Presentation Day

Yay, we got our images loaded onto a rewritable CD, with Susannahs help, and although it kept saying the disc would not accept the images they were there!
Four of us on the disc and we projected onto the wall, it worked and made sense - we all looked very clever and knowledgable about Photoshop.
Brilliant result, thanks to Keiren, Rodney and Racheal and various classmates who were at the right place at the right time.

Myth, legend? Who was actually crucified?

I think women came out of this crucifiction rather badly i.e. Mary as the Virgin mother was pure and her love unconditional, then there was the prostitute Mary, apparently a platonic relationship there. But as it happens the rest of us who aren't capable of a virgin delivery and who haven't yet been driven onto the streets - 80% to 90% fall into some odd category between a slut and a virgin. At one stage being a witch was a fahionable alternative apparently - perhaps I should draw in a small fire at the base of the cross?

I really wanted to transfer an image of Hermes (mythical? messenger of the Gods) in the bottom left of the picture but it all became too awkward.

Back after holidays and disaster strikes; Hermes image not down loaded and spent over an hour trying to isolate it and transfer it to my image - unsuccessfully. Will try today to put what I have onto my blog............

Week 10 Learning to set up for a Presentation

Excitement, today with Rodney's help I managed to overlay my drawing. Learnt how to copy and paste my image then how to move it around without stretching it - hold shift key down. Learnt how to reduce size to make it appropriate - edit, transform then click the tick to apply.I was having trouble just moving my second image around the screen - didn't realize you had to place the arrow on the top blue box.
Used the clone stamp, again I didn't realise you had to press ALT Gr to fix a selected piece, and that a right click gave diameter alternatives.
I found the Hermes image and down loaded it - saved it and maybe tomorrow will be able to transfer what I have done to my blog! All small triumphs. I am listing all these so that you can appreciate the level of understanding that some of us arrive at Polytech with!

The tutorial was good, Rodney had gone to a fair amount of trouble, burning CDs of his version of selected artist work and then getting us to tangle up cords and plugs setting the projectors up. IF I had to, and I admitted to him that I would try and avoid it, I could set up for a presentation.

Week 9 Vector Art

This workshop was taken by Rodney and we all had photos taken of ourselves which we endeavoured to rework with the aid of vectors and Adobe illustrator. I was going OK until some one asked Rodney how long it had taken him to get the image of himself done and he said about 4 hours the previous day and I instantly knew it would mean at least 40 hours work for me.
Still have not manged to get my pic transposed..another week another opportunity to hunt Kieran down.

Remix Week 8

Successfully scanned an image by Michelangelo, Crucifixion for Vittoria Colonna, and a drawing of mine. But....... found the layering difficult to grasp and cutting around the object tricky until Kieran showed me how to use the pen pad. Came in Friday 5th and managed to understand layering a little better by playing around , however I still have not managed to successfully transpose my image onto Michelangelos!

Remix

I have been keeping a rough diary of what I have been doing for my weekly assignments but have decide to put this on my blog tonight...
week 7:
Photoshop with Kieran was instructive and I managed to down load a few images from the wikipeadia site - unfortunately I was so over excited about getting them I neglected to save them! However I shall get back to that , an image of Hermes I really liked.
I want to get an image of Christ on the cross and superimpose a woman in his place, with Hermes looking on as he passes by. It appeals to me.

Blind Loop

This is the loop clip that I shot with Susannah, Emma and Josh - Josh is the unwitting star of this piece of footage. I would have to say that it was an ENORMOUS struggle to get this sad little loop together and if I had had another 20 hours to spare where I could play with the Premiere program perhaps it could be more stunning.

I can see that video making as a collaborative effort with a group of like minded folk, who really know how to navigate the various pit falls of Premiere could be satisfying. Sofia Cappola I am not!

Video Loop Story Board: BLIND

Hopefully folks this is the Muto Wall Video.....

This is the image I chose to scan to my blogg. It is a charcoal drawing of a gate used for one of my project drawing assignments.

Quick Re-Cap on how to scan:
Plug Scanner into USB port
Open Photoshop on desktop
File Menu >Import> CanoScan LiDE25 (model/make scanner)
Select source
Preview
Destination (keep on 300dpi to archive)
Choose output size
Crop if needed
SCAN
Close Scan Gear window
Photoshop:File>Menu>Save
Choose JPEG 9print copy)
Image Menu>Image Size - Change to 72dpi
File Menu.Save as
Choose JPEG (online copy)

Muto A wall animation by Blu

I have been trying with out success to upload an amazing you tube video called Muto A wall animation by Blu. If you are a fan of William Kentridge then you will love this. It is over 7 minutes long and must have taken weeks to make, a simple concept taken way out.... I shall try to get help on the upload so that it can be viewed here - in the mean time go to you tube:http://www.blublu.org/

Harrison VS Mack
There are thousands of tunes out there lets face it and ok there is a bit of a similarity but perhaps it was just a subconscious memory that triggered the Harrison song, maybe it was a group consciousness thing? I'm not convinced he stole it and I'm not convinced that it wasn't a very attractive proposition to extract a bundle of money from the Beattles!

Lebbeus Woods vs 12 Monkeys
Absolutely Mr woods has a case. How many chair designs are out there and Terry Gilliam has looked at the picture, not only is the chair the same but the ball suspended beside the chair is similar to the TV ball in the movie. I would feel the same indignation Mr Woods felt.

Keir Smith
I guess technically yes his work is a collection of iconoic images pasted one after another. These are all icons we see regularly but they obviously belong to the companies they represent and perhaps they would have a case, but also its advertising isn't it? If its a parody, and it may be considered a parody perhaps its not illegal?
Its entertaining, like the industry it has used for imagery.

Cute Otter Test

Hamed Mahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/hamedmasoumi/670209311/in/photostream/soumi

linking an image - gate lock

Gate Knocker by Kivanc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwanc/706212612/

Blue Oyster Gallery Grad Show

Aroha Novak:
I enjoyed the fragility of the card board boxes with the ever present screen showing the reality of fragility and vulnerability in Baghdad. The sound and visuals worked well, glowing inside the cardboard remains.

Jenna Todd: The Youtube Tapes
Clever contrast between the banal bleating of an American woman who thinks she's been unjustly called a name and the harrowing account of an Iraqi woman who has been brutally mistreated. Everyone has their own reality!

Allisia Holzer: Transcend Enclosure
Fresh and clear, little windows of serenity.

Aliki Baufis: Corridor11 and After Hours Window.
I was nearly fooled!

Prada Video

Wev are initially lulled into a benign fashion fairy story by the music and soft focus colour. However it is the same old sad message underlying the video. Whiter then white, tall thin model with alarmingly long legs moves thru her Eden, naked except for the thing a naked woman wants most........... shoes. Must be a God send to be able to computer image the perfect woman like this for advertising purposes. And will Prada be selling purple and black plaid this season? I must concede our tall white blonde did nibble on a piece of fruit - should be grateful for small mercies!

What I think of Computers

Humans tend to be easier to deal with than computers, any error or reaction can be detected through the use of several senses however with a computer nearly all understanding is purely visual. Computers are very black and white, perhaps humans exist too much in the grey!