December 2010
8 posts
Internship: Numero Group
Internship Goals – Numero Group
So far at my internship I’ve completed a wide variety of tasks ranging from recording and editing a podcast, illustrating a t-shirt design, calling the senior purchaser for every major art and historical museum in the country, to breaking down boxes. The podcast project is an extensive and on going project, completing 10 podcasts before the end of my semester...
Independent Study Project
CrowdNoize Designs
For my ISP I documented the design process of creating work to be used for the start up online business, CrowdNoize.com. CrowdNoize is a web based resource that lists electronic and hiphop events in Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, and Minneapolis. The design work that I completed is being used on all four city’s websites as well as business cards and promotional material....
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so says the preacher man
so says the preacher man
Why is this?
Why is what?
Exactly
What?
Never mind, trains’ coming
I feel it before I see it, I’m told rituals have something to do with devotion, I’ve only seen apathy. Then again maybe I’m not ritualizing right.
I’ve witnessed it before, “The Idea” but never been close enough to see it. I feel it before I see it, but that’s a lie. I mean I’ve seen its reflections, but...
KOMA
The concept of Koma is that of someone coming in contact with inorganic beings that exist in some sub-conscience, sub-unverisal realm. It is a first hand internal dialogue of someone drifting out of life, consciousness, and human form. There are sporadic instances of intense flashes of light that are characteristic to sever migraines and loss of consciousness, which develop a disorienting...
Logo Project
This is my personal logo designed from a photograph taken of me preforming a live drum set which was coordinated to a simultaneous DJ set. I used photoshop and illustrator to digitally recreate the image in a much more simplistic clean form.
WatchMemory Project
This video discusses the fractured nature of memory. In order to function we constantly recreate and craft memory to base our present actions upon. The childlike materials, plastic action figures and Elmer’s glue allude to the idea of fractured memory in a constant state of recreation.
Untitled - Juxtaposition Project
This is a photograph of my interactive juxtaposition project. Willing applicants are able to wear a unique cloak which hides their appearance and replaces it with an alternative. An unlimited number of varieties are possible depending on participant and the alternative body projection.
September 2010
3 posts
April 2010
5 posts
Ideas and 6 Photographers
Artist Statement
For this project I continued with the process of layering photos in Photoshop using different blending modes and color adjustments. However with this project I was able to use the subject matter and photo editing technique to convey some underlying themes. This body of work references the anonymity and energy of a music concert atmosphere.
Much of my previous work...
Oliver Barton
Oliver Barton is a skateboard photographer who works for Transworld Skateboarding Magazine. Barton has a very unique style of shooting skateboarding and he pays close attention the natural and staged lighting. The intense and rapid nature of skateboard movement is amplified by every element of his photography from the dramatic lighting, to the dynamic angle, color, shadow, contrast and texture...
Trace Crit-Response
I think that my photos for the Trace Project worked well together as a group. I had flipped two of the photos horizontally, which helped quite a bit to create a balance through the whole photo set. The diagonal direction of the light was mirrored on both sides of the photo group. I really enjoyed experimenting with the layer blending option in photoshop and I’m excited to see where else I...
March 2010
2 posts
6 Street Photographers
I chose this Philip-Lorca Dicorcia photograph, Naples, because of the interesting techniques he uses in shooting these everyday urban settings. His seemingly normal urban scenes have a somewhat surreal quality to them produced by the use of lighting. In this series of street photographs Dicorcia actually has a great deal of control over the setting as he sets up various external light sources,...
February 2010
11 posts
Photographers - Fear
I chose Antonie D’Agata, because his haunting style of photography motivated to photograph my fear project. There is definitely a nod to the first photograph in the style and subject of my project. His use of blurred image is amazing in his work. I really do like how only certain sections of his subject will be blurred, this gives the viewer enough information to relate to without making...
Fear
Jonathan Taylor Photography
Fear is one of the most basic or innate emotions. Fear is not a physical state such as pain, but rather a psychological state of the mind, which relates to perceived events or worsening future situations. Fear ties closely into the emotional state of anxiety, however is separated in the sense that a state of anxiety need not be induced by an external force. Fear is...
Close up project Critique
Critique 2/18/10
I really enjoyed Monday’s critique; it was very interesting to see what and how everyone decided to shoot for our close up project. I really liked that fact that most people picked up on my used of continuing horizon line throughout the photos in the group discussion. This shows that my technique was at least somewhat successful. I would really like to develop this idea of...
6 Photographers
Two French graphic design leaders, Thomas Couderc and Clément Vauchez, are responsible for HELMO. They primarily produce graphic work, although their work shows an exceptional talent for incorporating photography with design and type. This photograph is interesting coming from HELMO because their design mind is displayed through the composition and coloration of the fog. I really like the...
January 2010
4 posts
