Saturday, October 16, 2010

Learning Negative Space

After learning about negative space it was put to the test by coming up with a piece of our own. For guidance, i viewed the works of Noma Bar.  I never did this type of thinking for a piece before so after viewing a couple of pieces of this art form, the similarity among all of them was revealing a dark truth or disturbing message which made the viewer think twice while playing the mind what image to focus on more but also see it as a whole. So with this in mind, i came up with a gruesome scene of wolves shredding apart a dove. The detail in the feathers also create the jagged edged teeth of the three wolves. The strip of white and a rain drop shape that trickles behind it, is the blood shed from the attack. Tina described my characters as "cute creatures" but my intention of this piece is far from cute.  

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Digital Imaging-historical photo edit

project 3 ....



original photo

edited photo

For the sake of seeing the detail change in this photo i made the images HUGE. I do apologize for the photos oozing onto the side of the page because it is hideous. Besides that, pretty cool edit, eh?

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Digital Imaging

project three...
original

final 

Digital Mosaic


Three variations...









Clamshell Box

I wrapped my box with mostly covers of  The Stranger that I've collected over the past months. For one piece of the box i used the Seattle Weekly because i liked the pink robot for the promotion of Reverb 2010 that happened this past weekend in Ballard,Washington.






















Community portraits


This project is called community portraits. Ms. Tina asked us to go around Seattle and ask random people the question: "What do i care about?" and take their photo with what they wrote down. Since people might hesitant to take a face shot, my partner, Natalie and I suggested to people to take a photo of only their hands.In the end, taking pictures of hands turned out to be a good perspective for most of the pictures. Surprisingly, some of our pictures seem to give hints to the viewer and  make it predictable to what the participants will  respond with. For example, a woman wrote down "Kids" and the little details of her keys to her mini van and playful purple nail justifies her response. One man wrote down "sleep", Natalie and I laughed at his response but thinking about it now the guy was riding his bike. In the picture the bike seat frames the bottom part of the picture. We never figured out how long of a distance he rides or how often he rides his bike but i'm sure he needs plenty of sleep for all that peddling. A strange response to the question, 'What do I care bout?' was: "Homeostasis." Need a refresher on what  Homeostasis is, huh? Well, according to Biology-Online.org, Homeostasis is how "humans and animals regulate certain conditions within their bodies to continue a steady, healthy functioning body.  From his response and his forest green zip-up sweatshirt, I would predict he is a bio-engineer or mainly focuses on biology in his daily work. 

*Note: The following pictures are in the order we encountered them. 























Thursday, October 7, 2010

three variations



original

                                                     
uno
dos

tres
*Special thanks to Colette for taking the lovely photos. I only edited them with the help of Photoshop.