Recent Posts by agrayspace

Topic: Jason Koxvold vs Bran Dougherty-Johnson 12/7 / December 7th Remixes

seriously, why even try to compete with that. Nice work Fuzz.

Topic: Trevor Van Meter vs James Hutchinson 11/30 / Conversation About The Match

Trevor had all the cheap cultural references I needed. Guitar Hero. Yes! TechnoViking. OH HOLY HELL YES!!!!

Win to Trevor.

Topic: Trevor Van Meter vs James Hutchinson 11/30 / Conversation About The Match

glad to see trevor not succumb to the qualms of being the even volleyer, that of being a follower and not a leader. He has done a good job of changing it up with this volley. The animation is a little chunky though. Perhaps the curve was too ambitious and they should have just fallen straight into the mouth. Also the lack of a loop at the end makes it feel less rich than the previous. If james brings back the looping, he will have really one-uped trevor.

Topic: Scott Hansen vs Rob Cordiner 11/9 / November 9th Remixes

I almost let the week go by without doing one. But I just couldn’t. Enjoy the agraymix week 7.

Topic: Scott Hansen vs Rob Cordiner 11/9 / Conversation About The Match

I think 6 is uber strong, both visually and conceptually. Simple yes. Stupid no.

But the type looks a little wonky. I would have appreciated a little more classic refinement. Looks like its tilted ever so slightly which just “craggs all the type”.

Topic: Scott Hansen vs Rob Cordiner 11/9 / Conversation About The Match

Alissa is totally rocking the commentary. Probably the best so far. Great job Alissa!

Topic: Scott Hansen vs Rob Cordiner 11/9 / Conversation About The Match

also has anybody come to notice that volleys 3 & 4 are usually some of the weakest. hmmmm

Topic: Scott Hansen vs Rob Cordiner 11/9 / Conversation About The Match

Still i must say, the work is still beautiful.

Topic: Scott Hansen vs Rob Cordiner 11/9 / Conversation About The Match

as I imagine myself playing, I know that I would have a nice little cadre of elements ready to use. I think these players are falling victim to their own art and not to the overall conversation thats happening. It’s cool to use pre-made art but if its not in a response to the content specifically posted in the previous volley, then your mind just isn’t in the game. Your just posting a portfolio. You’ll never be a champion.

Drink gatorade fellas and get your head in the game!

Topic: Scott Hansen vs Rob Cordiner 11/9 / Conversation About The Match

hitting the streets

Topic: Scott Hansen vs Rob Cordiner 11/9 / Conversation About The Match

while both volleys are lovely, Cordiners return has a serious lack of attention paid to the original source. Good form but just inside the line.

Topic: Scott Hansen vs Rob Cordiner 11/9 / Conversation About The Match

the trick is to get your boss hooked on layer tennis too. :0

Topic: Marian Bantjes vs Armin Vit 11/02 / November 2nd Remixes

agraymix

Topic: Marian Bantjes vs Armin Vit 11/02 / Conversation About The Match

actually I agree. Marian is clearly leading and innovating. Armin is reacting and thats the death nell in these games. The commentary was just a little one-sided.

Topic: Marian Bantjes vs Armin Vit 11/02 / Conversation About The Match

I can say I don’t really appreciate heather’s hard bias to Marian. From the beginning she has only being throwing the criticisms one direction. Boo.

Topic: Brian Taylor vs Jason Santa Maria 10/26 / October 26th Match Remixes

back to black & white.
“Yeah they’re dead. There all messed up!”

Topic: Brian Taylor vs Jason Santa Maria 10/26 / Conversation About The Match

seriously whats up with the shameless self promotion?
Bad form IMO.

Topic: Brian Taylor vs Jason Santa Maria 10/26 / Conversation About The Match

This relates in almost no way to the previous volleys. Weak. Regardless of how awesome freaks are. You can’t survive on borrowed equity alone.

Topic: Brian Taylor vs Jason Santa Maria 10/26 / Conversation About The Match

Am i the only one that thinks the blood is a little too poo like in its hue? How subversive!

Topic: Chris Glass vs Naz Hamid 10/19 / October 19th Match Remixes

Mjor props to Bayron!

Another agraymix: Disruptor edition

Topic: Steven Harrington vs Chuck Anderson 10/12 / October 12th Match Remixes

another agraymix

Topic: Neil Duerden vs. Mathew Star Thomas 10/5 / Conversation about the match

I see where your coming from, i just disagree.

To use your words, he created an original image using the “principles and techniques” oh his contemporary. The compositions are vastly different and the techniques are different enough to see how the concept and technique are evolving. I might not hail it for its originality but I certainly wouldn’t take it to a persecution of an unethical act.

Under your logic, I suppose everyone who implements the oh-so-popular “glossy reflective floor technique” in their designs owe the original creator of said technique (whoever the hell that is) same serious royalties.

Last words: Ownership over style is a slippery slope on the mountain of lost causes and the domain of narcissists.

Topic: Neil Duerden vs. Mathew Star Thomas 10/5 / Conversation about the match

Greatmiddlewest has a point. I believe Google Image “diving” is perfectly legit in this NONCOMMERCIAL circumstance because it is done in the vein of collage and cultural reappropriation and remixing. If he had scanned a magazine and used it as a base image in a larger collage, no one would have a problem.

If the “stolen” images were used wholesale in the design and not as an element in a larger artistic work, then yes it would be “wrong”. Seriously, would you expect him to have his own picture of a fucking hummingbird? Sheesh.

However, using the pre-existing artwork in a manner in which it contributes a majority of the images message, texture and visual design is a bit of a foul. The reason that volley worked was because of the image, and that is misleading to the intent of Layer Tennis. I fully expect the players to raid their stash of images, but I also expect those images to be used in a new manner as an element that helps create a whole new design.

As far as that image looking too much like another artists work, i don’t see it. Sure they are similar, but damn if artists aren’t allowed to find inspiration from each other. What would Picasso have been without Georges Braque or Basqiat without Cy Twombly? There is no rip off here.

Topic: Neil Duerden vs. Mathew Star Thomas 10/5 / October 5th Match Remixes

here we go. an agraymix

Topic: Neil Duerden vs. Mathew Star Thomas 10/5 / Conversation about the match

Its not even nice to look at anymore. Looks like unprofessional photoshop wankery.

I am really tired of seeing that girl as well.

Frames 1 & 2 were expertly done and breathtakingly beautiful. And both managed to introduce major new visual elements. Volleys 4 & 5 deserve each other for their ugly say-nothingness.