1. What is Surrealism: surrealism is literature and movement put together to create an image to express the artistic values of the 20th century.

2. Show 3 examples of Surrealist art (listing the artist’s name): the first one ( the butterfly) is by Vladimir Kush ,Moonlight Sonata, the second one is from Artsgrie, Panic Attack Or Anxiety. And the third one is from Chris O' Doherty, Large Egg Resting Softly

3. Pick one Surrealist artist and briefly discuss their view on surrealism: I pick Artsgrie because i like the concept about the train trying to escape the waves in the desert, its kind of random but it creates a good picture. I thought there view on this peice of art was different yet satisfying to the audience.

4. Find two examples of Surrealism in modern day photography using Photoshop (or…perhaps not using Photoshop) (list the photographer and explain if you can, how it was done): I chose Oliver Cereto because i like his picture. He used photoshop for this picture the steps he used were, at first he placed the sky and the background, although he used different colours that you don't really see in the sky, and so that creates some of the surrealism with the balcance tool. And then he duplicated the sky and repeated the previous steps. after that he erased some of the "useless details" and in the option bar he selected the blur brush to blur the sky. After that the "model" was incorporated he used the selection tool and clicked on the " add layer mask" button. He position the model in the middle of the page and by pressing the " image adjustment" he starts to play around with the models dress colors and her hair color to come together with the background. And through the hole photoshop tutorial he is basically just adjusting the models dress and background colours. And after all that he just finds some images from a website and puts them on the picture he is creating, he then deforms the branches and makes them apart of her body


And then you got a man named:Jeffrey Michael Harp,he created a picture with this woman's face coming off her head. When i was looking at his picture he said nothing about using photoshop...so i don't know if he did or not.

cyber surrealism

This is a video I decided to take of forks. It is stop motion animation and the characters are made of plaster cine except the forks. The concept is that the "Man" fork comes on stage, he hears a sound and then appears a "Woman" fork. She has hearts in her eyes and decides to chase him around. Once they come around the table they both hear a sound, they drop to the floor and out comes a girl/ woman (doesn't matter) and becomes suspicious of what had happened recently.

optical toys/ Illusions

Alright...so i was looking at some optical toys on a site. I like most of the devices but there is one that is my favorite and that would be the Zoetrope. The Zoetrope was invented in 1834 by a man named: William Horner. To create the motion the "drum" is spun, the faster you rotate it the "smoother" it moves to create the illusion. so if you want to check it out just look under: links and experience the optical toys/ illusions.

Video Sequencing

A few days ago i got another assignment to check out a few links. I was reading this one link and thought it was cool. The person who wrote it gave some useful information like: " when shooting a sequence you have to anticipate action." and " Try to shoot a variety of shots." I think if you were to read it, it would be helpful.

http://masteringmultimedia.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/sequencing-the-foundation-of-video-storytelling/


Mastering Multimedia : Ten Ways To Make Your Photos Better.

This is another link I thought would be great to write about. The person gives you 10 ways to make your photo's better. The 10 topics include: Get Closer, Know Your Camera Intimately, Four Corners, Anticipation/ Seeing, Composition, Lens Selection, Perspective, Shoot Layers Of Information, Read The Light, AND... Have Something To Say With Your Photography! So if i were you you should check it out it gives you some good useful tips!!!

The Dripping Tap

For this assignment i got to come up with a few ideas and i got to help video tape.
My group and I made a dripping tap video. It was fun to make, my group members were: esseJ, and lil lu lu. after we filmed the clips we put them all together and then edited them and after that we added sound and a dripping FX. We then put it on the computer for you to enjoy!

The Third Class Carriage By: Daumier

We had to do an assignment were we took a picture and used photoshop to touch it up. We could rotate it change the color crop it and use a few other techniques, It was fun!