2.5 Sequence

The movie I picked from the selection was the second sequence movie called “Run Lola Run”. The way sequences in this movie are used are strange they are not like the usual sequences you would get in a traditional action movie. When transitioning into an important scene you see that Lola, the main character, and the rest of the film turn into an animation. This serves to increase the significance that Lola has the ability to redo and change a situation almost like a video game. The animation looks weird and doesn’t add much to the story other than giving the redo of the situations more meaning. Every other sequence in the movie is strange as well with weird camera shots and cuts to the past to add to the story line.

Blog Post #6

  1. Computer Skills
    1. Adobe
      1. Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Bridge
    2. Music Maker
    3. Fastcut
    4. Inkscape
    5. Gimp
  2. I still need to learn
    1. coding
  3. Research & writing skills
    1. My greatest strengths as a researcher/writer include:
      1. I am able to find resources that are usable for my topic.
    2. I need to work on these aspects of research and writing:
      1. Have a better way of conveying my message to the audience in a more much clearer manner
    3. I learn best & accomplish most when:
      1. I do them hands on, I learn through failure as it is the only way to improve.
  4. Classes
    1. VISU – 1100 – 1
      1. My greatest strength in my ability to understand the topics at hand
      2. For greater success in this course I need to pay attention to the speaker and take note of what they say as they can help guide me to what I want to accomplish
    2. Visual Studies 1
      1. My greatest strength in Visual Studies is the hands on work we do, the graphic art that we do is what comes to me easily and lets me do my best.
      2. For greater success in this course I need to be able to lessen my boundaries and try to broaden my horizons by experimenting with new styles as I work on my pieces.
    3. FSTY – 1310 – 17
      1. My greatest strength in this class is my understanding of the topics at hand and my ability to question the topics as to get a better understanding.
      2. For greater success in this class I must continue my work flow.
    4. FSTY – 1313 – 4
      1. My greatest strength in this class is my knowledge of writing and composition as it’s a class that I have had before so everything comes easier to me.
      2. For greater success in this class I must be able to write clear and concise papers along with having the ability to manage my time.
    5. IGST – 2399
      1. My greatest strength for this class is the ability to retain the information of the topic being talked about and my want to learn more about the history of games.
      2. For greater success in this class I need to increase my work flow and study harder.
    6. MATH – 2312 – 7
      1. My greatest strength in this class is my already known knowledge of the units being presented and my ability to understand the math presented.
      2. For greater success in this class I must also increase my work flow and study allot more as the class is getting harder.

Hybrid Collages

For these collages I had already planned the design in my head and though it is not a 100% replication of what I wanted it is still good. I indeed wanted to branch out and do something different for this collage. Each of the shapes below can be a collage of their own but together they make something as well, you can even arrange them a bit to make them into something new. The wings are unique in their own way I managed to make certain parts of my image into a brush and use that to scatter the images across the page and I then later drew a wing on the backside of the page so that it would be random when I would cut them out.

Blog Post #5

  • Part 1:
    • Last Friday we viewed the work of four upperclassman, one of them was a Interactive game studies major this interested me the most, I was eager to learn more about what my major has to offer. When the IGST major went up I had realized that she had not gone for the actual design but more towards the art work, which is good and is something I have also been conspiring as art is something I like to do in my past time. The IGST major also helped me realize that our field of work is high risk and understandable it’s a field where you either do good or you don’t there is no middle ground. For the other majors the art, graphic design I saw their work and I both liked and was inspired by their work. Graphic design especially as it seems to come easier to me than anything else.
  • Part 2:
    • http://www.tylercarter.us/#intro
      • I like this artist website because it’s plain and simple, there may not be a bio but you all the work the artist has done.
    • http://www.tilianmusic.com/tilian.html
      • You get a bio along with a store and the ability to check out the artist material. The website is easy to navigate and it’s clean.
    • https://www.mattleblancart.com/pages/about-us
      • You get a bio of the artists work and then you get to see and buy some of the artists work. The website design is simple and easy to access.
    • http://www.kojimaproductions.jp/en/
      • This one I chose because it’s pertains to my major and it clearly shows the games that the developer is working on. The website also has a clean and sharp look with a very cool website design.

