Julia Calcada

Saw this amazing artist. So visually intriguing, and im really interesting in her content : )

Digital Imagery Final

In progress - 10 finished, 16 to go : )

First completed map : )

Slowly but shirley : )

So i finished putting the tabs and grids on them (all 26 of them) : 0
now I just have to put the streets and stuff and make an index (although i'm still debating whether or not to even include an index).

developing brownie 620 pan film

DISASTER! There is no notches on the side of the film to get it into the spool, so i tried just guiding it in and it overlapped in so many places there wasn't really a single image that came out right... grrrr

LBMA

I went to the Long Beach Museum of Art last week to see the sweet submersives drawing show. It was pretty amazing. In particular there was this one piece that caught my attention the most. It didn't have the dimensions posted but it had to be about 18 feet by 4 feet. It took up a whole wall of the museum and was definitely the most crowded to try to see. It was a jungle scene with a whole bunch of animals, but some of them had human features. You had to really stare at it to realize the little quircks that were out of place. The artist did the entire piece in graphite pencil and it was just incredible. Ive been trying to find a picture of it but no luck yet so ill post one when I find it. : )

Little Red Riding Hood

I'm doing a Little Red Riding Hood storyboard for my Illustration class. Here's some of the photos from the first shoot : )

In Progress : )

I still need to add the text, but at least Ive got the thomas guide lines and sides down : )

Where am I?!

I don't know where I am with my project! lol. I guess I'm in the progress of making my photos come to life in a thomas guide sense... I shot my images already, now it's just trying to make them three dimensional and then putting the information on them like the lines and the places. Once I have that part done I can start binding them together to make it look 'Thomas Guide inspired'. At first I wanted to make my work look like an actual thomas guide and replicate it almost to the tee, but the more i've been thinking about it the more I want to make it my own with a little more originality involved. The one thing I am having the most trouble with is how I want to lay the text in there, and whether I want the map to have the names of actual places, mythical places or comical places. Any ideas? : )

: )

Thought the women would get a kick outta this ; ) all the grls cookin, and the only guy in the kitchen standin behind them watchin with beer in hand.. hahaha.. priceless

Paul Graves

This kinda played with my head... trippy concept.. i love it : ) enjoy!

Thomas Guide

some images I have for the start of the final project. Im thinkin about doin a mock thomas guide or somethin along those lines.. not completely sure where I wanna take it yet, but heres a start : )

William Merrill Gallery

Over the weekend I went down to Laguna to take some photos for my simulacra project, and I came across one of the many galleries in Laguna. The William Merrill Gallery had a good show goin on. I was gonna walk rite past it because my parking meter was running out of time, but i saw some pretty amazing sculptures, so i decided it was worth it to spend just a few minutes in there. Needless to say I ended up spending over 30 minutes in there, and then i got to talkin with the person who worked there and she was tellin me about all the artists they support. I loved it! and to top it off i didn't get a parking ticket! yay! haha

Jane Burton was my favorite : )

Thomas Guide

For my next piece I'm thinking I want to make a thomas guide using images that I took that look like elaborate landscapes, but in reality they are a simple organic material. I want to take this idea to the extreme and make an actual mock Thomas Guide.

Assignment Template?

Where do I find the new assignment template Kyle was explaining in class? Any help is appreciated!

Artist Links

http://mariozoots.blogspot.com/
geoffallan.blogspot.com/
artandcritique.com/jacquelyn-l-berl-collages/
jordantate.com/blog/
Street Art On Doors
The Human Face
Maren Esdar

Digital Imagery Project Idea

I am strongly considering making my piece 3-Dimensional, so when you physically move your body around the piece, it changes. Not sure how I'm gonna accomplish this yet, but I really want to attempt it.

Frustrated

I stayed up about 2 hours later than I wanted to last night because I couldn't stop thinking about ideas for my digital imagery project. All these ideas just came to me one right after another, and I even started thinking about another project I want to get started on. It's a good thing but.. I like to sleep too.. ha.

