Book Poem Visualization, Concept Paper

This is my Poem Visualization thought-process paper and a jpg of the flames stitched together, without the words - I'm sorry I wasn't able to take a photo of the book in the hall before the janitor swept up the orange peel and honestly it disheartened me so much that it happened that I forgot to take one of the pages left. EDIT: So apparently the picture thing isn't an issue because blogger is refusing to let me upload images. So. You have my documentation. And the memories. Yes.



Nicole Makino
Poem Visualization Documentation

For my poem visualization I chose “Oranges” by Gary Soto. This is a somewhat dated poem about a universal story: the start of young love. It’s about a boy going on a date, armed with only a nickel and two oranges, in the cold dark of December. The date is going well, and he holds his orange in his hand, describing it as “…so bright against/The gray of December/That, from some distance,/Someone might have thought/I was making a fire in my hands.” The fire, obviously, represents the glow of their love and relationship as it sparks into existence, beginning as a miniscule ember and growing into a bright and roaring flame. That’s the feeling that I tried to bring across with this project: a small fire that slowly gets more expansive and more bright and consuming. I used photoshop to illustrate a representation of flames getting larger and brighter and taking up more and more of the black background until it completely shuts the blackness out. I used several layers with various blending mode effects to make them pop, like linear burn and hard light mix. I really wanted to give a feeling of jumping off the page, or an almost unrealistic brightness to the color. I really wanted to bring across the life of fire. This ended up not translating very well to print: I thought I had a pretty good color arrangement on the computer and I was planning on printing on Holman’s phaser. Unfortunately, purpose doesn’t always translate into practice. Holman for some reason refused to print, sending me on a mad quest through all the people I know, asking for access to printers (my own having run out of black ink weeks ago). I looked for black ink in the bookstore, too, but they didn’t have any cartridges compatible with my printer! When I finally was able to get all of the pages, after going through several different friends and buying ink for someone else’s printer, I was so relieved just to have the pages that I wasn’t about to nit-pick the dullness of the color. I broke up the poem according to what I felt worked as natural breaks in the story, and set them to the flames in an opposite gradient to the fire. The lines in the first, darkest page were taken from the colors of the bright yellow at the end of the piece, while the lines on the last page were taken from some of the darker colored “flames” on page one. All of the text in the middle pages were colors taken from the corresponding “opposite” pages in the same way, working in an order from bright yellow to deep red. The ones in the middle, as shades of orange, were getting lost more easily than on the ends as the got closer to that tricky mid-point where the values of text and flame were meeting up, so I added a second layer of text, slightly off center, like a backdrop shadow, to all of the middle pages, in a different color (often that of the text line that comes after it) and lowered the opacity to make them transparent, again going with the shadow/glow effect to not lose the living, moving fire element. The typeface I chose was BIRTH OF A HERO – a sort of charred, sparking-ember looking geometric sans serif that I felt really brought across the feel of the old time setting, yet also portrayed the effect of the fire as the dominant element: stronger than the words. I will pin the pages to a wall in Holman through slices of an orange, letting the juice dribble down the pages. Going with the themes of growing larger and more plentiful, I will order the pieces with the smallest ones at the first pages leading up the bulkiest for the last pages. I’ve also printed out a page with the author’s name and the title of the poem – this one is much smaller, with the text color again taken from the darkest red of the fire on page one, and will be on the side, slightly curled at the edges, like an old page (this is also represented by the only faintly yellowed background color) and bringing across the same kind of feel as Zurbaran’s Saint Serapion did when he painted an old crinkled piece of paper with the painting’s information on it into his piece. It will also be pinned through an orange. I am going with the simple method of pinning the pages to a plain white wall with nondescript clear tacks (I wanted dull nails, but the bookstore doesn’t sell them) because I really want to emphasize the vibrancy of the fire. My only fears are that the way that my colors ended up printing, it will only come across as dull, and that the flimsy paper I had to use will curl or fall around when I really need them to lie flat against the wall. The peel of the orange will be scattered below the pages, with the vibrancy of the orange peel lending aid to the imagination of the bright orange “flame” from the poem. I will put the larger chunks of peel underneath the final page and the smaller ones underneath the first page, again matching the themes of growing in volume, both physically and metaphorically emotion-wise. The pages will all be right next to each other so as not to break up the flow of the fire.



