MY ARTWORK POSTED ON FLICKR

I had posted most of my artwork to several albums on Flickr - one of them is my main album that holds all my work.

Here is a embedded view of this album:

I strive to keep this updated. The works are not in any order, some are early works, some most recent. The leading image is of course my signature image, a Surreal Selfportrait called SELFPORTRAIT WITH THE CRITICAL EYE.

​DEEP DREAM AND GIF CREATOR

Please Note: I had dealt with this subject before  but a recent conversation on Steemit made me dig up some old post there:
👁‍🗨DEEP DREAM - GIF Generator and Deep Dream Video I am using some from that post, and also from my Website Page DEEP DREAM and Blog DEEP DREAM AND GIF CREATOR. So here is a summary of it all, with some updates and new images created.
As if I had nothing else to do -some time ago I was surfing the net and found these sites where you can create great stuff with your photos. Deep Dream I had used before, when it was in beta, but now you have to sign up/sign in. It is free, and there are many more effects to chose from now.

below is the original image from Hawaii

on the right is another more sophisticated Deep Dream portrait, 

using one of my own paintings as a filter.

               

Of late I had made use of the Deep Dream Generator quite often. It is almost addictive, once you get started. I had been trying it when it first was introduced. At that time, it was a simple site with basically one Deep Dream style. I think I found the site via an article like this: Google robots dream up crazy psychedelic pictures using 'inceptionism' AI neural networks. Trying it out, I was hooked! For a time after that, I was not using the site and found when accessing it again, you had to create a account and log in. It is still free to use, but vastly improved since its early days several years ago. Because now, in addition to pre-set styles, you can upload your own styles as well.

SOME EXAMPLES OF DEEP DREAM Images I created
to see them all, check my DEEP DREAM SITE.

And here it is - the ULTIMATE DEEP DREAM FREAK SELFIE

I blogged about this, as well as a GIF Creator Program in September 2016:
DEEP DREAM AND GIF CREATOR.
At that time, I had combined photoshop images of my portrait with Deep Dream and created a GIF using this
GIF GENERATOR WEBSITE



Making animated GIF images is a little complicated in Photoshop, so when I was looking for a tutorial, I found this website where it is easy to create animated GIF: all you have to do is upload your images, select the parameters and voila, done! This one here is also my first test, using images I had on hand (some of which were photo-shopped, some previously created in Deep Dream).

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eventually, I put together many different Deep Dream images of a close-up of my eye and created this

VIDEO - ARTISTS EYE

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But there are other sites where you can create fun GIF images to use as Avatars, for example.

I sorted through these sites and found the best AVATAR site, such as the NEWTON CRADLE which I had used for a while now as a funny closing pic on my Steemit and WeKu blogs.

Using the same image,

a more subtle "Starry Eyes"

the possibilities are almost endless - and playing with it can indeed become addictive!

....... and this makes me wink at you:

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Are you ready for more crazy stuff?

here is another video, where I went totally off the rails and got extremely silly - at the end, it uses progressions of a Deep Dream.

Warning: Mindbogglingly stupid content!

OTTO FREAK

the distortion effects are from a app on my computer called Cyberlink YouCam.

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this is a ink drawing I cranked through Deep Dream with one of my own patterns (from a painting)

This concludes this installment of my infrequent blogs, I hope you enjoyed it and the provided links are useful to you. 

MAGICAL DREAMS IV - Exhibition in Viechtach - INVITATION

The vernissage will take place on Friday, March 9th at 7 pm 

in the Old Town Hall Viechtach. 

Afterwards, the exhibition runs until May 12th. 

Admission is free.

Address:

Stadtplatz 1, 94234 Viechtach, Germany

Old Town Hall, Viechtach

I am showing the following works:

THE SURROGATE MOTHER OF WISDOM HOLDING ALTER-EGO BABY BOGOMIL

ABANDONED BY HIS MOTHER and ISABELLE de VOUTHON

My New Designs on Zazzle: LEGGINGS

I have started a new line to add to my apparel collections on Zazzle: 

A new line of leggings I just introduced recently. They are all based on details of my artwork that has been digitally enhanced in Photoshop, such as mirrored, color variations, filters etc. and these designs are exclusively used on my Zazzle products, so you may find matching accessories as well.

click to see the entire colllection
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LEGGINGS
by Art of the Mystic Otto Rapp

Since I mentioned accessories:

you can find many matching articles here

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ACCESSORIES
by Art of the Mystic Otto Rapp

PLEASE NOTE:
all of my designs on Zazzle are "Print on demand".
These designs are not mass produced!
Chances are that only a few select people on the entire planet would own one of my designs. 
If you really want to be unique and stand out from the crowd, then this is it!

