This video was all done with photos which is kind of weird but i thought that it added a cool concept to the idea of a time lapse video. I could do with out that music though.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
This guy has some funny pictures
Its also funny cuz the McDonalds one was taking by the one near my house
Its also funny cuz the McDonalds one was taking by the one near my house
Its also funny cuz the McDonalds one was taking by the one near my house
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Evaluation
Brian Wong
Kyle Riedel
Art 406b
Project Evaluation
Strengths:
The strengths of the work that I feel that I accomplished was thinking out the idea more then the first time when it was constructed. I was able to focus more on the idea of the work then actually getting the work itself up. Last time when I did the project the picture was printed up on 184 different sheets of paper and had the piece the work together one by one which took to much time and just was not practical to do again when I was thinking about continuing the project. I was able this time to research and found that I could get the images printed bigger which would mean that there would be less squares that would have to put together. I also feel that the work has more of a point of view. That it exist more then just in the idea of that it looks nice that there can be derived a sub context to the picture that was chosen. The printed work in which is view I believe is stronger too because of the knowledge that I had learned more in depth ways of color correction and other masking techniques. Over all as far as photoshop goes I knew enough before but I was still unsure about the whole way of color correction. What I found helpful and what also helped improve my project was the several color correction demonstrations that where given in class. I felt that for me there was a lot that I took away from those. I would say that I was proficient at photoshop but in no way was I near where I want to be.
Ideas:
When coming up to with ideas it seems that I am not really sure how they happen. I have to be thinking about that idea which I want to accomplish and then ideas just randomly pop into my head. In which I will write down the idea and look though them at a later date. When looking on the ideas later that I have written down most of the ideas do not seem to be good ideas when reexamining them. How the idea starts usually is when sitting in class or watching television or something to that extent of just random, and I will have an idea that I think sounds some what interesting. I have tried sitting and just brain storming everything at once and the ideas just do not seem to flow out as naturally and they just seem very forced, and they do not seem to be any better then the ideas that just come while I am just doing random things. As far as the idea of locations of where I could put up the work that was just me driving around on my day today life and just seeing areas that looked as though they would make a good spot to put up the work. I also get ideas from when I look at other artist on blogs and websites.
Weakness:
There are so many things that I could say about the weakness side of the project. First off the picture that was printed off at Kinko’s was not printed right because the person who was printing it out seemed to not know what he was doing because when he printed the images which I had arranged and sized so that it would fit their printed, the images still came out with different sized borders on every picture, making it very hard when trying to put the pictures together because they did not line up as they should have. Secondly the picture when printed out lost all of the semi fine detail in the image. It was expected that some of the detail would be lost but it was like most of the image was totally black in areas that where just semi gray. I was not expecting that and I could not reprint the images because they cost to much to print out to start with. Other weakness is that although I feel as though I have learned a great deal about how to print the images off, the colors still seem to me that they are off. And I would like to learn more about the sharpening tool in photoshop. My images seem to be sharp but not as sharp as they should be. When talking to Christian and he said that you need to over sharpen when you print because the printer muddies the image because the ink runs a bit. Other weakness are the on the conceptual side of the work. The main idea that I had was to see the tangibility of the reality of the work and how long it would exist. This idea does not hold up because it does not work with the way that I am placing the images into the space. It would work better if the images were hidden as objects in the space so that they would be more inconspicuous. The conceptual idea for the hospital works but the image that I picked was not as insightful as the other. I need to find a way to relate though historically the picture with the location. The fact that there were no deadlines did not really affect me because right from the start I planned out when I would have each step of my project done, so there was not problem with that. Another weakness is that I feel that I printed to many pictures that I only really needed one image for each one of my works.