Gary Soto - "Oranges"

The first time I walked
With a girl, I was twelve,
Cold, and weighted down
With two oranges in my jacket.
December. Frost cracking
Beneath my steps, my breath
Before me, then gone,
As I walked toward
Her house, the one whose
Porch light burned yellow
Night and day, in any weather.
A dog barked at me, until
She came out pulling
At her gloves, face bright
With rouge. I smiled,
Touched her shoulder, and led
Her down the street, across
A used car lot and a line
Of newly planted trees,
Until we were breathing
Before a drugstore. We
Entered, the tiny bell
Bringing a saleslady
Down a narrow aisle of goods.
I turned to the candies
Tiered like bleachers,
And asked what she wanted -
Light in her eyes, a smile
Starting at the corners
Of her mouth. I fingered
A nickle in my pocket,
And when she lifted a chocolate
That cost a dime,
I didn't say anything.
I took the nickle from
My pocket, then an orange,
And set them quietly on
The counter. When I looked up,
The lady's eyes met mine,
And held them, knowing
Very well what it was all
About.

Outside,
A few cars hissing past,
Fog hanging like old
Coats between the trees.
I took my girl's hand
In mine for two blocks,
Then released it to let
Her unwrap the chocolate.
I peeled my orange
That was so bright against
The gray of December
That, from some distance,
Someone might have thought
I was making a fire in my hands


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Collaborative Presentations Day 2

Usman Haque and Rebecca Allen; Cory Arcangel and Lillian Schwartz; John Lasseter and John Knoll; Pascal Dombis and Terry Mulligan


Liz and Jessica did an exhibit on Usman Haque and Rebecca Allen, titled Interaction Required. It was about interactive technologies and the viewer playing a central role in the gallery space. Usman would be presented outside and Rebecca inside.

Rebecca's pieces were "Fleeting Words" (1991), "Bush Soul #2" (1998), and "Sleight of Hand" (2004). Bush Soul #2 dealt with human prescence in the artificial world. It invovled a vibrating joystick and was meant to show the reaction of humans in an enviornment. They claim that it's "not like a game", but it sure seems like one to me. Slight of Hand also screams of gaming potential. It is an excellent use of virtual reality technology, sensitive to human hand movement.

Usman took viewer creation in a different direction. His "Blurbal" was a light show inside balloons, with the entire contraption strung together and attached to handlebars that the audience could turn to manipulate the lights and shape. He had "Primal Source" at a beach festival in California, 2008, which utilized mist projection and light, and the crowd determined the imagery. The one that impressed me the most was "Evoke", which used microphones in the crowds to control colors lighting up a building. It was able to determine the difference between not only volume levels but between the lilts and tempos of applause, singing, clapping, yelling, etc. The throng crowding the building certainly shows that it succeeds in impacting the people.

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Ryan and Kyle Czepiel did Cory Arcangel and Lillian Schwartz, in an exhibit to be viewed at the MET.

Cory manipulates technology to create art. His pieces include "Super Mario Clouds", which shows the beauty of clouds through game technology by breaking into the Mario game cartridge and removing everything except for the clouds from the game, "I Shot Andy Warhol", which removed targets in an old shooting game with famous people, "Super Mario Movie", which created a movie from the Super Mario game wherein the game breaks down to the tune of his own soundtrack, and "Sans Simon", the only non-video game piece, in which Cory uses his own shadow to block the image of Paul Simon throughout and entire video of a song at a concert.

Lillian has the "Mona Leo", which splices Leonardo daVinci's chalk portrait together with his Mona Lisa - it is an argument regarding the speculation that Mona Lisa is actually his self-portrait. She also has "Pixelation", which is meant to establish a new medium - the computer for art as a new paintbrush tool, and another work too which deals with the idea that computer animation is a form of art, with special effects and form.

Cory questions what we view art as and Lily expands the viewers' perception on what we know.

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Next there was an exhibit of John Lasseter and John Knoll, on the development of a digital art.

Lasseter was a Disney animator who moved to Pixar. He did the short film "Where the Wild Things Live" which mixed 2-D and 3-D animation. He also did all-computer graphics animation projects of Andre and Wally B., as well as the Pixar icon of the lamp jumping on the ball. He also was the chief contributor to Toy Story: the first feature-length computer animated film.

