Here's a chipmunk

DA MASTERPIECE

My environment

Reading response

Photography is the art form by which the photographer can capture and interpret the world as they see fit. Though it may seem that the goal is to extract the impression of a scene or the essence of a natural view it is often the case where the photographer has altered something to bring the image to their liking. Photography can be compared to painting in terms of how painting captures a narrow interpretation of the subject matter while photography captures a transparency of the subject matter. The document expresses how the manufacturer of cameras claim that photography takes no skill. You just kind of point and shoot. Well in relation to not using automatic settings on the camera's in class I call BS. The first hour of taking photos with that camera I must have took 50 blurred images of something that was right in my face. You have to learn what each setting does in order to use the device properly. (a little of track)

9/28/13

Lasso Tool

Steamroller

Space-Dreaming

Sidetracked

Ever have the moment where you need to study but then your mind travels and finds at least ten other things you could be doing instead of studying that are at least 5x more interesting?

Pendragon

Fallen

Project 3

Selfie

Figurative Selfie

Rigid Uniformity

The Lost Bowl

old work new addition

Fun with chainmaille and elastic rings

Color Ring Around

That sad moment when you run out of rings

Technical problems

Good day

paragraph selfie idea?

So for the non self portrait photo where we cannot participate in the photo I don't plan on making a heavy use of nature. Taking a picture of nature or something with similar broad meaning can represent many things so how could I get nature to portray me or the facets of me? I'm iffy on just physical objects though. I'm thinking of a blend between nature and an object. The image I have right now would be a sparring spot that me and my friends used back home with my sparring sword embedded into the ground. Their are plenty of large boulders around the area that can be easily climbed so I could get a few nice shots with those angles where I'm looking down on the scene. The autumn colors of the park may make and interesting narrative considering that was the time of year we mostly sparred. So the colors may be fun to play with but a black and white image also sounds appealing.

For the second shot where we have to have a portion of our figure within the photo I kind of want to finish a small project I'm working on now that should be wearable in about a week if I can continue to work on it. I'm thinking of an over the shoulder shot while kneeling so the image should catch a bit of the lower right side of my face and focus in on my right arm resting on my right leg while showing a hard flooring. I don't want grass or leaves within this photo for the items I'm working on are angular. So maybe I'll take the photo within the Kauke arch but from the angle I'm taking the photo it won't be recognizable as the arch.

I have a feeling we are going to read one another's paragraph in class and wright a response about it giving idea's or criticism. So feel free to rip apart or be constructive on my idea's it actually helps me work. Thanks.

Inspiration

http://www.bioweapons.com/MAIN.htm

http://evil-fx.deviantart.com/gallery/

So David Carpenter has been a long time source of inspiration for me. Not in terms of what I make or produce but in terms of having a specific mentality when it comes to being artistic. Its because of the work he does that kind of allows me to put my work out there. Also his work looks totally awesome. This work helps to remind me where I would like to go with my skill set.

Reading Summary

I agree that the "fountain" is not art but the photographs that interpret the piece are. You can draw a different perception from a photograph then what you can gather from a photo. I like the idea of art being expressed as an out of control thing. "She creates scenarios that consume her, border on being out of control, fail, remain unfinished or take unexpected turns." An open-ended or spontaneous photograph leaves the viewer to interpret or imagine what they are seeing in a different light without any direct aid from the photographer. One of the perks to photography is the interplay of two and three dimensional spaces in their solid, fleeting, and combined moments and rendering them in the 2D. The book implies that we graphically reduce them during the conversion to 2D but I don't agree with this.

