by the creative options.

The gallery on Kevin’s website offers browsable albums of art from various programs and in different styles. You can also access other people’s art created using Vexer or Agony, through their Flickr Groups: VEXER – by Flikr and Agony – by Flikr. For a tantalizing example, see realeoni’s Abstract 52: The look of a flower.

The Agony program appears to have an animating option, as shown in Kevin’s flikr2542 creation.

There’s humour throughout Kevin’s offerings, and it’s a humour that suits me. For instance, if you click the Help menu in VEXER, the only option is “About VEXER,” which provides this short message:

“VEXER is a farily stupid drawing program. You are using it right now. You can contact its author by emailing: caulky@gmail.com. There is no more about VEXER.”

Call me perverse, but that makes me laugh.

Luckily, there’s an appealingly fascinating self-profile of Kevin on a Flickr discussion group (scroll down a little to the start of the long comment by “flikr” – that’s the name Kevin’s uses on Flickr).

Thanks to Kevin, doodling now touches divinity.

Flickr photo: flikr1608 and flikr1189, by flikr.

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