Knoll, on the other hand, created the first version of photoshop, which was a mac-compatible floppy. He did "Abyss", which, in contrast to Lasseter's computer animation films, was the first movie with cg animation. He was also behind Star Trek, and the cg model of the light ship in season 3.

Both Lasseter and Knoll work on a lot of movies as the first of their kind in their respective fields of special animation.

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Jessica Crocco and Liz Hannah did Pascal Dombis and Terry Mulligan in an exhibit titled "Repetition".

Dombis worked with algorithms. "Rizong III" is a digital print with hundreds of intersecting lines, which suggests both chaos and order. "Topo Rizong" (2004) is a geneation of many ovals into a large work of art, and "Antisana" is a specific digital print installation with a similar building up of a repeated pattern that zooms out into a new image. It's the same shapes repeating over and over again until it creates an organic form that is its own peice.

Mulligan also uses excessive patterns, but already has the image to create in mind, which makes it more - or is it less? - flexible. Some works include "Five Objects", which is squares and different shapes repeated with an emphasis on color to form images like sailboats and pears. Also there is "Music Series", a symmetrical-ish composition of guitars and notes, again with square repetition. Finally we have "Abstract and Color", which is still utilizing a pattern but is obviously very formulated and thought out.

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Collaborative Presentations: Day One

Toni Dove and Christopher Jordon; Pascal Dombis and Jeffrey Shaw.


Toni Dove and Christopher Jordon:

They said that the interactive video artist Toni Dove and the photographer Chris Jordon are both artists making a statement about consumerism. I definitely was able to see the connection in Chris Jordon's work. Both his Intolerable Beauty and his work with the trash found in bird corpses really force our eyes open to what we as wasteful humans are doing to our environment. The arrangement of trash in the birds' bodies make one wonder if such an arrangement is even possible and the painting replica made up of 106000 cans - and that being 30 seconds worth of cans - is a shocking thing to hear. I think that the explanation along with the Colbert Report video really enhanced the work and helped to drive the point home. Toni Dove, on the other hand, I wasn't really getting "consumerism" from her. Sure, her Artificial Changelings piece was really cool and a look at how our generation is so different from previous ones, as well as probably what we will do to ourselves if we continue on this path (that's what I'm assuming the land of fire was supposed to represent), so I can kind of see the connection there, but Spectropia, other than show her style of artwork, I thought wasn't so much any statement on consumerism as it was a showcase of awesome video game potential.



Art Through Systems, Pascal Dombis and Jeffrey Shaw:

The commentary on search engines and how we have connected ourselves so thoroughly to such an unreliable source as the internet is pretty radical. I felt like the Jeffrey Shaw section didn't make much sense though. They said that it was about "how people are connected to the net and control what they look at", but I don't really understand how, and I kind of got the feeling that they didn't either. Pascal Dombis, on the other hand, was a well developed section. His search-engine-produced results really speaks for itself, to the point where I wish he hadn't included the overlay of colors. I felt that was kind of unnecessary. Also I have no idea what the whole "straight line curving into a circle reforming into a straight line again" thing had to do with the theme. This exhibit started me thinking on how it would be cool to make a sort of interactive statement on search engine's unreliable results, maybe by having someone type in anything they want and the computer would then bring up many results on google image search or some such thing - both the relevant and the extremely NON relevant. I'm not sure how that would work though: it sounds too complicated even for programmers.


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Word Visualization

Here is my word visualization. I chose "speed" and tried to make it look like it was taking off quickly by kerning the letters more as I got later in the word as well as making them thinner. Elements at the very beginning were stretched too, to give the feel of an afterimage: that the word was going so fast the rest hadn't had time to catch up yet.



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Poems

There is still some confusion about my poem because of that whole not knowing it had to be a published author thing. I have been trying to think of another poem since then. I had one recommended to me that is a cool poem, but I don't have nearly as developed an idea for it as I did for the other one. I will post them both here I guess.

Here was my first idea (The one with the children's book):

Stephanie Cuono - "Song Number Three"

we lie to little girls from an early age
we try to tell them that everything'll be ok
that if they wish upon a star their dreams will all come true
well, twinkle twinkle little star
how i wonder where the hell you are
cause i'm looking to the night sky
and i can't find you
and i wish that life was like a fairy tale
where everybody gets what they deserve
where the good guy always wins and the bad one always dies
(or has their eyes gouged out by little birdies beaks and claws)
and i wish that life was like a fairy tale
where even if things don't go according to plan
and everyone fails and you lose your man
you can still make everything right with a justified suicide
star light, star bright
first star i see tonight
i wish i may and i wish i might
that everything will turn out all right



Here is the other one I am considering. I am thinking about maybe incorporating a real orange with nails piercing the slices somehow? I'm not sure. It's a very underdeveloped idea right now.


