Stop Motion

So for computers the final project was a movie....either stop motion or a legit movie.  For mine I decided to kill two birds with one stone; my stop motion was of me Jackson Pollocking my plaster molds for my 3D class. In my 3D class we had to make at least 15 molds of one object, so I made 16 plaster molds of a scope bottle. Then we had to organize our objects in a slightly unconventional manner, so I organized mine in the chemical structure of Methylphenidate. This is commonly found in ADD and ADHD medication. The contrast between the ordered structure of the Methylphenidate and the chaos that is splatter painting are supposed to be physical representations of how ADHD medications affect the user. These kind of medications attempt to bring order to the inattentive and chaotic mind of a person who has ADHD. For the actual stop motion, it wasn't anything too exciting and since there wasn't a plot to it that meant I shouldn't use music set to lyrics. Since I personally find the action and execution of splatter painting breathtaking I choose music that set that kind of mood.  I also added sounds of city traffic to add to the fact that I was executing this project at school. Overall, I like how they both turned out.

Self Portrait Composite

Had to make a self portrait of ourselves by compositing different textures, past artworks,  and experimenting with layers in Photoshop.  Overall this is the favorite thing I've done in Photoshop this year in foundations computers!

Pattern Project 2D

The CORRECT Jean under the sea, on top of a scanner!

Jean under the sea, on top of the scanner.

Type minis

For our first Adobe Illustrator assignment in my foundations computers, we were asked to use type four different ways. One had to be representational, non-representational, expressionistic, and auto-biographical. My representational piece is a butterfly with the word butterfly repeated dozens of times over. To create the effect of the wings, I downed the opacity of the repeated image of the word "butterfly" and made them smaller and overlap them to give the affect of the wings shrinking into space. The figure of the butterfly itself was taken from a picture off the internet and conformed the words to fit within the shape. The calender piece is supposed to be my non-representational one and is the word calender repeated over and over again with a downed opacity again. Mirror-Mirror is my expressionistic piece. And finally the autobiographical piece is the one with the words Jeans, jellybean, eccentric, adorable, nostalgic, spacey.

Philly City

Adventure Time with Julie and Jean

On Saturday January 22, Jean received a text from Julie inquiring if she would like to accompany Julie on a Philadelphia adventure. Of course Jean said yes, and off they went to Cecil B. Moore station to hitch a ride on a train to center city. Once on the train they duo encountered a man who was hustling a bunch of people on the train. It got to the point where a woman who was having a grand old time, asked the hustler "What would happen if I put down $200?".  Obviously he's very good at what he does. Julie and Jean got off at city hall and proceeded to navigate the rancid smelling labyrinth that is the subway system of Philadelphia to get to Reading Terminal Market. The sights and smells ranged from luscious and tantalizing to an assault of your sense of smell. One such assault occurred when Jean walked by a fish stand that was across from a coffee stand. She found out that the combination of smells does not mix well, at all. Other such things that they experienced were a plethora of colorful fruits and veggies, people, cultures and so much more! Once done with Reading Terminal market, Jean attempted to navigate both herself and Julie to South Street to investigate antique shops found there. Unfortunately, Jean lost Broad street a couple times, but with the help a signs and the subway they found South street! Along the way to South Street the duo picked up a third member, a student from UArts whom Jean has known since 7th grade. The antique shops ranged from up tight shop keepers, to the owners handing out fruit to their costumers. After the trio ate at Johnny Rockets, to which Julie had never eaten at. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their meal. By this time it was late at night and frigid cold, so the trio decided to head back to Jean's dorm to watch Chicken Run in her room.

You maybe thinking that is the end of their Philadelphia adventure, but it's not. Having been raised in a white suburbia town, living everyday this semester in North Philadelphia, in my opinion, is an adventure.

The beginning of the End

Not the homework assignment post just wanted to put up this totally AWESOME SITE!!!! You can make your own Jackson Pollocks on an internet site http://www.jacksonpollock.org/!!!