Galleries/Online:
The project made me more aware of all the resources that I had at my disposal. It started by the blog that we had to do. I do not really know all that many artists but by looking at other people’s blogs and the artist they were posting and talking about I was able to find out about a whole different array of new artist which I think helped tremendously. I was also looking at a lot of the blogs that were given to us last semester also such as Ffffound!, wrongdistance, Wooster collective. For the purpose of this project I looked up a lot of blogs that had information about urban art and graffiti art; world Graffiti urban art, Bristol graffiti, Barcelona graffiti and street art by the artists. I found myself going to more galleries as the weeks went by. I make it a point to check out the galleries that are on campus every week and see what people are putting up.
Fixing the problem:
If I continue this project into the next part of the class then I could do more research and try and think more about the historical significance between the picture and the landscape that I am putting into my own image. I will only print one image for each of my works so not to over kill the effect of the work.
Websites listed:
Some of the website that I have been looking at this semester.
http://www.woostercollective.com/
http://wrongdistance.com/
http://ffffound.com/
http://www.world-graffiti.com/
http://bristolgraffiti.wordpress.com/
http://bcnstyle.ekosystem.org/
http://visualartassassination.net/
http://www.lizwolfe.com/
http://www.chrismcveigh.com/cm/welcome.html
http://www.gregoryheisler.com/
http://www.anastasiacazabon.com/
Kyle Riedel
Art 406b
Project Evaluation
Strengths:
The strengths of the work that I feel that I accomplished was thinking out the idea more then the first time when it was constructed. I was able to focus more on the idea of the work then actually getting the work itself up. Last time when I did the project the picture was printed up on 184 different sheets of paper and had the piece the work together one by one which took to much time and just was not practical to do again when I was thinking about continuing the project. I was able this time to research and found that I could get the images printed bigger which would mean that there would be less squares that would have to put together. I also feel that the work has more of a point of view. That it exist more then just in the idea of that it looks nice that there can be derived a sub context to the picture that was chosen. The printed work in which is view I believe is stronger too because of the knowledge that I had learned more in depth ways of color correction and other masking techniques. Over all as far as photoshop goes I knew enough before but I was still unsure about the whole way of color correction. What I found helpful and what also helped improve my project was the several color correction demonstrations that where given in class. I felt that for me there was a lot that I took away from those. I would say that I was proficient at photoshop but in no way was I near where I want to be.
Ideas:
When coming up to with ideas it seems that I am not really sure how they happen. I have to be thinking about that idea which I want to accomplish and then ideas just randomly pop into my head. In which I will write down the idea and look though them at a later date. When looking on the ideas later that I have written down most of the ideas do not seem to be good ideas when reexamining them. How the idea starts usually is when sitting in class or watching television or something to that extent of just random, and I will have an idea that I think sounds some what interesting. I have tried sitting and just brain storming everything at once and the ideas just do not seem to flow out as naturally and they just seem very forced, and they do not seem to be any better then the ideas that just come while I am just doing random things. As far as the idea of locations of where I could put up the work that was just me driving around on my day today life and just seeing areas that looked as though they would make a good spot to put up the work. I also get ideas from when I look at other artist on blogs and websites.
Weakness:
There are so many things that I could say about the weakness side of the project. First off the picture that was printed off at Kinko’s was not printed right because the person who was printing it out seemed to not know what he was doing because when he printed the images which I had arranged and sized so that it would fit their printed, the images still came out with different sized borders on every picture, making it very hard when trying to put the pictures together because they did not line up as they should have. Secondly the picture when printed out lost all of the semi fine detail in the image. It was expected that some of the detail would be lost but it was like most of the image was totally black in areas that where just semi gray. I was not expecting that and I could not reprint the images because they cost to much to print out to start with. Other weakness is that although I feel as though I have learned a great deal about how to print the images off, the colors still seem to me that they are off. And I would like to learn more about the sharpening tool in photoshop. My images seem to be sharp but not as sharp as they should be. When talking to Christian and he said that you need to over sharpen when you print because the printer muddies the image because the ink runs a bit. Other weakness are the on the conceptual side of the work. The main idea that I had was to see the tangibility of the reality of the work and how long it would exist. This idea does not hold up because it does not work with the way that I am placing the images into the space. It would work better if the images were hidden as objects in the space so that they would be more inconspicuous. The conceptual idea for the hospital works but the image that I picked was not as insightful as the other. I need to find a way to relate though historically the picture with the location. The fact that there were no deadlines did not really affect me because right from the start I planned out when I would have each step of my project done, so there was not problem with that. Another weakness is that I feel that I printed to many pictures that I only really needed one image for each one of my works.
