boo -- a website

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/230740303/index.html

sweden did it, we can too

Im not really sure which one i like more.... the light slogan doesn't really go with the lightening bolt, but I cant think of something else. i think it would be an ideal if we were to just run out of garbage, like sweden did, but i don't know how to put that in a short phrase..... help??

any tips???

suzanne styrk

I liked the end of chapter 6 with suzanne stark. Her study of plants and specimen contributed to her career as an artist. "My whole worldview centers on the awareness of other lives."

She also mentioned something that applies to us during our critiques. She says she hopes that her work will elicit important questions, but "the first communication begins as purely visual experience. The conceptual sneaks in there after the eye is seduced."

i been slackin. bad!

Gonna work backwards...for whatever reason. Because it's interesting. Because I want to.

On page 143, talking about different kinds of critiques, I zoned in on the "cause and effect critique" or the formal analysis, specifically for this image:

 The first thing I noticed looking at this was that it was in multiple..."layers", I want to say (because photoshop and illustrator are making me dream about layers and layers and layers). The two at the front on the right are separated by the light post dividing the whole image by half, and the line even continues all the way to the bottom with the shadow.

Now look to the left. I know it's the same scene, but it looks so well divided to a point that I'm almost convinced theyre somewhere else, like the lamp post is a door.

... too many portal based TV shows. hahaaa

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i don't know what happened but here it is.

we were told to start out with three numbers or letters, and while i had no idea, i've been trying to envision a tattoo for myself based off of the vector-style images on the chapters of the book Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie. i eventually came up with "FFC" for Fly, Fight, Crow. In the film Hook, a twist on the original story (I'm sure you've all seen it. RIGHT???), Rufio, Peter's replacement after he left, chanted fly fight crow as the mantra for the Lost Boys.

I curved out most of the sharp edges, but left some in because I liked the aesthetic. I wanted to keep most of the vectors soft, and some of these, especially the middle with the "mop" effect in the back was actually an accident.

the color choice was my default choice... my favorite color is purple, so I ended up using shades of purple.

I originally intended to do something a little sky colored -- I've been taking a lot of pictures of clouds lately and was wondering if I could use that as a "color", but I think that's more photoshop based, and it never happened anyway.

Have you ever bought a piece of art? (this is two posts!)

If so, where? What drew you to it? If you hung it or placed it, where did you put it?

I have a reprint of something I got from a friend after he passed. I've loved it and have always had it hung wherever I've lived, and recently considered getting it reframed before I move again.

Chapter 4:

"Fragments" was the word Michael used when he was describing someones piece. Because in our assignment we were told to somehow portray movement of time, some kind of motion, "fragment" was exactly the right word. The Stewart text reflects here on page 103:

"As an object moves, ist sequentially occupies various positions in space. Visual fragmentation can be used to simulate this effect in art." There was an example of a painting I really liked called Frieze of Dancers by Edgar Degas. This painting mirrors a lot of his photography too, and his interest in "human and animal locomotion".

communal dust bowl