Month: September 2016

Part A:
Faith: From all of the presenters, I knew Faith’s presentation would be the most appealing to me because of my familiarity with her. Not only is she a TA for the Visual Studies class but I also have another class which has given me an opportunity to see how her personality can light up the room. As for her presentation, she did a great job projecting her voice and experience through photography. Her photographs were some of the best photos I have ever seen by a student which really impressed me. Faith mentioned how she learned much of her knowledge from Bill, so I am extremely excited to learn as much as she did from him, Tuan, Hollis, and the other visual professors.

Mary: As a graphic design major, I was particularly excited to hear more about it through a student’s perspective. To be honest, recently I have been wishy-washy about whether this major is for me or not, but after her presentation, I certainly felt more comfortable about my major and I can’t wait to learn more about graphic design. Although her presentation was not as strong as Faith’s, her creativity spoke volumes to me and the overall organization of her website impressed me.

Art Education: I felt like this presenter and what she had to say did not really pertain to me, however, it was interesting to see what she went through to end up where she ultimately wanted to be. She spoke very fluently and she to know a lot about art.

Johnathan and Omar: Seeing these two incredibly enthusiastic people present something that fascinated them was truly enjoyable. I don’t know much about gaming, but this find seems so fun and down to earth. But what really stood out to me was when Jonathan stated how he ultimately wanted to work for Disney because that is the same exact goal that I have. Although Annotations isn’t required for my major, I definitely would like to take it because it would not only interest me but add further credentials to my resume when it is time for me to apply to Disney. These two really emphasized how great the art program here at St. Edwards was which was definitely something I needed to hear.

Part B:
http://www.booooooom.com/
This website is very accessible for the user and is a great and organized website for many different types of artists.

https://www.behance.net
This is a website where artists are able to upload their portfolio in a very organized manner. This may be useful in my future.

https://www.myportfolio.com
This is a portfolio website distributed by Adobe which is an application that I am slowly but surely learning how to use through my visual studies classes. That being said, when gain familiarity with Adobe, this website might be very useful when its time to make a portfolio.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com
Like the first website I shared, this website is very a clean, composed, and very user friendly website that allows me to see other people’s expression through art.

Street artwork from Israelites that go by Tant, Deso, Kip and Unga, or better known as “The Broken Fingaz Crew”.

Some of the artwork that stood out to me came from a four person art crew located in Israel known as the “Broken Fingaz Crew”. As I researched some online articles about this group, I came across one fromhttp://www.israel21c.org/drawing-the-street-with-broken-fingaz/ , that says how Broken Fingaz drew inspiration from “American comic-book covers, old-schoolskateboard graphics and tattoos” which, for the most part, I personally find extremely interesting. Visually, a lot of their artwork deals with totally abstract and rather strange concepts, yet, highly intriguing. The same article states that a lot of their other inspiration comes from their surrounding environment, pop culture, drugs and sexuality which is a different approach to art which is a boundary some artists won’t dare to explore. Death and morbid metaphors are another element that is often portrayed in their street art, however, it isn’t necessarily in a gruesome way. In some aspects, that particular type of work is appealing and lively with their use of vivid color and attention to detail. As I mentioned earlier, the mixture of intensity and whimsicality is what initially drew me in from Broken Fingaz crew’s works and I personally have always been a fan of this style of drawing. Some of my own favorite drawing involve skulls or comic-book related characters, so learning and researching from these particular and successful artists that share common interests have allowed me to feel for expressive throughout upcoming projects. An entertaining video of the crew and their work can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Tp3TRQbhw .

Contact Sheets for the past 3 South Congress photograph project.

As I embarked on my third exploration to take my photos throughout South Congress, I went in with a clearer mind-frame as to how I would take each photo. I decided to continue the Law of Similarity because of how fun it was for me to capture objects with similar patterns or characteristics. The six pictures I preferred all deal with repetition along with also having a general focus towards the center of each of them. I realized that I wanted to continue working with this particular law because of how organized of a person I am in the sense that I like for things to always focus on following a clear and common structure.

Because alliteration is my favorite rhetorical device I often use throughout my writings, I thought that it would be interesting to see how it would turn out photographically. I felt that the Law of Similarity was an interesting element that would be pretty cool to capture. Although I did not take as many pictures as I did last time, I felt that by keenly focusing on one specific element, my skills and photos drastically improved in quality.

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