Lecture - October 19th

John Thompson spoke about how he created architectural structures, but only sections of a complete structure.  He started out as a carpenter and now does architectural pieces.  Also, his studio is in the basement of his grandfather's bakery.  In his studio he likes to be alone to focus and create/make.  His art seemed very interesting to me especially how he would only take a section of a piece of architecture to recreate.

Composite Image

This assignment consists of taking an advertisement or current event and edit it on photoshop to make the image represent something different.

I chose an advertisement for ZU shoes and this is my edited version of it.

Lecture- Oct. 5th

At the lecture this week, Doug Bucci spoke to us. About 6 years ago Doug wanted to be a painter. Now he has almost completed or already completed a degree in metals and a master of fine arts at Tyler.  Also, he has taught metalsmithing at Tyler.  He has diabetes and he brings that into his art. A lot of his work is influenced by his diabetes.  For instance, he made an emergency insulin kit as a piece of art.  I think it's really aspiring that he uses his diabetes in his artwork.  Your are is you and everypart of you should be portrayed in your art in my opinion.

I found this picture of jewelry Doug made on his website, I found it very interesting i love the movement.

In computer class we squished our faces against the copier and used that photo as a reference to create an image on adobe illustrator.  We could only use the pen tool and colors. This is me!

TED TALK

     The video i watched was Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom Made Thailand a Better Place.  This video was posted September 2010.  Mr. Condom walks us through Thailand's plan to raise its standard of living.  Before this movement there were 7 children per family on average.  Thailand persuades women to go on the pill.  The teachers were having condom blowing contests and there was school condom competitions.  The condom soon became a girls best friend.  The average children per home went from 7 to 1.5 and population growth went from 3.3% to 0.5%.  Then Thailand got AIDS.  AIDS education spread through the country and everyone was involved. Captain Condom was their symbol or protection.  Condoms were distributed everywhere.  Soon taxi drivers were distributing condoms and even the police were giving out condoms.  HIV then declined 90%.

                                 

http://www.ted.com/talks/mechai_viravaidya_how_mr_condom_made_thailand_a_better_place.html

Lecture - Sept 28th

     At the lecture on Tuesday, Marianne Dages, a book artist and printmaker, talked to us about her work.  As a freshman she enrolled in University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she majored in photography.  After she graduated she didn't know what she wanted to do with photography, but she did know she wanted to find a studio to herself to immerse herself in her art.  She went a school in North Carolina in the mountains near Ashville. At this school there wasn't much to do so you just concentrate on work all the time and she developed her first studio here.  I really liked her book binding and each was one of a kind.