Monday, May 2, 2011

PSA project




Teen dating violence is a way a partner behaves to have control over the other partner.  These behaviors can either be hitting, rude comments to their partners face or on the internet, and/or abusing their partner, deny it, then pretending its their partners fault.  One out of four teens have been abused and only 33% has ever told.  There is always someone to talk to like a parent, a friend, or just by calling certain hot lines to talk about it. There might be someone out there that is just the same as you. www.thehotline.org is one of many websites that may help you, or call 1800.799.SAFE(7233) / 1800.787.2334(TTY) for the National Domestic Violence Hot line. Each call is anonymous and confidential.   

Monday, March 21, 2011

Andy Warhol


  • ·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)
  • o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)
  • o   Father worked in a coal mine
  • ·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”
  • ·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)
  • ·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator
  • ·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes
  • ·         Used Polaroid camera
  • ·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac
  • ·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening
  • ·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic
  • ·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”
  • ·         First solo expedition in 1952
  • ·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”
  • ·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)
  • ·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968
  • ·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career
  • ·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)
  • ·         1965 said he was retiring from painting
  • o   1972 returned to painting
  • ·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)
  • ·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album
  • ·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue
  • ·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)
  • o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document
  • o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."
  • ·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)
  • ·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver
  • ·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person
  • ·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication
  • ·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)
  • ·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Friday, March 11, 2011

photoshop picture

For this picture, I used the dodge tool to lighten the the outside of the arch over it.  I then went to adjustments and clicked the Brightness/Contrast tool and brighten it just a little bit and pulled up the contrast a little higher than the brightness.  I then used the Depth of Fields to make the church more focused on.  I took this picture of my Architecture Project.  The original picture was dark and so I photo shopped it to where I can actually see the church instead of having a hard time trying to see the church.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Little Toy Edit

Copied Domo and pasted him and his CD's in a music store

Little toy, Blended, and Copy and Paste

Monday, I stayed home in my room and relaxed to Tom Waits<3

I just blended a leaf and a acorn

Copied and pasted onto Mercy Campus. GO BUNNIES!

Monday, January 31, 2011

Ch. 9 Notes

  • Composition is one of the most important aspects of landscape photography and view point
  • Landscape photographers pay more attention to where they position the camera
    • an inch or two in ant direction can make a difference
  • Pay close attention and see what will give you the best image
  • Value, an images light and dark areas, is important in black and white landscape photography.
  • Images with a wide range of tones can be more dramatic
  • Images with a narrower range seems quieter and more contemplative.
  • Decide what kind of mood you want others to see in your picture.
  • Always achieve balance between unity and variety
    • Unity
      • results when all the individual parts in the picture come together and support each other
      • extreme unity occurs when all parts and objects in the picture are related to each other like color, size, value, texture, and appearance
    • Variety
      • With total variety, nothing goes or fits with each other
    • Balancing variety and unity creates a picture that is interesting to look at without being disturbed.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Architecture Assignment

Location 1 Big picture

Location 2 Details

Location 3 Big Picture

Location 3 Detail

Location 3 Interior

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Ch. 8 Notes

Architecture and Urban Landscapes

  • Take architecture photos as if you are taking portraits - always set the mood.
  • Three important kinds 
    • Big picture
    • Interior shots
    • Small details
  •  Framing right angles
  • Not everything has to be a perfect place
  • Frank Loyd Wright used environment in his architecture pictures
  • Black and white show more emotion
    • It has more meaning
    • It can show history
  • lighting is important
    • lighter
      • more awake
      • happy
    • darker
      • alone
      • sad
  •  

Friday, January 7, 2011

Movie notes Jan. 6

  1. The Daily News is the oldest newspaper starting from 1919
  2. People who works for the newspaper, always have a crazy morning because they are trying to find out what will be in the newspaper or what will be the head news.
  3. It was the first newspaper to ever show photographs
  4. The Daily Newspaper had a symbol of a little camera in the front on the newspaper
  5. A lot of pictures were used to attract a lot of attention to people
  6. The news paper became a very famous newspaper
  7. In 1920, there was a lot of photographs than drawings - people started to believe in these objects of desire, instead of just a drawing of it.
  8. Celebrities were only famous if they looked good in pictures.  
  9. Babe Ruth because famous in sports
  10. Babe has the most shown pictures with being a celebrity and also being in sports