Sunday, February 27, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Blog 5A
I was originally drawn to this particular Ben Goossens photograph because of the VISUAL INTENSITY . The feeling photo delivers is much calmer and relaxing than his other photos. This photo holds a little less mystery and TENSION. Its easy to look at for a while without getting bored. I also liked how the colors CONTRASTED each other. The owl is sitting on a brownish red chair and the farthest wall is various shades of blue.
I chose to frame the photo the way I did because there are only two main focuses in this image, the owl and the window. After completely cropping out the owl and the rest of the room, there is only a single window with a quarter moon in the left window pane. The LINE AND SHAPE of the window is in 3 sections of roughly the same sized rectangles. The moon is curved, which really puts the focus on the moon because it has absolutely no AFFINITY to the window. Also, the window pane, the wall, and the exterior of the window are all different shades of blue. There are no uses of DEPTH CUES in this frame and actually, there is no depth at all because all of the colors are different values of blue. This creates a very flat picture frame.
I think Ben Goossens framed the picture the way he did to create a much more flavorful image as well as SPACE. The Owl and the wall look very far away from each other due to color choices Goossens made. If red is in front of a blue, there will be a sense of depth. I also like how he made the moon and the owls head very close to each other on the image. In reality, you know the moon is much larger compared to an owl, but in this image, he makes the owl seem much larger and the moon much smaller with the use of color. There also seems to be a virtual line connecting the moon and the owl. Ben Goossens photograph is a very ACTIVE piece of work because you need to figure out what it means for yourself.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Blog 4A
Seth Godin's "Brainwashed"
Acknowledging the Lizard
The lizard is the part of our brain that holds us back. Its the part of the brain that tells us to not take risks. However, if you resist to take risks as a creative individual, you will never be rewarded. Acknowledging the lizard means to understand what your fears are, learn from them, and overcome them because if you don’t, you will not be able to break your boundaries that you have created for yourself.
Fail
This layer stood out to me because I agree, failing is part of the creating process. People love it, you hate it, people hate it, you love it. Seth Godin talked about making art in a previous layer. Doing art stuff is a great hobby, however, when it becomes a field you practice and go to school for, it becomes your career. Failing can only go so far. Yes, sometimes you gotta say fuck it and just do some stuff you want to do, but every other time, it is your job (literally), to do it right. Creating is very methodical and when you have a budget and when your working with people, you can not fail. The film industry is harsh and if you have a name for yourself in it, you have very little breathing room to fail.
Don’t reinvent yourself...know yourself.
Relation to Blogs
I don’t think these two layers fully pertain to our class assignments, but they definitely contribute. In relevance to the Fail layer, this blog is a way to help us analyze our opinions and constructively analyze/critique other classmates work and help us realize what we would like to improve on. You can either half-ass the assignments just for the grade or actually put effort into the readings and other assignments. Blogs are a great way to ship and organize your ideas and work. The best part about blogs, in relation to the lizard, is if being embarrassed is one of your major set backs, you don’t need to worry about it. You have the choice wether or not to reveal your name or just your ideas. I think the blog exercises/assignments is a cool way to get your feet wet in different areas of media.
Acknowledging the Lizard
The lizard is the part of our brain that holds us back. Its the part of the brain that tells us to not take risks. However, if you resist to take risks as a creative individual, you will never be rewarded. Acknowledging the lizard means to understand what your fears are, learn from them, and overcome them because if you don’t, you will not be able to break your boundaries that you have created for yourself.
Fail
This layer stood out to me because I agree, failing is part of the creating process. People love it, you hate it, people hate it, you love it. Seth Godin talked about making art in a previous layer. Doing art stuff is a great hobby, however, when it becomes a field you practice and go to school for, it becomes your career. Failing can only go so far. Yes, sometimes you gotta say fuck it and just do some stuff you want to do, but every other time, it is your job (literally), to do it right. Creating is very methodical and when you have a budget and when your working with people, you can not fail. The film industry is harsh and if you have a name for yourself in it, you have very little breathing room to fail.
Don’t reinvent yourself...know yourself.
Relation to Blogs
I don’t think these two layers fully pertain to our class assignments, but they definitely contribute. In relevance to the Fail layer, this blog is a way to help us analyze our opinions and constructively analyze/critique other classmates work and help us realize what we would like to improve on. You can either half-ass the assignments just for the grade or actually put effort into the readings and other assignments. Blogs are a great way to ship and organize your ideas and work. The best part about blogs, in relation to the lizard, is if being embarrassed is one of your major set backs, you don’t need to worry about it. You have the choice wether or not to reveal your name or just your ideas. I think the blog exercises/assignments is a cool way to get your feet wet in different areas of media.
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