Example: a line of Keds shoes I designed were discontinued 
While the World didn't end in 2012, the partnership between Zazzle and Keds ended!
What Keds has now is mass-produced, bland and  boring! 
There are only a handful of my designs in existence now.They are rare collectors items!

A new line was introduced by Delta Custom and I started adding my designs.
But checking up on it now, they are marked as 
[Sorry, this product is completely sold out. Notify me when it's back in stock.]

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click above to check the collection
I just hope they don't suffer the same fate as Keds!

Updates to begin the New Year

That I have not posted for a while is not due to that there is nothing new, just the opposite - I was very busy and just did not get around to post updates.

◄ a gratuitous selfie from New Years Day - dressing up with a fez given to me by a friend that day. 

So here are some of the things I had been working on late 2017:

STEEMIT:

I joined this blockchain posting platform in late August and had been a steady contributor since (slowing down a little toward the end of the year, Christmas and New Years holydays). It is in my opinion a better way to socialize than other social platforms, in particular: where you get likes on Facebook that you cannot take to the bank, on Steemit you get upvotes that translate into earnings of Steem, a cryptocurrency.

Here is my page:

I find I had good results with my posts and am satisfied that this network, founded in 2016, will quickly develop into a major social network, with the added incentive of being able to earn money from your posts. Added bonus: no annoying ads cluttering your page, nor in the news feeds, like they do on Facebook. There are some bots that monitor content, but none of this bothersome censoring you would find on Facebook, where the nipple-police is out in full force! Here it is your option to mark your posts as NSFW. 

 

NING PLATFORM for the Private Visionary Art Network:

I used this platform already since 2009 to gather some of the best Artists of my genre. The private network is not accessible to the general public, but I used embed features to put slide shows from this platform on a public website, the VISIONARY ART GALLERY (VAG). 

Late in 2017, Ning eliminated Flash content, which resulted in all the embedded slide shows not functioning anymore. This in advance to the announcement that Adobe’s Flash Player will officially be put to rest in 2020. While it primarily affected the Visionary Art Gallery site, to some extend it also affected its spin-off VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION and VISIONARY ART HALL OF FAME, as well as other sites I control that also occasionally use the embed codes, including some posts on this blog. This also affects my own website, ART OF THE MYSTIC OTTO RAPP.

Subsequently, I posted a message on the VAG Homepage regarding this, with a link to a more detailed explanation: IMPORTANT NETWORK INFORMATION: SLIDE SHOW EMBEDDING DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE!

Because of this development, these Websites had become construction Zones!

There are over 500 artists on the VAG site, plus uncounted other pages and features. My own website and the VAG spin-off contain also many pages that need to be worked on. This is a project that will keep me busy for quite some time. Thus I decided to also at the same time switch the outdated templates of the VAG and my own website to a more modern look, which also requires additional work on each page to customize them (I strive to give each artist a distinct personal look). The Hall of Fame and VA Exhibition are on attractive templates already, so no need for changes to those sites, other than the changes necessary because of the problems with Flash. But there may be older blog content on my sites that might still contain outdated coding which is near impossible to fix unless I hunt down each blog entry for all the years the sites had been active.  

To all the artist members of the Visionary Art Network on Ning:

I am in the process of downloading your images from the network, and uploading it to your pages on the public VAG site, as galleries and HTML5 slide shows.

The network fees are paid up until Summer 2018. By this time, I expect to be finished with the task of updating the public VAG and its affiliated sites. Once the changes to the VAG are complete, I will delete the Ning Network, which is no longer serving its main purpose of feeding content to our public pages. This will save me a major drain on my personal finances, since the costs came out of my own pocket, only partially offset by donations. There are still costs involved maintaining the public sites on Weebly and paying for the domains of these sites, so your donations are still needed and welcome to help me keep these sites on line.

