big idea - 7 ideas

ideas sketch-- ive decided to do # 3 ( the one with the wings )

      


this is the one i m doing-- my final big idea--
its going to be a picture blown up to life size, and on the bre back will have angle wings tattooed on it, then the tattoo will fade into real feathers wich will fade into real wings that come off the cnavas and are made of feathers :)

Identity Essentials

Essence of Gender ( Female )

all of these pictures are in grayscale, i thought that added more of a sexy smooth/soft tone to them.

--( top left to top right, middle , bottom left to bottom right ) --

legs- women always show off thier legs when wearing skirts or dresses. i wanted to focus on the for that reason also most women shave thier legs to keep them looking smooth and sexy.

back of the neck/ in between the shoulder- this spot is a popular hickey spot, so the back of the neck is more of a sexual one.

side curves- one of the most desired body parts of a women, wanted both by men and women. the hour glass figure is pictured to be the figure of the "perfect " female body.

back- the back goes along with the curves of a womens body, this body part is also shown off in bikinis and some dresses. it has more of an intimate meaning than most the other body parts listed.

the stomach- women want to have a nice fit and toned stomach, which is also desirred by most men. however, it is also the blace for birth, within the womb ( general stomach/belly area ), it is a place for creation and being. one of the most intimate adnd sexyest places one a woman.

                                                                                                     

Exquisite Corpse

 

Random Word Poem:

-green pencil runs small bike

-shiny japan swims purple smoker

-alluring stuffing bites pounding heart

( top to bottom ) :

pencil runs - rolling is how a pencil would move around, or run, so capturing one falling off a desk caught that motion.

swims purple- the purple mark is wavey like an ocean wave, and even the aqua color behind it creates that swimming feel, was taken on a belvin drink cup.

pounding heart- the frogs tounge makes up the heart and if you look there is a fly at the tip of it, if this was real the fly would be trying to fly away , pounding its wings either against the heart shaped tounge or against the wind, still creating a pounding feel through out the tougne.

pictures

  

( top to botom )

pic 1.- this photo was take just for fun, but also because she looked even more beautiful with the way the sunlight hit her. i keep it because its a beautiful pcture of my girlfriend, stephanie :) <3 i chose it for this assignment because im quite proud of how my camera work came out, als it was easy to get a hold of.//since we are a couple the relationship between us is stronger than a friendship would be. and you can tell by her pose and the way shes looking into the camera ( or more likely at the photographer xp ) you can see the sweetness and gentleness in her eyes as well as the overall picture./// this photo is intended to be viewed in a photo album or on facebook, a simple kinda public thing. as long as me and stephanie are still together is how long im going to look at this photo (  its my comp. backgound ) and again if we continue to date i will alays remember this picture.
2-this photo was taken for fun and to get a picture of my ( i nthe purple ) and my friend llie next to a stor trooper at ren fair xp how awesome is that :) . i keep it cuz , well its not everyday  see a storm trooper, non the less have ur picture with one, also its a fun memory to be reminded of . i chose it because of easy acess and the storm trooper also how its different from the picture before, less personal and more yeah were having fun kinda feel.//my friend johnathan took this photo and due to our relaxed carefree poses you can tell it was a just for fun photo taken by a friend ( i wouldnt feel comfortable doing my pose if a stranger was taking it ). throughout the picture there is a sense of fun and frindship relationship./// viewed for a photo album or facebook. i keep it to remind me of the good fun times and i will continue to share this memory with my friends. 

3-this photograph has oviously had some photoeditind done or had high tech lens to take it . i keep it because i love the colors and how everything just flows together and the brightness nd contrast aswell. i chose it to show how much differnt this is from the other pictures.// you can tell this has a proffesionally taken vibe to it. everythings almost too perfect, it could aslo seem like its for advertising aswell. the model is just that, a model. the photgrtapher might be hewr friend but do to her  facial expression i wouldnt guess so. this phot looks ike it was doen for buissness or for art purposes./// i would say that this picture would be viewed on an art website mayb in a photo gallery or in advertisement. this looks like a seasonal photo maybe a winter or fall feel to it perhaps even spring, but mainly fall. so this would only be seem during that season. i might remember the color contrast and brightness but as far as who or where or what exactly is goign on, probably not becasue i have no personal relationship with the person in the picture or the photographer.

bio map - progress-

  

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modular maddness

  trying to figue out a way to keep them all together so while im gluing each pencil to eachother i use masking tape to semi hold it in place.
 this is the final piece, it looks a lot better in person, cuz you can actually see how it curves off the wall. it was quite difficult to make it do this and there are still some craftmanship to be redone but for the time being it's good. and is , at the moment, hanging up about my girlfriends closet : ) so my piece can be used again and again, and repair is not too troublesome. xp

patterns :)

