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secondlinaTime for a happier update...I shall annoy you people with my artstuff mwahahah!
No. Really.
Here's a project people will like: I emptied out a computer screen and scratched the letters off a keyboard. Then, I glued on the keyboard a different set of symbols: all the letters have been replaced by web acronyms (Like WTF, OMG and LOL), all the numbers have been replaced by emoticons (both american :-) and japanese ^_^) and all the f-commands were replaced by status acronyms (BRB, EAK, etc.) I then bent a piece of plexiglass and bolted it inside the screen. I printed on a transparent sticker paper a copy of my desktop with msn and livejournals open upon it (sorry Megs, your Lj has been exposed to my class). Behind the glass & sticker, I did a mobile of several transparent sheets with HTML code on them, creating several layers of mismatched internet visul and text support. Behind that I installed a light bulb illuminating the screen and the remaining hardware pieces I left inside the screen after removing the glass and lighting parts.
It was a big project.
I did it in the context of my drawing class. The project theme was "Drawing with objects" You might ask "Where the hell did you draw with this?"
Technicly, text is associated to drawing (calligraphie) and I put in the HTML codes to create drawings. The emoticons are also a part of creative drawing. I was trying to comment on webart and on virtual life, which is something I feel touches me more and more.
You know, I liked doing this. Given more time, money, actual working computers I could tinker with and minions with programming knowledge to do my bidding, I would have pushed this project further. I would have reallt tried to create the ultimate geek puter. I would have created an extra keyboard that would have completed and not replaced the actual keyboard. And I would have tried building a program that would really allow the extra keyboard to directly create emoticons and acronyms on the screen. That would have been wicked. Maybe some day...
Drawing class is back to normal now. The new project is about body. I'm going to work with hair, because hair is very reprentitive of one's body and it's also a very sexual and ritual part of us. And it's soft and colorable too (bonus). Heck, mine's orange. My friend Tama's used to be popsicle style, but she dyed it black, so the cool blond/purple/reddish/darker effect is gone.
Here's the sketch. I'm inspiring myself from geisha and marie-antoinette style hairdos. I'm trying to make huge, exagerated...The real drawing will be 2 meters by 3 meters and yes I already want to shoot myself. Good god, why do I always pick projects made of little lines?
Finally, I took a break from home work today and decided to manipulate an old photograph I took (some might remember the renge cosplay pics) Turns out I look great without glasses, giving a slight photoshop montage! *laughs* Fear the sky in my eyes.
Oh man, tomorrow i'm going to interview a gallery owner and film that interview. I'M BLOODY NERVOUS TO HELL!!! And to think I picked a job in Public relations...Well I need to get better a this but still.
Oh, and saturday night, i'm going to go take photos of a dress rehersal at the theatre departement of the U of ottawa. Nice photos are to come! ^^
-Secondlina
No. Really.
Here's a project people will like: I emptied out a computer screen and scratched the letters off a keyboard. Then, I glued on the keyboard a different set of symbols: all the letters have been replaced by web acronyms (Like WTF, OMG and LOL), all the numbers have been replaced by emoticons (both american :-) and japanese ^_^) and all the f-commands were replaced by status acronyms (BRB, EAK, etc.) I then bent a piece of plexiglass and bolted it inside the screen. I printed on a transparent sticker paper a copy of my desktop with msn and livejournals open upon it (sorry Megs, your Lj has been exposed to my class). Behind the glass & sticker, I did a mobile of several transparent sheets with HTML code on them, creating several layers of mismatched internet visul and text support. Behind that I installed a light bulb illuminating the screen and the remaining hardware pieces I left inside the screen after removing the glass and lighting parts.
It was a big project.
I did it in the context of my drawing class. The project theme was "Drawing with objects" You might ask "Where the hell did you draw with this?"
Technicly, text is associated to drawing (calligraphie) and I put in the HTML codes to create drawings. The emoticons are also a part of creative drawing. I was trying to comment on webart and on virtual life, which is something I feel touches me more and more.
You know, I liked doing this. Given more time, money, actual working computers I could tinker with and minions with programming knowledge to do my bidding, I would have pushed this project further. I would have reallt tried to create the ultimate geek puter. I would have created an extra keyboard that would have completed and not replaced the actual keyboard. And I would have tried building a program that would really allow the extra keyboard to directly create emoticons and acronyms on the screen. That would have been wicked. Maybe some day...
Drawing class is back to normal now. The new project is about body. I'm going to work with hair, because hair is very reprentitive of one's body and it's also a very sexual and ritual part of us. And it's soft and colorable too (bonus). Heck, mine's orange. My friend Tama's used to be popsicle style, but she dyed it black, so the cool blond/purple/reddish/darker effect is gone.
Here's the sketch. I'm inspiring myself from geisha and marie-antoinette style hairdos. I'm trying to make huge, exagerated...The real drawing will be 2 meters by 3 meters and yes I already want to shoot myself. Good god, why do I always pick projects made of little lines?
Finally, I took a break from home work today and decided to manipulate an old photograph I took (some might remember the renge cosplay pics) Turns out I look great without glasses, giving a slight photoshop montage! *laughs* Fear the sky in my eyes.
Oh man, tomorrow i'm going to interview a gallery owner and film that interview. I'M BLOODY NERVOUS TO HELL!!! And to think I picked a job in Public relations...Well I need to get better a this but still.
Oh, and saturday night, i'm going to go take photos of a dress rehersal at the theatre departement of the U of ottawa. Nice photos are to come! ^^
-Secondlina
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Date: 2007-02-01 02:40 am (UTC)I love the other stuff you've done too. Oh, I can't wait until I start classes!!!
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Date: 2007-02-01 06:00 am (UTC)That hair drawing is intense! It reminds me of the computer lab lady (what we called her) when I was a child. She had hair all the way down to her feet, so she could probably do all that crazy stuff to it.
*waves her hand* You will use Photoshop more...you will use Photoshop more... Photoshop is good..it makes for pleasing pictures...
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Date: 2007-02-01 02:25 pm (UTC)I've done interviews for my sociology classes, so I can relate. But, I've found that once the interviews get going I forget to be nervous. So, good luck with that, but I'm sure you're going to do fine. ^_~
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Date: 2007-02-01 06:18 pm (UTC)And I don't think I quite understand what you've done to your keyboard.
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Date: 2007-02-02 12:20 am (UTC)And I like the hair idea you sketched up. I hope you'll post the finished project.
And cool photo!!
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Date: 2007-02-02 04:44 am (UTC)I just wanted to say that your hair picture is amazying, but more importantly that your photoshopped picture is amazyingly inspiring.. It's like that Matisse painting of the eye with the sky in it.. think of the possibilties of realistically "creating" surrealist masterpieces, just by the manipulations that photoshop provides us with.. You can totally make the fantastic look plausible.. if only people wouldn't figure out that it's photoshopped..
-Tanya
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