Gary Soto - "Oranges"

The first time I walked
With a girl, I was twelve,
Cold, and weighted down
With two oranges in my jacket.
December. Frost cracking
Beneath my steps, my breath
Before me, then gone,
As I walked toward
Her house, the one whose
Porch light burned yellow
Night and day, in any weather.
A dog barked at me, until
She came out pulling
At her gloves, face bright
With rouge. I smiled,
Touched her shoulder, and led
Her down the street, across
A used car lot and a line
Of newly planted trees,
Until we were breathing
Before a drugstore. We
Entered, the tiny bell
Bringing a saleslady
Down a narrow aisle of goods.
I turned to the candies
Tiered like bleachers,
And asked what she wanted -
Light in her eyes, a smile
Starting at the corners
Of her mouth. I fingered
A nickle in my pocket,
And when she lifted a chocolate
That cost a dime,
I didn't say anything.
I took the nickle from
My pocket, then an orange,
And set them quietly on
The counter. When I looked up,
The lady's eyes met mine,
And held them, knowing
Very well what it was all
About.

Outside,
A few cars hissing past,
Fog hanging like old
Coats between the trees.
I took my girl's hand
In mine for two blocks,
Then released it to let
Her unwrap the chocolate.
I peeled my orange
That was so bright against
The gray of December
That, from some distance,
Someone might have thought
I was making a fire in my hands.

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Self Visualization Project - idea notes

Behind the cut is my current ideas for the self-visualization project.

For the self-portrait image I am thinking of showing three parts of who I am. One is going to be a play on the kanji that I made up to match my name about a month and a half ago: Try Again, Small Stream. I can tie this in with my actual name's meaning: something along the lines of grassy land or rice field, I think. I am going to focus on the theme of hope, and improving myself. Suzumietate WAY TO GO (even if you stumble, way to go)...or something along those lines, because I feel that that reflects my personality well. I will have myself sitting in an almost silhouette like way with light shining down from above: not in any weird heaven or angsty death way, but as the light of hope (or some other corny thing along those lines) that I look towards. My brother, probably the biggest influence in my life, is going to be looming larger than life, perhaps in a classic maou pose to show how much power he has over me - he is sort of the source of my light...? He will be side-lit, to show that he can affect me in both a positive and a negative way, but no matter what it has a great influence on me. I may or may not include inspirational thingies I've gotten from friends etc. in the past, I'm not sure. It depends on how it works with the composition.

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Illustrator Ex 2

Here's my illustrator-ed photoshop image. Illustrator is a lot harder than photoshop, somehow - I guess cause I don't have as much experience. I find manipulating layers etc. so much more difficult in it though! Anyway I'm not sure if I did very well because I'm new to the program but I tried my best! I'm not sure how to make it stop being sideways. ._.;;;;


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Khalo-Sherman-Xiuwen Comparison

My Khalo-Sherman-Xiuwen Comparison is behind the cut - Cui Xuiwen is my favorite! What about you guys?

Cui Xuiwen, Cindy Sherman, and Frida Kahlo all have really different styles of art, but they all send a strong message of society's image of women - especially in relation to men.

Frida Kahlo does paintings, and mostly self-portraits. In her portraits she portrays herself very manly, even going so far as to put herself in a suit with cropped hair in one. I believe that in a way she is saying that for a portrait of a woman she needs to be almost a man in order to do things like look directly out at the viewer in a portrait. She is often surrounded by monkeys, to emphasize the hairy manliness of her self-portraits, but also by snakes, almost like a "remember, I am a fickle and dangerous woman" message.

Cindy Sherman's works are plain disturbing. They give a definite feel of "something bad happened to me when I was a child". That's the impression I got anyway: chills went up my spine. Her setup photos are very much about women as sexual objects, or perhaps playthings, as the dolls indicate. Her movie series seems like it's about main women roles and women taking charge, but it's always very sexual and submissive type poses, as if woman's only purpose is to be there ready and waiting for men.