Additional Notes:

The websites powered by Weebly (on my account there) had just recently security certificates (SSL) added. While the URL's now show this (https://) there also appears a info icon on the address bar (it does so with Chrome) where it says that there are some security problems on the site - when you mouse over this icon, it leads to an information page on Google Chrome: Check if a site's connection is secure. This would be important on merchandising sites where you enter sensitive information such as credit card numbers etc. My sites are not Merchandising sites, though you will find links to secure sites where prints are sold, for example. There is nothing on my sites where you would enter any information, other than maybe the contact pages, but there you have the choice of directly contacting my email, instead of using the contact form. 

I checked on Padlock which items would trigger this warning and found that this had to do with share buttons and some advertising banners. So there is nothing much to worry about the content.

WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY AND SAFE NEW YEAR! 

 

 

ARTWORK by OTTO RAPP - slide show

ARTWORK by OTTO RAPP - slide show 

 

On Google Drive I have a document that is a listing (in table form) of most of my artwork.
 The titles link to the respective image in this album on Flickr. Werksverzeichniss Otto Rapp

VISIONARY ALCHEMY Exhibition

I am happy to show my work in New York again,
with some old friends and terrific artists!

"VISIONARY ALCHEMY"

Exhibition of the Society for Art of Imagination
with the participation of 49 international artists.
From April 29th to May 13th, 2017
ONE ART SPACE
23 Warren Street, New York NY 10007
Opening reception: Saturday April 29th, 6:00 to 9:00 PM

DOWNLOAD PDF POSTER

FACEBOOK INVITATION

​This is the artwork I am showing:

FOMORII INCUBATOR - IN THE BEGINNING
Acrylic glazes and egg tempera on canvas
​29" x 34"

MAGISCHER REALISMUS – ANSBACH

Magischer Realismus

Udo Winkler und Freunde

my works in this exhibition:

Parthenogenesis II 

Bogomil’s Monastic Retreat

Revelation 20

Pablo's Last Concert

Hour of the Cock

Bogomil's Landing

The Visitor

prints are available here:

Parthenogenesis II – Bogomil’s Monastic Retreat – Revelation 20

Pablo’s Last Concert – Hour of the Cock – Bogomil’s Landing – The Visitor

Fashion Designs by Otto Rapp

I had recently opened another exiting POD fashion store in addition to my (previously announced) label at VIDA. By partnering with MyWear® I was able to expand the variety of items which bear my unique designs. This complements also the many products I designed on Zazzle, as well as my artwork prints (and related products) on Pixels.

You are a unique individual, and so should be your fashions and accessories! 

Mass-produced items that everyone wears and owns are not for you.

Zulu Tunic

Decalcomaniac Colorfield Tunic

Stand out from the crowd, assert your individuality with fashions designed with you in mind.

 Whether it is clothing, shoes or a cellphone cover, the item you own may well be the only one in your city. 

No one else is likely to own the exact same!

 ◄  Pictured here are examples of tunics I designed for MyWear - based on details of my artwork. ► 

At my MyWear® shop, you will find a growing collection of great fashion items I designed just for you! Many more over-all printed tunics, dresses, tops and tee-shirts, but also a variety of bags, all with my individual designs based on my artwork, especially adapted for your specific garment or fashion item. 

VISIT MY NEW STORE AT MYWEAR

MyWear Designs by Austrian Artist Otto Rapp

Not just dresses and t-shirts, there are also a variety of bags available. I am particularly proud of my messenger bag designs, pictured below:

Zulu Messenger Bag

Fomorii Incubator Messenger Bag 

Please Note: MyWear® is currently only shipping to: 

US - CANADA -  AUSTRALIA - GERMANY - UK - HONG KONG - SINGAPORE - NETHERLANDS - NORWAY 

A variety sampling of some of my unique designs from all my On-Line Stores is found on my Pinterest Board: 

Follow Otto's board My Fashion Designs on Pinterest.


Visit my Stores to find many more items:

MyWear® - VIDA - ZAZZLE - PIXELS -  deviantART 

My Website:

ART OF THE MYSTIC OTTO RAPP