Faces

Every where I look I've been seeing these faces. It really personifies the objects for me and brightens my day when I see them.

Woke up one day and my sheets had a interesting tear in it.

A few days later

My sheets final days before they got tossed. His insanity finally got to him

Smirking Pallet jack.

Creepy hair tools

This guy hates that his home is in a bathroom.

Cinder block fallen and can't get up

Angry box

Split personality

Funny looking chair

The old, wise, and very eccentric sink

Nagy vs. Me vs. Cunningham

Jenene Nagy's work here at the fine arts building. 

Merce Cunningham's perspective, with interest on the viewer/audience

The way I looked at the art work. My interest on size and depth.

Not on task but at least I'm productive

So while sitting class listening to an art lecture, I got a little distracted and started looking at people's artwork on several of my favorite image dump sites. I ended up jumping from site to site and eventually stumbled on Los Angelos's Museum of  Contemporary art website (URL: http://www.moca.org/). Being a begginer web designer I couldn't help but take some time to look at the nice layout of the web page. It is so simple and clean, the strong header/navigator bar that makes navigating the page very easy. The content is broken down into three columns that break up pictures of current artwork being displayed, a middle passage, and outside links.

What really struck me was its simple and effective color scheme. It uses dramatic darks and lights to keep a clean look but draws the viewers eyes to links by giving them bright colors. A very sensible and well utilized color scheme.  I personally have trouble coming up with cohesive color schemes so I thought as a practice I could literally draw out the exact colors that the MOCA site uses.
To accomplish this I took a quick screen shot of my browser while navigating the home page, I then opened the image with Adobe Photoshop and pulled the exact colors from the sight. I used these colors to recreated the colors in a square to build a miniature color scheme block that have the same proportions to one another of use as the site. This lets me get a obvious feel for how each vector of color interacts with one another. I feel like if I use this same technique to develop color schemes for my future sites It might make my sites more cohesive.

Practice Jam Session

The set up for the performance

Our band Pine Box Derby is preforming September 16th in the fine arts building at 2:07pm. Yesterday we had, what I would like to call a rough draft/practice/jam session. In a two and a half hour period we figured out the arrangement of our noise machines and also all the noises we plan on making for the performance. We laid out the map of what noises we will make on a large sheet of music, almost like a sheet music of sorts. The sheet music will be what we use to know what noise we will be making and after what noise or action we are supposed to do it after.

Working on the sheet music

Since there is no real set way to arrange the order of the sounds. We decided to do our own choreographed way of getting started. To begin, we wanted to hear exactly what noises each of our machines, we wrote down what we thought it sounded like; ex: WAAAAHWAAAAAAHH, or Scraaaaaaaaaa. The more sounds we listened to the harder it was to describe the sound, our way of describing the noise slowly evolved into a description of what we thought the noise sounded like; ex: stacking bricks, or coin slots. After all the noises were recorded onto our sheet music we listed out the noises in a order that we thought flowed. We played through the "sheet music" a couple times making minor tweeks to the original plan.

Merce Cunningham's choreography rough draft

After I stepped back and looked at our work with the sheet music I couldn't help but notice its chaotic-ness. Anyone outside of my our class might look at this and think nothing of it, but to us, we see our detailed plan for our performance. I also can't help but draw parallels to Merce Cunningham's choreography rough drafts for his Ocean performance. To most people outside of Cunningham's school and close friends might not even know what to make of the chicken scratch on the paper. I really feel like I was able to experience, at least some what, of his process of choreographing a dance.

working on my sample site

worked on a sample website this weekend it was a little frustrating working out the kinks but I feel it made a decent sample page.

I do doggy hair cuts too

Before

After

Lifes a dance

Little fish reminds us that we can all dance to our own beat.