mirror mirror

5 rules rough draft

1. take pictures in downtown eugene

2. incorporate monsters in photos

3. monsters must have continuous style

4. monsters must must not be in the open or center of photo

5. photo must color differentiated

Artist using rules in artwork

Thomas Lamadieu creates sky art. The rules in his process consist of taking pictures of buildings, drawing in the empty spaces between the buildings, the drawings must be contained within the outline of the architecture and negative space, and his drawings range from people to random creatures.  He creates an imaginative perspective to the design of architecture by creating images from the curves and edges of buildings with the sky.

characters

glowrocks

fall

icescape

water to water

Interesting quotes and thoughtful points

---         the achievement of realism is the main goal of research in the 3-D computer graphics field. The field defines realism as the ability to simulate any object in such a way that its computer image is indistinguishable from its photograph.

---          But what computer graphics has (almost) achieved is not realism, but only photorealism – the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image.

---          So we in turn accept this photorealism as our reality when we lose ourselves in a film with heavy digital animation, and when we do, it proves that computer graphics have become successful in altering our perception of reality if only for the length of the film. However, when people become strongly attached to such stories, it is possible in some cases for their separation of fiction and reality to blur or they find themselves thinking…what if?

---          Digital images are not inferior to the visual realism of traditional photography. They are perfectly real – all too real.

play

rise

Project 2 Part 2 : Profiled

Background : I decided to put my project in the hands of my friends by asking them what they would take a picture of that would best represent what I am to them through their eyes. I went out and took pictures of the subjects they told me; clouds (change and adapt but still stays the same at the core) , road construction (changing but is strong and knows the direction its headed in), flower (quiet and pretty), sunrise (no matter what happens it will always rise the next day), and the moon (the sky isn't the limit).

Project 2 Part 1: Party Foul

spring

epic piggy

kelp

teapot

path

12:00

rainbow twist

Sontag Summary

In her essay, Susan Sontag On Photography, Ms. Sontag states that photographs are evidence that a thing did happen – something we hear about, but doubt.  She also believes that photographs are interpretive because of the photographers decision of how the picture should look and which image to share with the world.  According to the author, photographs have leveled the meaning of all events.  She uses the examples of Prague, Woodstock, Vietnam, Sapporo, Londonderry which are occurrences that are equalized by the camera that levels the meanings of all events.  Ms. Sontag opines that one photo has more impact than moving images because it is a precise segment of time, not a flood.  For this she gives the example of the 1972 picture of “a naked South Vietnam child just sprayed by American napalm, running down a highway toward the camera, her arms open, screaming in pain.” She says this photo probably did more to increase the public revulsion against the war than a hundred hours of televised barbarity.  The writer also says that the shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt during the first time one sees a pornographic movie and wears off after one sees it a few more times.  Finally, Ms. Sontag position is that industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies.  We do not want to probe beneath the surface.  She concludes that “Today, everything exists to end in a photograph.”

fuzzytree

sparkshrooms

paint with nature

reflect

bubbleteas

Lightroom and Bridge

Lightroom is better than Bridge in that it allows the user to work more quickly and efficiently when working with digital images. This program's main focus is photography editing and allows the user to catalog images and have multiple databases for file storage. A big plus is that it allows the user to work with "offline files" because it acts as a database.

Bridge is better than lightroom in that it is designed to work with many different file types and not just focused on photography, but also web design, animation, and many others. With Bridge, you can edit works and import them into many different adobe applications. The program acts as a browser which allows the user to display the contents of multiple folders on the computer or connected to the drive.

peek

floral

secret level

psyche

spook

garden art

mysteries

what i see..