Graphic Collages

For these collages I listened to what Tuan said and I sat down and for six hours I made collages. There was a bit of trial and error along with trying to figure out what I liked best these four collages were the ones that I made and the ones that I thought were the best I made two of each so two of the same concept two are supposed to be strange and kinda psychedelic I chose to use psychedelic colors, while the other two were more a mixture of pictures. The two mixed picture ones are actually my favorite I spent a good couple of minutes picking and choosing a good amount of photos that I thought would make this type of collage look great. In the end I came out with these four collages.

Blog Post #4

Part 1:

  1. The goal of the assignment was to make two collages using lines, shapes, and color to make something new.
  2. I achieved my goal by cutting out things from old pictures and making them into something strange and new, I took things from pictures from past projects and new material to achieve what I wanted.

Part 2:

  1. My strongest aspect is the strangeness of the pieces, I want to achieve something that if someone looked at them they would think “What was he thinking, I bet he was on something when he made this”.
  2. My weakest aspect would have to be having to much blank space in the second one, I could have added allot more and could have made it even better.
  3. I would not change a thing conceptually I feel that is it already an interesting piece to look at.
  4. If I could change it technically I would want to have it on a bigger canvas maybe so that I can increase the size of some of the images on the collage and then make this seem even weirder by having things be very disproportionate.

Harmony (Analog)

For this project I was a little bit more excited since this is mainly abstract art I knew that I could have fun doing it. For the 10 scanned objects I went for a theme which was strange text, I wanted to make something strange something that when you look at it makes you think. When I was putting it together I knew I wanted one to be black and white and one to be a mixture of colors. For the first one I used different pictures and text to come up with something strange though I wanted it to still work together. For the second one I took parts from the the old gestalt photos and made something that looks like it’s straight from a cult.

Blog Post #3

Will Swan is the lead guitarist and the rapper for the band Dance Gavin Dance, and the guitarist for the band Sianvar thought he is most known for being in Dance Gavin Dance. He is also the founder of Blue Swan Records a record company that signs new upcoming bands. I enjoy Swans work because of the feel he puts into it when you hear his style of playing you can tell that he puts in time and effort into each and every song. Will Swan is a math rock style guitarist, math rock is sub genre and it’s known for how complex the instruments in the band are played, he has a gracefulness to his playing and can still lay it down when it’s necessary.He is graceful in the way that when he plays it’s not harsh you notice it and it’s there but it doesn’t distract from the rest of the song from the rest of the players. I am greatly influenced by his work I try to incorporate gracefulness into my art along with my music. When writing music I try to make it complex yet still enjoyable to listen to because what Swan does is while having the drums, bass, and second guitarist play is add a little bit more personality to the song and that is what I try to do. Will Swan is an idol to me, he was the one who influenced me to play guitar and who has changed the way I looked at the world.

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Final Gestalt

For this final photo shoot I took the criticism from my peers and professors and tried to focus more on man made gestalt rather than graphic design made gestalt. I also tried to stay within a theme so that it would be easier for me to find good pictures. I tired to stick to an urban theme so I looked at different things and questioned if it had one or more forms of gestalt in the frame. The three photos below were the best ones in my opinion they have one or more forms of gestalt and are aesthetically pleasing.

Blog Post #2

Part #1

During the week I recorded my time usage I realized that I used allot of my time to study instead of to relax and have fun. I should work on having a better schedule so that I can have an equal amount of time allotted for things I want to do. I do spend time with friends when they are free, but I noticed that I spent and unnecessary amount of time and at the wrong times doing homework or studying. In the mornings I have made a habit of studying in order to refresh my mind on the topics of discussion for the classes I have those days. I also have to make sure to do homework not to early in the day, but early enough to where I can still enjoy my day without worrying about my responsibilities.

Part #2

I do draw and I do enjoy graphic design and the work posted below is one of the few things I am proud to have made. It actually came to me during math class I was doodling on my paper and I made a shape and it reminded me of the human face and so I traced it on a piece of paper and enlarged it once I got home. I got the inspiration for the actual piece by one of my dearest friends. I don’t have a name for it because I can’t seem to find anything suitable for it but it is currently the cover art for an EP that I am working on.

-unnamed, Illustration, 23″ x 24″, 2016