Vanishing Point in Photography: Blog Post 1

   I found this awesome picture on http://tumblropenarts.tumblr.com/page/6

   This photo is an awesome photo taken from below a very tall building. In last years, Visual Mathematics class, we learned all about vanishing points. This photo here has 1 vanishing point leading to the center of the picture. You can tell this by making two lines at the outside edges of the building and leading them to the center of the photo. When the two lines join together, that becomes the vanishing point. If you measure the distance of the line which leads to the vanishing point, that is the distance your eye should be from the picture. It's pretty cool how that class became handy when I look at photographs like these. It also looks really cool in pictures that have a street which lead off into the distance.

Marissa Nieves

MLK Mosaic

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the world famous ” I have a dream ” speech, lead to me uploading this piece of art work. Many people know of the mind bending rubik cube that after being scrambled up,the person has to match all of the colors to have only one color on each face of the square. An artist, Pete Feceau created this rubix piece which took up ONLY 40 Hours to complete. Its size is 18’6 X 9’8″. This was a very thoughtful piece of artwork. I’m sure it took time to form the rubix cube and then for him to have to put it together as a form of a portrait is even more work and he did a great job. What do you think ?

Photografiska

This past 2013 summer I traveled to Sweden, as I do every summer with my family. For the second time, I was able to visit the Photografiska in Stockholm-- the world's largest photography museum. The first time I was there I was fortunate enough to see Sally Mann's work and this time I was there for Helmut Newton's.
Though I am drawn more to work that is of documentary nature, I was very intrigued by his work. Shooting for many famous fashion magazines, such as Elle, Vogue and Queen, his photography was not only beautiful fashion photography, but was provocative and, therefore, innovative for his time. He brought the world of fashion photography to a new level by creating images of erotic, powerful and strong women/models, which often times included nudity.

I was fortunate to have seen Newton's exhibition this summer as it helped me learn about a past, important part of the history of photography. I highly recommend this exhibition if anyone is visiting Stockholm before the summer's end.

http://en.fotografiska.eu/The-Museum/Current-Exhibitions/Helmut-Newton

First Days Of School

Micah Gill - ART BLOG

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

As hopefully many of you have noticed, Summer is over and school has begun anew.

For me this not only means that I have (1) year of college in the books, but in a way it also means a fresh start for me, a time to meet new people and learn new things.

My first (2) days have felt much longer than they probably were. I listened to lectures, read through a fresh batch of syllabi's, and generally just tried to get a feel for what I would be doing in each class.

One thing for certain, juggling (2) ART and (3) Computer Science classes will keep me at least a bit busy.

Just to keep things a bit light-hearted, here is a video that was shown at the end of my first class. It humorously details many "cliches" and common errors that people that are familiar with power point should hopefully understand and find a bit amusing. 


              

Students! All you need to add your posts to this blog is to accept my invitation that I send. When you do that you will be signing in with your gmail name and password!

When you want to contribute a blog post, navigate to blogger and you will see something like the screenshot below. Your list should list this blog. "Nitschke CSU Student Blog". The orange button with a pencil in it is the "Create new post" button. Click the button and add a post!!

The easiest way will be to copy and paste the text from your personal design blog site to this blog site. The only hang-up might be a picture won't travel properly between different blogging platforms (such as from Wordpress to Blogger). So double check your post and make sure the links, photos, video's transfer properly.

REMEMBER....posting here does not eliminate the requirement to keep your own blog, it is not part of the homework requirement of the class. Regardless of how many blog posts you create on your own personal design blog each week, you are only required to re-post one here, per week.

Welcome! Why do I need to blog?

Welcome everyone!

It has become increasingly important for students and young professionals to exercise their skills by sharing professional knowledge, insight and interests via blogging. This site is where all of you will be the centralized location to share and read each others blog posts. With a little extra time and effort from each of you, you will save a great deal of time and effort.

You are required to keep a separate blog, to begin to develop your own identity and voice as an artist, designer and professional. AND then repost at least one entry a week, here on this collaborative, shared blog page.

That means..in addition to keeping up with your personal blog, you need to have one entry per week for the duration of the semester that is posted here. This way you can greatly benefit from all your peers, time, energy interests and expertise without having to visit numerous different blogs.

 It has become common knowledge that one technique on your "portfolio" upon graduation—a way to stay ahead of your peers in marketability upon graduation—is active blogging. Great blogging, like anything else, takes time and practice. So, here we are! Start Blogging and have fun!

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