Tech Culminating Self Portrait

In my video self portrait I used a canon D3100 to film, iMovie to edit the clips and garageband to cut the audio. In the video my shots are shaky and unstable because I was trying to create the idea of it being someone seeing me and walking behind me. I also tried to create the idea of unease. Sometimes I feel unsure about things in live and i wanted to show that without coming out and saying it. I have shots where they blur in and out to give a greater sense of unease and how I feel that I don't always see thing clearly. My main goal with this video was not to show whats on the outside but whats on the inside. I use a shot where you see graffiti from a subway window. This shot shows two things the art style I love and my love of traveling. When im traveling I feel at peace with the world ive felt like this since I can remember. I created this feeling by having that was a shot that was steady. I also tried to create the idea of enlightenment when coming out of the station and seeing the graffiti. I did this because when i discovered graffiti it gave me a new way to show feelings and emotions in art work. Up until that point there wasnt really an art style I enjoyed so once I found graffiti and all its styles i was able to find an art style where i could express my self. My video ends on a shot of my self skateboarding in to the darkness of the street. I did this because I love being in the darkness I find it relaxing and fun. I tried to show that by combining my favorite sport with darkness and it went well. The fade in to darkness also showed how east it can be to hide away in the shadows of the night. I chose to use the song Whole Worlds Going Insane by The Insane I chose the song for three reasons. One the song progresses relatively fast and the lyrics say something. That leads me to my second reason, as the title suggests its about the whole world going insane and at these times to me it feels like this is true and the whole world is going insane. Third and finally the genera of music it is, is punk. many people find music to be an escape from life and i do to. For me the most the most effective is punk music and thats why I included it as i felt it needed to be in there to really show me. I also show this in the jacket im wearing as it shows the logos of some of my favorite bands. After all the shooting and editing was finished I can say Im really happy with my work. I think it shows me and who i am and thats what i was trying to do in a creative and different way.

Kinetic Typography Assignment write up

The title of the work is ready to fall. It is a Kinetic typography of a small portion on lyrics from the song ready to fall by rise against. I created the piece using Adobe Flash.

I used “Gill Sans Ultra Bold” as my font as I font it fit the sound and mood of the songs. I used fast changes and quick movements because the song has a fast tempo. I also used fast transitions between scenes.

I chose these design aspects as I found they fitted the song best. I had tried slow transitions but this made it hard to keep up with the fast paced song. All of my design choices were made around the fact that the song as such a fast pace and loud sound.

I really liked the text that seemed to come out of the screen. I found this to really draw my attention and I saw it as an interesting movement of the text.  I also really liked the song itself, I found it leant itself well to be used for this project. The fast paced music allowed me to do the fast movements I wanted to do.

Some of the main challenges I ran in to was the limited range of motion I had using Flash. The program didn’t let me do some of the things I wanted to do this made me have to chance my design from my original.  Finding motions that I could do that would fit the song and wouldn’t get redundant was hard. If I were to do this again I would take the time to learn Adobe after affects, as it would have given me a greater range of motions I could do.

Some of the things I was most satisfied with were the text that seemed to come out of the screen. Creating this made me feel pretty happy as I have always liked this effect with text.

Photography

Afte the OCAD trip we had time to take some pictures downtown. I also took some pictures once I got home from OCAD to get some shots with more nature. 

OCAD University after the trip

While in OCAD one if the first places I ended up was the sculpture area and I noticed one piece that really caught my eye. 

This caught my eye for one main reason it's very scifi. If anyone as played half life or Garry's mod you like me may notice how this kind of looks like a head crab container. Beside the fact that it brought back some great memories I really liked the colours used in the piece it feels so really. This gave me a new found interest in sculpture and I would love to explore more sculptures that have this raw and scifi feeling to it. 

I really liked this work for to reasons the style and the imagery used. I think it shows how our smart phones are becoming extensions of our minds. I looked at all of Alexandro Cameron's work he had on display that day and it was all amazing I found this one to be my favourite. I don't know what it is with this piece but I just really enjoy it. I'm not sure if it's the imagery or the colours or even the organic cube like structures.  

After visiting OCAD I think it's a great place to study but i don't think it would be for me as I don't really see my self going in to a career in the field of art and design. While I do enjoy art and design I am just more passionate about other career fields. 

OCAD University Trip

Last week I went to OCAD university to visit and look at all the great art work for the students there. I was looking forward to seeing the art work from the industrial design, environmental design, and graphic design.

Industrial design- focuses on innovative and responsive solutions for humankind’s interface with the world. I found this to be something I would like to check out as it some of the work was with furniture which I think will be really cool to see how the students make new and interesting designs.

Environmental design-  focuses on the design of expressive and humane interior and architectural space. I think this would be interesting to see as I really enjoy architecture and how buildings interact with the environment around them 

Graphic design- I think at this point we all know what this is :p I was look forward to see this because as a student in a program which used graphic design I wanted to see how people who have been studying it for a while do it. 

VectorDrawing of an apple

I decided to save my vector drawing of an apple as a .png as I found it worked best for the colours and gradients i used to create it.

To create the drawing I used the pen tool. I tried to use as little anchors as possible. I did this by trying to make anchors stretch around the curves as best as possible. After pen tooling around all the parts I added the colours that i thought best matched the original apple.

While doing this I only came across one or two problems and that was mainly just with the colour. I found the colours were hard to get the colour I wanted and the gradient tool didnt work how i would have liked it to have worked in the program but there isnt really much I could do about that.

Over all im pretty happy about the large apple. I found this one turned out quite well and it look quite nice. The half apple im not so happy with, i feel i could have done so much better on the half apple. Mostly with the pen tooling and the colours in the center. In the future ill know what not to do when making a vector drawing.

Exploration

This weekend I went exploring the old Redmond high school. I took many pictures but this one is my favourite because it really captures the feel of the old school. The broken windows, the debris filled hallways and the changing lighting. The hallways went from light to pure darkness in a matter of steps. It will be sad to see this building get demolished just for more condos to be built in its place.

PixelDrawing

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This week i made a pixel portrait of my self in photoshop. Once finished i saved it in .gif and .png formats. After spending some looking at the pictures i found that the differences aren't that noticeable. The colours in the .gif seem more vibrant. While making this i was trying to accentuate my hair, i was trying this because i liked how my hair looked the day i took the picture. I got the colours by using the dropper tool to get the colours of off the original image. 

I created this image by using the pen tool and setting it to 1 pixel in size. I created a new layer to draw on and drew over the original image. I would like to do this again but use a picture with better lighting. The lighting in the picture made the colours look dark and grey. Im not particularly happy with this and given the time i would go back and redo it using a better picture.