        

these are my patterns, which can be found everywhere , lol  and ima label these from the top to the bottomleft to right
translation, medium rectangular pattern , outside belvin on tuesday.
translatiin/rotation, fur and dot like texture, riley ( my gf's dog ) thursday
translation/reflection, plaid pattern, bed comforter on thursday
translation/reflection, wood texture, desk in my dorm room on friday morning
translation, heart rythem, the bottom of my slippers friday morning
translation, pokadot pattern, my silky pajama pants thursday night
hm... im not sure if the tree counts but if it does -- translation/reflection, branch rythem,  tree outside belvin tuesday
trnslation, long rectagular pattern, the blinds in my dorm  friday morning
translation, reflaction, rotatino, striped pattern, my tiger shirt that goes with my pokadot pajama pants lol, thursday night

cardboard replica--crab claw --FINISHED!!

    dun dun duh daahh--- vuala it es finished. : D
and the claw moves xp  ( the top part can open and close : ) )  in order to do that i folded long stripes of cardboard back and forth lik an acordian and gluded it under neath the claw , giving it a spring action kinda thing . that was the most difficult part of this project to me. constuction the arm with the  spikes was one of the easyer parts.  once the claw was movale i added one of the final touches - the teeth of the claw. that was was the easyest part now that i think of it lol but yea .  over all this was a challenging procces and i think my building a mini replica helped me a lot

cardboard updates

 this is what i have as of tuesday xp its going to be finish ed thursday :)

human dot pics

 
this was my favorite of my 2 dot  compositions. i though we had to re interprit the original dot picture and take a photo of it.. but i later found out ( after it was too lte ) that we just had to reinterprit it .. not reinact it. oh well . :)  the first thing i saw with my dot composition was 2 fish swimming around eachother.. but since we had to be in the picture and take the picture .. and i didnt have any fish i could use lol , so instead i did the composition above with me and my girlfriend :)  the bigger dots where supposed to represent out heads but now that i look at it more our bodies would be the bigger dots and our elbow and hands would be the smaller ones.

fcal points in black in white part one

 
we had to choose a black and white picture cut from newspaper articles. the picture i chose was of this football play.  again we had to chose only six circles varying in sizes , ad i chose to focus on the helmets and rhe football. so , originally looking at the picture upside down , i chose where the dots would fit best. the picture above was my product. xp i thought it represented it quite well :) .

addictive..quizical..happy.... 0.o im seeing dots

 
this assignment required us to create a six circle piece that had to represent our word. this is pretty much the same assignment as the squares and circles -- so basic concetps xp

cardboard claw cont..

 
slowly but surely its coming along, surprisingly i successfully got the curves and shape of the back side of the claw : D the huge tube coming out of it is the arm ligament that will make it mobile and move like a real claw xp more updates as the process goes on :p

2d reading 1/26/11

this reading informed me about some of the basics of art such as proximity, space, balance, symetry, depth, and more. after reading it i realized that those concepts were what we hve been trying to learn and acomplish this week with the cirlce project and well as last week with the square projects. i now have a better understanding of what we were doign exactly and why. hehe i probably should have read them earlyer but yea xp. either way it was an interesting read.

focus connection (....im not sure if were supposed to post this but.. )

our hw was to show the conecction and magnetism between each circle and the stronger more focused ones had darker mor intense lines to show that .

the top one is showing the focus connection in the peice called bouncy.
-this peice has more forcus than the one on the bottom. the focus is mainly within the top 3 middle circles, mostly because of the size and distance ( or rather closeness ) of them. overall there is more movement in bouncy than there is in the next peice. also most of your focus is in the mtop middle in a curving vertical motion.

the bottom one is showing the focus connection in the peice called peacful
-not as much focus going on here that as the last one. the main point of focus is held by the two bigger circles in the bottom left. there are smaller focus points as well, but the second most atractive point of movement is within the relationship of the two smaller circles seemingly curving the oposite direction of the bigger ones. thoguh this does not have as much movement, to me the movements are subtle , simple, and peaceful :)

