Wednesday, October 27, 2010

5 Layer Photoshop Project

For this project I had to create an image using photos that I have taken from around the city and then apply 5 different layers to the image. Then I had to some how void the copyright laws by adding an image to it. Before you know it, the final image....

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Ben Volta

For this weeks lecture we had a speaker named Benjamin Volta. He went to highschool around here, to be exact he went to Abington Highschool. Which was werid when I heard that name metioned because I just met a couple kids this year who went to that school. Before this I had no idea that it even existed. But getting back on track. I really did like the work he did. Although it looks completely abstract it contains many figurative elements. This gives his piece a really eye catching effect to the viewer. In my opinion he was one of the best artist to give a speech a tyler. He had a really up beat and positive personality which kept you awake throughout the whole lecture. In the future I really want to create a piece like one of his and I will definelty search through his work in my free time.

Tommy Gun

This time the lecture was about a man we will call Mr. Thompson.....His work was very unique from what ive seen so far from the other lectures. He has a very specialized style which he uses and recreates in all of his works. The fact the he his a carpenter definetly plays a large role in the style of how his pieces come out. They all seem to be heavily formulated and contain a lot of defined lines. I really like the fact that he lives up the name of a starving artist by living in a basement of a bakery...or maybe not starving if he gets the leftover food...either way his work is extremely interesting and I hope to see some of his stuff in a museum one day.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Photoshop Assignment

This was a small project we had to do in Computers after learning the basics about the photoshop. We had t o use a picture and change it in our way that made it our own. For my project, I used a photograph of the miners that were trapped in the mine in Chile. Here is the celebration picture.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Douglas Bucci

In my opinion this was my favorite of all the lectures to date. I think that Douglas Bucci's work really stood out to me, and I really felt a connection. The way he talked about it really drug me in and kept my interesting through out the entire presentation. I really liked that all of his pieces had a connection to something, they weren't just all randomly created. For example a lot of them are based of living with diabetes. Since this disease has become a very influential part of Douglas Bucci's life. Also I really like how he showed his first works and how much he has progressed throughout his time as an artist and a jeweler.

One of my favs.

The future of cell phones

After watching this video, I am absolutely astounded about what the future of technology has in store for us. Just look back ten years from now and you can see how much technology has progressed. How much smaller, more compact and smaller it has gotten. Instead of us interacting with it, we now know that it can interact with us. Making them smarter than our own human capabilities and being able to process information/data at a much faster rate than any person ever could. Who knows all those stories about robots taking over the human race and ruling the world could actually come true, if we are progressing as fast as we are today.

Link to the Article 

Marianne Dages

In all seriousness I think that this lecture was the most productive and the one that I learned the most from. All her talking about doing studio space and internships in new and interesting places. From what I can tell from her work and the stories that she told during the lecture, I can tell that internships are a very important factor. Not only to becoming a better artist but to also grow as one. I am becoming very interested in following up in an internship after my undergrad. From what she described it to be, it seems to be a invigorating experience that all should do.

One of her works