Final journal

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Picture With a Cheetah:

http://greenpeaceusa.tumblr.com/post/11671000336/world-realities-not-only-a-tree-is-cut-down

 

I decided to name my project "nature and how people affect it". In my opinion it is a very important topic nowadays, because we need to breathe and breathe clean. Also, this topic is important because we are killing he animals by cutting down the trees and holding the water in the dams and drying it out. People pollute a lot without realizing how it will affect the environment. I took some pictures to show how beautiful nature is and what we are doing to it in order to have more space. What should happen to humanity so they would understand that they need trees to survive.

 

Number project (Easter)

Final Group Project (Diana, Ashley, Jessica, Dan, Tony)

Our project is based on the point of view of a college student. The process of this project was taking photos that represented the typical college life, editing them, and choosing an order to put them in so the project has a nice flow to it. Our first photo is multi framed. It is a sequence of a college student starting to study. The photo also consists of framing of the image, point of view, shape, movement and line. The second photo represents Life and Death . To a student getting a good grade on an exam is everything and getting a bad grade is like death. This also has framing of the image and emphasis,. The third photo moves on to what a college student do in their free time. On nice days a lot of students like to throw a football around. It is a symbol for an American lifestyle because football is a great representative of what American like to do. It also  has shape, color, and space. The next photo is a metaphor for "Party Animal". To represent this metaphor we used stuffed animal surrounded by alcohol. It also has texture, color, shape, and variety. Our final picture is of a girl "coming out of the closet". It is a double entendre. College is a time when a lot of people realize who they are and aren't afraid to hide it so that is why we decided to use it for our double entendre.

 

Group Evaluation:

Jessica: Jessica did a lot of work for our project. As you can see, she was our model on many pictures. She also was giving many ideas, which we used too.

Dan: Dan was very kind to bring the dog for our first idea, and even though it didn't work out, he was helping us out with ideas and he did a good job.

Tony: Tony was our model for photos as well as Jessica. He was making our project easy to work with by making everybody laugh. He also helping with ideas after our original didn't work out.

Ashley: Ashley had many ideas about the project. Also, we were taking pictures in her dorm, and she was modeling for pictures too. Overall, our group was working together very well, and I enjoyed it. 

5 Questions/Observations (Claire Sherwood)

1)      Many art works looks like you can eat it.

2)      I like how the artist changes boring objects to something more interesting without losing the view of the first taken object.

3)      Not many bright colors, most of the colors on works are calm and relaxing for the eye.

4)      The fabric is mostly black and white.

5)      The video with sprinkles is very unique

 

1)      What inspires the artist to do the work on rocks?

2)      Is the “cream” on rocks eatable?

3)      Does the artist get the real rocks or makes them from other material?

4)      What the artist like to do more (videos, photos or sculptures)?

5)      The first video is called perfect, but on the second video (sprinkles) the artist has a phrase that nothing is perfect, don’t the artist finds it ironic?

Point of View, Perspective, Landscape (Diana Shcherbakova & Sophie Moskowitz)

Our piece is from the perspective of a social media (specifically, Facebook) addict.  This person goes through their everyday activities without noticing, responding to, or appreciating their surroundings.  We utilized panoramic shots to emphasize the great deal of beauty and action of the environment around the person looking at the social media.  We also put the technology that is feeding the Facebook addiction in the center of every picture, correlating to the place which this technology stands in the person's life.  Three different images are important to this piece because it exemplifies how mobile social media has become, and that it can be used practically anywhere...including, unfortunately, places that would otherwise provide invaluable learning and social experiences.


Ranking other groups:

1.  Ashley & Honda - easily understood, creative, powerful message

2.  Taylor & Kyle - visually appealing, creative idea, good use of patterns & textures

3.  Ricky & Scott - paid attention to detail, easily understood, detailed thought process

4.  Olivia & Pasama - creative (imagine audience in their underwear), interesting to look at, had a few elements that could have been left out

5.  Dan & Anthony - creative/different idea, humorous, interesting use of the continuous layout

6.  Maddy & Jessica - unique idea, could have been executed a little better

7.  Ziona & Hazel - easily understood, very precise perspective, but not extremely creative

8.  Damian & Arielle - visually appealing image, slightly confusing on EXACTLY whose point of view it is from

9.  Stephanie & Kat - strong image, but slightly unclear whose perspective it is from

10.  Mike & Hannah - texting & driving message is clearly understood, but sometimes overused, not extremely creative

11.  Ryan & Nick - clear whose perspective it is from, but layout and execution of image could have been much stronger

World Records (The Fastest Man)

Pictures for editing were taken from:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120802-cheetah-sarah-cincinnati-zoo-fastest-record-science-usain-bolt-olympics/
http://www.emirates247.com/sports/other/hands-off-200m-bolt-tells-the-beast-2012-08-06-1.470442

Response for Skype interview (Jason Hackett)

The Skype session was interesting and I enjoyed listening to Jason. He has a good attitude and a nice personality. I was surprised to see so many works that are still in process, because I though usually artists don't show their works to anybody until it's done. Even though the works weren't finished they still looked good. Jason was answering most question by just talking. Everything was pretty clear and easy to understand. I enjoyed the interview.