Response

I enjoyed the reading of "A Brief History of Art" I found it interesting how in the 60s that people wanted to steer away from the conventional and wanted to make something out of their own to express their radical individualism instead of going with the norm. As I was reading this, I thought to myself that I would probably be one of those people who would want to break away from the norm to be able to express myself. Besides school and the law, I never really liked authority or the feeling of having somebody being superior to me and that is probably why I relate to the story.

I also liked reading about the history of video cameras and how people had to make do with its usage since it was expensive and scarce; people had to think of ways to use it for creativity to also break away from the norm which was television at the time.

Walter Benjamin response

1. In the first section of the text, Walter Benjamin talks about the difference between an original work of art and the difference between the two being original and being something that can be reproduced. He states that man-made work has always be reproducible such as replicas, however reproducing through mechanical means represents something new. My thoughts on that are somewhat different. I disagree with that statement. In my opinion, anything that was not your idea is still bound to the original creator, therefore anything that was not your idea in the first place cannot represent something new even through mechanical means. 2. I found section 8 to be interesting because it compares and contrasts a film actor from a stage actor. I agree with Walter Benjamin when he says that film actors cannot really adjust to their audience since his performance is being relayed through a camera, whereas a stage actor can do so, and in turn his audience then becomes his camera. I found the comparison and contrasts in the text interesting. Such as how photography became really useful since it captured things fast-paced compared to lithography.

TriptychProject1animation

For the animation project, I used CS6 and created an animation for all the images in my panel.
It was not necessarily a difficult task, but I am a beginner at Photoshop so my animation was very basic. The animation is 13 seconds worth of the images in my project moving around. Most of the images moving around are fast and were mostly in 0.2 and 0.5 intervals. For the the last few seconds in the animation however, I intended the image of the woman and the phoenix to be at least 1 second. One to give the illusion of the phoenix looking like it is flying around and second, for the woman to be the last image that stands out, giving it to look like it had a dramatic finish.


http://youtu.be/JGQOtuagVBI

Scrapbook

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Statement: For my triptych project, I decided to call it Scrapbook because that is exactly what it feels like to me. The last time I touched Photo shop was in High School and so I feel like a beginner all over again and because of that, I decided to have fun with Photo shop by picking out things that I like and putting them together. So in this project you will find: my favorite symbols, the infinity symbol and a phoenix. I don't know why I like the infinity symbol, maybe because it symbolizes that some things that matter can last. I love the Phoenix because it symbolizes strength to me. I love anything that symbolizes strength to me and the two quotes resonate that. One, is my favorite Latin saying which means to be patient and tough, because someday it will be useful to you and the other, a quote by my favorite author, Paulo Coelho. I am also, although I hate to admit, a bit of a hopeless romantic, and that is what the Tiffany necklace, the picture of the navy guy and the nurse kissing are all about. I also love music that is why there is a tape there. And lastly, I like the feeling of nostalgia, and I would like to think I appreciate art, and that is why my favorite painting, Starry Night by Van Gogh is in this sort of collage, and lastly, Ive always like city scape's. They too give me a nostalgic feeling, and so I included the city scape of London. All three panels have the images all over the place. I thought the visual of that would look creative by doing so.