Typology for Earrings

This is my rendering of the Typology project from my Digital Media class. Although I have never done anything like this before, I really enjoyed it. I owe most of the easy process to my professor who provided helpful videos to guide us. These videos made everything about this project simpler and more enjoyable. When I first saw the project, I was worried. I had no idea where I could find 16 similar, yet different in their own way, objects. I used my boyfriend to help me brainstorm and after he gave me a few ideas like coffee mugs, shoes, and cards I was struck by an idea. Earrings. I wear them every day because it is the only way for me to 'spruce up' my outfit due to work. Which is surrounded by dirt, cars, men, and cursing. Sounds like the perfect place to wear my nice blouse right? Unfortunately I have to wear jeans, a T-shirt, tennis shoes, and have my hair in a ponytail constantly. It is very bland and there aren't many ways to change it up. With earrings I can and I feel very naked when I forget them on occasion.

Toledo Meets Linkin Park

The Little Things Give You Away

If I admitted to being bad with digital art, I am worse at working with audio. I gained some experience doing sound tech for my high school. I worked more with pre-made presentations and microphones than with audio. I did like experiencing something new and outside of my comfort zone. When I tried to transfer the video the first time, I did it wrong. I hadn't noticed the very helpful video of instructions my professor had posted. After I watched the video the process was very simple. Even though Animoto only uses a 30 second clip from the selected song, the website was very pleasant. It has a setting where you can select when the song is played, thus picking the 30 seconds that fits best. I chose The Little Things Give You Away because I don't own any CDs of my own and I borrowed this Linkin Park CD from my future sister-in-law. She had other CDs like One Direction and Katy Perry. I prefer Linkin Park over those artists and is why I settled on it. Enjoy the result of my shaky experiment.

The Land of the Urbaness Compared

These are my favorite pictures from my Urban Landscape/Urban Landscape Edited Assignment from my Digital Media class. When we initially got this assignment, I was frazzled because I didn't think I could find twenty photos of urban landscape. I didn't even know what 'urban landscape' was. But, after finding out what it really was I started noticing things I saw on a daily basis that could fall into this category. Theses were places and buildings that I passed from home to school almost every day. I didn't really see them as artistic creations but merely part of the background.

I chose this pair of my original and edited pictures because it was one of the first pictures I took. I was on my way to school a little early and saw this on the side of a building I was coming up to. I had to make the quick decision of turning sharply into the overgrown and narrow driveway that went along this wall. Someone driving behind me didn't like that I had slowed down and honked very loudly at me.

The difference between the original and the edited picture, I found very striking. The first picture is fairly light and colorful. There's a bigger distinction between each color and the vines are easier to see. In my edited picture, it reminds me of a Hellboy comic. For those who do not know, Hellboy is a red beast and in the comic books the colors are dark and muted in contrast to his red colored form. I used one of the effects to darken the picture and then bumped up the contrast to take it one step farther. In result of this, my edited picture is fairly dark and has this bright, almost neon, yellow in contrast. I was surprised how different I could make these pictures but I like how different they are.