Mark Allen

I went to see Mark Allen's lecture on Wednesday. It was mostly about the work going on @ Machine project, which is his alternative space. The piece that I was most interested in was an interactive poetry reading. At Machine Project, they created a space under the floorboards where two poets were, and in the middle of the floorboards was a cone-shaped listening device which one of the viewers would write a word on a slip of paper and slip it through the floorboards. The poets then came up with a poem and read it into the cone, however the viewer would have to physically lay down on the floor to listen to it. Looking at the photos of it was amazing and halarious! : )

Where The Wild Things Are!

Honestly one of the best movies i've seen, especially since i've been pretty disappointed in the new releases lately. My 9 year old cousin saw the movie too and she said she didn't like it at all. Thats interesting how this very popular children's book was made into a movie that wasn't made for kids at all. I really enjoyed the movie though. Amazingly artistic : )

Ascender

very visually pleasing and disturbing at the same time : )

I love it!

Laurie Simmons

In my experimental class we looked at an artist who works with puppets and odd ways of interpreting everyday things and putting legs on them. It's not exactly my cup of tea but she also did a film with Merill Streep in it and I liked that piece more than anything else she did. Most of the video was just people prancing around with cameras and other things on the top half of their body.. it was a little eerie to be honest.. it kinda freaked me out haha

Trailer Park Boys

My brother Jorge made me watch this low budget show called "Trailer Park Boys" the other day and I really recommend it. It has this weird, stupid funny humor to it but it got my attention and I stayed up til like 3am watchin this stupid show haha.

Project 1

Project Name: Identity
Project Description: My work will be a portrait style piece (square in shape). It will contain fragments and misrepresentations of the human face.
Conceptual Concerns: My idea behind this project is to get myself (as an artist) out there to try new things and new media. So far working with color film in itself has been different for me. I will be configuring the faces of siblings by rearranging their features. With this I am hoping to make some eerie comparisons.
Technical Skills: I will have to work with a lot of mediums that I am not used too familiar with, including color film and negative scanning, and working with photoshop to try and configure the faces together which I am never attempted. I also want this piece printed at a large scale which will hopefully add clarity and wonder to the piece.
Formal Guidelines:
Medium: Photograph (inkjet)
Size: 30" x 30"
Quantity: 1 (with 4 photos)
Presentation: Grid format
Artistic References:
Gordon Magnin












Marty Coleman







Readings:
The Human Face (60 min. documentary) 1991












Ralph Steadman - America
Goals List:
Different understandings and views of portrait photography
To interpret facial structures in a different way
To observe the differences and similarities of facial structures between siblings
To have a better understanding of photoshop tools
To acquire comfort in printing at a large scale

Brownie

So I have a Brownie camera from the 40's or 50's and i just bought some film for it (which I had to search for because no one makes 620 film anymore) : ( Does anyone have any tips for developing? : )

I love old cameras!

OCMA

I went to the Orange County Museum of Art yesterday to see "The Moving Image, Scan To Screen, Pixel To Projection". The media exhibited was all from their permanent collection, so there was media from the 70's ike John Baldessari's "I Will Not Make Anymore Boring Art", and then there were a few newer pieces like Robin Rhodes "Color Chart". They were all amazing, although I have to say that Bill Viola's "The Reflecting Pool" was definitely my favorite. I watched the 7 minute reel like 3 times in a row. : ) I went with my cousin who had never been to an art gallery before and he thought the exhibit was pretty awsome!

SSMF

I went to the Sunset Strip Music Festival last weekend. Other than seeing tons of dreads : ) and half-naked women : ( they had both odd and awsome work displayed. Heres one thing I didn't understand......all it did was blind us when the sun hit it...

D23 Expo

Yesterday I went to Disney's D23 Expo. Met a lot of amazing artists and got some autographs, but the best work I saw was the Art Of the Disney Princess series. I am definitely a fan of child icons being interpreted differently : ) The official book comes out next month:



Here are some of my favorite pieces throughout the day : )



There was also a Donald vs. Mickey series! It was pretty funny : )

GLAMFA Panel Discussion

I went to the panel discussion yesterday for GLAMFA, and it was interesting to hear some different views and points of interest. I mean personally I'm not gonna continue into the masters program, but it's cool to see all the different work of these students who continued into higher education.. good for them! 

Amazing : )

Came across an artist I really enjoy. : )
She works on wood quite a bit.
This is one of my favorites. : )


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