Class notes 10/22/2009

Assignment # 2 select book

adjusting the color balance. lighting and darkening the picture to get desired effects.

8 in by 8 in is the picture standard

Attributes of images: highlights (the light parts; must have details), shadows (have details) midtones.

You can see more detail with the human eye than with most photographic systems. ( Can see 1000 pixels)

red absorbs Cyan

set resolution to 300 dpi

image> adjustment>> color balance

when uses dodge tool use 5-10% to avoid bloching.

Carla Gannis

Carla Gannis, originally from North Carolina, currently lives and works in New York. Trained as a painter and having received her BFA from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her MFA from Boston University, Gannis shifted to producing digital print and multi-media installation work in the late 1990's.

Gannis is the recipient of several awards, including a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Grant in Computer Arts, an Emerge 7 Fellowship from the Aljira Art Center, and a Chashama AREA Visual Arts Studio Award in New York, NY. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Jezebel at The Boulder Museum of Art, Jezebel at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York, Everything That Rises Must Converge at Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery in Chicago, Il, Jezebel presented by Claire Oliver Gallery at Loop Video Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain; and I Dream of Jeannie Emerging from a Fresca Bottle at Christa Schuebbe Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany.

Features on Gannis's work have appeared in NY Arts Magazine, Res Magazine, Animal Magazine, 11211, and Collezioni Edge, and her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The LA Times, The Miami Herald, NY Arts Magazine, The Daily News, The Star Ledger, and The Village Voice. She is currently on the Digital Arts teaching faculty at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and The School of Visual Arts in New York.

Assignment Two

The second assignment involves choosing a character from a book and using this character as inspiration for a portrait of yourself (as that character). There are a few problem that arises. I haven't yet a work of fiction in far to long, nor do I have any works that I plan on reading. Now that I have matured I tend to be reading "boring" books on finance and stocks and less about creative story-lines designed to give me tickle my imagination. My first inclination was Twilight. Halloween is coming up and dressing up like a Vampire could be fun.

Rosalie Hale Cullen's Lunchroom Outfit

Incandescent

Another possibility is Flyy Girl, this book I read as a kid. As someone who isn't often revered as being "ethnic" enough for my Black friends this might be an interesting change of pace.

Blog Reviews for week of 10/19-10/25

Apple is just smarter

If Apple's recent stock performance is anything but them materializing what I have been telling my friends, co workers and anyone that spends more than a few minutes with me, so it was natural that as I perused through businessweek and saw an article about Apple that I was intrigued. The article's first line "In order to innovate, you need to immerse yourself in your problem." I believe is part of the Apple miracle. When you look at the long line of Apple products you see that inherent principle in the innovation and precision that Apple products try to achieve. This blog was titled 10 Ways the iPod Can Make You a Smarter Businessperson. And it goes on to identify in what ways the iPod has allowed the business IQ of a person to increase.

10. Brand

9. Business

8. Consumer/ End User

7. Consumer/ Seller

6. Competition

5. Client

4. Problems to Solve

3. Technologies to Leverage

2. Trends

1. Apply the Methodologies

Empathy

I often regard being empathetic as a good thing. And many may wonder okay well how does that connect in anyway to "innovation" or "design"? After reading this article I was reminded of a question I ask myself quite often... What is art, or design, or even innovation? With everyone having various levels of empathy aren't these things all subjective. How can we measure innovation when we in your

Class notes 10/13/2009

-Brochure grading and Blog

-Review new assignment

-Choose Book, read, character, synopsis due

Due Thurs: No regular class

Meet in classroom at 3pm for Guest Speaker Carla Gannis

Photoshop- Picture altering; Raster based- grid-like.

Illustrator- vector based

Quark- layout

Blog Reviews for week of 10/12-10/18

Business Still Booming

Whether it be the lack of participants in the first annual MArketing Fair that Alpha Kappa Psi speared headed last Spring. Or the lack of job placements for my friends who majored in Communications or Marketing. However this blog talks about the rise in demand for design researchers. While it may seem as though the this fluctuation is new, that the design world has always been based on observation of humans according to Robert Fabricant referencing Henry Dreyfuss Designing for people. Design research does not require a special skill set and many researchers come from a very diverse background who's curiosity in human behavior have landed them on this path.

Dude thats a slim Dell

I am a devout Apple fan through and through. And while I do acknowledge that Apple might be too rigid with their pricing.

Blog Reviews for week of 10/5-10/11

Sinusitus relief

Since I was in high school I have suffered from terrible sinus headaches. I had an MRI and my sinuses were so big that the doctors were astonished. So when I noticed the article on sinuses my eyes darted towards it. Unlike in the world of art where so often people's opinion are the best form of advertisements the blog world seems reluctan

t to endorse health products in fear that the wrong recommendation could ruin credibility.

The Beatles make a Comeback

When the Beatles were topping the charts I don't think they anticipated that their music would be revered as what MTV needs to help ailing video games sales. Rock band has taken the gaming industry by storm offering people like me who are normally video game challenged an opportunity to get engaged in virtual reality. In the game, players to use plastic replica instruments to jam as a virtual band as they follow notes, lyrics, and animated rockers on a screen in front of them. Gamers can get updated versions by buying new software. The slum in sales is attributed to the economy. This brings to light an prominent issue when the economy is slowed, many argue the arts do not suffer( loosely referring to the gaming industry as an art) because people often use the arts to escape from the dulls of everyday life but to what degree do the arts suffer when often arts programs in schools are the first to get cut and people have less leisure money.