Cui Xuiwen is definitely my favorite of the three. Perhaps because I am asian, or because my roommate had a paper on orientalism recently, or because I watched Mulan again last month. Her manipulated photos portray generic women, often with copies of the same person. The hairstyle is very generic and the dress and skin is white, while the lips and eye makeup are red. She looks like a porcelain doll. Again, this sends the image of woman as an object. Her simple white dress strongly resembles a nightie, sending the image of both virgin and bedroom. The fact that there are so many of the same generic woman seems to reflect something that echoes to me from the movie Anna and the King: "'What is one woman to you, when she is just another woman, just as a bowl of rice is the same as any other bowl of rice?' 'Exactly! Now you understand about women!'" They imply that women are identity-less: simply vessels - in the case of Asia, vessels for heirs, as shown by her many shots of the woman pregnant. She always looks very resigned to the baby, and the father is nowhere in the picture - this isn't a baby born out of love and family, but of duty as a woman to bear sons. Even the photos of young girls still look the same, and are looking towards the sky with a defeated posture while stuck firmly on the ground: they think wistfully of soaring free but know and accept what will happen to them.

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Illustrator Exercise One

Here is my tracing for illustrator - I did the escalator. Illustrator is kind of fun, but I still like photoshop better.



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Project One

Enclosed is my project one. I had a lot of ideas for this project but trying them all out really showed no matter how good some things seem in theory they may fail hard in practice. I think my finished product is pretty well put together. The glasses balance well with two in the top left background and two in the bottom right foreground. The shadows of the bow and the couple are consistent, and make a good balance for the watermark-date from the box. I made the date less intense just as I made the grass, bow, and shine of the stars more intense. The stars now work as a path leading the eye from the kiss up to the bright burst of stars (uchi no ha~na~~bi, right?) and hen around the equally bright and cheery bow, which overlaps into the green green garden area - the color of spring and love.

Overall I think I did a pretty good job in conveying the wedding-type feeling of everything coming together into a bright and happy whole. Weddings are a time for double-happiness, after all.








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Digital Art txt - Introduction

I'm not really sure what I just read. They were talking about computers for a while, then suddenly I was reading about poetry, and directly following that were about 15 pages of a list of art peices. I feel like I'm in Conceptual again (except that that was about 4x longer)! But I have to take notes on the reading, so I will.



Digital art built up slowly from about 1945 on until it hit its stride in the 90's and skyrocketed up to where we are now. The idea of computer system and the Internet really started then, as the "Memex" - Vannevar Bush. This area of time is also when cyberkinetics began.

Moving on, the 60s were a time of groundwork. They conceptualized the internet as a communication network (ARPANET). In 68 Douglas Engelbert brought thought up bitmapping - connecting the electrons from a processor and a screen - basically mouse manipulation.

Apple finally managed the desktop in 83.

the 1960s had some of the first computer-generated artwork (Gaussian Quadratic, Michael A. Noll). Experiments in Art and Technology was formed in 66.

The 70s and 80s were mostly experimental time.

The 90s of course were when it really hit. There were exhibitions for Digital art alone. It's dynamic because it also can have a time aspect, and will require audience participation more than more traditional art. It's also more dependent of the museum because the museum actually has to put work into displaying digital art - they can't just post them on the walls. There's also the question if how to display internet art. I didn't really understand this part, but apparently there is some debate because on one hand internet art is meant for the internet and on the other they want to limit some pieces to not be accessible to people in their homes - only at certain locations. I got really confused here because (and they were even talking about how widespread internet access is in this day and age) how can you put those specific restrictions on the internet? Some certain locations can block things from their personal network, and some online files might require passwords but I don't know how they could possibly limit access of something on the internet to one area etc.

