I was thinking about fashion and adornment and decorating yourself to attract or repel interaction. Wearing a mask affects the way you communicate with someone, especially when their face is obscured too. The head pieces obstruct the figures’ faces in ways that hinder or maybe enhance them in some decorative way. There’s a calm kind of fear to him, and I think that’s connected to what I was going through while I was working. But I will say he was emotional to flesh out. I hesitate to articulate some concrete meaning or interpretation of what he’s supposed to convey. I didn’t mean for it to happen, but that character sort of took on the persona of the person I’d dated. ![]() When I began this, I went through a breakup. As you’re painting, especially if you’re spending months or years on something, characters start to develop a personality. The figure in the center changed over time. There’s also a sort of superhero-fantasy vibe to the painting, which comes from me learning to draw by tracing comic books and this X-Men encyclopedia I had as a kid.ĭrake Carr: Antisocial Headwear, 2019–2021. But, obviously, they soon became much more relevant. This was pre-Covid: that hadn’t really entered my world yet, so I don’t know exactly what prompted me to start depicting masks. I started painting people wearing different clothes and masks and headwear that are a bit fantastical and are at varying levels of obstructing the faces. So this was like my reentry into a more traditional format for painting.Ĭlothing is a point of inspiration for me. I hadn’t really painted before on a rectangular canvas, other than in college. Before that, I was primarily making these cutout paintings that are larger-than-life figures, like 7 feet tall. Swinsian 1 is a native music jukebox app for the Mac.Artist Sable Elyse Smith Honored at Queens Museum Gala: 'I've Always Known the Expanse of the World Was Greater Than Anyone's Words'Īs told to A.i.A. It displays songs in customizable columns with a browser just like iTunes did before it became a music store, video player, iOS app organizer, social network, and streaming service. With Swinsian you can make smart playlists. You can edit tags on multiple tracks at once. There is a 31 band Graphic Equalizer, and real-time search. Swinsian even syncs your music with classic iPods, and streams my music over AirPlay. In short Swinsian is everything you expect from "Classic iTunes" running on a modern Mac. In addition to being a great iTunes replacement, Swinsian has some powerful features for managing a large music library. Unlike Apple Music/iTunes Swinsian plays FLAC. "Digital audio compressed by FLAC's algorithm can typically be reduced to between 50 and 70 percent of its original size and decompresses to an identical copy of the original audio data." FLAC is free software, with royalty-free licensing that is best used for making archival copies of your CD music collection. Swinsian supports FLAC metadata tagging, album art, and fast seeking. It even plays back FLAC albums ripped as a single file with an accompanying cue file. Swinsian's Watched folders allow you to manage music stored outside of your Swinsian library. With Watched folders, you get to choose which songs get automatically copied to your Swinsian Library, and which songs play from their watched location.Ī Watched folder can be any directory on your computer, removable storage, or local network share.Store your music collection on a local server and access the songs as if they were saved in your local Swinsian library.Keep half your music on your computer and the other half on external USB storage and access it from the same Swinsian library.Watch a Dropbox folder you share with your family, and Swinsian will copy/move new tracks into your library automatically as songs are added or modified.Import new songs and playlists from Apple Music each time Swinsian is opened.If your music collection is too large to fit on a single volume but you want to manage it all from one library, there is no better remedy than Swinsian's Watched Folders. ![]() One of the reasons I own all of my music and store it locally, is that I am very particular about the metadata I associate with it. ![]() I don't want Apple Music changing my music's metadata automatically without my consent. Swinsian makes managing your music's metadata easy with helpful tools like an always visible Tack Inspector, and multitrack Find and Replace with Regex support. Tags can be edited on music stored locally or in a remote Watched Folder. For albums ripped with cue sheets, Swinsian will attempt to update the cue file. Album art can be embedded or stored as an accompanying folder/cover image file. Swinsian makes finding duplicates easy by giving you control on how closely to match a track's title, artist, album, duration, and file size.
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