Kendal Buster

I really enjoyed looking at his work. I feel like his work has a lot of detail and I enjoy looking at all the lines in his work. I also like the fact that his objects are translucent and you can see everything that inside them. I also like that he has them in a place so you can see how they are supposed to be used. His objects are very modern and have the appearance that they are lightweight. I like that he seemed to do a lot of different experiments with the same type of material. You can tell he explored different shapes and cutting the material. He also used different patterns and used color to help his designs fit in with its environment. I like the idea that all of his projects look like they could have been made with his own two hands. The shapes of his objects are really intriguing. I like that fact that he seems to expand off of one shape and make it into something else. It is also cool that people can fit into his design and he makes the same thing out of different materials or makes it bigger. His work seems very modern. It’s so interesting that I feel like I could stare at it from different angles and discover something new from each view. I find his work very pleasing to the eye. Some of his pieces kind of remind me of origami. I can imagine the texture being very thing with a lot of lines you could feel on it.

Martin Puryear review

I didn’t like his work. I couldn’t figure out what it was or what it was supposed to be used for.  Design should serve a purpose and that purpose should be clear. The functionality of his objects was not clear. They had a very clean look to them, but with the way they were shaped you still couldn’t figure out what they were for. Also you couldn’t tell where you would put them or what kind of environment you would put them in. If I had to guess I would guess he was going for an outdoor theme because of the ladder and he had a lot of rock shaped objects. Also most of his objects were smooth. It reminds me of an Asian American and I can see these objects with a running river or to help the fung shway of a place. I can imagine a fresh clean outdoors smell with his collection. The shapes are all irregular shapes.

Day three of the chair assignment

After making prototypes the night before and coming up with an idea that  might work i went back to the idea from the first day of cutting the cardboard into strips to make a chair. After making this chair multiple times out of scrap cardboard and card-stock i finally came up with a final designed that worked.

day two of the chair assignment

day two i was back at square one. I spent the day going over research and trying to figure out a new way to make a cardboard chair. This time instead of going straight to the piece of cardboard i would use i made prototypes out of card stock and scraps of cardboard from the recycling ben. this time the idea i came up with was see if i could come up with a seat using the same technique as pop up art, however this technique also failed and i spent the rest of the night trying to come up with a solution and at the end of the day i   thought of one idea that just might work.

Day one of the chair assignment

The first day i looked for ideas and research about how to make a seat out of cardboard. I also made my first attempt at building my chair, unfortunately it failed. My first idea was to cut the cardboard into 5 different sections to get it to form a chair by connecting the different parts. However there was not enough support under the seat and the cardboard kept breaking. I ended the day frustrated and without any other idea about how to build a chair, although i knew it was possible from the videos i watched. I got my idea on how to build my first chair from these videos.

The Chair assignment

FOr this assignment we were to build a chair out of one 4 x 4 sheet of cardboard. We could not use glue or tape to make this chair. However we were allowed to cut the cardboard but couldn't cut anything completely off. the Chair must hold our weight for one minute when we were done building it

Summary of Photo Collage

Through this project I learned that you have to be patient and your first idea might not always work. I liked playing with reality and coming up with different photo possibilities. I would have liked more time to work on the project because it seems like it was rushed and there wasn’t enough time to explore all the possibilities and places. The most difficult part of the project was getting all the photos to line up right and putting them in an arrangement that looked good.

Description and Summary

For this assignment we were to take multiple pictures of a person or a place and combine them to make a photo collage. We had to use between 75 to 100 photos to display the relationship between time and space. There weren’t many restrictions and we got to be as creative as we wanted. The things I found most difficult about this project were connecting all the photos so that it would go together and show movement. Putting it in a structure that complimented the photos well was also difficult. Getting the photos to match up was also hard. When I first started this project I didn’t think it would be that difficult and even though it was challenging I really liked the assignment and being able to be creative and experiment with what does and doesn’t work.

response to ways of seeing

The most important thing I took from this video was that art could have different meanings based on their surroundings and how you see them. Changes in music, colors surrounding the artwork or what you see before them could all change the depiction of an artwork. The meaning of art can also change over time. Cameras make it so appearance can carried across the world.  The movie makes it so that the camera is a machine that determines what you see but the photographer is the one who decides what appears. Art can become a symbol or hold meaning. Art can have a certain attitude and influence the viewer. Camera has multiplied arts original meanings. Camera can change the meaning of a picture by cutting out other objects of the picture. Video can also change paintings in a greater way than cameras can. Details need to be selected and rearranged can apply to our photo project as well as paintings. I don’t think that this video had that much to do with our project over all. I felt that it was more about how pictures had changed and had things you could apply to photography every once in a while.

Response to On Photography

Photographers set there own standard on how an object should look. How photographers present their objects is how the chose to interpret the message to their viewers. Photography allowed people to have the widest variety of subjects. When cameras were first used they had no social worth and were not considered a form of art. Photography gave us a way to see things from different cultures, perspectives, and parts of the world that otherwise would be foreign to us. Photography is also a way to document time. Photography is not always predictable and sometimes the best pictures are taken on accident or happen because of luck. Photography can change the way we look at things on a day to day basis and broaden our horizons 

Response to Errol Morris

Photographs connect to the world physical world, so you should try to make the connection between the two things. Look at it as a investigation of what you’re photographing. Errol says that photos are neither true nor false but I disagree because they are a little bit of both. He also says photos are all posed because you can cut stuff out but I don’t see cutting objects out as posing photos. Posing photos to me is more setting up the objects you want to photograph and cutting out objects is more about an artistic choice and angles. You never know what the photo is really about unless you ask the photographer because you can interpret a photo different ways. Photographs can produce different feelings for different people and different cultures.

Response to Camera Lucida

            A picture is a way to take something that would mean nothing and display so that a person can feel emotion while looking at it. I thought it was interesting that Roland compared color to putting on make-up. I think this comparison really makes you think about the significance of colors in photos and when it is needed. Photography is a way of keeping track of time. Looking at photograph can lead you to ask many questions and a photograph may not be as simple as it appears. A photograph allows you the ability to see things but still gives you the opportunity to be creative about what happened before or after that picture. A picture can only tell one moment while the rest are still unknown to most people viewing it. In a way photography can be considered evidence or proof. At the end of Article Barthes implies that photographs kept him from having actually memories. I don’t agree with that at all I think photographs can add to the memories. He also says one other thing I disagree with which is that photos can be violent because they force you to look at them. I don’t feel that photos are that forceful because you can look away at any time.

Response to Photographers eye

            When photography was first invented people were amazed that something that was mechanical and mindless could create something that displayed emotions to humans. Many types of people in all different professions do photography. Photography is a form of art and is sometimes created through technique and skill why other shots can be the result of an accident. As time evolved so did the camera. It went from having a messy wet plate to a more practical system called the dry plate. People discovered that even though shooting the same subject no picture was ever just a like. The Invention of photography made it easy for all objects to become photographed. Thing that might not have gotten attention in painting or other art forms now had a way to be captured. Some say that photography is used to tell a story but photographs have never been good for narrative.