Grief and Graphics

My graphics tablet died today. I bought it when Barack Obama was still an obscure state senator. Because it was on sale, because I needed a more natural way to work on screen, because using a mouse just didn't cut it.

You can draw with a mouse. With enough determination and practice, you can do contour drawing with a brick but pencils, Pens and brushes are more natural. Easier. Faster to work with.



Add pressure sensitivity, angle and velocity and work becomes play, becomes mind to spirit to hand. Image is a road with no potholes and you drive in sync with the lights, cruising.

A few months back the tablet started losing connection in the middle of a work. I'd jiggle the USB connector, the blue light would come back on and I began to grieve a future loss. more and more often the map of tablet to screen and the function of opacity to pressure, velocity to width was lost. Like watching a companion with a chronic progressive illness. 

Today, I tried to shake my companion awake but the poor thing wasn't breathing

Alfred C. Ingram
Conceptual Design & Imaging

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Watch out for this Netflix “tech support” scam

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A security researcher has found a new twist on the traditional security hoodwink.

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Obama’s Trauma Team

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Last Oct. 17–more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov–White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned at the headquarters of the…

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You're virtual money or you're virtual life?

Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World - NYTimes.com:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/business/apparent-theft-at-mt-gox-shakes-bitcoin-world.html?nl=technology&emc=edit_tu_20140225

We're forever blowing up bubbles. Pretty bubbles in our heads.

Just maybe, private currencies don't cut it!

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Florida County Eliminates Minority-Heavy Polling Places

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On a party-line vote, a Florida county’s Republican majority Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to eliminate almost one-third of the county’s voting sites.

Alfred C. Ingram‘s insight:

But they’re not racist, can’t be, they’ll tell you that racism is just a card their opponents play.

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