Sarcasm and Witt

ASSIGNMENT - A5 Using a Xerox machine, photocopy parts of yourself and create a 2D and/or 3D work of art inspired by any of the Art Movements seen in class. At least 2 feet x 3 feet. I did not have access for a Xerox machine so instead I scanned myself and turned the images to black and white. I was inspired to make a piece related to the Baroque/Rococo era because I've always loved the big hair and styles of the time. Though in the end it looks more like a hat I still like it because even accessories at that time were overly big and stylized. If you didn't have it big enough for someone a mile away to see it then you were poor. I used the side images of my hand and made a feather, the splayed image go my hands together looked like a bow to me. Turned the images of my hair different ways to give it a messy bee hive look. and used an image of my arm to make the accordion collar. Inspiration

ASSIGNMENT - A4 Create a work of art using the notion of “Grid Art“. More details to be given in class (grid must be at least 30 × 30 units of your choice)  For this project I chose to use 900 white, flat thumbtacks and used permanent marker to color each one in to form the image I chose.  I'm a fan of the movie "Spirited Away" and my favorite character is called, "No Face". So I chose to do him on a grid.  It took a couple of hours do complete because I had to draw out the grid before I started placing the pins so they would line up completely. After that came the task of coloring in each pin to create the shape. 

ASSIGNMENT - A2 - due 3/13 Flip page animation ; at least 200 frames. Open topic.  Since the topic was open I had so many ideas. Eventually landing on influence from a pretty twisted comic series I read while in  high school and took inspiration from it. It took a decent amount of time moving the images slightly over on each page and then having to go back and color everything in.  What made the topic easy is that the comic I went off of (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) is pretty random so I didn't feel like I should follow an exact story line because that wouldn't honor the muse I chose. In hindsight my version is a lot brighter than the actual comic and a lot less morbid.  The sound came from an animation I made in a different class linked in an earlier post on my blog. It was creepy enough that I decided to just use it again. 

Choose a 21st century technology and write a brief (2 pages) on which technologies from previous decades influenced its creation. How could it influence new technologies we have not heard of in the future? I chose a 3-D printer. It is most defiantly a newer technology and it’s influence will lead greatly into the future as well as being able to follow it into the past. Starting from the beginning, we can say that it began with the basic writing systems which eventually evolved into punch cuts and block cuts to make the writing process faster as a demand for books grew. These systems led to the first printing press which in turn skyrocketed printed material into the spotlight. Much hasn’t change between the printing press and the first mechanical printer. Slightly before the 21st century things appeared to diverge two separate ways. The first being those who used printers for business/work but still helped make better and newer technologies. The second group, which could be artist