Art410: Post #13

Ideas for Culture Jamming Project...

Although I still think my favorite assignment will probably be the Indeterminacy one, I'm really excited for this assignment. We have to choose a logo to work with for tomorrow, so I've been brainstorming some of my favorite ones. A few that I've been debating over have been: Nasa, FireFox, WWF (World Wildlife Fund), Tapatio, Sabritas, Columbia Pictures, and TriStar Pictures. I'm leaning towards Tapatio just because that's the one I'm most connected to since I've used it all my life. On the other hand, the Columbia and TriStar Pictures logos would really be fun to work with for this assignment. Decisions...decisions...

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Art410: Post #11

Round 2 for Indeterminacy (Chance) Project...

My Partner's (Bobby's) Recipe:

1. Write numbers 3-11 on a piece of paper. Tear up paper so each number is on its own paper. Do step 12 last.
2. Put papers in a container, shuffle papers. Don't Look. Choose one. Write first word that comes into your head from that number or take a picture of the first thing you think of when you see that number, it might be the piece of paper. Then abandon those pieces of paper with numbers because you are not Using Them.
3. Pick up the first book you see. close your eyes and shuffle the pages, stop on a random page. Find the last word on the page. Write it down and write the first word that comes to your mind or take a picture of how you feel after reading that word or representation of it.
4. Count how many letters that word has in it.
5. Hug yourself for that many seconds. Take a picture of you hugging yourself or of what you see or feel after, the first thing you see or feel. Or write the first word that comes into your head.
6. Find the number one less than the number in step 4 (one less than the number of letters in the word).
7. Travel that number of steps, feet, meters, blocks, until you come to a place you feel right. Take a random picture of it, or write down the first word that you think of.
8. At that spot do something good for someone else or the Earth, pick up litter, open a door for someone, let some one get on the bus first. You will know what to do when you get there. Take a random picture of the scene or moment after, or write the first word that comes in your head.
9. Turn on your mp3 player or musical device at home, listen to your favorite song or choose a song at random.
10. Spin around a number of times equal to the number of minutes the song's length is while the song is playing, example 2 minute song spin twice. Take a picture of how you feel from the song, a representation, or take a picture of the first thing you see after spinning. Or write the first word that comes in your head.
11. get in a lotus position or sit down in a comfortable meditative pose. Breathe in a number of times one more than the word in step 4, and exhale Om. Do this at home or a comfortable place where you can really breathe deeply and exhale with a good amount of sound "Ohhmmm". After write the first word that comes in your head or take a picture of the first thing you see.
12. Assemble all these words or some of them if you do not thing they fit, or pictures, or pictures and words, create a work of art or album or some representation or not with all the different parts (words, pictures, or both). Can be simple or complex. You choose. May you continue to help yourself and help others. May good karma flow your way. You just made a brighter day. Hey, hey, hey , hey. OK.

My end result...

Art410: Post #10

Round 1 for Indeterminacy (Chance) Project...

My Recipe:

1. First things first, find a coin and flip it. This will be the deciding factor of whether you'll be taking horizontal photographs or vertical photographs for this project. Heads will be Horizontal and Tails will be Vertical.
   
   
2. Now for one entire day, take a couple of photos whenever you find yourself waiting for something (it could be anything: waiting for the bus, your class, dinner, laundry, ect.). The photos should be taken of things that you find visually appealing! The first thing that catches your eye and that you find interesting after looking at it for a bit (it could be a piece of gum on the ground, a person, a building, ect.). Also, don't worry about your photos being perfectly composed, meaning not to worry about composition or framing. Simply take a photo!
   
   
3. By the end of the day you should have compiled a good selection of photos. Open them into photoshop or any other photo editing program.
   
   
4. Now, depending on what you know how to do on photoshop (for example, if you know how to make a collage or working with masks or layering images and then flattening the image to create one image, ect.) tear that many pieces of paper. Then write "1" on one piece of paper, "2" on the second piece of paper, "3" on the third and so on. It's up to you to choose which editing option corresponds to each number. Here's what I did: (1)Collage, (2)Layers, (3)Simple Masking, (4)Panoramic/Stitching, and (5)Simply working with Filters. Once you've done that, mix all your pieces of paper in a hat and choose one piece at random.
   
   
5. Once you've selected your option of editing, CREATE YOUR MASTERPIECE!! Depending on which option you choose, your result can vary from one single photograph to a series of photographs. It just all depends on how much time you want to spend on the project. In addition, it's up to you on how many photos to use! You can use all of them or only your favorite ones, but try and select at least one from each time period of the day. This way you'll have at least one photo from the morning, afternoon, night, or anything in between rather than only having a series of photos from the morning. HAVE FUN!

Here are all of the photos I took:

My end result...

Art410: Post #6

Google Earth Project...

I decided on documenting the Blink 182 concert for the project, I knew how busy I was going to be that day so it worked out well when it came to tracking a nice set of placemarks. The day began early due to the fact that Blink was going to have a meet and greet at the T-Mobile store in Sunnyvale before the show. As a result, my friends and I wanted to guarantee ourselves the opportunity in meeting the band so we got to the T-Mobile store at around 6:30AM. In addition, my friends Isaac and Juan had a soccer game that afternoon so we had to be back just in time for the game. Then our plan was to find a place to eat and head over to Mountain View for the concert because by then the first band would have been already playing. Anyways, I don't want to give too much away so check out my Google Earth tour for all the details. Hope you enjoy!

My kmz file for the tour:
click here and take the tour!

You will have to have Google Earth on your computer. If you don't have it, go to:
Google Earth Download


In brief, I guess the perfect way to describe the way I used Google Earth for the project is as a daily planner or album type.

Art410: Post #5

Experiences on Google Earth...

I haven't really had any trouble with Google Earth yet, I've worked with it before in my Geography class a few years ago. We mostly looked at the terrain and elevations back then though; also, I think we were using the older version of Google Earth too because I don't remember it having that many options under "layers". Although I haven't had any struggles with Google Earth, I have had issues with Panoramio. Is it suppose to make a completely new "placemark" when you add it into Google Earth? I just don't get it, it's too difficult for me. I tried using Photobucket and luckily it worked fine. If you guys are having a hard time with Panoramio or Picasa just use Photobucket! They provide a HTML code and all you have to do is copy and paste it into your already made "placemark" in Google Earth.

Art410: Post #4

Update on Ideas...

Turns out we're not going to the wedding, Francisco realized he is on a tight budget and can't afford to take a trip (completely understandable). Well, I guess that crosses out mapping down our trip to Three Rivers, CA. You know what? Tomorrow should be packed with interesting "placemarks" since I'm going to see Blink 182 at The Shoreline Amphitheatre. Plus, I just found out about a meet and greet in Sunnyvale, CA that Live 105 (the local radio station) is holding for Blink. I think I know what I'm going to do for my project!

Art410: Post #3

Hmm... ideas for my Google Earth project...

My friend Francisco and I might be going down to Three Rivers, CA for my friend Natalia's wedding this weekend on the 12th. Perhaps I could map out our route to the wedding along with all the pit-stops we're bound to make. That could be a good presentation, right?

Another idea that's been floating in mind has been a Google Earth presentation on my favorite top 10 shows I've ever been to. I've taken photos and videos of practically every concert I've been to, so it'll only be a matter of gathering everything together. It'd be nice to have something visually organized, I've always wanted to create some sort of scrapbook that contained all of my ticket stubs, photos, and souvenirs from over the years. This could be a small step towards that goal of mine. We'll see what happens!