Art Lecture "Patrick Kelley's Digital Imaging"

Kelley's presentation was very well organized. He started about his first experiences in photography and how he developed his skills until he became involved in the field of video game graphics. From the beginning of his work, Kelley enjoys working with natural objects and shifting them around in a human arrangement (especially lining up twigs and pebbles into bridges). Kelley especially likes working with snow, which has always been present since his earlier works in photography until his recent snow step flip book.

To me, Kelley's projects are simple, understandable, well organized, and very beautiful. It shows how mastering different artistic skills one step at a time attribute to Kelley's present line.

Art Lecture "Response to Color Science"

This is the first art lecture that I attended. It is about color science and the basic concept on how to apply the knowledge of human visual perception with computer graphic. The speaker gave an introduction by showing how color science is used in filmmaking. He gave examples such as cloning actors at different angles, seeing an actor at a far distance, and even shrinking or increasing the size of an actor. The speaker then explained the different parts and functions of the human eye and showed some pictures and informed on how the pictures really look like in comparison to how we see them. The speaker also played with the mixture of colors and lighting and explained how they can steer us to focus on a particular object. For example, placing warm colors such red and orange around an object, makes that object stand out. On the other hand, placing cooler colors, such as blue, around an object will make that object seem further away and less attractive.
Color science can fool and manipulate the human eye by making fake objects appear realistic and unconsciously forcing the human eye to focus on particular objects.

Postcard Proposal

For my postcard, I chose to connect one of Adrienne Rich's and Edgar Allan Poe's poem. From Adrienne Rich's, I chose "Boundary," and from Edgar Allan Poe, I chose "The Raven." Both of these poems are written in first person. I turned the speaker in "Boundary" into "Lenore" from "The Raven." As the speaker in "The Raven" mourns over his desire for Lenore, she replies how impossible it is for them to be together because there is a boundary between them. There is a bird in both postcards which serves as a messenger that connects the two characters together.

This is a picture of Lenore from Rich's "Boundary." Notice that there is a bird on Lenore's shoulder.

This is a picture of the speaker from Poe's "The Raven." Notice how he kneels to the bird in front of him.

Inanimate Object World

This is the project that I posted for the contest on the category about inanimate object world. I named it "odd friends." I hope you like it. Please feel free to leave me a comment on 1000worth.com

Burroughs Cut-Up

Have you ever dreamed that you are reading something and though the words on the paper do not make much sense, they are still understandable? This was my first impression on Burroughs' cut-up method. Before reading about cut-ups, I had no idea that there are artists out there who treat words as collages. Connecting words and/or phrases that come from different sources, but share the same topic, result in a somewhat unconscious style of reading. Because cut-ups describe certain subjects from many point of views, cut-ups can easily encompass every sensory detail.

To me, the cut-up method is creative, clever, blurry, confusing and yet makes perfect sense in an unexplainable way. It is also similar to appropriation and sampling, where the artist creates a new project by using elements from other existing art work. Since one cannot predict what the next text in cut-ups is going to be about, cut-ups can be mysteriously captivating for one to simply keep on reading and follow where the words lead.

Frighteningly however, I wonder if the artist can abuse the cut-up method by manipulating the readers' minds to unconsciously believe in something that the artist wants them to, whether it may be true or spurious.

Dada

This art work by Man Ray, looks soft and dreamy. The camera films are loosely twirled around a dark center and none of the pictures in the films are clear. Instead, they are ghost-like and could be seen through like gelatin. It seems as if there are sweet, sad memories behind this art work.

This other photograph by Man Ray about a woman smoking cigarrette, is taken at an angle straight above the woman's head. This angle makes it difficult to recognize the woman's face, but makes it easy to see the action that the woman is doing; smoking a cigarrette. This picture also has a dreamy look.

Man Ray's silver gelatin silver print technique, rayograph, makes me feel like I am in a trance and am going through someone's secret memories. The soft curves, the gentle lighting, the blurry images, and the angle chosen for each image, make Man Ray's work truly unique and simply beautiful.

Journey audio

This is my journey project, and according to what I planned at first, it turned out to be what I expected. I was excited working on it, and was able to find more sounds along the way. This audio is about waking up from a peaceful sleep in the morning, getting ready to go to work, and then finally arriving at the chaotic atmosphere of the city. I hope you enjoy it. journey audio

There are three sounds that I recorded myself: The background piano music, the door opening and closing before going into the car, and my voice saying "I'm going to be late..." in the end of the audio. The rest of the sounds are from findsound.com.
These are the link to the sounds that I got when I typed in the words as they appear.

shower sound - http://new.wavlist.com/soundfx/019/bath-shower.wav

shower curtain - http://sep800.mine.nu/files/sounds/showercurtain.wav

birds - http://www.ample-edition.com/sounds/Nachtig2.wav

car start - http://sep800.mine.nu/files/sounds/carstart2.wav

coffee maker - http://www.ringelkater.de/Sounds/2geraeusche_gegenst/kaffeemaschine.wav

drinking coffee - http://www.albertweb.de/Sound-Spiele/HeisserKaffee.wav

yawning - http://www.tplm.com/wav/fatigue3.wav

alarm clock - http://new.wavlist.com/tv/089/407_alarm.wav

footsteps: - http://apeyman.free.fr/sfx/humains/pas.wav

restaurant (this is for the sound of the crowd in the city) - http://todos.zonebg.com/img/soundfiles/Restaraunt.wav

traffic and honking noises - http://amazingsounds.iespana.es/trafficjam.wav

door key - http://www.littlemusicclub.com/doors/doorkey.wav

opening and closing car door - http://vienvoir.free.fr/sons/bruitages/009_opening%20closing%20car%20do~.wav

keys- http://64.41.69.21/technical/sample_rates/keys_1622ds.wav

cars - http://www.bmwworld.com/images/sounds/racecar_passing6.wav

motorbike - http://www.soundbite.co.nz/sbites/mbike.AIF

kitchen drawer - http://vienvoir.free.fr/sons/bruitages/018_kitchen%20drawer.wav