shin's butt project

So my initial plan was to do an installation piece, collecting and dyeing the cigarette butts to bright colors. Every time I passed by Union Sq. Park, I started to collect cigarette butts. Usually, it would be on my way to/back from Whole Foods, and I would store them in the food container that I emptied. It was very disgusting actually, picking up people's cigarette butts, and more so, in the container I just ate out of. I wanted to compare and contrast this feeling with colors, and put the cigarettes in the context that can be related to all types of people (we mentioned in class how I could show a picture of a child picking up a cigarette butt..). Both cigarettes and food come in contact with the mouth, yet feel "clashy" and disturbing when these objects are displayed together.
It is an irony that when my fruit plastic cup contains text as in the photograph I took "made of recycled material" while cigarette butts are made of a type of plastic (cellulose acetate) that are not biodegradable.
I continue to make more iterations of these..

safe sex update

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Weekly Photo 10

Bar Break

Weekly Photo (4/26) | To New Extremes

Alexa- weekly photo

Took these on some train tracts in LA. Interesting how much yellow, maybe because of its high visibility. Love the colors of the rust too!

shin's weekly photo 12

taken at wittenberg, germany. the colors make me feel very peaceful.

Weekly Photo 12

These are some beetles that completely destroyed a presumably dead tree in Currumbin Valley in Australia. But aren't they gorgeous???

smoking project

sorry i forgot you're name, i'm horrible with names. anyways this might give you some ideas

Weekly Photos

The first (on left) is of buildings near my apt at sunset.

next to it is a picture at an opera I saw with mirrors

These are various images that I saw around the city that seemed like beautiful examples of natural color

Dog Abuse Posters _ Yoonjoo Um

Dog Abuse

Three versions of the poster.

weekly photo 4/19 _ Yoonjoo Um

Korean Traditional Food.

There are great color harmony in this food.

Skin color Pantone

http://www.thecoolist.com/the-human-pantone-by-pierre-david/

Weekly Photo 10

These are an art installation made by an modern African artist (forgot name) who took traditional pottery and covered them with industrial pigments.

interesting reading / weekly photo :)

While doing some research for another class I stumbled accross Hans Hoffman. He has some interesting ideas about the use of color in art and how it abstractly relates to nature. Check out this link the read his article "The Color Problem in Pure Painting: It's Creative Origin"


This Picture was taken on saturday right before it started to rain.

Alexa- Synopsis

The goal of my campaign is to get people to think about where their electricity comes from. The Union of Concerned Scientists say that many states are not taking advantage to their clean energy resources and instead have coal imported from far away further increasing the harm done to the planet. NY imported all of the coal it used in 2008 but it could get 80 percent of its energy from renewable resources. They state that renewable energy, "Has the potential to generate more than 16 times the amount of electricity the nation now needs." The Union of Concerned Scientists is urging people to contact their utility company to find out where their energy is coming from and to implore them to invest in more clean energy resources.

My pinwheel campaign will raise awareness of the situation and start up a conversation. I will paint paper grocery bags with all natural paint made at home colored with natural pigments. The pinwheels will say "Where does your electricity come from?" and have a website where people can find more information. I will also have posters painted the same way as the pinwheels with an image of a pinwheel and my tagline.

Alexa- weekly photos PINK!

Was going through some of my pictures from California and collected all the pink ones. Love Pink!

Weekly Photo (4/19) | City Bear's Camouflage

shin's synopsis + visual implementations

shin's weekly photo 11

A view of Boston I took in the winter. The color of the river is so bright and whiter compared to the sky and the tones of the houses are settle yet all very different at the same time.

Everday Colour Palette

It was hard to find the exact colours in everyday that I was looking for from my colour palette, but I found many different blues and browns. Most of the browns came from buildings or dirt, but the blues were very random. The one that I found interesting and also best matched the blue I'm looking for is the sky. I couldn't figure out why we equate clean water with blue water, but now that I see the sky blue matches so nicely, that maybe that's where we make the comparison. Clean water falls from the sky...

(the colour of the sky in the picture doesn't do it justice- the lighting is so different in the photos).

Cool Colour-Changing Stuff

Alexa's bubble post reminded me of this place called Del Sol.

Everything they sell CHANGES COLOR IN THE SUN.

It's kind of like hypercolor, but different technology or something. Check this out:

Silver: Without Sun

Red: in the sunlight!

Weekly photo 11-Technicolored cupcake!

Child Abuse

My audience are adults who are able to be proactive. I would like to stay away from photographs telling parents that could be their child. I am going to produce a series of images that narrate haunting true stories of abuse across the world. I will be relying heavily on color to separate each "chapter" by geography. The message is that child abuse comes in different forms all over the world. I would like to provide each chapter with an actual way to help stop child abuse in regards to that region of the world.

Colored Bubbles