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...