Christians Design

Hello everyone, this assignment was so fun to do. At first, I was having a hard time figuring out what tools and websites I should use, but I first tackled what theme I wanted to shoot for. I decided to use my photos that I took in black in white and make a story out of it. I took these photos at my cousin's old vintage house, and the original images are beautiful. I wanted to convert it into a VHS style in a way to make it look like lost footage from a horror movie. I tried using Photoshop, but I had such a hard time making it look glitchy and changing the color tones. I then decided to use the Image Glitch Tool, and that made these photos the way I definitely imagined them to come out. If I had more time, I would 100% want to explore more with the image glitch tool and make more of my photos come out that way. It is a very interesting and beautiful tool to use to make your own art even more abnormal and unique. 

My goal for my final was to put more background in my pictures and add more text boxes. I wanted to incorporate the background as a river of emotions and how it's so colorful and filled with life. Then comes the bottom gray photo of myself looking at my reflection and putting on a fake smile. I am drifting in this river of raw emotions, and I am stuck in this ball of fake emotions, not knowing how to escape and get into the river. I used photoshop for this assigment, and If there was something I could try to fix and learn how to do better with, it would be how to crop images way better than how I did the bottom photo, because in the bottom photo I wanted to make it into an orb, but I grew frustrated with it. I really did enjoy this assignment, and I felt I was able to express my emotions in a different form.

Hello everyone my appropriation art assignment is based on the work from Van Gogh—Starry Night. I used Photoshop to combine all the works you see in the image. The tool I used the most was the spot healing brush tool, and I would say it was very tedious to use since I have not used Photoshop in a while. If I had more time, I would want to further explore Photoshop's advanced tools that they have and adjust the way that "Starry Night" looks and change it into a 3D version of itself. I wanted to use Starry Night, as it is one of my favorite paintings from Van Gogh. I then wanted to incorporate artworks of Batman and Spider-Man since they are well known as "knights" in their city nights. My image combines an old classical painting with modern comic book-styled art. I find it ethically acceptable to use this material, as "Starry Night" is in the public domain for everyone. I also see this as an opportunity to introduce the younger audience to older art by placing these two well-known, popularized heroes, which will capture their eyes, into the "Starry Night". 

12. Viral Intervention: Final Artifact

For our final proposal we decided to dress up in all black and meet up at the plaza that is near FIU and walk around with our cardboard posters that have our logo design that we made and have people shoot at it with our water guns. One water gun has water in it and the other one has red paint in it.

(See Sharon’s and Rihanna’s tumblr post for photos)

For this project we went out to a plaza that’s by FIU and shot a short film with my classmates. We posted our poster on the wall of the theater and shot at it with our water guns. One water gun had water and the other had red paint. We didn’t get as many people to participate in it but we made up for it by having my classmate and I to shoot at it. The whole project in general was fun to make but I would say we could’ve gone to another place that had more people but you lmk what can you do. We stayed there for about 2 hours and the only person that interacted with us was a random person in a car telling me “don’t do it” since I was pointing my water gun at my classmate. All in all I liked how our project came out and I found it to be very creative.

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Compose memes

Word is “defense”

“The eclipse heightened suffering during the shooting, prompting increased defense measures.” This project had us go outside of our normal campus. My classmates and I decided to go to the campus football field and we were lucky enough to be able to step foot on the actual field itself. We each took turns saying our sentence in the video by screaming the sentence out one by one. It was a very fun way of combining different words into a whole sentence and then scream it out in a public setting. It took us about 35 minutes to complete this project and then 15 minutes to get back to class.