sand dunes

I made this for a friend with some of that extra poster paper we had from our last project. Probably took a half an hour to make and an hour to print. God damn printers! I never understand them.  I did this all on illustrator which I'm very proud of  because I would choose photoshop any day over illustrator but I need the practice and it didn't come out half bad.

The Woods

Black & White

Sepia

Antique

These were some self portrait shots I took the other day in the woods near by where I live. I feel like there's no end in these woods and I'll never find the other side.  I couldn't stay long because the cold was getting to me, it was 19 degrees with an 11 degree wind chill. Perhaps I'll find that other side another day when It's not too unbearably cold.

A Day in the Life

So Here's a little history of yours truely...

We'll start at the beginning shall we?  Happy little girl. No responsibilities, no worries, no idea what's going on in the world, oblivious.  I never thought I would get the Peter Pan Syndrome. All my life all I have ever wanted was to grow up and do stuff on my own...well now that I am, I kinda want to go back to being an oblivious little kid again.

So I grow up very confused and alone and start thinking a bit much and start realizing that no one is safe.  Everyone's out to get me...in other words paranoia. What else would I do with my fun spare time? 

Then we totally lost ourselves in high school (prime time suffering years, eh?) aaaand that's all I'll say about that...

But hey, there were some delights in a troubled mind.  Run Run Run was the best thing I could do.  Cross Country, greatest sport and toughest sport (in my opinion) ever!  I've passed out twice, threw up lunch a few times, had physical therapy, lost toe nails, got blisters, heat exhaustion, muscle strains, asthma attacks, shin splints, and all that good stuff. Yes, those were the good times, really. Because is was all worth it in the end.

Now college is more confusing then ever because I'm not exactly sure what to do, what to be, where to be, and all those millions of questions. oy.  Perhaps going back to a kid would be great, but not in my life. I wouldn't want to go through everything that I did, again. Might as well send me to hell.  So, in other words, we're in a good spot right now, not the best but the best so far I think.

My Girl

Glad to be home with Josie again.  

Design - Final Project

We could not have done this project without the help of our beloved coffee.  Some people were staying up till 5 in the morning working on their projects. I have to tip my hat off to those individuals.

This is what we had to work around...fun.  It's going to take a while to clean this up.

At last, the pizza cutter is completed, finally!

It stands somewhere between 7 and 8 ft tall and the wheel does spin, so if anyone happens to make a gigantic pizza, give me a ring and I'll cut it up for ya.

THE OUTLAW

silhouette

This was taken probably 5 years ago in Utah.  My fam and some friends left early one morning to go hike the sand dunes.  What a work out!  They were enormous. Once we got to the top of one, which was like the size of the Empire State Building, we would do flips, rolls, jumps, "sand"board, fights, all that crazy fun stuff. So This is me just hangin in the sun.  I didn't understand why we left so early to go to the dunes but by the end I found out.  We stayed a little too long and sun had heated up the sand....we left our shoes by the car because it was too hard to walk in the sand with them on.  Anyways, we ran and ran and ran like the devil was chasing us himself.  I thought I was running on fire.  Best part was that our cars were parked like a mile away and you don't run very fast in sand.

Good Times. Have to go back one day.

Autumn Color War

This was on a bridge, as seen below as well, with a real low depth of field. I really liked the color combo.

This is my girl, Josie, caught on camera on a leaf covered bridge.  Loved the colors in the trees in the background and of course I love my dog.

This was the water beneath the bridge.  I had a slower exposure to make the water look more smooth.  The cool colors in the water work well with the warm colors of the leaves surrounding it.

This was obviously a long exposure with some movement of the camera.  These were some orange trees and I just clicked that button and quickly moved the camera downward. Reminds me of fire.

This was in my backyard.  Well, actually the tree was just leaning in our backyard from another home's property.  We don't have pretty trees like this, our tree's leaves don't really change color, they just die.  Anyways, my favorite color is red so how could I resist this shot. I sure love the fall, it was good while it lasted.

Why so Serious?

