final color project

safe sex update

hey, sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I've continued experimenting with the stickers and working on the animation. here's what it looks like now. I've tried out some other positions but most of them look tooooo porny if you know what I mean, kinda vulgar. I'm thinking of keeping it simple missionary, it would have a similar 'butterly' kind of affect but horizontal instead of vertical. I'm going to try and highlight this aspect even more :)

What do you think? condom on the front too with the figures over top?

or figures solo on the font and the back like this.

weekly photo

Radioactive Sea - weekly photo

To keep help combat the radioactive leak, the water is being dyed to track the flow of the toxic ooze. The duality to this problem is that people are still living like refugees: minimal food, large spaces transformed into community shelters. The article I was reading on npr was talking about the conflict between the urgency of helping the people vs. the urgency of preventing another natural disaster. There are a lot of really really BIG problems in the world today. The term global issues could not be more intune with our times. I think about all the misplaced effort we put into maintaining our arbitrary systems, when you climb those invisible ladders you can forget where you started from. Forget what really matters.

We need to start repairing what we already have.

npr article

Holi The Hindu Festival of Colors

Holi celebrates the passing of winter and the coming of spring with exuberant bursts of color. Across India, color explodes from every direction as dye or as powder, coating people, buildings, any and all surfaces.

Check out the rest of the pics here :)
The Big Picture

zine update

Flip a coin, Duality.

This is a scanimation ready image. Scanimation is made possible with two parts. One image, the static image, looks like the dog above. It is actually 3 images superimosed on top of each other. A key to this is having a fixed point that is the same for each. The second part is a dynamic screen of black stripes. When the stripes are pulled over the static image, it appears as if the dog is running :) I'd like to do something similar with the screens of my zine, but with people and emotions. I'd like to use extreme facial closeups. With each new pull of the screen a different person, a different face, a different mood. ( Or maybe a differnt part of the face is revealed through pulling back the layers? thoughts? ) Since there are two sides of the zine, I'm still thinking about the content of each, are they analagous? are they inverses? is it the same person? I'm thinking deeper than happy or sad... Here are some facial inspirations from boston's big picture blog.



Below is how I would transform the texture and lines of the face into a graphic format and then I would segment it up and animate.

I'm interested in this idea of getting people to interact, to see one another. Pay attention to those around you.

I appreciate any feedback ;p

Botero

These gluttons stand larger than life in a Denver outdoor shopping mall. Like giant bars of sculpted chocolate.

fruit transparencies.

sunset/sunrise in a music video

About the time Rhinna dyed her hair red this video for her song Only Girl came out. The whole video is cast in an red pink glow and filled with all the shades and shaped of between red pink. The video feels timeless, like you are always in the magic hour.

weekly photo - The Dream House

mela foundation
Last thursday I went to The Dream House with some friends in my Jazz Collab. The Dream House is a sound and light installation in Tribeca. Created by La Monte Young, it is one of the longest running installations, now in its 18th year on display.

The Color is a created by a harmony of red and blue light. Both of the lights wore black hoods, but one was reflective. This light projected the blue light into the space. On the surface the light was projected onto you could see a gradient of colors including green and red. Green was the closest color to the light source. The other, non reflective light, was red. We noticed when walking towards the blue light, the actual light bulb would look blue from afar but would transform into red as we came closer to the light source.

The sound part of the installation was composed of a spectrum of simple pure frequencies. The spectrum was flooded at every possible frequency level, creating a kind of droning like tone. When you moved around the room, the sounds would change. What we are doing in the picture is making circles in the air moving towards and away from our ears, this created a kind of high to low shift in sound. There were MANY other cool ways we found of interacting with the sound and light space. I definitely recommend checking it out!

zine storyboard process

Color Inventory

cultural color study hw

Although I only lived there for a very short time, I'm originally from Toronoto, Canada. Most of my family still lives in Ontario, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to learn a little bit more about my home country. First I looked up the flag, which had no significant meaning (that I could find). I thought maybe the color red would be important because the mounties wear it and it is on the flag, but I actually came to the conclusion that maybe the use of the color red is a vestage of Canada's attachment to Britain.

Instead I decided to trace changes in Canadian Currency throughout the century. Think about how many times a day you see money, in your wallet, being exchanged on the street, how often do you think about money? What impact does the color of money have on your perception of it?

First, I grouped all denominations by year and then I regrouped like denominations together. In the first set, you get a color picture of the era the money was used. In the second set you can see the diversity of hues, the proportions of color used, and the changes in design. Something interesting that begins to show up in the last two batches of currency redesign is the incorporation of anti-forgery security measures including magic numbers and ultraviolet imagery. Something cool in the 1986 batch was a chip embedded in the upperleft corner for the visually impaired. The chip could be scanned and the denomination of money would be audibly spoken. Currency reissuing has become centered on technological advances to prevent forgeries.

Spectral Color hw

Wavlength: ( 380-450 nm )
Frequency: ( 785-665 Thz )
Hex: ( #7F00FF )
RGB: ( 127, 0, 255 )
HSV: ( 270, 100%, 100% )

Kirby wk4 photo

Kirby Wk 2 picPost

Kirby wk1 photo