{"id":1169,"date":"2010-03-15T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2014-12-14T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T02:17:12","slug":"top-ten-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/15\/top-ten-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25\" style=\"width: 479px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/fredhatt-convex.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25\" title=\"fredhatt-convex\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/fredhatt-convex.jpg?resize=469%2C700\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/fredhatt-convex.jpg?w=469 469w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/fredhatt-convex.jpg?resize=201%2C300 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back Study #1: Convex, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today, March 15, 2010, this blog turns one year old.\u00a0 (Above, the first illustration from the first post, <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/15\/variations\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Variations&#8221;<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I have long shared my work with others largely through underground, alternative, and community-based venues.\u00a0 In many ways, the blog has been my ideal gallery &#8211; virtually cost-free, accessible to all both near and far, open 24 hours, a place where I can share the full range of my work, my process, and my passions, without concern for whether anyone will buy, or whether a dealer thinks I&#8217;m diluting my brand.<\/p>\n<p>I have long tended to put all my energy into producing work, rarely finding the time to edit and present that work, much less to sell myself or promote my career.\u00a0 Feeling the need to post something here once a week or thereabouts has been a much-needed self-imposed deadline for me!<\/p>\n<p>I thank those of you that post comments.\u00a0 A sense of dialog sustains me.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also been gratifying to pick up some fans in far-flung places, where they would have been unlikely to encounter my work in an exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>In reverse order, here&#8217;s a listing of the top ten posts from the first year of <em>Drawing Life<\/em>.\u00a0 These are the posts that have gotten the most hits, continuing to attract readers after they&#8217;re no longer on the front page of the blog, with a sample image and quote from each.\u00a0 The titles link back to the original posts.<\/p>\n<p>10:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/opening-the-closed-pose\/\" target=\"_blank\">Opening the Closed Pose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The human body is as expressive when it is turned inward as when it is expansive or active.\u00a0 The guarded nature of the crouch or fetal position shows vulnerability in a different way than the open pose.\u00a0 The upper and lower parts of the body are drawn together, and the energy pattern becomes circular rather than vertical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_804\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fredhatt-2009-hanging-head1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-804\" class=\"size-full wp-image-804\" title=\"fredhatt-2009-hanging-head\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fredhatt-2009-hanging-head1.jpg?resize=600%2C431\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fredhatt-2009-hanging-head1.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fredhatt-2009-hanging-head1.jpg?resize=300%2C215 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanging Head, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>9:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/shapes-of-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shapes of Things<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post featured stereoscopic photographs, presented as anaglyphs, to be viewed with red\/cyan 3D glasses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The compositional dynamics of a flat photograph are simple, their impact immediate and graphic.\u00a0 A stereo image is more complex.\u00a0 Looking at it, we feel we are looking through a window, perhaps into a world that has been miniaturized and frozen in time.\u00a0 The eyes caress the forms or penetrate the space of the image.\u00a0 Enjoy these images, then go out and revel in the spatial complexity of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_180\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fredhatt-framework.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180\" title=\"fredhatt-framework\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fredhatt-framework.jpg?resize=600%2C396\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fredhatt-framework.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fredhatt-framework.jpg?resize=300%2C198 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Framework, 1993, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>8:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/fire-in-the-belly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fire in the Belly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Body painting is an ancient art of transformation, to make the warrior more terrible, the young mate more enticing, or the shaman more of a dream creature.\u00a0 I have used it as a medium of discovery, exploring the landscape of the body and finding the forces that lie beneath the surface.\u00a0 In the type of body art shown here, there is never any preconceived design.\u00a0 As the paintbrush follows the natural curves of the body, it becomes a kind of divining rod, finding the quality of energetic pools and flows and manifesting them in visible form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_423\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fredhatt-2001-botanic.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"size-full wp-image-423\" title=\"fredhatt-2001-botanic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fredhatt-2001-botanic.jpg?resize=290%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fredhatt-2001-botanic.jpg?w=290 290w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/fredhatt-2001-botanic.jpg?resize=145%2C300 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Botanic, 2001, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>7:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/10\/painting-with-light\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Painting with Light<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I first started experimenting with light painting in photography of models in 1990 or thereabouts . . . I was interested in the process because it bridged the gap between photography and painting or drawing.\u00a0 As in painting, the image is created by manual gestures over a finite period of time, but instead of making pigment marks on paper or canvas, one makes light marks, through a lens, on a photograph.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_336\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-smoke.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336\" class=\"size-full wp-image-336\" title=\"fredhatt-smoke\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-smoke.jpg?resize=495%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-smoke.jpg?w=495 495w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-smoke.jpg?resize=247%2C300 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke, 1996, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>6:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/negative-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">Negative Space<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly seeing negative space is about shifting the focus from presence to absence.