Galleries/Online:
The project made me more aware of all the resources that I had at my disposal. It started by the blog that we had to do. I do not really know all that many artists but by looking at other people’s blogs and the artist they were posting and talking about I was able to find out about a whole different array of new artist which I think helped tremendously. I was also looking at a lot of the blogs that were given to us last semester also such as Ffffound!, wrongdistance, Wooster collective. For the purpose of this project I looked up a lot of blogs that had information about urban art and graffiti art; world Graffiti urban art, Bristol graffiti, Barcelona graffiti and street art by the artists. I found myself going to more galleries as the weeks went by. I make it a point to check out the galleries that are on campus every week and see what people are putting up.
Fixing the problem:
If I continue this project into the next part of the class then I could do more research and try and think more about the historical significance between the picture and the landscape that I am putting into my own image. I will only print one image for each of my works so not to over kill the effect of the work.
Websites listed:
Some of the website that I have been looking at this semester.
http://www.woostercollective.com/
http://wrongdistance.com/
http://ffffound.com/
http://www.world-graffiti.com/
http://bristolgraffiti.wordpress.com/
http://bcnstyle.ekosystem.org/
http://visualartassassination.net/
http://www.lizwolfe.com/
http://www.chrismcveigh.com/cm/welcome.html
http://www.gregoryheisler.com/
http://www.anastasiacazabon.com/
Friday, October 16, 2009
Sketches
These are just some of the sketches that I've made while trying to plan out the project, to figure out the sizing and how much it is going to cost to make.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Where the wild things are
So I always get Spike Jonze and Spike Lee mixed up, so i figured that I'd make a poster for where the wild things are if Spike Lee made it.
Can anyone help?
So first off I tried saving my pictures for the internet and they still look a little weird then what i'm seeing on my photoshop screen. But the big question that I have is why is it that my pictures look better in Safari over firefox? I looked up some information and they say that you have to save you pictures as sRGB and not AbobeRGB becuase only mac's can read the AdobeRGB. I have a picture here that shows that their is a difference by just using different browsers.
On the left is Firefox and on the right is Safari
On the left is Firefox and on the right is Safari
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Polaroid not dead?
INSPIRES POLAROID® TO
RELAUNCH INSTANT CAMERAS
RELAUNCH INSTANT CAMERAS
Dear Polapremium Customer,
we can not wait another day to proudly bring you some very important news which was presented by Polaroid itself at a press conference on October 13th in Hongkong.
we can not wait another day to proudly bring you some very important news which was presented by Polaroid itself at a press conference on October 13th in Hongkong.
THE IMPOSSIBLE POLAROID
After all the difficulties and changes of ownership during the last years, the new management of Polaroid now understands the source of the brand's attraction - which is surprisingly not based in digital cameras but in Dr. Edwin Land's groundbreaking 1948 invention of Instant Photography, which he ingeniously devised and passionately developed with a lot of care and devotion.
Since 2005, it has been our honour and pleasure to celebrate and evoke the sensational and almost mysterious power of Instant Photography in memoriam of Dr. Land. Doing everything in our power to keep this beloved and unique photographic medium alive, we grabbed the chance to take over the last factory producing Instant films from the old Polaroid management and to start The Impossible Project in 2008. Re-inventing a new analog integral film, we are now preparing, supporting and managing the comeback of Instant Photography.
