Coming into Color

            This is from a photoshop how to website, but I thought it worked for the black white and color theme I had going on. This is an interesting piece because the girl is coming into color, its like leaving innocence when your world isnt as great and big anymore but you have to go to school and college, and get a boring job. Even the representation of the flowers in her hair can she her youth and loosing her youth. 
The use of color in a composition can be very direct and focused on pulling an audience's eye exactly where you want them to focus. (316) 

Red all over

Black and white and Red all over; also talking about schindlers list and the use of black and white and color, this photo taken in England shows the same idea as the film. Your eye focuses on the buses because that is where the photographer wants your focus to be. Why? Why buses when you have a beautiful building in the background? This is how you draw your audience in and make them focus on the items you want.
The photographer is unknown

Black and White

Freaking Schindler's list; this movie was so great and so terrible. The book talks about the composition and use of the black and white. The black and white to show the blending of the period, how things seemed dismal and little to no hope in people. However, the director uses the contrast to show to light and dark of the situation; how compassion and cruelty lives in the same place. As well as the girl in the red coat, which is innocence blood being shed. The eye focuses on the girl and remembers the color to link later on in the movie when the coat is on a corpse.   

Sky and Ground: Nick Marci

This is from an amateur artist named Nick Marci; I saw him on pintrist and was interested in some of his work. I love the space and sky in this piece; it blends together to make it seem endless and like you are outside of your own time frame. Although this isnt my favorite piece ever, I do like the matchings of the sky and ground. I could do without the heads though. 

Aspects of time

So this was in the reading (292) a while ago but I wanted to check out the video myself for the full affect. I dont know if its made to look like WWII concentration camp style or drones in a way, but it creeped me out. How they are walking in unison without a mind.
Its hard to think of the rhetoric in this video; how the world is like lemmings and will follow blindly until someone bold can come in a smash peoples perspectives to free them from themselves. But thats exactly what this is right? The lady athlete comes in and breaks away from the crowd in order to save others; then its a commercial for how to be different when you purchase a mac (ironically as I type on a macbook 20 years later).
When you look at art, though, you are looking at rhetoric. The way it makes you think and why it was reacted that way. With the time, its looks like its suppose to be future like and how the present can pull you back.

Josh Wool: True Self

Josh Wool, originally from the South but currently works out of Brooklyn, NYC, is an up and coming documentary photographer. His work has been featured in medias such as Visual Supply Co, Rolling Stone Magazine, GQ, Food & Wine Magazine, Billy Reid, Newport Folk Festival, JC Penny, JJ Hat Center + Pork Pie Hatters, Grey Ant Sunglasses, The Daily Beast, Juxtapoz Magazine, Huge Magazine - Japan, FutureClaw Magazine, Refueled Magazine, Gotham Magazine, and Tourist Zine. 
His work is honest without manipulating the scene; he captures the subjects essence rather than relying on just the subject itself. 

Erika Larsen: The Native

Erika Larsen

Larsen specializes in Native American; her photography reflects the natural elements the Native Americans are still attached too. One of her main focuses are on Native Americans that are connected with the horses; the interesting connection between the modern day tack and native American traditional wear connects to the culture of the Native American traditions living in a modern day society and the mix, border thinking.

Kitra Cahana: The World Captured

Kitra Cahana

Multicultural Kitrag grew up in Canada and Sweden produces photography that is both spiritually and focuses on the body. Kitra emerges herself within the community she documents, which includes a Venezuelan cult, homeless teenagers, Israeli households, and poverty levels in suburbs of Houston.

Its an important part of understanding your subjects; to submerge yourself within the area and truly represent. This is especially important in documentary. Although most of the time there is bias plays in many documentaries, its better, in my opinion, to let the audience do what they want with the facts.

Mike Brodie AKA Polariod Kid

Mike Brodie

Originally from Arizona, Brodie never received formal training in photography but simply was given a Polaroid camera in 2004 and started recorded. Brodie’s work reflects the rawness of an uncut photographer. The photographs are mostly of this band of teenagers who ride trains around America. Its this gypsy clan that travels and survive together; the modern day nomads.

As quickly as Brodie came into the scene, he left after publishing a book of his findings. One of the many mysterious things about this game changer photographer.

Propaganda project

I liked this project; I thought it seemed realistic to something I would like to do pertaining to a career or some sort. Being a Rhetoric major, I love finding different meanings behind almost any media. In this project I was able to use Ethos and Pathos; appealing to the audience's emotions and hopefully adding credibility with the national hotline.
I work at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco; apparently the biggest area for human trafficking. It's crazy to think even in this small town that things like that happen, but its true. I think people are unaware of the existence and therefore no not look for the signs. However, if you are aware, sometimes the public eye can be the most effective activists against public issues like this.

Heather Hansen: Movement

Heather Hansen, a native of New Orleans, incorporates the movement of yoga with charcoal art. Heather takes a large piece of white paper and several pieces of charcoal and records the body's movement through the poses. The pictures turn into mostly circles, which is interesting considering it reflects the movement of the body.
This is wonderful because it is as much performance art as the end result. When she takes to the beach and uses the scene with sand to construct basically the same idea. The movement of the body comes together makes a wonderful connection to the piece and the reflection of the body.

Abstract Triptych- I Hate Boxes

I Hate Boxes 

Well, first off I didn't want this piece to a transitional abstract piece; I wanted to approach it with an edge and difference. For one thing, I hate boxes. I hate putting things in it, I hate being put into them as a student or writer or person; So I wanted the lines to not really make sense and have to look for the definition of each box. There are three boxes with each of the symbols in them.
I used Wingdings also, so the font isn't even the typical letters but rather symbols. I used my initials in this and represented them or me as a symbol rather than a name or letters. I loved working in the shades rather than color because it gives a feel of balance rather than a typical emotion, which color can sometimes pull out.
I started with triangles partly because of the symbol Wingdings gave me and partly because I wanted the shapes to go somewhere. They ended up moving from these understood shapes and move into more abstract; its like entering the abstraction from something that we are comfortable with.

