Assignment 2 Proposal

     An artist is nothing if he can't poke a little fun at himself once in a while. I tend to get a little defensive about my musical tastes but this time around I want to do a little parody. Black metal is probably one of those obscure genres of music most people know because the lyrics have to do with satanic influences and the death of God. My idea is to bring some individuals from heavy black metal bands and put them together in something unexpected. I give you Black Metal Brunch with Behemoth.

Fair Use

     I believe the work does not fall under fair use. The work is not a parody nor a criticism and deprives the original owner of a large sum of income Fairy received. The Hope picture does transform the original but only in texture and color. Besides one line of text there is little change made from the original. There was nothing else added to make it his own. I don't feel it was transformed enough to consider it fair use. Something similar could be made with a Photoshop filter and color fill.

Materializing New Space

     The Materializing New Space exhibit was quite the thought provoker. I felt the main entrance piece # 17 was the most profound and interesting. It was a large framed image made through many processes such as photography sculpture and digital. It is very large and demands attention being on a center wall as the first work you see straight on walking into the gallery.
     There were mice around bird eggs on the right and birds reacting to the theft on the left. Near the center there is some sort of bird/machine contraption that looks to be confronting the mice. Under the mice and the nest there is a couple baby mice that looked almost trapped or scared. There is the great feeling of conflict and tension between all parties withing the image.
     I believe the conflict is a sort of rich vs poor kind of debate. The poor (mice) steal in order to feed their children (baby mice) while the rich (birds) keep the poor down trough use of technology and machines. In order to be successful you must have access to technology in this day and age. There is a disparity or gap that keeps everyone in their place without much chance to progress. The conflict also implies loss through the next generation if the wars continue. There is a lot of stress being pushed along in the work.

Assignment 2

Frame

Vantage Point

Detail

Fast Shutter Speed

Slow Shutter Speed

Hand Held Night Photography

Night Photography with Tripod

Depth of Field f36

Depth of Field f5.6

Flash

The Thing Itself

Fingerprints

        My hands are everything to me. Being an artist requires me to rely on my hands to create so I found it a fitting to frame. Each object is represented in importance depending on the location and size it is displayed. Some objects are references to other ideas while some are special monuments to my background and social being. I also chose to keep the dust and fingerprints on the top layer to represent that I also leave my mark on the outside world as small obscure marks.
        The working process was simply putting together a collage and using an image mask to make the frame of my hand. There are little details everywhere. Some objects are cropped and distorted while others are simply small elements taken from large photographs to represent the abstract idea of the entire piece. I wanted to do more than just show a collection of images so I was forced to manipulate them in a way that they seemed alien enough to warrant investigation.

The Photographer's Eye

        The reading by John Szarkowski was about the early days of photography and it's influence on, not only the art world, but the people that participated in the movement. Artists created paintings but photographers took pictures. Normal people began to come into the art world by the grace of a machine rather than their inherent talent.
        Szarkowski broke up into 5 separate sections that are seen as the key points of a good photo: the thing itself, the detail, the frame, time, and vantage point. Many of the sections are self-explanatory with their titles but go quite in depth on some things which seem to be forgotten as you snap that picture. He explains the relationship between the camera's ability to take a snip of time and the "truth" that it shows us.
        One section that got me thinking was about frames. We usually find the most interesting thing and focus on it. The idea of a photograph creates a relationship with everything in that frame even if there was none to begin with. The frame is a very valuable tool that can link people's lives by a simple recording of their presence together on a piece of film paper. I found that idea most new and interesting coming from a fine arts background.

Assingment 1 WIP

Does it need more bright objects or do the darker levels work?

Assingment 1 Photograph

Optimism and Pessimism