A R T B O X

Love the functions, flash, graphics, layout.

A R T B O X

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!

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…