Tomas Saraceno: Worlds

So installation art has had my attention ever since I researched Diana Thater. This work was done by Tomas Saraceno in Miami's art Museum in a Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection. The piece is called "Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spiders Web"and was a two week process to install. The connection between the microscopic world and space is interesting, especially when the instillation is  made from only black and white. Like it was adding the contrast from the large world where we really cant see and the small world, which we almost always ignore. The two areas that are all around yet we forgot about them is represented.

Namless: Different in Public

So I was scrolling through Fb the other day and came across this; sometimes the best artistic things you can find is just in very day life. I love street performers and saw someone had posted this video of this guy (I don't know the artist's name; it didn't say) in Japan. These two people move like one under this dark cape and look like a 4 legged creature. Its eerie and alittle bit disturbing to watch him move around the square with four legs. At one point during the performance he kinda gets in the face of a person watching. I'm wondering if it has to do with people walking around feeling abnormal in a normal setting. Like when you feel so out of place and you will never fit in with your surroundings.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster: Trashy work

Straight from the London Punk scene of the 1980s-1990s, Tim Noble and Sue Webster combine talent to create art from a pile of trash. I first came across these artists a few years ago and stumbled across them again as they continue to sculpt every day items into pieces of art. Most of their famous works are from shadow art; using trash to create a sculpture. When you shine a light on the garbage, you get an image on the wall behind it. I love seeing the nothingness of the trash pile; its merely just a mess you have to clean up. But when the right light and angle is taken from it it turns into something different.

Photomontage

So idea for the photomontage is to have a core picture and build on top of it using different photos from different times; either seconds or years. I like the idea of this cause it allows for you to explore not a linear sense of time, but time according to the creator. You see, we love time to stay in a straight line and go from left to right; otherwise we get all mixed up. However, in the mix up is where someone can take you outside from a linear line and go somewhere more open; freeing.

This was my interpenetration of the photomontage; its of Central America's largest lake, Cocibolca and the volcanoes, Ometepe and Madera that sit across the lake. I visited this exact spot for over three years, which is where the photo collection comes from. All the photos were captured in the early morning so I wanted to color palette to stay soft and dream like; sort a like waking up and still being groggy.

Jeff Gougue: Modern Artist

Tattoos have become popular within the last ten years, become more artwork and detailed than every before. With interesting wave and trend the artist behind the work have become more popular. Jeff Gougue is out of Oregon and is a popular artist in the PNW for a mix of french and Japanese style in his work. This being another unconventional style of art, I'm interested to know if most people would consider tattoo artists modern artists. They certainly have talent and is the body not a canvas?  

Art Surgeon: Unconventional

On the pier in Seattle, an artist named Art Surgeon compiles the use of spray paint, scapula, and other tools to make his compositions. Although they are mainly for the purpose of sale (as you can see in the video he made Spiderman above a city) this dude is pretty talented. It's an interesting mix of tools that he wouldn't use the typical paintbrush and canvas but he uses unconventional tools. It's also amazing he can work with a crowd all watching him; nothing like an audience. 

Marina Abramovic: Performance

Marina Abramovic is a performance artist who started in the early 1970s with pieces with her partner Ulay. The top piece was filmed in New York's Museum of Art; Marina sits and waits for people to sit in the opposite chair. Then she looks up and without saying anything, making eye contact with the person opposite.
The second is called Rhythm O, which is Marina presented objects to an audience and became completely passive. The audience was first timid but became violent after there was no resistance.This could be perhaps one of the most powerful human experiment in testing the nature of man.

Paulo Ito: Shouting Graffiti

Paulo Ito: graffiti artist in Sao Paulo, Brazil that speaks about the injustices in the FIFA world cup through his art. Graffiti art being seen as still 'taboo', it interesting it can have the most impact because the world can see it; you don't hide it in a gallery or sell it. And yet, compared to other artist who want to change the world, it seems Ito's work is saying it loud and clear when others are muffled.

Diana Thater: Rethink

Diana Thater talking about the artist and what her objects are as an artist. Working with light, animals, and space, Thater looks through different lenses to bring an experience to her art. Empowering observation to rethink the world around you. 

Belo: Colored Rain

In 2013 a mosaic was constructed by the artist Belo of a fetus to raise awareness of the global clean water crisis. The piece is made of 66,000 biodegradable cups filled with colored rainwater. The fetus represents every humans need for water, even before birth. The project took 15,000 liters of colored rainwater, 1 kg of vegetable dye, more than 100 volunteers, 62 hours of work, placed end to end the 66,000 cups would measure 5.2 km long.

Self Portrait

Traveling has become a large part of life; my parents are travelers, my siblings are travelers. Its a chisel in which has shaped my personality and future desires. My first trip abroad, a stranger leaned over the middle airplane seat and said 'it's hardly the place that we travel to, but the people we meet. Don't forget to know people along the way'.
This has become a priority of mine, and that stranger placed me on a course which has effected my travels and growing up. My self portrait represents the idea of the stranger; the place is only as good as the people you know in it. I am a small detail within my self portrait because I wanted to focus on the people that have influenced my life along the way. Although I am the skeleton which makes me me, the people I have met around the world has made the outer layers and opinions.
There is no negative space because the existence and traveling is all in layers; there is no negative time in which nothing is happening.