I Paint

This video is awesome!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozc6t4KwEko&feature=player_embedded

Martin Puryear

This was a great reading, I thought that Puryear's passion for art and traveling was very inspiring.  His love of learning to cultures and immersing himself in foreign areas of the world is something that I can relate to. I have always wanted to travel, and now that I am coming to that age where I am able to do so, it is very interesting reading about people who do this for a living.  I thought his work was exceptional, he is a very talented sculptor.

Kendall Buster

After reading this article, it is clear that Kendall Buster is a very talented artist.  Her resume seems to be never ending with her work.  Recognized all over the world, Buster truly has some great accomplishments. After looking at all of her work, I have even more of an appreciation for artists.  All of her projects were so detailed, and looked as though they took a massive amount of time.  I thought her work was great, and I enjoyed reading her bio.

Errol Morris on Photography

This video summarized the idea that photography is not always realism.  People assume that because a photograph is taken of real objects, there is so much that can be left out, or cropped out to skew the realistic parts of a photograph.  Morris makes a point that there is so much that you can do to a photograph to make it different than the human eye actually sees.  An example made in the video was the pathway where the elephant was cropped out.  Had the elephant been in the picture, the image would be completely different.  The main point of this video is that photography is not as real as most think, it can be skewed to how the photographer wants it to be, therefore not showing all of the reality.

Ways of Seeing

This video was very interesting, in part because it was an old film, but also because it mentioned things I really had not heard of before.  With the invention of the camera, everything we knew about seeing changed.  This video made a point about the fact that after a camera was invented, the whole world of imagery changed.  The camera changed not only what we see, but how we see everything.  Even paintings from pre camera era, were viewed differently after the invention of a camera.  Because before a camera, we could view the painting in generally one location, after the invention of the camera, the paintings came to you.  Often times these paintings defined the buildings they were located in, however now this was no longer, paintings were on the move.

Masters of Illusion

This video was very insightful as an artist and photographer.  With the video being primarily about depth and vanishing points, the information was very useful.  Vanishing points are one of the key parts of any piece of art.  For example, a vanishing point can give a painting depth, and have it make sense to a viewer. Another example, for a simple photograph, depth can add so much to a single image.  This video was very helpful and I am sure I will reference this video again for future projects.

the HOW blog

_ BLOG: How does "HOW" you take the photo add to the meaning of the word? How does HOW you take the photo add to the meaning of the word? (Try shooting your letters at an ants view (get low), as well as from above. Also, how does where you place the letters effect the meaning.

How you take the photo is very important in regards to its meaning because visual aspects of these letters is the most important part.  For example, when you see the word extend, all squeezed together would not make sense.  However, when the word is spaced out, it makes much more sense.  The placement of these letters also is a very important aspect of this photo shoot, this is because placing them in a way that demonstrates the meaning will give more power to the project as a whole, which in the end is something that is needed to have this project make sense.