Light Painting

Light painting is a pretty cool thing you can do in photography when taking long exposure shots. Shutter speed controls how quickly the camera’s shutter opens and closes. This allows photographers to control how much light their photos are exposed to. The longer the shutter speed, the more light the photo takes in. While the…

Recursive Drawings

Since we are now working with code, I thought it would be cool to talk about recursive drawings. As we learned in class, in programming, there are these things called functions that execute a chunk of code when they are called upon in the program. One type of function is called a recursive function. When…

Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji

Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji was a series of thirty-six prints by Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika during the ukiyo-e art movement. Mt. Fuji can be seen visibly in all of these prints, but the focus of each piece is not always directly on it. In some pieces Mt. Fuji might be the only thing in…

Camera Obscura

We touched on a project using a camera obscura in class and I wanted to look into them some more because I find the phenomenon of pinhole images to be pretty interesting. The camera obscura, also known as pinhole camera, is a device that consists of a space enclosed in darkness, except one hole is…

Sharing Faces

Sharing Faces was a public art project created by Kyle McDonald and YCAM Interlab a few years back. This public art project was exhibited in Anyang, Korea and Yamaguchi, Japan. It takes on the appearance of a mirror and whenever a person stands in front of it, it stores a picture of the person. However,…

Receipt Art

Liu Zhifeng is a Chinese artist that uses receipts as the canvas for his art. He paints pictures that tell the story of the transaction involved with the particular receipt he is painting on. He does this because he feels that “this era is just too convenient, too efficient. Whatever (service) you can think of…

One Small Step

Now that we are working on our own animations, I was reminded of this animated short film that I watched last year. I thought it was cool how well the narrative of the story was conveyed without the use of any dialogue. Even though there was no narration, I never felt lost while watching because…

Toblerone Logo

I wanted to share this logo because I have seen it many times in my life, but never recognized its use of negative space. The negative space in the mountain creates the silhouette of a bear, which was something that I had never actually noticed until now. The shape of the chocolate and the mountain…

Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen

Last semester, I saw an art exhibition at the ICA by Cecilia Vicuña called About to Happen. She’s an artist, human rights activist, poet, and filmmaker from Chile. The exhibition featured her precarios, which are sculptures created through “waste” materials found outside, such as sand, stone, glass, shells, plastic, debris, etc. I found it amazing…

The Apple Logo

I recently read an article about the iconic Apple logo, and found it interesting to see its development over time. A majority of the changes to the icon have been to make sure the color of the icon looks good with new products, but other than that the icon has basically maintained the same shape…