Self Portrait

Shepard Fairey

I believe that Shepard Fairey's manipulation of this photograph of Barack Obama is completely within fair-use. He's manipulated the image to the point that the viewer cannot tell where Obama is or what he is doing. The only aspect of the image that has remained the same is the position in which Obama is sitting. Fairey has manipulated the colors to make the image more patriotic. Obama looks as though he is looking forward into the future in Fairey's artwork. In the original photograph, Obama just looks as though he is looking at something in particular. Fairey also was not asking for money for the posters. He was not making a profit, so it should not matter that he used it. Fairey's image is an artwork. The original photograph is considered a photojournalistic piece.

Cockamamie Current Event

On Wednesday, March 9th I made a trip to NYC with some friends. We stopped by the Well Hung art show to see this intense and beautiful photograph taken by artist/actor Norman Reedus. The photo was taken in a prison basement in Moscow.

While in NYC, we also stopped by MOMA to see the Picasso exhibit. The exhibit had a lot of large sketches that he did in preparation for final pieces. The exhibit also included pages from some of his sketchbooks.

Composite Image

From Feb 28, 2011

Video Response

I when people post images publically on the internet in places like google and flicker, they are setting themselves up to have their images used by other people. I feel as long as the person borrowing the image isn't using it for profit, they don't really need permission to use it. If they borrow an image and plan to use it for profit, they need permission from the owner of the image. I feel they should manipulate the image as well so that they aren't taking the same exact image. The same applies for audio. I think with permission or if far use applies, people should be able to borrow audio. People should only need permission for these things if they plan on gaining from their use.

Photography

These are some of my photographs. Theyr're recent and amature.

Scanned Face Self Portrait

An Illustrator drawing. Done pretty much entirely with the pen tool.This is my first attempt at drawing in Illustrator.

From Second Semester at Tyler

The following images are type drawings that I did in Adobe Illustrator.

Representational Type

Nonrepresentational Type

Expressive Type

6 Word Auto-biography

Some Artwork from my first semester at Tyler

2008-2010 Breadth and Concentration

This slideshow contains some artwork that I created in between 2008 and 2010.

My Weekend Adventure

On Friday, January 21, some of my friends and I went on a little adventure in Philadelphia. We started our day off with some breakfast from Temple’s dining hall at Johnson-Hardwick. We then made a trip to Dick Blick to pick up some art supplies, such as paint and charcoal paper. After we finished our trip to Blick we walked to Chinatown. While in Chinatown we visited a few stores. The first store we went into had mostly Hello Kitty merchandise in it. We then went into the Asian Arts and Crafts store. This store had paper lanterns, gold colored dragon statues, and ninja suits. We then walked to 11^th and Race Street and went into the Chinese Bazaar on Race Street. This store also had a lot of paper lanterns hanging from the ceiling, as well as blinking lights. They sold traditional Chinese clothing and wedding dresses, fake flowers, decorated fans, Chinese decorated vases, books written in Chinese, etc. After we finished looking around that store, we met up with my friend and my boyfriend and put the things we purchased in the trunk of their car. We then went to a restaurant on the same street as the Chinese Bazaar called Joy Tsin Lau for dinner. After dinner we drove the three friends I started my day with back to Peabody at Temple. I packed some things to take home for the weekend and then left with my friend and my boyfriend. We then drove to Tony Luke’s to pick up lunch for the next day. I finished off my night by watching a movie with my friend and my boyfriend.