Sunday, January 30, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Blog Prompts #9, #10, & #11
9. Pick a sculpture that you like. Write a description of how you might use 3D modeling in Photoshop to make this sculpture part of a photographic image.
10. Describe an impossible scenario. Describe how you can create this scene using digital photographic compositing.
11. Collages, montages, assemblages, and composites often bring together disparate items, objects, scenes, places, and people. The process of combining seemingly unrelated or unexpected items can be inspired by spontaneous thoughts/experiments. Describe some ideas, thoughts, and things that come to mind when you think of “combination” or “assemblage”. Try to perform this brainstorm using a stream of consciousness technique in which you list anything that comes to mind. You can add to this list… Here goes… fractured/combined identities, old newspapers + grass, constant bombarding of images via mass media, looking through a kaleidoscope, doll + baby, cut a bike in half and add a tree, etc. …
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Blog Prompts #5, #6, #7, & #8
#5. Think of various cultural, religions, political, personal, scientific associations and symbols of “light” and “darkness”. Discuss some that come to mind. http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/
#6 Think of some experiences that you have had in which you felt a sense of “lightness”. Describe one or some of these experiences.
#7. Think of some experiences that you have had in which you felt a sense of “darkness”. Describe one or some of these experiences.
#8 From the reading on light and shadow, pick an artist/photographer whose work inspires you. Describe why you like her/his work.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Blog Prompts #1, #2, #3, #4
1. Think of various ways in which your “view” or visual perception of the world is altered, distorted, manipulated, reframed, blurred, disrupted, obstructed, etc. List some.
2. What objects “change” the way you “see” things in the world?
3. What experiences change the way you “see” things in the world?
4. What is the relationship between the way you visually “see” the world and the way you “experience” the world?
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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