For this project, I played around with different sounds that would normally bug me or give me anxiety if I was in a silent room studying. I started by recording different things such as opening lids, metal coffee cups getting hit, pens being sifted through, zippers opening and closing, fingers being tapped, phones buzzing, dry erase markers, coins being spun. Then I added them into a file together and began taking bits and parts of one audio and overlaying it with another. I also messed with throwing the sounds back and forth through the right and left speaker. I made some sounds softer and other louder as a whole as well as in different sections of the audio. This project was fun to record because isolating one sound out of many is interesting. I liked taking ordinary sounds that people don’t normally listen for and isolating them so they are by themselves. But listening to the end result of the sounds being mixed together gives me anxiety which is why I ended up calling it anxiety. These are all sounds I hear every day but I normally hear them at a heightened level when I already anxious about something else.

My mom wanted to decorate cookies with me this weekend and I had the idea of creating my stop motion about having a cookie come into frame and being decorated and dancing around with other cookies before being eaten by the decorator. I think that it is a playful mood because the cookie is dancing around the frame and the decorator gets to have a delicious bite of the cookie after the cookie has had some fun.

Click on the picture to enjoy the GIFF of my dog Sable, looking for treats.

For this project, I was inspired by Penelope Umbrico’s Sunset’s From Flicker and Everyone’s Photos Any License. She used pictures that other people have taken of the sun and moon to create a large collage essentially creating a new piece of art itself. I chose the subject of eyes because in class we have mentioned repeatedly that we feel as if eyes are the gateway to someone’s soul. I was interested in seeing how many people also thought that way and was amazed at how many images of eyes I could find as well as the digitally manipulated art of eyes as well as studio art of eyes I could find on the internet. Searching “eyes” on google will give you 3,700,000,000 results. For my project I didn’t want to give the pictures a grid and their own space within the full image like Penelope did in her images, rather I wanted to present them together overlaying each other so as you look into one eye you are interrupted by another and you look to that next eye and on to the next. I sorted the eyes so it would flow from light to dark and eye color that were similar were in the general location of each other. I incorporated real eyes with digitally manipulated eyes with hyper-realistic paintings/drawings. I wanted to show the interested we have humans have into peering into someone’s eyes to see who they are.

For this project, I wanted to take pictures of my dogs being themselves and then take away the background from the images to isolate the dogs into their own space. I think each of my dogs has their own personality and I wanted to capture their personalities and put the focus on them. I also wanted to try to get as much detail extracted from the photos I could. The Chihuahuas have more detail with the fir than the third dog because the original photos were taken with my Nikon camera in direct sunlight opposed to the third which was taken with my phone camera at night which didn’t allow for as much detail in the fir to show up in the photograph.

This is Bella, she is a chihuahua that I have had since we got her as a puppy in 2007. She is my dog but she lives with my parents with her sister Marlee. She loves going for walks doesn’t mind wearing her bat wings. For this I wanted to isolate Bella by taking out the background it wasn’t very distracting but I wanted total attention on her.

This is Marlee, she is the sister to Bella, they were born in the same litter in 2007. She is my brother’s chihuahua. She may have been the runt of the litter but she runs the house. She is definitely a character. The background on the original photo wasn’t too distracting, there were trees behind her but I wanted to isolate her because the face she is making is just so perfect it doesn’t need a background at all. I really wanted didn’t want to cut out the detail of her whiskers. This was the hardest and easiest photo to bring out as much detail of the fir as I could. The original photo had sharp detail of the fir that wasn’t blurred making it easy to pick out but it was hard going in with a small eraser tool to make sure they would show up.

Lastly, this is the newest member of the family, Sable. She is my 6-year-old golden retriever/whippet that I just adopted Sable this weekend. This photo was probably the easiest to take out the background because a lot of the fine detail in her fir on the edges were blurred making it easy to make cleaner lines to draw her out of the background.

For this assignment, one of our options for a subject was to choose a person you love. So, of course, I chose my best friend and boyfriend of 4.5 years, Ben. I wanted to capture him in all sorts of different lighting for this project. I played with artificial light along with natural light to light up his face. I also used colored lens filters on my camera to add different color effects to his face. I captured his smiles, his goofy faces and of course his annoyed looks. I chose photos that were slightly similar to each other but somehow quite different and laid them over top of each other. I experimented with photos that were blatantly different from eachother and others that were fairly similar that would still make up Ben’s profile.

This week we were asked to create photographs that play with space, time and light. Out of the almost 60 photographs that I took for this these were the three that I felt were the best for each category based on the category and composition of each of the three photographs.

Space:

This image plays with the concept of space. I took the photo from an overpass looking down on the train tracks and I love how you can almost see for miles how far the train tracks are going. I tried to center the train tracks as much as possible so that it seems like they will stretch on forever and it pulls the composition together nicely.

Time:

This image plays with time. For this image I was a passenger in a car and I wanted to capture the light as we moved past on the street. By setting my camera on 3-5 seconds I was able to capture what the light looks like when we pass in an interesting way. This photo reminds me as if you are watching an old space movie and you are going past stars.

Light:

This last image plays with light. I found it interesting how there is this church with a beautiful front door but once the sun starts to set and the lights in the church are off there is this bright yellow light from the Dollar General sign across the street. It seems very out of place next to the stain glass windows i the door.

It was a beautiful blue sky Monday morning/afternoon. The sun was shining, there was a light breeze in the air. I had a few hours before class so I went for a walk through my neighborhood than through my garden of flowers that I planted near my apartment this summer. The flowers all look so beautiful in the garden. They have grown pretty big with all the rain that we have been getting this summer. I picked out this flower from the group. It wasn’t the flower that was in perfect condition it had a few bites were taken out of it yet it still looked as vibrant as the other flowers near it. I found it interesting that the seeds of the flower looked like the flower itself but smaller. It was a few hours since I picked the flower before I was able to scan it. The flower petals began to wilt ever so slightly. The scanned image captured the flower as it was dying. It froze the once beautiful flower in time. This scan does not look exactly like the flower I started with and it doesn’t look like the flower it is now. The flower is frozen in time in the middle of its last bits of life.