Waking Life

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. 

Artist and style of interest: Will Cotton

"When I began working with confectionary landscapes as subject matter, I wanted to approach the idea like an explorer in a new and strange place. I always start a painting by first building a maquette in the studio. This allows me to look at the scenery and be surprised by what I see. Building candyland is a way of being in it, of making it real for me. The maquettes don't survive, they melt and deteriorate and rot, so the painting becomes a record of a place which was real but has ceased to exist. Like the mythological 'land of Cockaigne,' candyland is an imagined utopia whose exact geographical location is elusive. It's the idea of a land of plenty where all is pleasure and there's no such thing as work. It's about imagining the possibility of constant indulgence." Will Cotton

Will Cotton is interesting to me because he makes these scenes with candy and sweets and this idea of a utopia. He uses very fleshy but light colors, whites pinks, and he uses a very saturated color to tie his pieces together and make them look like a too good to be true moment. I love his want to capture and portray this land and constant existence of pleasure. The pieces make me think of a positive version of gluttony, or a dream with the way everything has sort of an atmospheric quality.  

Self portrait on llustrator

Ok so this is a revised portrait I realized that the shine on the cheeks are too distracting for the piece I also tried getting rid of the shadowed effect and actually like it better in comparison.
Ok so this is a self portrait was made with illustrator we made a collage portrait with cut paper first ad then attempted to reproduce it on the computer with illustrator... so here it is.

Kitty >.<

Kitty made with the pen tool on Illustrator... 

Logo2: Peacock

For this one i wasn't really interested in working with any other colors than what a peacock is. When I played with primary colors I hated it and this I thought had a little of both complimentary and saturated colors.

Logo 1: Gold Fish

Saturated

Primary
Complimentary

the complimentary one is my favorite...

In class project with Illustrator CS3. It is a family made in geometric forms. We basically just played with the program to get familiar with it.

Helvetica

It is interesting to see that Helvetica is so popular. I personally didn't find the font as much of an exciting thing as most in the movie did, I sided more with the german man who hated the font. But the process of creating and designing fonts is very interesting. I never noticed helvetica so present in our every day lives. Stores and other companies like American Apparel, Microsoft, Sears, Staples, and American Airlines use the font. As the movie said, Helvetica is clear and simple and easily relates to the viewer in its simplicity. I believe that I never really noticed the font type because it is so simple and in my opinion boring.