Gallery Choices

If I had an opportunity to display my work I think I would choose the Bruce Nauman recreation. This decision comes from how well I believe the flow of the video works as well as how the music works well with the actions of the video itself.

Another project i would not mind seeing displayed is the final project. Perhaps not in it's entirety, but a couple of the final printed images and the kinetic piece. This form of kinetic art, in my experience, is very esoteric. I grew up with it and would like to share it with other people. One sees an image change right before their eyes with no machine turing the piece.

Finally, I would say the origami truck that I made. This was pretty difficult to make. the video was easy to follow in some places, but also required a lot of brainpower to decipher how a person folded in changed the paper at other times. There was also a very pleasant feeling to see my work move and in my mind was a complete success of the phrase movable origami.

What I Obtained From New Media New Forms

When I signed up for the class I thought this class was mainly about exploring photoshop and a little bit about the 3-dimensional printer (since everyone talks about it). I was really amazed at how extensive technology is and can be in the art making process. The class has given me the courage to approach different media and explore it and then potentially teach it. I really liked how Richard incorporated other parts of our program into this class as well by asking everyone to create lessons on a certain topic. This allows us to look back and use a lesson if need be. In addition, by having access to other people's blogs, if permitted, those lesson ideas can be shared as well.
Thank You Richard for a great class.

3d Printing and Printmaking

When we were first assigned the final project I was happy that I rolled familiar subjects. Printmaking, Identity, and Computers. I wanted to use a laser printer but known existed on campus. Well it took me a month to realize and after completing my final project that even though the lab doe not have a laser printer the lab does have an instrument that can create plates. That's right he 3-dimensional printer. I have made a test plate to see if the process works and it does. the printer gives great texture, but with a 10% fill breaks easily. Here are the results. Also side note; the stop motion gifs are of the printing process for this plate.

 the printed image

 the inked crushed plate

 the printed image

 the plate without ink.

I was told the fill can be increased to make the plate more durable and further testing is needed. I really like the honey combs. 

Slow Motion GIF

Thought I would try my hand at stop motion. I used my cell phone and it has the capacity to take 1000 photos or 5000 photos in a very short amount of time. this gif has 91 photos and sped up to a speed of 40 milliseconds per frame. It looks like a real video!

https://imgflip.com/gif/8inzx

This gif is made with 150 images and has the same frame rate.