Fine Fruit:Quilt Block, Contest Entry Silicon Valley fusionwearsv

My Fine Fruit entry won FOURTH PLACE in the Silicon Valley fusionwearsv contest!

This garage on Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, is the heart of a story that helped transform the agricultural Santa Clara Valley into today’s technological Silicon Valley. 

When Bill and Dave built their first oscillator in this garage, my husband's family lived just a few blocks away. My father-in-law remembered the area of that time, as a land of cherry orchards. In 1938, my own family was involved in the information technology of the day, as telegraphers. As Silicon Valley grew my family's information skill set evolved with it. My father, sister and myself were computer programmers.

I enjoyed biking over to photograph the restored HP garage that represents an important foundation of the Silicon Valley. I used Photoshop CS4 to alter that and other digital photos I’ve taken, to create my own 1938 vintage-style fruit crate label, honoring the birth of the Silicon Valley. All images are my own. I loved being able to honor the history of the valley by using the technology that it represents.

My FusionWearSV Silicon Valley Technology Quilt Block Designs

Fine Fruit: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/fine-fruitquilt-block-contest-entry.html

Tumbling Chips Quilt Block Design: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/tumbling-chips-quilt-within-quilt-block.html

Tranformations Chips: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/transformations-quilt-block-contest.html

Contours Chips: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/contours-quilt-block-contest-entry.html

Tumbling Chips: Quilt within a Quilt Block , Contest Entry Silicon Valley fusionwearsv

I'm much taken by the spirit of modern day style, versus a vintage design. Here I was inspired by the much-loved 'tumbling blocks' quilt block, to create my own modern-day variation of silicon chips gone wild. These chips dance right out of their tidly-bordered frame. The well-behaved, neatly balanced background checkerboard of chips, is outraged by their bolder colleagues non-standard behavior.

Another one of my original designs for the Silicon Valley fusion wearsv contest.

I used Photoshop CS4 shapes, filters, drawing tools and line art tools, to compose a picture of a silicon chip, inspired by a real-world photograph.

My FusionWearSV Silicon Valley Technology Quilt Block Designs

Fine Fruit: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/fine-fruitquilt-block-contest-entry.html

Tumbling Chips Quilt Block Design: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/tumbling-chips-quilt-within-quilt-block.html

Tranformations Chips: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/transformations-quilt-block-contest.html

Contours Chips: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/contours-quilt-block-contest-entry.html

Transformations: Quilt Block , Contest Entry Silicon Valley fusionwearsv

Some of the most beautiful aspects of writing code is the speedy multiplication and transformation of data. The programmer may start with one element, as I did here, with a picture I created representing one silicon chip. From there she goes on to replicate, concatenate and transform that one element into a thing of beauty.

I used Photoshop CS4 to draw one silicon chip. I duplicated that one chip many times to create a quilt background. I filtered that one background many times and then cut windows through each filtered transformation.

Please CLICK ON THIS IMAGE to see the nice detail in the design

My FusionWearSV Silicon Valley Technology Quilt Block Designs

Fine Fruit: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/fine-fruitquilt-block-contest-entry.html

Tumbling Chips Quilt Block Design: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/tumbling-chips-quilt-within-quilt-block.html

Tranformations Chips: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/transformations-quilt-block-contest.html

Contours Chips: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/contours-quilt-block-contest-entry.html

Voting in the Silicon Valley Quilt Design Contest is on through June 11'th, 2010

Follow this link to VOTE

Contours: Quilt Block , Contest Entry Silicon Valley fusionwearsv

My Contours' quilt block, represents the beauty and excitement the programmer feels when she realizes her power to duplicate, concatenate and transform.

Sparked by the fusionwearsv contest, I created this piece in Photoshop CS 4, using a combination of contour filters worked against the melding of filtered and conglomerated chips, I created for the Transformations quilt block.

Please CLICK ON THIS IMAGE to see the nice detail in the design

My FusionWearSV Silicon Valley Technology Quilt Block Designs

Fine Fruit: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/fine-fruitquilt-block-contest-entry.html

Tumbling Chips Quilt Block Design: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/tumbling-chips-quilt-within-quilt-block.html

Tranformations Chips: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/transformations-quilt-block-contest.html

Contours Chips: http://hepwithtech.blogspot.com/2010/06/contours-quilt-block-contest-entry.html

Voting in the Silicon Valley Quilt Design Contest is through June 11'th, 2010

Please follow this link to VOTE