Critiques

It’s not hair, it’s rope. The blotchy/blurry stuff is wax, and the bulbs are actually bulbs. All these materials were prepared on 11×14 sheets of glass, the night before making the photograms. I melted the wax to pour onto the glass and rope and melted the wax again with a blow dryer so it doesn’t look too blotchy.

I had a fairly good critique on my photograms and even better comments on what I was doing in the lab. We didn’t spend the usual amount of time critiquing each others work, especially the second batch that was up, due to time. I would have liked that extra five minutes we usually have so I could have a little more feed back from my peers.

My peers mentioned the light bulb, post modernist theory in photography, and their reaction to my methods and materials in the lab. C’est tout. Merde, je veux beacoup critiques!

Frickin Image Rollovers!

1/5 days [3hrs] were spent learning how to use Dreamweaver. 2/5 days [7-8 hours] were spent learning how to make rollovers. 1/5 days [3.5 hrs] was actually spent designing the webpage, layout of the page, and making rollovers. YAY, I have the hang of making rollovers. Frickin finally! I have one more day [~2hrs] to complete my web design.

I was frickin excited when I had the image rollovers down. Now that that is familiar, I can complete my design and learn how to make anchors in Dreamweaver and create new pages to link to my index page.

One more day to complete the webpage; day of final, and we have a guest to critique our pages. I’m keeping my webpage clean and simple due to time restraints. No background image, no crazy typography, not too many links. I just need it to look organize and complete. If I have time, I’ll make more pages, links from my thumbnail images to larger images, and may load it on to the web.

Free Conversation

I was on Second Street, as I am often, and stopped to hang out with a small group of people at a booth. Andrew, Robert [Andrew's brother], Angela, and Matt.

In the photo: Angela (left) and Andrew (right).

Andrew set up a booth on Second Street in front of Washington Mutual with a “Free Conversations” sign hanging above his booth. Every other Saturday, he and his friends sit there and have conversations with passer byers. The purpose of this was to have people converse with other people on whatever topic desired, but with rules. I thought it was a project, but they just wanted to talk to people.

Andrew came up with the idea after the end of a bad relationship with his previous girlfriend. He went to LB City Council, pitched his idea, and he now has a booth on Second Street where he just sits there and try to have other people converse with him and his friends. After his bad break-up, he just wanted to talk and thought having a place for people to talk when they have issues to talk about was a great idea for others and himself.

I think this is genius and I adore him for wanting to talk about his issues with someone else, and having a booth for other people to converse with him about their own lives. He mentioned wanting to get people to talk more and for people to be more open about conversing with others. I think talking to strangers about our own personal problems is so much easier than talking to a friend or family.

My sister, Susan, her friends Joy and Cherry, and I sat with them for 10-15 or so minutes having random conversations with them. It was a great way to end our night. It started to rain, which we didn’t notice until we began walking to my car. We were so caught up with having a conversation with them we did not notice that it had began raining and that we were cold.

Oh, oh, and I bumped into to Szymon on Second Street. Szymon’s an engineering student who spends most of his time around the Engineering buildings. Since I don’t hang out with the engineers around the Engineering buildings, I don’t see many of my friends anymore.

I met new people tonight and had pleasant conversations with them. Tonight was all good.

Negative

First and attempt at printing a negative of a photogram. Will work on it next time in lab.

Experiment – Photograms

I spent 4 to 5 hours in the photo lab yesterday not knowing what to do. I took with me some nylon rope, cotton, gel, plastic sheets, and picked some flowers on campus.
I do not have a concept, no idea what I’m doing. I’m just throwing stuff on paper. I’m trying to avoid doing the expected thing, which is to take any object and place it on the photo paper to make a photogram of that object. I might just do that if I feel like I am lagging this too long.

I was just playing around in the lab, making a mess, made some prints, just thinking about stuff to do. Anyway, on to the photos…

Images are untouched, haven’t been cropped, are only tests.

Dreamweaver

Ahhhhh!!!!!!! Dreameaver makes my head spin. Dreamweaver itself is great because I do not have to write the codes myself, but designing the art, exporting, slicing and optimizing… I have to revert back to Photoshop and Illustrator to design my homepage as well as learning how to use ImageReady, which BTW has many of the same familiar tools in PS and Illustrator. It took me two hours trying to figure out how to do rollovers and still could not do it on my own. Jocelyn Foye, professor, spent an extra hour after class to go over the lesson with me and I still do not know how to do it myself. There are too many damn steps to remember. At the end of the day [4 hours] I end with… www.csulb.edu/~skong.

One more class to work on my webpage. I have a shit load of design work to do to have a properly functioning webpage…not to mention a webpage that looks sexy.

Design

Another website for me to adore…

Hello WP!

Another blog.

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