Brainstorming

Remember to be thinking about ideas for the collaborative project. Watch this video presentation by the collective, Eating in Public.

Abstraction, Removed

1. Troika by Lisa Jevbratt
2. A Prayer for Clean Water by Paul McClean
3. Color Bubbles
4. | Reconstruction | by Michael Takeo Magruder
5. by Michael Takeo Magruder
6. ooFFF-Pixelation Routine by Morgan Jones
7. 33 Secrets by Johnny Rogers
8. Hive by John Geraci
9. Workly Collection by Niel McDonald
10. World:It Just Keeps Changing by Kate Southworth

Rhizome Exhibition

Curate an online exhibition of your favorite new media artists through Rhizome

Choose 10 to 12 works of art that interest you. Post each work to your blog with the artist's name, Title, and dimensions. Give your show a title and make that the title of your blog post.

Composite Images

This Assignment will be broken down in to two pieces:

1. You will create a composite image made from images you find on the web.
2. You will create a composite image made from your own photos.

Due date: 3/16 (After spring break)

Part 1
Change the meaning of a historical or current event by adding or subtracting information.
Spend time searching for a high quality image.
Make sure your selection and blending techniques are strong. The image should appear as seamless as possible.
The image should be between 5 x7 and 8 x10. Save it as a psd to keep your layers.

Part 2
Create an impossible landscape. Think about ways you can create an unusual space or place through layering elements of photographs which you have gathered. This may begin by choosing an object or shape, and then building upon it. You may use some of the photos you took in the beginning of the semester, or choose to take new ones. Focus on layering techniques and creating visual texture. Experiment with transparency.
The image should be between 5 x 7 and 8 x10 (preferably closer to the latter) and 200 dpi or larger. Save it as a psd to keep your layers. We will print this image in class after the critique.

Mary Lydecker

Think back to our readings a few weeks ago from Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles. Schulz's writing style was rich and illustrative. See this assignment as a way of making a visual equivalent of Schulz's writing.

Shepherd Fairey Articles

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/outofline/2009/02/how_phony_is_shepard_fairey.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/arts/design/13fairey.html

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/215976/january-15-2009/shepard-fairey

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/218732/february-12-2009/obama-poster-debate---david-ross-and-ed-colbert

For next class, 3/2

**Post your restored image to your blog, along with the original.

**Three questions/points for discussion/observations on the readings.
(See the Blackboard folder "Fair Use Readings".

**If you haven't already, post a jpg of Part 3 of Drawings on Place, which we just critiqued.

**We will start class with a discussion about Fair Use

****WATCH EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP!!!*****

Link to Illustrator Keyboard Shortcuts

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6426a.html

New Posts

For next Wednesday, you should have posted to your blog:

Part two of Drawing on Place (Photograph paintings)

Reaction/Response writing to a TED talk

Your assigned tools and descriptions

Nasty Weather

In class tonight (albeit abbreviated due to the weather),we went over uploading images, creating organized files and folders, picasa for online storage, slight image adjustment in Photoshop, and resizing and resampling images. We also learned how to scan objects and documents.

Remember that it is important to always work with high resolution images and scans. It is easy to make an image smaller, but you can't make it larger.

It is important that you are specific when naming files. Always save the original (title.orig), (title.rev1, title.rev2...). Make folders to organize groups of files dedicated to one Image.

We will review this further next week.

Post to your blog:

5 photos
1 drawing
1 object

This is the minimum. You are welcome to post more.

I will be posting a reading to Blackboard, and excerpt from Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles. I would like you to make line drawings in response to this (at least 3 pages in your sketchbook). Next week we will be scanning the drawings and manipulating them in Adobe Illustrator.

Photographs, Sketches, Objects

Your assignment for next Wednesday's class is to go out and explore. Spend time observing an area of the city that you have not spent much time in before. Build a collection of at least 25-30 photos, 5 sketches, and 5 objects that you find along the way. Look for different things to photograph so that your collection has variety and contrast. Think about the visual layering of beautiful vs. ugly, empty vs. stacked/full, new vs. old, organic vs. geometric, nature vs. man made. Take some photographs from a distance, some up close. These photos, drawings, and objects will serve as raw material for later work.

*****Remember to take photographs in the highest resolution/image size possible********. If you are not sure how to do this on your camera, consult your instruction booklet or email me.

In class on Wednesday we will load the images onto your computers, scan the drawings from your sketchbooks, and scan the objects.

Be prepared to load your images into your computer during class. This means bringing any necessary equipment (usb connector cable or memory card reader) to class with you. You will also need your thumb drive/memory stick and a notebook to take notes. We will be covering much information on image gathering and it will be important that you are able to go back and refer to notes later on.

First Day, Illustrator Text Drawings

We just learned to draw with type in Illustrator,now we are learning to post on the blogs. We used a random word generator.