Since we aren’t supposed to edit our final photos (which I did slightly for the first version I posted) This is the version I will actually be submitting.
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My Scrambled cityscape for Photography Assignment 3: Photo Montage. I wished I had been able to capture everything in the smaller photo size but I ended up using some of my emergency bigger photos, especially for the sky. I at first wanted to do graffiti but my friend had already done that so well and I didn’t want to be a copy cat. I still took photos for four different locations (entranceway to a fancy library, graffiti, chinese dragon thing)but this was the one I really wanted to do since I thought the cut off parts of peoplcould be quite neat.
I actually couldn’t use the photomerge tool in photoshop because I had too many images so I did this by hand in indesign (which is why it took so freaking long) I managed to get my chinese dragon one to work in photoshop because it had by far the fewest images, but I couldn’t even get my graffiti one to work since my computer literally didn’t have enough memory to do the matching. Anyways got a bit more to do tonight, but I hope you like my picture.
Also, not sure how many images I used, but scientifically speaking I’d say a buttload.
Anyways. I think it turned out kind of cool.
My view of Toronto before I even moved here.
Defining Art
The following is an excerpt from my contribution to a class forum about art and material culture history.
It’s true that this really does bring rise to the question of ‘what makes art, art’ which I think we saw in the accompanying first half of htis course is a very difficult and nebulous concept. At that point we were trying to separate art/craft/design, but defining art itself isn’t much easier.
Some of Googles autofill suggestions:
- Art is the weapon
- Art is the cure
- Art is the handmaid of human good
- Art is the proper task of life
- Art is the solution to chaos
I’ve always loved this quote:
“Art is a reflection of human nature, he said. It is beautiful, and awful. It is simple, and it is incomprehensible. Art is the process of taking things apart to see how they work, and it is the process of breaking things to remind us how fragile they are. He sat on the edge of my couch, drinking a glass of water, and he said that we were creating an atmosphere that would retain the radiation reflecting off the surface of the earth. We were melting the edges of the ice caps, cooling down the northern seas. We were slowing the Gulf Stream, dramatically changing the way the environment behaved. He grabbed my shoulder and said, Isn’t art supposed to move you? Isn’t it supposed to shake you by the hair and say “Aren’t you afraid?”
He said art isn’t just for your benefit, or mine. Art can be a lesson that we leave behind, a horrible warning instead of a shining example. Art, he said, isn’t your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.”
-Joey Comeau
I don’t think there’s a set rule, or even set of rules that we can apply to determine whether or not something is art. I think it’s something we decide together. So in a way, an artist declaring a urinal to be a piece of art, does make it so. Especially if people buy in to that. There’s not some guidebook that holds the answers for what can and can’t be art after all, it’s a human created construct. I don’t think it’s even necessarily the same for everyone. Maybe we should think of art as a quality instead of a construct. Like, beauty if in the eye of the beholder, and we know it has to do with aesthetics, symmetry, familiarity, composition, contrast etc. etc. but we also realize it’s not the same for everyone. Maybe art is in the eye of the beholder too.
Out of all the list of videos from my drawing class, this (James Victore) is the one that stuck with me the most afterwards.
Videos from Drawing Class
For anyone who’s curious what sort of videos that you might watch in a first year drawing class when attending school for Graphic Design, here’s a list. Mostly showcases of specific designers with a heavy emphasis on simplification of form, hand lettering, and icons.
Designer Illustrator Milton Glaser
Designer Illustrator James Victore
Designer Illustrator Andrew Lewis
Where’s My Vote? Posters for Green Movement in Iran
Graphic Designer & Illustrator Artist Luba Lukova Vimeo/YouTube
Luba Lukova about poster design and artwork: 1 2
Enjoy!
Update: Made it through the midterm, now just to complete this assignment in the next four hours… and eat something.. I have been told I should eat something.
Photography Class 6 – Splashing
Distortions due to very high ISO
I don’t want to have an art history midterm
Photography Class 6 – Splashing