cardboard replica--crab claw

 <--- this is my crab claw. : )  
the class has to make a replica of their object, mine is a crab claw ( the one showed above lol ). yea making outa cardboard may not sound too difficult..but it has to be around 30".. which is like 30 times the m=normal size of my object..that just means more fun in my opinion : D.  i was going to scetch out  the whole thing and transfer it to create the base, but then i thought.. what if i can make it move like a real claw? so instead of sketching the whole thing, i took apart the arm and sketched the parts i thoguht i would need to make it . i listede  hwere the joints were/needed to be to make it possible to move ( hopefully).  this is part of my sketch and analyzation ---v 
<---- i disected the arm into 3/4 different parts , the maind arm ( not seen in the sketch above ) the elbow joint , and the actual claw and top part of the claw.  now that my sketch was done i needed to see if i could actually make it move. so i created a mini very scrappy rough draft of the claw. ---v
 <--- this is my mid the same thing with the arni scrappy MOVABLE! crab claw lol its like almost a foot long and like an inch or 2 tall ( wich a claw opening span of 4 1/2 - 5 " : D ) .
to make this cardboard claw able to move like the real one, i needed to figure out a way to make the cardboard strong yet kind of elasticy and bendably, and i needed it to function like a rea elbow -- being able ot go backwards a bit and bend forward till the forarm and "hand" touch ( the hand is pretty much the big front part of the claw thats not the pointy  beak like atachements. ) so i desided to see what wet cardboard would do , and that was a succes. i mad a loong rectangluar peice and rolled it up in a qurish cylinder thing , gluded it together and let it dry a bit then soaked it. i then  did the same thing with the arm but did not wet it and i wrapped it around the wet flexible cardboard and glued that. i contiuned that process as far as the arm elbow and main part of the claw. as for the pincehers themselfs, i bent the top part enough for it to stay open like iwanted but can be moved to meet the obottom piincher. the bottom pincher is actually inside the main claw part and can also move, just not as much as the top pincher - like a real crab ( at least like the crab claw i have lol )
now im on to creating the big final model. im going to use the same concept and steps as the smaller one but with more detail and ( for lack of better words and i know this isnt a word but.. ) exactness. then i think im going t owrap parts of it in craft paper to make it "shell" like : ). all in a weekes work lol xp

circular creations

todays 2d assiegnment was to randomly place cirlce varying in size all over a hudge sheet of paper and , using a 5"x5" veiw finder , find different compositions and recreate them on a  5"x5" peice of paper. this was similar to the square assignment but this time we could use as many circles as we wanted and there were less limitations. as far as choosing what would make the best composition, i started with choosing something that caught my eye and if i liked it or not. i did the same thing with the others but some i chose because it reminded me of something .  for example the upper left reminds me of outer space and the planet jupiter and all its moons, and the upper right reminds me of yin and yang.
we also had to name them by choosing an adjective of what it made us feel or think about.  ( top left is called peaceful) . my group measured them according to depth and flatness- which is why i have the one with 3 simple circles, its more flat than my other ones. and the so called flower  ( whihc was supposed to be more star like but i think the smaller outer dots threw that off ) was intentionally made to be pretty :)
creating these peices were similar to the point of the squares just dealing with slightly different elements and rules :)

square art ( not sure what else to call it lol :) )

our assignment was to use 10 1"x1" squares to create peices that were rough, smooth, light, heavy, anxious, relxed, energetic, and chaotic. the light and heavy projects where the only ones tht could overlap, the rest could not ( the rules changed mid way lol ). these are some of my peices, and they are also my favorite, both in compesition and in what they symbolize and the story behind some of them :D.

as far as how i created them, most are just randomly placed blocks that i think reflect how each one would feel. however some symbolize objects or have a story behind them , so in other words they are actually something other than squares. to me this project was interesting and helped me realize how people see different images based on events and memories in thier lives as well as how much one can really do with some thing limited and simple.

[ top left : light ] [ top right : heavy ] [ bottom right : smooth ] [ bottom right : relaxed ]

art lecture 1/21/11

This lecture made me realize some of the boudaries between different arts and how today those boundaries are becoming blured together and less defined. It also helped me better understand what is considered art and what is not, as well as how others veiw and interprite different kinds of artwork ( and if they see it as art or not , even if it tecnically is or isnt ).  Also most of the art I like are more stylized and realistic than natural. However i do admire abstract art but i would have to say stylized is my favorite, though im not entirerly sure why at the moment.

newspaper structure

When first faced with this assignment I had a difficult time deciding what I should build. One of my first thoughts was of a tower of cards and how the cards stack upon each other, so I went with that method. Once I folded the newspaper into the triangular shapes I wanted, I realized that the cinder block would instantly crush them. So I decided to stuff tight balls of paper inside each triangle. After i glued all those together I needed to figure out how to make it taller in the least amount of time, so I had to resort in quickly rolling up the paper and gluing them one above the other in alternating directions. This was my first idea and it worked out ok, not the best but it was doable. If i were to do it again I would concentrate more on the height and less on the strength of the base, and work more on making it higher and sturdy. I over-thought how much the cinder block would weigh and spend too much time on making my structure hold together.