random

for some reason i feel the need to update my blog. after doing this final new media project there is only one thing i want to do. make another movie. for my first experience i must say io enjoyed the process from start to finish. in the near future i plan on making another film a little different but still similar.

tutorial

last week i took some of the photoshop wentworth tutorials. i must say these were increadibly boring. although i almost fell asleep multiple times, i do have to admit that they were helpfull. the first tutorial tought me the basics of croping, sharpening, and adjusting color and contrast to images. this tutorial also helped me with my own work. in my work i do alot of silkscreens. this lesson on contrast led me to look up other tutorials online. the tutorial that i found tought me how to change a color image into a black and white stencil. here is the website: http://www.stencilrevolution.com/tutorials/tutorialsview.php?id=4 it may sound simple but it relly does help me alot. after photoshop, i alos began to expiriment on illustrator. i did some project where i outlined a city scape and then used the same shape over and over to create a design. here it is:

all in all, i think the wentworth tutorial led me to find other tutorials online that helped me out alot in the end.

final project crit.

i thought that Nick's identity project was very interesting. the way he decided to find a new media to work with was extremley origional. i think his project is a good model of an artistic concept that does not neciserilly have to have a finished piece that can be matted and put in a gallery. his project was more about that idea of identity rather than a finished piece. while i feel that the piece was backed by a strong concept, i feel that it can be taken much further. i look at both his music myspace, and alternate identity's myspace as just the bgining to a very large project. Nick seemed to be toying with the idea of a false identity. this project could either turn into a comentary on the myspace website itself, or it could be a personal statement about the artist's own identity and how he sees himself in the music, or art world.it is hard to give this piece a full critique due to the lack development. in conclusion, this project was a little empty, and could have maybe beendeveloped a bit more for the presentation. with that said, i still think that it is a great idea that should be taken much much firther in the future.