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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Tuesday Lecture and Photoshop Painting

It was really nice to hear some upperclassmen giving us advice. I won't be a sophomore until Spring 2011, but the "10 Things I Wish I Knew as a Sophomore" presentation is still helpful as a freshman. I think the biggest bit of advice that I want to use is to get a bike. I still don't know how to ride one (auuugh embarrassing) but I'm making it my mission this spring to learn how. I can't stand sitting around North Philly as it is, and SEPTA is just about the worst thing in the world, so a bike would definitely help me out a lot. And this way I can be some sort of arty hipster with a fixie and a tight hoodie and I can talk about "bike culture" and typefaces in the most insufferable way possible.

And now the part that everyone (mostly just my mom) has been waiting for, my photoshop painting:



I still hate painting in photoshop, btw. Mostly what a did is smooth out the colors on the dragon and the fawn and clone stamped some messy spots in the grass. I wanted to keep a lot of the original texture of the watercolor because I think it works well with the oriental style of the dragon.

And now I'm going to go to my midterm critique and then try to shove as many naked juices and bagels down my gullet as I possibly can.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Some nerdy arty youtube videos

Robert and I have been showing each other a bunch of arty videos on youtube lately, so I figured I'd post some of my faves.

Rococo Puffs!

Neutra Face
Neutra Face: An Ode to a Typeface! Robert's a nerdy graphic designer and I want to be Lady Gaga, so he was all psyched to show me this.

70 Million
The members of this band just dress up as various famous art works throughout this video. Rob and I kept on just shouting out the artist or the title while watching this. He was quicker than me =(

Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd presents Form and Content. Baby hamsters <3

Luke Jerran
HIV Sculpture
Luke Jerram makes glass blown viruses. They're really bizarrely beautiful.

Sweaterman
We're starting our super hero costumes in Nichola Kinch's class and Mark Newport aka Sweaterman was one of the artists we looked at.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

what

Ok, two lectures to go over!

First is last week's Philographica lecture! I'm kind of glad that we went to this one, even though it was a lil bit boring. I'm really hoping that I'll be able to get to some of the exhibitions. I'd especially like to go to the one with the toilet seat so I can get "Abandon Hope All ye Who Enter Here" printed on my bottom. That would be my favorite thing ever. I'm going to try to make a point of going to the PMA this weekend to see Oscar Munoz's work.

And then this week Lynda Barry came to speak! I want to be her when I grow up. Not only was she absolutely hilarious, she also had some really insightful and interesting things to say, especially those about images. I think most of them went right over my head because I was exhausted, but that probably just means that what she said was really smart and probably very important, right? Right. She gave me a lot of really neat ideas for my folios; I love her style. Furthermore, HOLY BALLS she sang Hey Jude without moving her lips! Lynda Barry, please adopt me. Sincerely, Maureen O'Dwyer

Hopefully I'll get the photos of my 3D projects from Nichola Kinch soon. I've been getting some pretty positive feedback on them so I figure I'll post them here and be all, "I don't wanna toot my own horn or anything BUUUUUT CHECK ME OUT!"

I also need to get my texture pictures off of Robert's camera so I can finally get them uploaded.

PS. I still don't like painting in photoshop. Real paint is messy and sexy

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Vecter Portrait

Ladiesss...



...watch out for yer husbands.

...yeahhh riiiight.

Anyway, I think that this is defintely an improvement over the last time I showed this in class. I'm still not sure if the skin is too rainbowy, though. Mostly I was just thrilled about getting to scan my face into the computer. New facebook profile pictures, anyone? Oh yes.