Saturday, March 26, 2011
Thursday, March 10th: Opening Show Day.
This is a pretty self explanatory post, the show was awesome!!! And the food was yummy :)
Tuesday, March 8th: Show Curation & Rehearsal.
Yay!!! We are all finally done with our final photos and now are thinking about where to place them on the wall and in what order. I love the order we put them in, it all made perfect since, and we all thought the same thing.
We were having a hard time figuring out where to put each of our self portraits, and keeping them in coherence with the final frames. So we somehow came up with the idea of making it a random thing and putting all of our self portraits together in the middle. We sat on the ground and switched them around until they ended up in this pyramid shape. Our teacher laughed at us when he came back and asked how we had come up with this and we told him we'd decided that it just felt right to have them like that.
After everyone hung up their self portrait the way we wanted it to look like, we all talked about how great it looked and how happy we were that everything is finally finished. And than Sam made us all give a pretend speech on a microphone about the show and what we were gonna say for it. We went over all the show details and than Kat, one of the main people at youth in focus, had us all do a quick little survey on how the quarter went and what we would/wouldn't change about youth in focus to make it better. At the end she asked who wanted to hand out the cards to our mentors and teacher at the show. Since no one else would go, I volunteered myself. Which I thought was pretty cool :)
At the begining of class Sam told everyone that if you stayed till the end of class, 6:30pm, he would sing us the song parody he had been working on for the song Tick Tock. It was amazing and made everyone laugh. He really spent a lot of time on it, hahaha. Again, I love Sam :D
We were having a hard time figuring out where to put each of our self portraits, and keeping them in coherence with the final frames. So we somehow came up with the idea of making it a random thing and putting all of our self portraits together in the middle. We sat on the ground and switched them around until they ended up in this pyramid shape. Our teacher laughed at us when he came back and asked how we had come up with this and we told him we'd decided that it just felt right to have them like that.
After everyone hung up their self portrait the way we wanted it to look like, we all talked about how great it looked and how happy we were that everything is finally finished. And than Sam made us all give a pretend speech on a microphone about the show and what we were gonna say for it. We went over all the show details and than Kat, one of the main people at youth in focus, had us all do a quick little survey on how the quarter went and what we would/wouldn't change about youth in focus to make it better. At the end she asked who wanted to hand out the cards to our mentors and teacher at the show. Since no one else would go, I volunteered myself. Which I thought was pretty cool :)
At the begining of class Sam told everyone that if you stayed till the end of class, 6:30pm, he would sing us the song parody he had been working on for the song Tick Tock. It was amazing and made everyone laugh. He really spent a lot of time on it, hahaha. Again, I love Sam :D
Thursday, March 3rd: Finalize Artist Statements & Show Prep.
Today was literally the last day for me to work on photos, which was very terrifying to think if I didn't get this photo done by today. So I even left my math class early so I could have more time to work on it.
I got to youth in focus at about 1:00pm and amazed my teacher with my dedication to getting this photo done and on in the frame with the other one :)
It took me forever to get it the way I wanted it to look, I had to do a lot of burning, and I mean a lot a lot of burning like everywhere on the picture. And a little bit of dodging on the face of my doggy. But when I did get it all finished it was about 4:00pm and I still needed to pick out a frame and matte for my final photos. I could not find a matte that would fit the two photos of mine and so that meant I had to make my own, which is a kind of difficult process, I know this because I have had to do it before. There is a lot of math and whatnot involved but one of my mentors was helping me with that part. So thank you, Bob, your awesome for that one.
After I was done with creating and making my own matte, I had to write labels for all of my photos and put a sticker saying what each piece is called and my name and all that good stuff. We also had to turn in our negatives today, since we can't keep them, even though I don't know why we can't keep them,wish we could.
I got to youth in focus at about 1:00pm and amazed my teacher with my dedication to getting this photo done and on in the frame with the other one :)
It took me forever to get it the way I wanted it to look, I had to do a lot of burning, and I mean a lot a lot of burning like everywhere on the picture. And a little bit of dodging on the face of my doggy. But when I did get it all finished it was about 4:00pm and I still needed to pick out a frame and matte for my final photos. I could not find a matte that would fit the two photos of mine and so that meant I had to make my own, which is a kind of difficult process, I know this because I have had to do it before. There is a lot of math and whatnot involved but one of my mentors was helping me with that part. So thank you, Bob, your awesome for that one.
After I was done with creating and making my own matte, I had to write labels for all of my photos and put a sticker saying what each piece is called and my name and all that good stuff. We also had to turn in our negatives today, since we can't keep them, even though I don't know why we can't keep them,wish we could.
Tuesday, March 1st: Final Printing.
So at the beginning of class our teacher straight up told us that our final prints are due today, today!?
I knew there was no way that was going to happen, but I tried anyways. Since I had already started working with fiber paper I continued today. It took me about a total of 2 hours to print out a fiber copy of my final photo that I liked and could actually work with. It was the same photo of my cat that I was working on last week and when I was finally finished with that, I felt so great, hahaha. I showed it to my teacher and he told me to make two more copy's of it and so I did, of course. One for the final show, one for the youth in focus records, and one for myself.