I made this in the summer.  One of my absolute favorite movies. Can't wait for the DVD on December 9th!

storyboard

Here is my storyboard for my upcoming stop motion movie.  A little over 2 minutes and 400ish frames.  I'll be illustrating this movie. I would have acted this out because I usually jump roof tops on the weekends but maybe next time.  (Click on image to enlarge)

These pictures were taken in the amish country.  I took these two shots with both slow exposures and Florescent white balances. I moved the camera in a circle for the image above which was of a tree.  I like the feel of the second image, rather haunting.

Assignment 4

This is my music poster for our fourth assignment.  I chose the song "Where is my Mind" by PIXIES (the song at the end of Fight Club.) I like this song because I can really relate to the words during my high school years. Interesting times.  I chose the lines, "Your head will collapse but nothing's in it" and "Where is my mind."

The purple/pink spirals were of a picture of a bon fire and I moved my camera in circles while it was taking the picture, then I messed with the colors to look like so.  The layer over top of that was a picture of broken glass with a lower opacity.  On the bottom right I took a picture of a pigeon and duplicated the picture and color burned the images.  Over the birds is a picture of the branches from a dead tree.  On the left is a picture of me, laughing like I'm "loosing my mind."  Under my head is a picture of a fish that I drew and scanned in. Doesn't make sense but then again that was the idea of the whole image.  I wrote the words with ink and pen and warped them to flow with the image.  The "WHERE" is white out tape.  This was both done on Illustrator and Photoshop but I definitely prefer photoshop.

Music Playlist at MixPod.com

"You want s'more?" " some more of what?"

I went to a bonfire Monday night.  Fun standing in the bitter cold, down pouring rain, and high winds, but it was fun. We had smores.  These 3 different images all had different lengths of exposures.  The top image had the longest exposure and I moved the camera while it was taking the picture giving it the swirling effect.  The middle image didn't have as long of an exposure but long enough to blur the flames.  The bottom image had a fast shutter speed, shorter exposure so you can actually see the individual flames.  Always fun to play with fire.

Ikebana

It's one thing when you try to shoot in the rain, it's another when you try to shoot in the rain with roof ripping winds.  On the bright side, rain certainly makes objects look more interesting.  This was by taken in a small garden by the Brandywine river in Wilmington, I used a low depth of field at about 5.

Autumn Afternoons

I took this picture at a park in Hockessin.  I did enhance the colors and made the red stand out more.  This was taken with a medium depth of field so the background was completely blurred but not totally in focus.  I think the boy running in the background really adds to the picture, I didn't even realize he was in it till I viewed the image afterwards.  

lovely...

I guess there's certain areas you don't want to zoom in on.  This is in a window in the lobby of my building. You can kind of see the beige colored spider towards the right.  Obviously this was in a low depth of field and I loved the background colors, very earthy. Overall I found this image rather interesting.

rojas berries

I took this picture the other day just outside of Morris Library.  I used a low depth of field as you can tell the background is blurred and the foreground is detailed.  I later edited the image through photoshop.  I saturated the berries and unsaturated the leaves to make the berries pop out more.  I also gave the whole image a slight reddish tint. 

digital/analogue

This is an example of Digital/ Analogue design.  The artist's names Justin Wood and here is an example of one of his works...

http://www.boingboing.net/2003/11/11/digitalanalog-fusion.html

And thE line beGins to bLur..

This is obviously a picture of a fountain in two different shutter speeds (For those who don't know what a shutter is its a mechanism in the camera of a moving cover that controls time during which light reaches the film) and f/stops (f/stop? The size of the lens aperture).

The top image is was a very quick shutter speed giving it a stop motion; 1/1000 of a second, and aperture was at f/5.6.

The bottom image was taken at a much slower shutter speed causing it to blur; 1/2 of a second, and aperture was set at f/36.

Violet Propaganda

Oh, the wonders a television can bring to our lives.  This is a reflection off my TV in my spacious living room, so to speak.  I can't quite explain how the black screen illuminated this violet-purple but I love it.  The highlight in the upper left corner really adds to the piece giving a sense of warmth to the coolness of the image.  The blurry figure (yours truly) also works with the uneven color blend making the genre unclear and mysterious in a sense. 

Moonlight Sonata

I have an equal love for music and art so creating this piece was a double bonus on my part. I am playing on a baby grand in my building's lounge here.  The further the image goes the more atmospheric it is and the closer the image is the more sharper it is.  I focused on my right hand and piano keys giving the image a more interesting effect.