My Photography

Digi Lit RECAP

Yaaaaaaaaaaaayyy for ME!! Digital literacy is finally over with... well nearly!
I really enjoyed the whole experience, but i must say there are quite massive amounts of communication breakdowns.. an example of this would be the remix, whether its more arty photoshop, or chamging the overall idea of an advertising peice, was rather unknown and evry1 just seemed to do their own thing. Not to mention the whole loop thing......
I can say that overall i enjoyed the loop experience best... tho i smpathize with those people who didnt do eectronic arts as a major... and had no idea what they were doing.. just looking through my fellow classmates blogs i can see this was a BIG ISSUE OF COMPLETE UNKNOWENESS!!! (not acually a word)

I must say that i like my remixes and in my spare time i like to play around allot with my images and other peoples on photoshop.

I found that most of the stuff we covered in Digi Lit i had a pretty sound knowledge of, tho the whole free software lecture last week was VERY!! interesting I HAD NO IDEA that kind of programming was out there!.

Overall id give this years digi lit experience a A- which is not a shabby effort.. the teaching was great and lectures were incredibly interesting and well thourght out.. it just the communication bit that needs work on.........

OVER AND OUT! :)

Remix AGAIN.....

I am rather please with this remix, as the combining of the images is flawless, but i still feel it lacks a little pizzaz!!! so for my final remix i am going to present my original remix, as i love the overall look of this image!!

IDEA"S FOR FINAL REMIX

I Like to put a more victorian twist on some high fashion images, and also explore through photoshop various techniques that help me to create interesting textures and patterns by layering. :)
I have considered using some of my photographs and applying a fairy-tale twist to them.. but i will see.
All will be revealed soon.

REMIX

This is a little sample of the final remix exercise will look like. I like playing around with the layer techniques in photoshop, to create unusual effects.

Some Of My Photography

Conclusion

I really enjoyed doing the "loop" exercise, even though my methods were very time consuming, i am very happy with the final result, and think that the overall effect of the loop works well.

Week 6 Final Loop!

Our Story Board!!

Copywright

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Adding a Video...........

My video of my friend... having a accident... experimenting with rotoscoping

Blue Oyster Gallery............. experience

Quiet peaceful,
harsh reality,
overwelming experience,
taking it all in,
looking
seeing
feeling
liking
being at one
lonliness
an expression of itself
a lack of emotion
a longing for need
a place, our time

Scanning an Image

This is a quick sketch i did of my friends hand holding a smoke, which i scanned.

Photoshop Poster

Core Studies Research

Art and Change:
Romanticism, and how it has influenced that art of today.

Delacroix’s Cleopatra and the Peasant is not only a beautiful and vivid painting of the Egyptian queen, but it provides a strong message of love and power as well.

Eugene Delacroix is one of the most well known Romantic painters in the world, his work is one of great detail, tonal variance and life-like portraiture. The above painting is one of his most wellknown, and is my favourite.

“The first thing that catches the audience’s eye is Cleopatra herself. This image of her is quite different than the stereotypical dark, native Egyptian that is present in some modern art. In Delacroix’s painting she appears to be quite pale. When you juxtapose this skin tone with the dark surroundings, the painting sticks out to the audience.”

Cleopatra is first recognized by the expression on her face, she is staring over at the snake in a trance-like state. The snake is amongst fig leaves, which are an important symbol throughout Christian theology,
Fig trees/leaves are symbols of God’s love for his blessing and his special love for people ("The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree.") Even though Cleopatra is not a Christian, this scene was painted in France during the mid nineteenth century, historically a very Christian country. Cleopatra wants to kill herself, but according to Christian theology, it is a sin to take one’s own life.
The presence of the snake symbolizes evil or death in humans when it comes to God’s blessing (the figs.) Delacroix knew the audience he was painting for so perhaps he wanted to include Christian symbolism.

The presence of red on the left side could show love, which was her main incentive to kill herself (because Anthony was already dead.) Delacroix might also be trying to say something about a ruler’s quest for power. Because Cleopatra knew her reign as queen of Egypt was over maybe that was the primary reason she wanted to die. That would explain her extravagant clothing and jewelry, yet miserable expression present on the right side. Cleopatra realizes that all of the luxury of being a queen is about to be taken from her and at the same time sees the poisonous snake which leads to her deadly decision.

Historically this painting was painted in 1838, about 20 years after the famous Napoleon’s last Hundred Days. Cleopatra can symbolize the famous French leader’s quest for power and inevitable failure. This painting might also symbolize the inevitable failure of monarchies, considering a peasant is standing near Cleopatra and in a better position to keep his life than she is. Overall, the emotional layers in the painting are perfect examples of the tone in Romantic paintings for which Delacroix was celebrated.

This painting helps to visually create a scene from a play, and does so perfectly well. Cleopatra is painted uniquely and if you do not look hard enough, you might miss the important snake within the figs. The realistic beauty as well as the symbolic significance makes this painting very relevant in art history.

Link an Image

del.icio.us VERSES windows live

After looking at both del.icio.us and windows live bookmarking facility, i found that by far del.icio.us was easier to use, there was a wider range of search options, and a greater array of tangents to take.
I didnt even know of the del.icio.us bookmarking website, but know that i have found it i cannot get enough. !!

Old Sony Video Camera 1896

After receiving my modern, small pristene silver video camera, I found it amusing to look at the huge bulky heavy black old video cameras. Gosh how times have changed!!

Electronic Arts. A favorite short film

We are currently studying short film in E.A and Beginning to make our own. The above video was highly recommened in youtube and received many postive comments.
hop you like. :)

Smoking... Hot or NOt

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/features/learning-to-smoke-0308

After reading this blog, about a 48year old male teacher that had just started to smoke and his daily “going ons” he has experienced whilst he has started smoking. Very much revolted me… smoking these days is one of the many stupid idiotic things that you can do!! it stains your nails yellow, not to mention your teeth, it fills your lungs with tar, gives your children glue-ear, makes you short of breath and unfit, gives you all kinds of cancer and eventually IT WILL KILL YOU!!. To me it is the epitomy of STUPID!!!

What i Think About Computers

Computers….. hmmm lets face it…. they are great, fantastic, useful, amazing machines, but ONLY when they are actually doing what you want them to do. Otherwise they are just a huge pain in the arss.!! Causing the essay you have been writing for 5hours straight to just dissappear.!!!! (yes never to be seen agin)!! causing you to resort to good ol’ pen and paper. I am sure that a computer is ran by a army of tiny goblin people that often get in foul and revengful moods, if you cause them to work to much without atleast a 10 minute break. I think a computer is both a useful and complicated peice of machinary not to be taken lightly.