Lynda Barry =]

Lynda Barry was at our very own Tyler School of Art on March 23, 2010. She is a hilarious person! She was crazy and told some pretty hilarious jokes. Born in Wisconsin, Lynda Barry grew up always drawing. Soon she began to write two books but then make a decision that it would be easier to draw them instead! Barry used her childhood as inspiration for her comics and art. She talked of a story where she once thought her mother was monster! She also talked about some pretty interested psychological aspects of children. She mentioned that children are in a different state of mind when they play. She also told us that art needs to be nurtured, which was a different way of thinking about art. I enjoyed having her read her book to us because it was personal and exciting to hear her tone of voice. All in all it was a great lecture that I think everyone enjoyed.

This image was created using Photoshop. All of the elements are from my summer trip to Europe. The background is mountains in Austria. The castle is from London and I added Big Ben from there also to make them one. I also used a horse from the changing of the gaurds ceremony as well. David in the top right corner is from Venice, and lastly the turtle is from a zoo we visited in Germany. I also used several of the effects from Photoshop that we learned in class.

Current Event Project

This project incorporates two images and using the program Photoshop to combine them to make an ironic image. In this case I used the classic photo of the members of the view and took out Whoopie Goldberg and replaced her with Howard Stern thus creating a picture that could have been taking but probably would never.

Phila. Slide Show ... Enjoy!

Photo Editing in the Media

After watching Sex, Lies, and Photoshop I felt disgusted by the magazines I regularly take off the shelves and purchase. In this video clip I learned that ALL photos that are in ads are retouched not only once, but up to 30 times. After seeing some of the before and afters that they provided as examples I was extremely shocked to see that some went to the extent of "evening out freckles" for a better look. This in my opinion is absurd. As the editing of ads flourishes I believe many peoples body images takes a gruesome toll. The images that many of today's teens are trying to live up to are unrealistic and ridiculous. Like stated in the clip, "No one can achieve perfection without an airbrush." The video also suggested that they are trying to pass a law in London that magazines much cite to what degree their images are retouched. I will be very interested to see if this helps at all or if we're all too conditioned to try to achieve perfection already.

Scanner Face! =]

This project was made by scanning my face and then using illustrator to recreate it.

Warning Label

If I came with a warning label this is what it would say.

More Homework =]

This is my representational piece of a willow tree.

Computers Homework =]

This is my non-representational piece entitled, Hawk.

Phila.

Hokay so, I absolutely LOVE Philadelphia. Everything is just as I imagined it. Over the course of week I got to go out and visit many places including Penn's Landing, City Hall, Love Park, the PMA, and South Street. At Penn's landing I got to meet up with a family friend at the Hyatt which was absolutely gorgeous inside and out. After that we ate lunch at Moshulu which was by far the best food I've ever had. Then during my drawing class we met at Love Park which was a fun activity for the day. We went to the Barn's dig site to complete some in class assignment and after wards I was able to see the PMA. Lastly, my parents came to visit this weekend and we headed to South Street, and let me tell you the Magic Garden is amazing! There were so many unique things to look at along with inspirational quotes [my favorite!]. This was the first week back it was very hectic but a lot of fun at the same time. I love Phila. and I'm definitely going to make it my permanent home for a long time.

"Mixed Emoticons"

This right here happens to be a man named Rives. After watching the Story of Mixed Emoticons I realized that symbols can have a very very wide range of meaning. One may see this collection of characters })i({ and think nothing of it, but after close inspection as Rives tells his hilarious story of a boy chasing a girl a butterfly appears fairly easily. This episode really made me think about what some may consider a reverse process. For me I felt that the characters were typed up and then a story was created. It also made me realize while photographs provide a visual for a story so can simple symbols placed together. How CraZy is that?! =]http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/rives_tells_a_story_of_mixed_emoticons.html