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Movie Night Plans

Hello! The plans for Friday are to meet up at 7(ish) in front of the theatre at Tempe Marketplace on Friday, Nov. 6, and cath the 7:20 showing of Paranormal Activity.

Here's my cell: (480) 707 8417 and email: hawkofbattle01@gmail.com just in case you need them. Hope to see you all there!

Movie Night

So my group and I were talking, and we think it would be awesome if the whole class went to go see a movie (Paranormal Activity) this friday. We were thinking possibly sometime after 6, and the showtimes are 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, and 9:50. I guess we'd just take the Orbit...unless those with cars want to drive? :D

But yeah, we'd love to have a big group go. Anyone want to go?

Sublimity

Another sketch.

Cicada

A quick little sketch of an original character. Also a color practice.

Sketches

Today I had a sudden itch to sketch on Photoshop, which I hadn't done in quite a while. I think I'm going to try to keep it up. Here's some stuff.

Vector Project

The concept behind this piece was to take two quotes that appear to have little or no meaning, and, by putting them in the context of a third quote, change that meaning entirely. The first two quotes I chose were from a video game called Portal, in which the player must defy death repeatedly, driven on by an unseen being's promise of delicious cake. The third is from Nietzche.

As the third quote's purpose is to negate the emotions of the first, I wanted the mood of the piece to be contrasted between the quotes; however, I did not want the contrast to be obvious, and attempted to make mood slightly unsettling throughout. To do this I used bright, contrasting colors for most of the piece and then darker colors for the third quote.

The "delicious" quote I made big and placed at the top of the piece to act as a sort of all governing commandment of some deity. The word "cake" running repeatedly below it is supposed to be an overbearing addition to it. The boxes are filled with the "lie" quote to represent notions contrary to this God tha surface every now and then but are quickly submersed again as the God repeats its command. However, the truth is inescapable, and so the "dead" quote makes itself apparent at the bottom.

The message it means to convey is that the happiness we center our life around, the cake at the end of the tunnel, or "God", is false, even if we try to escape that fact.

Hrm.

So...its a little better I think.

So far.

So here's my vector project so far. I like my idea, but it did not look nearly as fruity in my head as it does now. I'm not liking it. Anyone have any suggestions?

LOL.

Vectors.

This is the first one I did. While sitting at the computer deciding what to do I couldn't think about anything other than my incredible exhaustion from not sleeping the night before, so I figured I'd just use that as my subject matter. The repetition of the word "sleepy" is supposed to represent the overwhelming quality of the sensation, while the light blue was chosen because I feel that is a very sleepy color. That color fades as the words get progressively wavier both to indicate a fading of reality and also to draw the eye downward. The "zzz." is bold and black to illustrate the sudden onset of sleep.

This is the second! After fiddling with the tools forEVER and realizing that they all seem to make whatever I do look really gaudy, I thought I should just embrace the idea and make something as horrible gaudy as possible. However, the quickly degenerated into me experimenting with composition and color. But that's okay. Composition is something that I feel I am very, very close to understanding, but still don't. I'd love to really good get it.

Boooooooored.

OH MY GOD.

I'm so bored.

I'm at work and its so slowowowowowow.

I've been here for three hours but the clock tells me its only been 5 minutes!

rarwrarwrarwrw.

Photo Montage

This piece is not so much a representation or explanation of time, but rather a illustration of my own experience of time. I find that, depending on my location, the way I perceive time can change. Specifically, when I am by myself, I tend to drift on into an isolated intellectual space, where time effectively does not exist as it is overshadowed by my day dreaming. However, when I am around people that I am familiar with, I am brought back into the real world and am again aware of moments beyond the present, conscious of my past and present.

To illustrate this, I took pictures of an outside dining area at nighttime. Then, the next day, I found a friend to pose for pictures in the area during the daytime. I then arranged pictures into one, in which it was bright everywhere the my friend was standing, and dark everywhere else. I used a series of adjustment layers to add color, and to add contrast between the light and dark areas.

Education Fail.

So I just finished the only homework assignment I've recieved in any class thus far, other than the self-portrait we did.

The task: "Find 5 song titles that use improper grammar."

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I never thought I'd say it, but for once, I really, REALLY wish I had some actual homework.

What is Art?

To me, art is the creation of beautiful things. That beauty does not necessarily refer to visual beauty, it could refer to the beauty of a sound, emotion, meaning, event, belief, motion, or idea. Therefore art can be a painting, song, concept, or simple action,, as long as it is done in the earnest attempt to create a beautiful thing.

The problem then is: What is beautiful? This is difficult, for while there a standard aesthetic rules of composition, there are many opinions as to what subject matter is beautiful, and what portrayal of it is beautiful. There may not be a set rule for this.

Therefore, a rule of thumb for defining good art is how well it communicates its subject matter, regardless of whether that subject is good or not. If the art does what it sets out to do, or more importantly, if it appears as though it has done what set it out to do, then it is likely a good work of art.

A bad work of art is one that is not visually aesthetic, nor carries a beautiful meaning, nor emotion, idea, concept, or anything. A bad work of art is one that cannot be important to any viewer because it was not important to its creator.

Sleepy Head

Well, it's not very good. I hate self portraits. Oh well, here's some contextualization!

As a self portrait, this piece has 3 different facets to represent three different levels of myself. The first is obvious; it looks like me. This represents my outer most level, that which interacts with a physical world. The second facet is the expression and the words, that which I desire to show the world in order to establish individuality. It is the only purpose of the first level's participation in that level. The personality shown here is exhaustion, denoting will power to go without sleep, to work hard, to have drive, while at the same time giving a very unappealing appearance.

The third facet, the one that ties the other two together, is in the process behind the piece. To create this portrait I first started with a digital picture of myself, edited it with various Photoshop effects, and then drew over it with the pain brush tool.

In much the same way, I attempt to draw over myself in every day life, as do most other people. We put on a face, desiring to show a positive side of ourselves, but only succeed in masking ourselves entirely, often creating a persona uglier than what we were trying to hide.

Thus, my otherwise decent picture of myself now looks tired, disheveled, and unattractive, a result of the exhaustion one experiences when working too hard for too long to put on a facade.

Whew, too long! XD

Bleagh. My raster excercise looks crappy. I hate self-portraits! They make me freeze up and lose whatever creativity I may have had otherwise.

And my layout is crappy! Blast it all! It's been too long since I've had an art class. I must remember what it's like to have to make finished works of art for a grade, instead of the 2-minute pencil sketches that I'm used to.

At least blogging seems kind of fun so far. But it's only the first post, so it doesn't really matter. Ah, I'm ranting into nothingness! AAHAHSIAWSHiwhdewfhirhfrelhgtihgtrh.

Its late/early. I'm going to sleep. Hopefully my raster will morph itself in my computer overnight and it'll be beautiful when I awake.

IMA FIRE MY LAZER!!!!111!1!

kbye.