Digital Media #4!

Ola! amigos

(hello friends)

(portugeuse )

Posters for Change! That was our topic for the most recent Digital Media project. We included lyrics as text and composed the whole piece in Illustrator as well. After alot of flip flopping around ideas I finally settled on Enviromental Change, specifically Respect for Nature. Keep our earth for other generations. In a way it's a illustration of a post apocalyptic world, where Nature endures as humans destroy what their world. My lyrics were from Blue Oyster Cult's Godzilla.

History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.

aprecie!
(enjoys!)

Design Letters!

こんにちは友人

(hi friends)

For design we had to do a letter project. I'm too tired and have a headache from the night before to write a long whatever so enjoy.

Drawing Projects!

Wilkommen mein Freunden!


Check out my Drawing Projects #s 1 and 2! and 1/4 of the 3rd.




1st project was contour lines and still lives (fruit).











2nd was contour lines and perspective. crappy.

3rd one so far is a subtraction method, (blacked out with charcoal and erase to create tonal values), this is the 1st part of 4 each turning way more abstract.


genießen Sie!

Digital Media #3!

γειά σου φίλοι! (hello friends! in greek)

Digital Media project #3 hurrrrrr. This one project was particularly hard for me. It was made using photoshop which I have NEVER EVER used before or understood and I spent around 25 hours this weekend just sitting there and trying to realize how this would work out and such, ending up in a giant migraine. The final project here was my 6th attempt, after working with the theme of adventure and just not finding images that work or how I would compose this stuff. After scraping some idea with a map and mountains that made John Cox laugh, I made this piece about wartime memories Titled, the War was in Color, its about how there are no images from the war that we can fully understand unless we were there, and black and white images do less justice. . The idea came from the song, Happiness is a Warm Gun by The Beatles and how I translated the meaning into how we as a society have been sedated by the commonality of these issues and lost the meaning of the pain of memories.

απολαύστε:
enjoy:

Digital Media #2!

ciao amici!

Digital Media project #2! Photo Foundations!

9 pictures; High DoF/Low DoF- meaning a focused close up picture (low DoF) or far ranged, in focus picture (high DoF). Zoom Focus- one object is focused upon and then the zoom is moved in and out, to create a neato image. Foreground/Middle Ground/Background- the object of focus is in the Foreground/Middle Ground/Background while the others are blurry. Pan image, moving with a moving object to keep it relatively in focus, while the background is movement blurred. Stop Action is basically an action frozen in motion because of a quick shutter speed. Lastly Blur is when movement is blurred and everything else is in focus.

enjoy mein arts; edit; why does this image look like poop.

Mr. Pecou-is-the-shit

Hejsa vrienden! (hello in dutch! so exotic!)


Today in colloqium we met a delightful little man named Fahamu Pecou who was insecure about his way to get famous so he created a marketing campaign eccuentuating his ego! a.k.a:


FAHAMU PECOU IS THE SHIT


"It began as a marketing campaign, responding to the marketing campaign that preceded the world’s introduction to the rapper 50 CENT. I thought it was a brilliant phenomenon that someone could be a star just because a poster said so. Prior to the marketing campaign, I had never heard of 50 CENT, nor I dare say, had most other people in the world. Regardless, when his album dropped, everyone’s ear was tuned in, and like it or not, you had developed an opinion one-way or the other. In like spirit and concept, I began a poster and sticker campaign that read, “FAHAMU PECOU IS THE SHIT” in big bold letters with a graphic illustration of me in my hardest hip-hop pose. The idea seemed to work; soon I was met on the street with comments like “Hey! You’re the shit…” or “Are you in any trouble, I saw a sign that said you are the shit”. I was warned by a few to be cautious of the language… “Do you really want to be known as the shit?” they would say, but I figured ‘Fahamu Pecou is Really Good’ wouldn’t have the same impact, so I stayed with my original idea. Soon I began receiving requests for posters, stickers and shirts from New York to Chicago to L.A. Friends of mine who wore the shirt would often regale me with their tales of trying to explain to strangers why Fahamu Pecou was the Shit and how he got to be so."

although I find his themes in his work to be a tad ridiculous and self centered, (theyre all self portraits), I really admire his painting technique and find how he reproduces magazine covers to be really well done.

his 1st magazine cover;

lol....?

fin.

Vaarwel! (also dutch!)

Cassandra Jones!

holler amigos,

Today in colloquium we were graced by the presence of Cassandra Jones, a free lance installation artist with incredible compilation pieces that focus on photographs she amazingly collected through online sources that often took years to fully complete, but with wicked results. To fully express her art I'm including some reviews an critiques.

"That Jones refers to her still-frame animations as “re-animations” is apt, though in truth, her work is full of the vivid and unexpected turns that define the animation of real life. As Jones says, “If you find enough photos you can recreate life with them.” Though she is aware of the cynicism that could be inferred from the reuse of such familiar visual tropes, Jones’ work instead celebrates these similarities for their ability to reveal a common human pursuit of beauty that does not yield to established boundaries."

"Cassandra Jones demonstrates copious command with respect to spatial relation, sequential configuration, and design. In room one, she digitally fragments and then reconfigures images of flamingos into fantastically entertainingly impres

sively elaborate prints and, my favorite, patterned wallpaper. Rarely do I see imagery capable of going both ways-- totally-- fine or decorative, but you got that here. In room two, Jones co-opts various still photographs of geese in flight from various sources, then sorts, orders, sizes, and otherwise nuances 'em into motion pictures, so you think you're looking at videos of single geese flying, the only giveaway being that the backgrounds constantly change. As if that's not enough, she then V's these individual geese videos up into formation like they're migrating. Admirable endeavor on all counts."

Pink Flamingos! This piece is repeated and composed with other similar images to create a wall paper like the following which I found super coool.

Design Project #2

bienvienue ami,

Shortly after our first design project we got our second one. This was about juxtaposition, i.e. large made small, small made large, obvious color, absurd juxtaposition, typography and hand made mark. For our class we made 6 although we only were supposed to make 3, but we chose the best. Most of mine were about large made small which is kind of boring, I made like 99% of them funny which alleviated the fact they were poorly crafted... for me at least.

Design Project #1

herrooo,

I've been super busy with all my goings on for school lately that it's hard to find time for anything else. Art majors have like no social life. C'est la vie. We recently just got back our first design project ever and I got like a B- which is alright, but I was really happy with how my final project turned out- some of them at least. For this project we had to create a series of 15 designs based around an object relative to children for a press conference at the White House. Most were super abstractive and I chose the Sun because it's a happy and bright theme, and something I could make a lot of designs out of. Here are my 15 prints;

the set

PORTFOLIO

I guess I should probably back up files of my stuff online, so I put some of my old work on flickr. I'll get around to adding photos eventually.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosesart/

Da Svedanya amigos