continuous side projects

Reject

Practices of looking

Looking at something is an everyday action and through looking at something we can either experience a social interaction like when someone "exclaims look at that!" it is a command where you either obliged to look or ignore but more often then not you will look. By looking around your environment or at a picture/photo we can experience emotions of our own volition or of intended responses. By intended responses I mean that the artist who assembled the view of the photo you are perceiving wanted to instill a particular feeling or thought process on you psyche via the use of colors or narrative. We live in a culture where the digital brush and pigment of color are more prominent in the creation of a photo then the original and timeless physical brush and crushed pigments of paint. It is cleaner and far more refined in the west to "paint" an image by digital means. Pages 12-14 pretty much are a few paragraphs covering the intended idea that "a picture is worth a thousand words". I say this because the writer goes forth to express how in our culture we use words to describe an image and like wise how we use images to describe words. The impressions gathered by these images can be diverse or confined depending on the audience or even the way that the artist pushed to have it interpreted. A point is made further down the road that the correlation between the real world object and the narrative of the image should be separate, "this is not a pipe" a phrase used to describe an image of a pipe.


Also on a side note was this pdf. document supposed to have images?

Bear

Untitled

Project #2

Monochrome

Dominant

Isolated

Complimentary

Snowberries

Direction in Motion

Floor? Brick?

I like lightroom

                                                            BEFORE

AFTER

Dragon bone project fully painted

Before photoshop

Summary of Lightroom/Bridge

Adobe Lightroom is focused on image editing like Photoshop while Adobe Bridge is the program mainly used for transferring image data between the adobe applications. Bridge also acts as the prime location to browse images before importing them into other locations. Lightroom works to simplify the work flow without losing power or quality of the selected file. It’s seems to be the expedient option for time sensitive work. Bridge displays file information but cannot display “off-line” file images from a removable hard drive or DVD. Lightroom can import images from an external hard drive or other media storage and access the information even if the file is on an “off-line” database. With Lightroom you can also generate multiple databases in order to save and view information.

The outdoors...is a thing

Old Work/New Ideas 9-2-13

The art work that I feel best distinguishes me as an artist is probably my Cardboard wax project from my Intro to sculpture course. It wasn’t until I took this class that I felt like I could actually be an artist. The idea behind the project was that we needed to make a frame. The frame didn’t actually contain anything but it had storage or containment like qualities. This actually took me a while to come up with a solid idea. So of course like most of our projects we had to make sketches first. So I started sketching about and for some reason I couldn’t help but sketch armor in traditional fashions. Like the aegis armor of the medieval period or the flexible samurai layered armor of Japan. My professor kind of popped in over my shoulder and saw what I was doing and liked the idea. I didn’t think it fit the bill for the project at first but then we talked about it. When you think about it armor itself is a protective frame it contains and protects what is inside while not exactly containing the entire body. Armor is not a basic square and through history you can see that armor can go from blocky or uniform to orb-like in nature. So I set to work making templates and preparing the cardboard armor for assembly. This project was completed probably around last Christmas or after the New Year. If I could wake up every day and work on something in a similar fashion to how I got to work on the Samurai Cardboard armor then I feel like I would be fairly happy. I say something like it because repetition is the death of productivity. If I had something new to shape and work on with my hands daily or even weekly, due to the fact this project took two weeks to complete, then I could remain productive. 

The artist that I would have to say inspires me at the current time would be Harrison Krix with Volpin Props.

http://volpinprops.blogspot.com/

 Now you could say what makes him an artist, he doesn't produce art from his thoughts or imagination or something of that nature. To me he is an artist for the sole reason that he can take what you imagine and bring it into the real world. He can take concepts from the 2D and make it 3D and construct them with functional lights and sounds. The items have the look and feel of another world that we normally can’t experience outside of the imagination without some visual aid given by television, movies or video games. By taking an item from fiction and making it a reality it brings a whole new level of immersion or experience to whatever genre or fiction the item pertains too. When asked to “find a work that exemplifies where you would like to go with your work moving forward.” I can’t exactly point out “a” work that this artist has produced but rather “the” work that this artist produces expresses where I would like to go. I want to be able to take the concept and give it texture and mass within someone’s hands.  To see the interaction that can come from a fictional item when it is placed into the real world and how it can ensnare our imaginations while allowing us to slightly forgetting reality. 

Mundas