Haiku Four: Christopher Street, 1973

LGBTQ, Photography and Art, Poetry, San Francisco Graffiti and Mural Art

Buzzed boys,

laughter–

In love.

‘Christopher Street, 1973’ (c) Rob Goldstein 2019
‘The Hand on 9th and Harrison’ (c) Rob Goldstein 2019

Let’s do the Raccoon

Flash fiction, Video, Virtual Photography

Teagan and I are hard at work on this week’s Jazz Wednesdays which means
I have to take a short break from Art by Rob Goldstein to make illustrations.

Several of Teagan’s readers have asked how I make the illustrations for Hullaba Lulu, so here’s a quick explanation: to make these illustrations I use two gaming computers and a virtual reality platform.

Each virtual photo shoot takes about six hours and I usually have to do two shoots to get the images I want.

I use four to six avatars per shoot.

Each avatar must be dressed, posed, and positioned, and getting this right
takes total concentration.

The sets I use must be built or purchased, and modified and sometimes
re-textured.

I take at least five to six gigabytes of high-resolution bitmap files per shoot.

Post-processing also takes concentration because the avatars are usually
distorted in subtle ways, so in that sense I use Photoshop to redraw the scene.