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PART 1 Tuan’s presentation showed me that I need to be open to do a variety of projects for a variety of people. I could make projects for my friends and family, and also work on more professional works as … Continue reading →

The Way Things Go is an interesting Rube Goldberg machine. Each part is extremely important to the piece afterwards, and everything is necessary for this machine to work. It is set up to operate through not just the everyday objects … Continue reading →

The film Memento demonstrates the purpose of acknowledging the sequence of events, and how words and pictures can come together to create a narrative. At the beginning of the movie, there is no context to the photo that has been … Continue reading →

This first collage was for my Visual Studies class. I created it using scanned trash from South Congress, photos from South Congress, and a ton of mistakes. The curling patterns weren’t planned, I made a mistake while cutting and decided … Continue reading →

PART 1 The three alumni speakers discussed various things to aid in getting a job in the visual arts. Each speaker this time had a different approach to getting into the field. Lynnè Bowman Cravens explained how grad school is … Continue reading →

The four alumni that visited provided me with reassurance on the path that I have chosen. They each explained how important it is to volunteer and do internships. The first speaker was Nick Swift. He helped create the Swift distillery … Continue reading →

This first project for me was filled with some confusion, but I feel it transitioned me into college art classes. In high school, there was so much handholding and concrete guidelines like how many images to take, and what subject … Continue reading →

SKILLS INVENTORY My greatest strengths in Visual Studies include: prior knowledge of some Adobe programs, mostly photo-editing. For greater success in this course, I need to: build my compositional skills and get better at critiquing. My greatest strengths in Pre-calculus … Continue reading →

In the Dan Phillips TED talk, he discusses how the housing industry has created a large amount of waste because of their obsession with perfection and perfect materials. So he decides to make houses out of scrapped materials that are … Continue reading →