\u00a0 Finding the figure by looking at the negative space is one of the many artistic applications of the Hermetic principle\u00a0 &#8216;As above, so below&#8217; or &#8216;As within, so without&#8217;.\u00a0 All reality exists on the cusp between interior and exterior, between past and future, or between any polarity you care to examine.\u00a0 To draw is to surf on the points of contact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_311\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-2008-04-12-stanley-2b.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311\" title=\"fredhatt-2008-04-12-stanley-2b\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-2008-04-12-stanley-2b.jpg?resize=600%2C426\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-2008-04-12-stanley-2b.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-2008-04-12-stanley-2b.jpg?resize=300%2C213 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanley Folded, 2008, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/anatomical-flux\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anatomical Flux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post featured drawings made at an artists&#8217; sketch night event at &#8220;Bodies: The Exhibition&#8221;, a show of polymerized anatomical specimens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My favorite room in the exhibit is the one where blood vessels have been preserved and all the other tissues stripped away.\u00a0 These figures look like my most manic scribbly drawings multiplied and exploded into three dimensions.\u00a0 The arteries branch out treelike, the veins meander vinelike, and the capillaries are fuzzy like moss.\u00a0 This quick sketch comes nowhere near the actual complexity of the specimen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_361\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-torso-vessels.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"size-full wp-image-361\" title=\"fredhatt-torso-vessels\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-torso-vessels.jpg?resize=428%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-torso-vessels.jpg?w=428 428w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fredhatt-torso-vessels.jpg?resize=214%2C300 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Torse Vessels, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>4:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/the-spirit-of-weeds\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Spirit of Weeds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In our uncertain time, everything seems to be breaking down.\u00a0 Industrial civilization defines prosperity only as growth, but the limits to growth are looming everywhere . . . Such times will be hard for vast monocultures, and for hothouse flowers (and I do intend those as human metaphors).\u00a0 Such times call for weedy spirits, for those that can find their earthly grounding even in the decaying manufactured world, and who burst with green power, determined to reassert the forces of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_861\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fredhatt-2002-blue-yellow-green.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-861\" class=\"size-full wp-image-861\" title=\"fredhatt-2002-blue-yellow-green\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fredhatt-2002-blue-yellow-green.jpg?resize=600%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fredhatt-2002-blue-yellow-green.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fredhatt-2002-blue-yellow-green.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue\/Yellow\/Green, 2002, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>3:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/meanings-of-the-nude\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meanings of the Nude<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The image of the nude reminds us that we are our bodies, that sexuality and appetites and mortality are our very nature, and that the beauty of our animality cannot be separated from the beauty of our spirituality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_524\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vigeland_sculpture_park_.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-524\" class=\"size-full wp-image-524 \" title=\"vigeland_sculpture_park_\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vigeland_sculpture_park_.jpg?resize=600%2C399\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vigeland_sculpture_park_.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vigeland_sculpture_park_.jpg?resize=300%2C199 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustav Vigeland, figure from Vigeland Park, Oslo, c. 1930, photo by Simon Davey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/pregnant-pose\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pregnant Pose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The roundness of the pregnant form is quite unlike the roundness of obesity.\u00a0 The skin of the swelling belly and breasts is drum-tight.\u00a0 The entire body is surging with life-force and all the muscles are toned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_694\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2001-preg04.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-694\" class=\"size-full wp-image-694\" title=\"fredhatt-2001-preg04\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2001-preg04.jpg?resize=600%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2001-preg04.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2001-preg04.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fredhatt-2001-preg04.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fertile Structure, 2001, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And finally &#8211; drum roll, please &#8211; the number one post, the one that went viral on StumbleUpon and got twice as many hits as any other individual post of <em>Drawing Life<\/em> in the past year:<\/p>\n<p>1:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/visual-cacophony\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Cacophony<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New York City is like the rainforest, dense with competing and coexisting lifeforms . . . This kind of visual excess has an energizing effect on me, like wild music that\u2019s dissonant yet exuberant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_271\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fredhatt-04-dollwindow.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"size-full wp-image-271\" title=\"fredhatt-04-dollwindow\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fredhatt-04-dollwindow.jpg?resize=525%2C700\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fredhatt-04-dollwindow.jpg?w=525 525w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fredhatt-04-dollwindow.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doll Window, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to you, my readers, especially to the commenters, and stay tuned &#8211; I&#8217;m just getting started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, March 15, 2010, this blog turns one year old.\u00a0 (Above, the first illustration from the first post, &#8220;Variations&#8221;.) 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