Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Hockney Assignment





David Hockney 'Anything simple always interests me.'

Hockney Interior/Exterior/Portrait



Take multiple pictures of three different scenes using the visual language that David Hockney is famous for. Take one interior set of images, one landscape and a portrait. Use the fact that digital imagery easy and cheap to produce and take as many pictures as you want. We will spend the next two full classes opening, sizing, and setting up the collage in Photoshop and prepping it to print.


Shooting Done : 2/3/10

Collages Done : 2/17/10

UoP FIELD TRIP

FIELD TRIP you will write a review of the show on your blog...

Monday meet at 9am at UOP
click here for details
The Gallery is located mid-block along Mendocino Avenue on the UoP Campus

Daniel Kasser: Western Technosites

"Western Technosites" features 25 photographic prints from a series Visual Arts Professor Daniel Kasser will soon publish as a book, as well as a new installation piece titled "The Law of the Spade." The subject of the Western Technosite series is the Western landscape whose appearance, culture, and mythology has been routinely re-shaped by the introduction of large-scale technologies. The development of the American West has produced large tracts of industrial and post-industrial terrain generally looked upon as banal, depreciated, and polluted. But, for Kasser, many of these sites are layered with artifacts and stories of American's optimism, symbols of our progress and the evidence of our efforts to "reclaim" wilderness in pursuit of individual and national comfort and wealth.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Slide Show

this is my new slide show

"Edible Schoolyard"

more info here

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

1st DAY

100 pictures
in 24 hours
This assignment is an opportunity for you to photograph and experiment with your digital camera. First set your camera to Jpeg small. Take 100 pictures switching between the automatic and manual settings on your camera in a 24 hour period do not delete any of your photographs. Try changing the ISO. Try taking pictures at night. Make sure that some of the images are taken without your flash. While doing all this try to make interesting images that create a story. Next class we will edit these images down to 25 images and sequence them into a slide show using Powerpoint. You will need to bring some of your favorite music on cd to accompany your slide show.