Monday, May 9, 2011
Blog 5A
I was originally drawn to the first image because of the horse and elephants with the ridiculous spider-like legs. Overall it’s a very interesting image, you have the guy down in the bottom left corner he seems to be holding up the procession by brandishing a cross. Also the elephants have some pretty strange and interesting cargo on their backs, the fact that one of the items is glowing with a bright gold light certainly grabs you’re attention
I chose to zoom in where I did because that area just caught my eye after I’d taken everything else in. There’s just so much going on in the picture that I feel like that part is kind of easy to overlook. Between the giant crazy animals and the stuff they’re carrying there’s definitely enough other stuff in the image to grab you’re attentionl I still can’t tell exactly what it is but it looks like a person about to hand something to another person but I can’t really tell.
Honestly I have no idea why the artist chose to “frame” this image the way he did. Frankly I have no idea why anything that’s in this image is there. The only possible explanation I give for the original framing is that it’s a much more interesting image when you’re not just zoomed in on those two people.
I believe the VISUAL INTENSITY of this image is high because of the use of shades of bright gold and a couple instances of nudity. LINE AND SHAPE have heavy influence, well at least line does, in the legs of the creatures, all of which lead your eye on a certain path. There are also strong DEPTH CUES present you can definitely tell what’s supposed to be close or far away based on it’s size and clarity
Monday, April 25, 2011
Blog 4B
The first track is my review of Scott O'Lone's song, the second track is my review of Keiren Astall's song, the third track is my review of Joseph Buccini's song
Blog Assignment 4A
"Brainwashed" by Seth Godin, can be found here
When Seth Godin talks about acknowledging "the lizard" he's talking about that little voice in the back of your head that says "you can't do this" or "people will laugh at you" when we want to do something different. Godin says we must acknowledge this voice because once we've acknowledged it we can ignore it and get on with creating something meaningful.
Another section of "Brainwashed" that "speaks to me" is Make Art. I like this section because it really expanded what I think of as art, and I love art, mostly for the reasons that Godin mentioned: that it doesn't follow an instruction manual, it's simply the human act making something new.
I think both of these sections apply to this blog that I have to write for the class. Acknowledging the lizard applies to me because, for every project, I always find myself thinking "what if people think this stupid" or "what if they're laughing at me behind my back" and that's very inhibiting to your creativity to do. Make art applies to the blog because that's exactly what we're doing. Every exercise we create a new work of art. As far as this blog goes, I think these exercises are both worthwhile and worthless. On one hand they help us exercise our creativity and give us experience in using the tools of our future trade and on the other hand it seems sort of redundant to try to grade someone for creativity because it's all subjective. However we have to graded for something and right now this is all we have.
When Seth Godin talks about acknowledging "the lizard" he's talking about that little voice in the back of your head that says "you can't do this" or "people will laugh at you" when we want to do something different. Godin says we must acknowledge this voice because once we've acknowledged it we can ignore it and get on with creating something meaningful.
Another section of "Brainwashed" that "speaks to me" is Make Art. I like this section because it really expanded what I think of as art, and I love art, mostly for the reasons that Godin mentioned: that it doesn't follow an instruction manual, it's simply the human act making something new.
I think both of these sections apply to this blog that I have to write for the class. Acknowledging the lizard applies to me because, for every project, I always find myself thinking "what if people think this stupid" or "what if they're laughing at me behind my back" and that's very inhibiting to your creativity to do. Make art applies to the blog because that's exactly what we're doing. Every exercise we create a new work of art. As far as this blog goes, I think these exercises are both worthwhile and worthless. On one hand they help us exercise our creativity and give us experience in using the tools of our future trade and on the other hand it seems sort of redundant to try to grade someone for creativity because it's all subjective. However we have to graded for something and right now this is all we have.
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