Computing

Computing

I have a background in the arts. I am a writer,  a musician and a digital artist.

Digital art for me covers more or less everything; graphics, digital painting, photo manipulation, video editing and compositing, animation and motion graphics.

I have also worked in the theatre and on the road with touring shows and musicians. I have run light shows, lighting rigs and designed and made special FX. I love live performance but the physical aspect of touring is quite demanding and not conducive to a comfortable life style. The antisocial hours mount up and I found that my creativity suffered. It would have to be something pretty special for me to want to do it again. I am working on a show but just for fun. It is still in the conceptual and creative stage and some rather advanced technology is required.

I love nearly all technology having discovered computers in the mid eighties. I was immediately fascinated and saw their potential. I am extremely dyslexic and although I have learned how to deal with it I still can't read out loud particularly well which makes book launches interesting. I have always told stories and with a computer I can write them down. I have a great editor which is something no author can do without but my writing is fairly comprehensible even before she gets to mess with it.

I love computers but am also frustrated by them. I can remember in the early days having to wait for several days to see a render of a 3D landscape I had created. I would eagerly bound downstairs each morning to see how my latest creation was doing. It was usually a disappointment. Even when it was finally finished I would find an imperfection or change something that meant I needed to render it again and often again and again. Power cuts were a major disaster. Some images that took me moments to conceive could take weeks to execute. Even then I could only look at them on the screen because in the early days a full colour proof print was too expensive.

Things have greatly improved but computers have always been way too slow for me. Even when I have the latest, fastest machines and believe me one is never enough, I usually have them running at their limits within a week or two. So called real time rendering in the preview means I can see what I am doing sooner but actual rendering can still tie up many processors for hours. I move onto another machine and leave them to churn away. I have had to learn patience.

The process is way quicker than it was but I always need more and I know there is more because I remember a past life from the future, if that makes sense. Time is not linear, well actually it doesn't exist at all because everywhen is now and all time is simultaneous. Computers in the then I remember were telepathic, holographic and instant. Thoughts manifested in front of me in 3D as I thought them and I could either view them as a hologram or 'print' them as a solid. What a gift for an artist. I know we will have access to this technology soon and I for one can't wait.

Having mentioned a future past life I should point out that we don't have to incarnate in any particular order. Aspects of our Self singly or with others can incarnate in many different places and times all at the same time. If you can remember a past life then you can remember a future one.

That journey is ending and we are entering a new beginning for all of us. Part of what we are doing in this Now is bringing all the bits of ourselves back together. All the time lines are refining to one as the micro and the macro join together.

As part of my personal journey I learned to cross time with my awareness and could jump between the many different time lines that I used to inhabit. It has been fun sometimes but was also rather dangerous. I have attracted some very unwanted attention.

The powers that were didn't like it when I changed their attempts to derail our destiny. Like many others I am part of the ground crew who came here to help with our transition into the coming Golden Age. Some of us may remember more than others but we are all going to transform together.