Waking Life was a very interestingly surreal film. It really is in my opinion a piece of art through film, not just a film. It was interesting how well different artists were able to add in their pieces without breaking the movie up to much into the clips that each artist was responsible for. I flowed very well. Unfortunately I felt that viewing it on a large screen made myself feel sick to my stomach because of the style it was created in, which made the film jumpy as if the camera was hand held and not steady. Backgrounds would jump and float while subjects would remain grounded, or the other way around. It became very distracting to me. It was much easier to enjoy though on a smaller scale.
These fish were originally hand drawn then scanned into photoshop where i added color and the texture in the background
Tonight I attended a Lecture at The Waterworks Restaurant about Landscape lighting and design by Janet Lennox Moyer. The lecture consisted of Janet showing slides of her work and explaining how she creates a composition in a night scene using light. Above are not examples of her work, they are simply the types of fixtures she uses. Janet uses lght to "direct the viewer" to a "visual destination" where she concentrates more light to highlight it. She believes that it is very important to use both a down light and an up light when lighting a point of interest. The down light acts as a softer natural light, it acts like sunlight. Up light is used to add drama to the form. When both lights are used together the lighting designer has the ability to hide unwanted attributes of the night lanscape such as neighbors house or garbage cans. Janet is able to show her client how she wants to light the landscape using photoshopped photographs of an originally daytime scene. 
I'm not a fan of this piece... I'm planning on redoing this project, it just didn't turn out how i had imagined it unfortunately.