Accomplishing this mission and proudly owning the former Polaroid plant in Enschede (NL), as well as already holding the first working hand-coated samples in our trembling hands, we are pleased to herewith announce a history-making cooperation between The Impossible Project and Polaroid:
Since 2005, it has been our honour and pleasure to celebrate and evoke the sensational and almost mysterious power of Instant Photography in memoriam of Dr. Land. Doing everything in our power to keep this beloved and unique photographic medium alive, we grabbed the chance to take over the last factory producing Instant films from the old Polaroid management and to start The Impossible Project in 2008. Re-inventing a new analog integral film, we are now preparing, supporting and managing the comeback of Instant Photography.
Accomplishing this mission and proudly owning the former Polaroid plant in Enschede (NL), as well as already holding the first working hand-coated samples in our trembling hands, we are pleased to herewith announce a history-making cooperation between The Impossible Project and Polaroid:
Polaroid will re-launch the legendary Polaroid One Step Camera and is therefore commissioning The Impossible Project to develop and produce a limited edition of Polaroid® branded Instant Films in the middle of 2010.
We feel proud and excited that our ambitions and all the relentless work we have already invested are now becoming the foundation for Polaroid's comeback as a producer of Instant Cameras.
Large-scale production and worldwide sale of The Impossible Project's new integral film materials under its own brand will already start in the beginning of 2010 - with a brand new and astonishing black and white Instant Film and the first colour films to follow in the course of the year.
Large-scale production and worldwide sale of The Impossible Project's new integral film materials under its own brand will already start in the beginning of 2010 - with a brand new and astonishing black and white Instant Film and the first colour films to follow in the course of the year.
ORIGINAL SX-70
CELEBRATION EDITION
In celebration of this significant milestone and to shorten your waiting period but to enable you to hold a lovely, shining Polaroid classic in your hands and start shooting right away, we are offering a hand-picked and exclusively compiled Celebration edition of the unique SX-70 camera in a very limited special batch of only 8 kits.
In each of the original leather bags you will find:
In each of the original leather bags you will find:
- one original SX-70 camera
- two original SX-70 film packs (collectible - ancient, not tested.)
- one flash bar
- one copy of the Polaroid book "Sofortbilder ohne Probleme"
- one picture frame
- one Polapremium CD with original SX-70 materials (manuals, articles, tips&tricks)
- two original SX-70 film packs (collectible - ancient, not tested.)
- one flash bar
- one copy of the Polaroid book "Sofortbilder ohne Probleme"
- one picture frame
- one Polapremium CD with original SX-70 materials (manuals, articles, tips&tricks)
350 EUR
328 GBP / 430 USD / 38750 JPY
Worldwide sale of this delicacy will start on
Friday October 16th, 12.00 PM CET.
Friday October 16th, 12.00 PM CET.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Paul Shambroom
I remembered the the UAM, Paul Shambrooms work in it last semester, I remembered liking it a lot so I looked him up online and looked though his work and just picked out a few of the pictures that I though were quite inspiring.
Paul Shambroom
Paul Shambroom
What a Day
So I spent the last half of my day scouting out places to put my project tonight. And what I found out today or sound i say tonight is that although places that might look like good spots in the day have one of the following things at night: More traffic than anticipated, more light on the area so that if people do come by I would be easy spotted, not easy accessible for coming in and or escaping if need be, Upon closer look not as good as originally thought. But after driving around for about 2 and a half hours scouting and measuring locations I think that I have found the locations that I will be using for the project. Now to choose the right picture for the locations that I have selected. So much work so little time.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
saw a cool picture
I saw this picture online but the white balance was all off so I just fixed it for practice. I think it looks better.
Before
After
Before
After
Friday, October 9, 2009
More reading up...
So I've been reading a lot about "urban art" online the past few days and just seeing what kind of information the main stream media give to it. And there seems to be quite a few entries on the subject when you type it into google, but yet at the same time they don't really give to much detail about the work itself. They cover who the artist is, where the work is located, who is sponsoring the work, and then maybe they will describe it in a few sentences but that is about the actual piece.