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Composite Image

This is my composite image from two weeks ago. I actually used one of my "interior" pictures as a background. This gave me some trouble because of quality issues depending on where I imported them from and stuff, oddly. I also had a hard time with the blending and I ended up using the eraser tool probably way more than I should have to keep the image intact. I think I know what I'm doing better now that we've learned more about blending photos in class, though, so hopefully the actual project will turn out better than this practice did. I did this silly thumbelina type thing because I thought the idea of dancing in front of flowers and stuff was cool. It's subtle, but there are actually a lot of elements from the wedding in the background of my interior picture - the maid of honor's bouquet, one of the bridesmaids, the gifts to the guests (tea, and the boxes imprinted with the date of the wedding), and the fancy silverware and such with evidence of the food smeared on it - that signifies the guests enjoying the event. The colors are all bright and almost surreally joyful, too, even though I didn't do any color enhancement. It reflects the tone of the whole thing pretty nicely, I think. That's what I'm trying for most in this project is conveying the sort of happy and lighthearted feeling that comes with something like this. What good is art if it can't evoke emotion in the viewer, right? ^_~ Ah, incidentally, I would like to make a note here that the wedding really did fall the weekend between the first and second classes and I did actually bring my camera with the intention of taking advantage of this opportune time for the human interaction shots for this class (my mom rolled her eyes at me when I mentioned that I probably wouldn't care about forgetting a camera if it wasn't an assignment). Just thought I'd mention that what with all the emphasis on not using photos not taken for this project. Read more!

Project 1 - 3 photos

For now, these are the pictures I've chosen to use with the Photo Alteration project.





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Proj 1 Photos Prelims

These are the photos I've tentatively chosen as possible choices for Project#1. Because I don't really know what the project is or what "interior" etc meant I chose a fairly sizable batch of my favorites from the reel and set them aside here until I understand this project better and can further narrow it down.

Human interaction:

Exterior:

Interior:

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Week 1 - Four Artists

Gregory Crewsdon

His works seem to emit a strong sense of loneliness. They're rather creepy, with a lot of a "lingering spirits" vibe. They all feel staged, which really makes it more creepy - there's a sort of sense of unnatural stillness in all of them. I admire his use of contrast and lighting and color - the sharpness really emphasizes the stationary feeling.

Teun Hocks

The ideas that he transforms into surrealist photos make me laugh. For example, crying a waterfall seems really funny to me, and playing with a train with tracks leading underneath you is really cool. I'm not sure if that makes me a jerk. I really like the man warming his hands by a painted fire too. The idea of painting color onto a black and white photograph is really interesting to me. It's not the first time I've seen it done, but it is the first time I've seen it utilized to create the picture so vividly rather than simply enhance it. I also like that he uses himself as the subject in his photos - it's rings with something I heard once in a previous class: that the only reliable actor is yourself.

Jeff Wall

He seems a little bit full of himself to me. So much blabbing about his genius ideas and blah blah blah blah blah... the pictures are ok. Very day-in-the-life style. I usually like day-in-the-life stuff more than this - I guess I just feel like a lot of them are sitting in the zone in-between ordinary and weird and as a result are just kind of odd. Plus, some of them creep me out, but not in the good way that Crewsdon's did, like the dead soldiers talking. I do like the sudden burst of wind and the water in the grave, but that's not enough to make up for my overall non-impression of Wall.

Cindy Sherman

I like her movie-verse style of photography. The femme fatale subjects are interesting in a kind of "I can sense your dedication" way. I like the black and white photographs also, and the sharp emphasis on color when it is used. Contrast and this style of coloring (or lack thereof) really set the mood for a sort of smoky, older, classy movie-verse. Nice tribute to the female characters.

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My Art Influences

This was drawn by Gosho Aoyama as a representation of himself. I pretty much taught myself to draw by doing it constantly in my spare time, and I have used his work for reference very often. It's a bit silly, but I feel that my art work is heavily influenced by Gosho Aoyama, and my drawing style resembles his somewhat. Read more!

First Post and About Me

Hello! This is my blog for Digital Imaging at TCNJ Fall09 semester.

I am a Sophomore at TCNJ as of the Fall 09 Semester.  I am technically an IMM major but I have been taking Graphic Design Major courses since Spring 09 semester (and still considering IMM as a minor).

Past Experience with Photoshop and Illustrator:

Grade:  Junior High School

Teacher:  Mrs. Vasa

Class:  Photography

Exp:  We covered photoshop a little bit in the second half of the year.

Grade: Senior High School

Teacher: Mrs. Demsey

Class: Communications Design

Exp:  photoshop cs and illustrator step-by-step tutorials - this means that I didn't really learn HOW to use the programs though.

Grade: TCNJ Fall 08

Teacher: Professor Phil Sanders

Class: IMM 110-02 Intro Digital Media

Exp:  Covered photoshop a little bit at the beginning

Also I own Photoshop Elements 4.0 and I play around with it a lot and look at tutorials online - I am mostly self-taught in photoshop and I know very little about Illustrator

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