Oliver Herring

I don't really know about this piece. Spitting paint out in the air, that was unexpected. What can I say about that. I felt sorry for the guys, one of the guy with the red dye on his face look like he just came out the battlefield. This reminded me of some of the pictures that you see from war photojournalist, only this ones are not real. Nobody really got hurt. I don't know what to feel about the work. I did notice the blue eyes on one of the guys against his green face. I wonder what was his intention behind his work.

Abedini Reza and Saed Meshka

Saed Meshka


Abedini Reza



These artist are worth looking at. It's great to see graphic designers' work across the globe. Too bad we can't read what there saying, but the calligraphy are beautiful. I love the use of negative space, and I like that image with the bird just on the side of it. They look simple and interesting at the same time. Reza's use of text and images are effective. I like the man with texts coming out of his shirt. It's really catchy. I also like the use of color, his background pretty much is one color, while the images he uses make up for the color that is needed. I really wish I can understand these two man's work better. If only I can read the calligraphy. Thankfully one of the girl in our class was able to translate for us a little bit. I also checked Reza's website, and if anyone is interested there is a little bit more information on his site about his work.
Reza's website

Arturo Hererra

Experimental, very experimental. Love the abstraction of the images created by leaving the film in a glass of water. He also mentioned putting them in a cup of coffee...I'm trying to cut down on coffee, maybe I'll pass on that idea. I might end up drinking the coffee instead. Anyhow yeah, I thought the images were like collages, but only in an abstract way. No, I don't think you can do that with digital camera, he used a regular film. I remember when I took photography in high school we had to develop our film in the darkroom. Dipped them in some kind of chemical, can't remember what, then dipped then in water. That room had a strong smell, but it was fun. Our teacher had us experimenting with all kinds of stuff, like using paint after the pictures have been developed, or leaving them in water with bleach to get some kind of effect.

Tom Scott

I like the idea of finding some images on the sand at a beach. Saw bunch of trees, and I especially like it when there is something along with the sand like a stone, seaweed, etc...I wonder if those were set on there, or if he actually found them like that. It's like finding something on the clouds, only it's the sand on the beach. I wonder how he came up with that idea. I remember there was a student who took pictures of shadow before, that was cool. Hmmm what other things can you take pictures of with the similar idea?

Sarah Moon

I did not really like the audio on this piece, I thought it was rather too fast. I found myself trying to catch up with what she was saying. What I did like was that some of the shot were taken one after another, this gave them a sense of movement. I also like when she was talking about the little girl, and how beautiful her blue eyes were, and it started to close up on her eyes. Yes I thought she did have pretty eyes even without seeing the color because the photograph was in sepia.

The transistion was also different, I'm not sure how I feel about it. Maybe yeah
sometimes it feels like they were a stack of pictures being shown one after another. Other times I felt a little bit dizzy during the transitions. One thing I noticed the pictures were going as fast as her narration.

Artist's Book

Well I have started to think about what I wanted to do with the artist book assignment.
I know it is about a book of transformation...about maybe personal journal both the physical and the untangiable. Well I was thinking more about how can I represent something that is not tangiable...that is what I feel inside.

Digital work using Illustrator

I have just been practicing using Adobe Illustrator. Here is a sample of what I have worked on. Maybe I can use this along the way in my project. We'll see...anyway here is what I worked on. I made it into gif format using Photoshop.