Old-School Optical Toys

The layout of the site is very cool. I like how the image is the link to more information about it. My favourite toy is the Chromatrope. I found this one the best because it is like a kaleidoscopic but you can project it onto a wall. It works just like a kaleidoscopic but you don't turn the whole contraption you turn a handle that moves the glass. I found the site very awesome because it teaches me something that I never would of learned about.

Steve Rago

Steve Rago is a professional pinhole photographer. I like his work because it looks very amateur because he moves it half way through the aperture. I like that effect because it gives a mysterious, and spooky feeling. Click here to go to his website and view his work.

Pinhole Photography

As a class we took a trip to Gallery 44 for a pinhole photography workshop. I enjoyed my time at Gallery 44 because I got two of my best pictures there. I also enjoyed it because it reminded me of when I took a black & white camp and we did our developing in the same black room. At the workshop we had to make a camera out of a tin, black tape, a tart container, and black spray paint.

A pinhole camera works because even though the hole in the tin is so small (3/4 of a millimeter) this works as the aperture. The black tape would work as the shutter. The light goes through the little hole when you remove the tape the light starts coming in. Some pinhole cameras use an exposure of months, but most are only for a less usually thirty seconds to five minutes. Next you take it into the dark room and develop it in all the different chemicals for different times.

I learned that really anything could be a camera for example our instructor told us some one has used fruit, suitcases, and even cars! Overall i found the trip very exciting and I would like to try other types of photography using a black room.

View Of Gallery 44 Parkinglot

Warped Car

Wall With Door

Framing

This photo displays the composition element of design called Framing. It shows this because although the object I used to frame it wasn't from the environment it still frames the grass in a X shape.

Texture / Seletive Focus

This photo shows Texture. It shows this because it feels like if were to touch this picture you would feel the bumby rigid texture of the brick. It also has a little bit of selective focus because most of the bricks are out of focus except for a few which are very crisp.

Selective Focus

This photo shows the composition element called Selective Focus. Although usually in selective focus the background but instead the chain isn't in focus.

Light & Shadow / Line

This photo shows the element in photo compisition called Light and Shadow. It shows this because of the tree creating a shadow on the wall. It also shows Line because of the metal grid on the wall shows horizontal and vertical lines.

Camera Angles

This Photo shows camera angle because I took the picture with the camera over my head and facing the sky.

Scale

Scale is having a object usually being a human that you can make reference to because what is a picture of a giant mountain if it just looks like a picture of a rock up close. If the picture had a person standing beside the mountain then you could get a sense of how tall and wide it is. Instead of using people if you wanted the scale to be a little bit more indirect you could use boats, cars, houses, etc.

Photo District News Article

The main topic of the article is talking about a workshop that Harvey Stein ran in New York. The workshop took people in their mid twenty's to retired people showing it was never to late to learn. The name of the workshop is “Coney Island: Day & Night”. He got them to take pictures at the amusement park and choose there one best and some other good ones. He looked through and found ones that had the same theme and decided they were so good he should make a show. although the show went well he said he still isn't gonna do it again. I think this subject is worthy of an article because it is telling the story of not one photographer but a whole class of photographers.

I found this article very interesting because i was recently just in New York and I never got to see that part of he city but just the author talking about what they did gives me a sense of what it probably looks like. Also I found this article not to be extremely inspirational but it did give me some inspiration because they are taking pictures of "the last funky place in New York" so maybe I could do the same but in Toronto.

Reading this article gave me the idea of photographing more man-made mechanical like things because they talked about amusement parks which made me think of roller coasters. I think I am drawn to this particular type of photography because of the day and age I have grown up in forces us to be around high tech gadgets but I want to see the more old fashion steel and gears.


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Graphic Design Link

The website I found teaches you how to make a 3D logo. It starts off as just using lines and circles but then you have to take it into Effect -> 3D - > Extrude Bevel and it turns all the circles and straight lines into a 3D looking object. There is steps after which make it look better here is the link if you want to look http://www.good-walls.com/2008/06/20/3d-logo-tutorial/

Logo Assignment

My company does designs for magazine covers, big board room company's, a variety of signs, and advertisement flyers. My company's style is realistic with a hint of a cartoony aspect. My company has this style because I want customers to get a feel of what we do before they even talk to us.
I made the design choices that I did for this logo because they looked the best. I think the colour i chose works well because gorillas are like the king of the rainforest which is why I chose purple which represents royalty. I think my gorilla has a pear shape. It isn't very distinctive but it is there. The lines on the logo are all curving but that is because there is no such thing as a perfectly staight line in nature. I chose a gorilla as my logo because gorilla's are smart, bold, and powerful. The reason I thought a gorilla would be a good choice is because those three attributesthat represent a gorilla would also be great for a company.

Chess Piece

For our second assignment we had to draw a chess piece of choice and have a background that in some way had to move the viewer's eye. The chess piece I chose was the rook. We went through many exercises before actually drawing and putting it on the computer. An example of one of the exercises we had to do was randomly pick an object from a bin and without looking at it we had to draw the object by what we feel. I used the "Growing Technique" to draw my chess piece. I think my use of shading for the whole drawing could of been better if I had filled the little white spots. Even though the shading on the chess piece is not great it still does look three dimensional. Although i think my chess piece isn't great I think my background definitely moves your eye. I think it moves your eye because there is vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and curved lines. Also the shading makes as if the lines are growing when it gets darker and fading into the back when they are lighter. Overall I think I did decent on this project because I think I could of done better. Ways I could of made it better would of been making the semi-circles on the chess piece more symmetrical.

George Bellows "Boxing"

I am writing about George Bellows "Boxing". Bellows gave up his career in professional baseball to pursue art. Bellows had a passion for Sports and Art we see this in his work. He died at the age of 42. He died from macho stoicism. He ignored stomach cramps until his appendix ruptured and this resulted in his death.

This picture is a good example of Imitationalism because the setting and people are very realistic. It is also an accurate example because there are paintings that are realistic but the proportions are off. Finally it is a fine example of Imtiationalism because even the people around the ring that are not the main focus have full facial features and all five fingers.

This painting is also a good example of Emotionalism. I think this because even though it is in a greyscale it still shows so much emotion. The moods of this painting are definitely Anger, Power and Excitement. I think this painting show Anger and Power because of the main focus, The Boxers. The boxers gives me these moods because they are both pushing away at each other with such strength and fury. I get the felling of excitement from the crowd. I can almost hear them screaming and cheering.

"Boxing" is an acceptable example of Formalism. Although it is lacking color it makes up with the detail and shading. I think the balance of this painting is excellent because the referee, the boxer on the left, and the crowd on either side equal it out, and the boxer in the middle just finishes it off by adding weight to both sides.

Overall I liked this painting. I found the Imitationalism and Emotionalism Empowered the Formalism.

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