Its Your Choice

This piece can say multiple things, or it can be just something nice to look at. If it were to say something, it would probably be along the lines of this: as we grow up, things from comic books, super heros, and things like them will either stay or leave from our lives. In the same way, as we grow up we have to make the choices that will define who we are. Although probably not nearly as drastic as the characters from Batman or other comics, it still shows just how much the choices we make in life will affect who we are (if you know the back stories of the characters its easier to understand).

final progress

Tis a collage of Batman things. One side good, the other evil. About halfway done. Just a few more people to add, and some layers to make it visually better.

Re-Imaging Muybridge

For my .gif I first added the jet pack guy (nothing to do here meme), im not at all sure why... but i decided just him flying across the screen over the horse wasnt enough, so i added in Anikin Skywalker, the DeLorean time machine from back to the future (originally was going to be the Mach 5 from Speed Racer). For some reason I still wasnt satisfied with it so i added the Avenged Sevenfold Death Bat and had it pop up randomly. I really just wanted this to be as random as possible.

Assignment three.

I decided to make a map of songs I wrote in high school. These are mostly from my junior and senior year, and there are 39 of them all layered over one another. It is not exactly supposed to convey anything, it could be looked at as showing just how chaotic the type of music that I write can be, and that is shown because you can not really tell what the lyrics say, or what word goes in what song. I have a very disorganized writing process.

Assignment Three Proposal

For my digital mapping piece I am going to create an image generated from scanning all the songs I wrote in high school. Then I will drop the opacity on all of them so they can be seen through each other and layer them on top one another. Avoiding copyrights because they will be all my own images. Main artist that inspired me was Jason Salavon.

Visual Complexity

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=763&index=763&domain=

This one was interesting to me because I used to do a lot of running and I would love to see a map of everywhere I had run, I think it would be interesting to look back at where I have ran in cross country with all the races I was in all over Ohio.

made out of boredom :p

Social Critique!

This is my social critique piece. Basically what it is about is how people will spend hundreds of dollars at a big name clothing place (hollister is the first I could think of), and in the end they basically start to look like a walking billboard. When you really think about it, it doesn't really make sense to pay that much money so you can advertise a company. Used three images (the girl, the billboard, and the hollister pic) and put them over each other, then added the text. Images used under fair use agreement.

Social Critique

This is my social critique piece. Basically what it is about is how people will spend hundreds of dollars at a big name clothing place (hollister is the first I could think of), and in the end they basically start to look like a walking billboard. When you really think about it, it doesn't really make sense to pay that much money so you can advertise a company. Images used under fair use agreement. May upload again with minor details touched up.

Assignment 2 Proposal

For my assignment 2 project I plan to try to do something similar to what Adbusters does. There are a couple ideas I have been toying with, I'm really just waiting for the right one to hit me. The ones I have come up with so far are about: apple always releasing products with very little differences, flu shots, video games, or maybe something political. these things interest me simply because they are things I think about.  I should have a final decision tonight.

Copyright Summary

Using photos that are not you're own can actually be ok sometimes if you go about doing it correctly. The public domain would be the best to use for photos because you are aloud to use them free of charge, as many times as you want, and how ever you want. Freeware is different from public domain, it is subject to copyright, but it is also free of charge. Most other images you will have to get a copyright for, which will cost a minimum of $150 for any images one time use. If it is a well known image it will cost more. Violating the copyrights can have some very high consequences, ranging from ridiculous fines to possibly jail time. If you're not sure if you can use an image without violating copyright, its probably better to just not use it and save yourself the trouble.

This is the final version of my psychological profile. Its intent is to be an abstract collage of what makes me, well me.  What I did was take pictures and scans of objects that I am around daily or that greatly impact my life or that have done both.

Objects that can be found here if you carefully look are: a plastic skull, my car, guitar strings, tuners, guitar picks, soccer cleats, my skateboard, a basketball, one of my guitars, an xbox 360 controller, my mixing board, my dog, and my name in flame. The main object in focus is the actual shape of the picture. It is actually my first tattoo that takes up most of my back. I wanted it to make up the shape of the image and sort of hold to collage together.

What I hoped to represent with this is what I said before, to show what makes me, me. It is supposed to be very chaotic and scattered looking because that is how my mind works. I am always doing at least five different things at once constantly multi tasking, how everything is cluttered and overlapped shows that, but at the same time everything is contained, showing that I do have control over the chaos that makes up what I like to call my life.

Work In Progress

So far its very cluttered and kind of awkward looking. It will clean up soon :)

Art Gallery, George Rush

At George Rush's gallery Darker with the Day, there were not very many pieces to look at, but the pieces that were there caused for a lot of thought and interpretation.

The first thing I noticed was that they are all black and white, and tended to not really be "happy" paintings. Also, some of the paintings were almost exactly the same, just with things either added or taken away from the table. With the darkness of the images and this happening with the objects it almost seems like the paintings and the name of the gallery were like a sorta of metaphor for life being darker than it seems it is and how things are constantly coming and going from life. Also one of the things I just kind of thought was cool was how the two window paintings were opposite each other, almost like looking through an actual window, one side being lighter than the other. Possibly going back to how things are darker than they seem to people.

Going back to the window paintings, it seemed as though going into the gallery we saw the darker window, almost as if showing us that we are entering a somewhat dark place, where as leaving you would see the light window, showing that you are going to a possibly brighter place. The window paintings were probably the pieces I liked the best.

Over all, I really enjoyed the gallery.

Questions for the artist:
1) The paintings with the table and objects, is that a specific place?

2) Was there any specific inspiration to the paintings?

3) What were you actually trying to represent with the paintings?

Optimism/Pessimism

Optimism

Pessimsism

Christiane Paul Digital Art

In Christian Paul's writing on digital art I was very interested by all the artists there, but there were three in particular that really stood out.

-Carl Fudge and his piece Rhapsody. In looking at the image I would have never  guessed that it was a picture of anything, let alone of the cartoon character Sailor Moon. I have always enjoyed distorted images and trying to figure out what they are. This image was distorted beyond all recognizing and it made it very cool to look at.

-Daniel Canogar's piece called Horror Vacui and Digital Hyde 2. Both pieces are made up of what looks like many dismembered body parts all put into a collage. It says these two pieces of art are supposed to operate on fear and fascination, and they do just that. I have always had a bit of an interest for things that are dark and morbid, that is probably why I found these pieces interesting.

-Lilian Schwartz's piece Mona/Leo was also very interesting. At first glance, it did not look like anything more than a portrait, but when I got a full look at it, I saw it was two images put together and it just seemed very interesting. It was especially interesting on the fact that their faces are very symmetrical to each other.

Aaron Perry