One of the more interesting articles that I was able to find was the first article that showed up in my search was this article about these two graffiti artist who more or less had a competition, they called it a "battle". The whole thing took place out of Oakland, CA, and they say that it was the first organized battle between two graffiti artist ever held. By the way they were describing the whole event they made it sound like it was a very friendly event, which is kind of what urban art is about.
Graffiti Battle
Another super interesting article that I found was one about good old Banksy. That there is one of his works that people are not sure if it is art or if it is just vandalism. They go back and forth about what people think about it, and how others have to clean other items such as images like that all the time that would just be considered vandalism. Everyday they are cleaning up Vandalism, they say that just becuase it was made by Bansky that it still should be considered vandalism and taken down. But the problem comes in that if they do take it down that people would be upset becuase people have such a strong opinion of his work that they are afrid of some type of backlash.
There was another article about how one of Banksy's work had been tag over by "envious artist" as sow as reposted in the article.
One of the more interesting articles that I was able to find was the first article that showed up in my search was this article about these two graffiti artist who more or less had a competition, they called it a "battle". The whole thing took place out of Oakland, CA, and they say that it was the first organized battle between two graffiti artist ever held. By the way they were describing the whole event they made it sound like it was a very friendly event, which is kind of what urban art is about.
Graffiti Battle
Another super interesting article that I found was one about good old Banksy. That there is one of his works that people are not sure if it is art or if it is just vandalism. They go back and forth about what people think about it, and how others have to clean other items such as images like that all the time that would just be considered vandalism. Everyday they are cleaning up Vandalism, they say that just becuase it was made by Bansky that it still should be considered vandalism and taken down. But the problem comes in that if they do take it down that people would be upset becuase people have such a strong opinion of his work that they are afrid of some type of backlash.
Is Banksy Croydon-Beddington mural vandalism or art?
There was another article about how one of Banksy's work had been tag over by "envious artist" as sow as reposted in the article.
Banksy painting sprayed over by envious graffiti artists
Monday, October 5, 2009
Presentaion on touch ups
I've been working on trying to figure out how to do retouching and this is what I've come up with. This is the picture that I will be showing when I do my retouching presentation tomorrow in class...or I should say today. I believe that I have fixed the problem of the gray underlay that came when using the Gaussian blur.
Before
After
Before
After
Saturday, October 3, 2009
This is what I did on my Wednesday workday
So I went on researching what photos I will be using in my project. So I went to the library and looked up some book with photographers that I want and/or use for the project. Thinking about veering away from just the strait up Ansel Adams idea I just checked out one of his books, but I also checked out three other books. I'm going to look though the images and see if I can find a place that will suit the image that I choose. I've spent the past few days looking though the book and seeing if I could find any good images. I have found a few good images that might work for the product, but in a few days I'll scan the images that I am thinking about using when I have a little extra time to be able to scan them in to my computer.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Been doing some reading
So I've been trying to do some reading up for Mondays presentations on retouching, and airbrushing. I've been using this book called The Adobe Photoshop cs3 book for Digital Photographers and another one called Photoshop Artistryfor Photographers Using Photoshop cs2 and Beyond. The second book doesn't really go into much depth on how to air bush it more or less. The first book though has a step by step guide to how to airbrush. The problem with this technique is that in the finish product the peoples faces looks washed out and/or like almost a gray tone to them. So i'm going to have to figure out away around this. I think I have traced the problem to the gaussian blur layer that they say to use as the base of the problem that I am running into. So I'm going to try and find away around this problem.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
this is why in Princese Bride they say "Never get involved in a land war in Asia"
These are some amazing pictures that are from china's celebration of their 60 years under communist rule.
There are more pictures at Boston Globe
There are more pictures at Boston Globe
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