Rotoball!

A ball gets passed to you as you are walking around on a grassy hill, with a tree. It crashes into a tree and snaps it in half. You look at it, and transform it into a meteorite. The meteorite is on fire. I try putting the fire on the meteorite out. When it is thrown on the ground, the grass around it is burned and the ball transforms back. You then kick it to the right of the screen.

Oh How Useful A Time Machine Is

And this time, chaos is a bad thing.

What do you see in this piece of art (describe it)?

The text "Thinking of You" is white with red squares behind it. There is a closeup on someone's hand, they're pricking themselves while referring to their thoughts of “you”, the viewer. A safety pin is about to puncture the middle finger of someone's right hand. Barbara Kruger placed her name at the bottom, underneath “You”. It's relatively grainy. 

What kind of message is the artist giving in this piece of art?

Barbara Kruger is sending a message explaining the stress people can put on each other. People may be driven to hurt themselves because of another person's act of unkindness. Hopefully she's also trying to say that you should be easier on those around you, and care more about them. If you continue to hurt and ignore, all their thoughts of you will be painful memories to them.

Do you like or dislike Kruger’s work? Why?
I like Kruger's work. She focuses on critiquing society and often has well thought out messages. It wouldn't be easy to create such a long list of thoughtful messages and still focus on the core of your art, the pictures, so I like the work she's put in. Although I dislike the grainy style used in her work. Even if it's a part of her style, it looks too old.

B:r[o]k-e/n

KINKY CAT

A test involving layers and displacement maps. Fun to create really, I might do it again in my own time.

Coloor Monogmoont



STROOBROOY



COOR



SONSOOT


Three tutorials that focused on colour alteration and whatnot. Learned about layer coordinating as well.

Nine of Me

Forgot to post this; avoiding a nervous breakdown

Well, Hugh, why so serious?

Alter Ego assignment. Inverted trees look snazzy.

How does this image show your alter ego?

It shines light on a simpler side of me. The side that isn't wild and impossible to contain. I'm reserved and calm, often taking medication to alleviate stress. The colours are darker and more contrasted to show the difference between me and my alter ego. I'm also lost in the colours around me, the trees and graffiti, I'm obsessed with its detail and quality.

 

What aspect of your image do you find most successful and why?

Me sitting on the dryer on the left side. I enhanced my legs to skew into the tree and be lost in its white contrast. It's interesting to me. And I love how well it worked.

 

What aspect of your image do you find least successful and why?

The round gradiented cracks around the trees. It's behind the black brush strokes and isn't sharp, detailed, or well contrasted. I don't think it should have even been left white, I should have inverted it like the trees.

 

If you could do this project again, what changes would you make to improve it? 

I would focus on another side of me, something more colourful and extroverted. I'd focus on well-contrasting colours and have more poses of me interacting with each other. I would have also increased the size and taken my own pictures to be used as backgrounds and effects.

       

A brush test, things will get much more elaborate as the semester progresses.

What are five interesting things that most people don’t know about you?
In no specific order:
* I'm often doing over-elaborate multimedia projects, like installing a 5.1 surround with speakers from 4 different manufacturers.
* I love falling from high heights, but I hate the initial jump.
* I am worse than a zombie in the mornings. Slow, thoughtless, grumpy.
* I work best at night, ie. 12am to 8am are the best times I can get a job done properly.
* I'll listen to music, but that's on my own time. At most other times I almost loathe music.

What are three things that your friends would say about your personality?  What are the opposite to these things? 
My personality:
1. Terrible with words.
2. Insane, spontaneous, fun.
3.  A creative person.
Opposites to my personality:
1. A literary genious.
2. Calm, reserved, boring.
3.  Can't think a single original thought.

What are your five biggest goals/dreams for your future (they don’t have to be totally realistic)?
In no specific order:
* I'd love to have a stream of cash flowing into my bank via sales of an album I wrote and distributed myself.
* Neverending supply of Coca-Cola.
* A soundproof room filled with 24 speakers and 4 subwoofers, all aligned for a perfect surround sound experience.
* To graduate University with a diploma involving science (chemical or electrical).
* To invent something interesting and useful.

My alter ego happens to be a calm, reserved person. He keeps his words to himself when he doesn't know what to say. He enjoys a nice amount of solitude. He'll drink Pepsi as often as Coke, doesn't matter to him. Thankfully, he dreams becoming the proud owner of a laundromat. He is a dark person, often hard to see underneath the smiles that cover his real ego.

Triangle Face, even better than Pyramid head

Fantastic!