After that we still had another hour left of class time. I started printing for fun since I thought I was done with my finals and everything. I printed this one picture I took of my dog, Rexi. And I ended up really liking it, I liked it so much that I decided I wanted to put it the frame with my final print on the wall. I figured the two would go very good together, a picture of my favorite cat in the world, and a picture of my favorite dog in the world. Both to animals that love and adore each other to, side by side. I told my Sam about my idea and he thought it was a great idea, too.
After deciding to use that photo for another one of my finals I had to drop the RC fun printing and start working with fiber paper again. I ended up staying there until 8:00pm that night just working on this same photo and still never got it to look the way I wanted it to. Looks like I'm gonna have to work extra hard when I come in on Thursday.
I knew there was no way that was going to happen, but I tried anyways. Since I had already started working with fiber paper I continued today. It took me about a total of 2 hours to print out a fiber copy of my final photo that I liked and could actually work with. It was the same photo of my cat that I was working on last week and when I was finally finished with that, I felt so great, hahaha. I showed it to my teacher and he told me to make two more copy's of it and so I did, of course. One for the final show, one for the youth in focus records, and one for myself.
After that we still had another hour left of class time. I started printing for fun since I thought I was done with my finals and everything. I printed this one picture I took of my dog, Rexi. And I ended up really liking it, I liked it so much that I decided I wanted to put it the frame with my final print on the wall. I figured the two would go very good together, a picture of my favorite cat in the world, and a picture of my favorite dog in the world. Both to animals that love and adore each other to, side by side. I told my Sam about my idea and he thought it was a great idea, too.
After deciding to use that photo for another one of my finals I had to drop the RC fun printing and start working with fiber paper again. I ended up staying there until 8:00pm that night just working on this same photo and still never got it to look the way I wanted it to. Looks like I'm gonna have to work extra hard when I come in on Thursday.
Thursday, Feb 24th: Critique #2.
Today was the real critique we were suppose to have last week as to the one we had last week was just a practice one between our class. But this is another one like the one we had awhile ago, with all the other classes, which again is intermediate b&w, advanced b&w and beginning digital.
It was funny because my teacher had one of his photos put up to be critiqued, that one was my favorite. It was a photo of these three guys blowing up big inflatable cellphone balloons. And the three guys all looked like they were older guys which made it that much better, hahahaha.
After the critique we all stood around and talked for a minute about what our teacher, Sam's photo was actually shot for and no one could figure it out. So I guess the photo was for a song parody he was doing for the song Tick Tock by Kesha, and the photo was suppose to go with the part that says "Boy's blowing up my phones"
Haha, I love my teacher :)
It was funny because my teacher had one of his photos put up to be critiqued, that one was my favorite. It was a photo of these three guys blowing up big inflatable cellphone balloons. And the three guys all looked like they were older guys which made it that much better, hahahaha.
After the critique we all stood around and talked for a minute about what our teacher, Sam's photo was actually shot for and no one could figure it out. So I guess the photo was for a song parody he was doing for the song Tick Tock by Kesha, and the photo was suppose to go with the part that says "Boy's blowing up my phones"
Haha, I love my teacher :)
Tuesday Feb 21st: Writing Artist Statements.
For the most part of today we spent brainstorming ideas about what to say with each of our artist statements, with our classmates and mentors. I knew what I wanted to say as an artist but it was hard to put it all into words when I'm right in front of the computer screen trying to think of what to type. Everyone else already seemed to know what to say when they were typing theirs up. Which frustrated me a little. Although it was nice when we got to take our break to get my eyes away from that computer screen. By 6:00pm I had about half a page written up, which means I'm almost done with the thing, which made me very happy :)
Thursday Feb 17th: Printing Preview.
Today was a mini End of Quarter exhibit critique, and we all had to choose and print out a potential image for the final show. Since I was already working on a potential final image on Tuesday, I just chose that one and worked on another photo while waiting for everyone else to finish. I got a lot of test strips done today while I was waiting, and found to like a few of my photos I thought I wouldn't. After everyone was finished we went into the class room, with just our class and began to critique each others chosen images. There is nothing else we really did after the critique because class was almost over by the time we were done. And I would describe the other classmates images but I honestly can't remember what they had chosen to put up since it was a long time ago.
Tuesday Feb 15th: Intro To Fiber Paper.
Today we were introduced to fiber paper, the paper we will be using for our final prints. It is much flimsier than RC paper and is harder to work with, but in the end it makes for a way better quality photo. I also learned how to use the dodge tool in which I needed to use to lighten up a picture of my cat, Nomi. After I made multiple test strep's and prints I was ready to start working with the fiber paper. When you switch to a bigger paper size you kind of have to change all your settings for that photo and restart everything, which is exactly what I had to do with the picture of my cat. Which sucked, a lot. Another thing that sucks with using fiber paper is the fact that it takes much longer in the developing process than regular RC paper. For example: fiber paper in the developer takes about 2 minutes compared to RC only taking about 1 minute. In the stop bath it takes 1 minute when with RC it only takes 30 seconds. And the worst part is when you put fiber paper in the fixer you have to wait for 3 minutes as to RC paper it would only take about 2 minutes.
Our homework assignment is to do a writing exercise called: "What do you want your art to say?"
Our homework assignment is to do a writing exercise called: "What do you want your art to say?"
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