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  Annie Leibovitz - She is an American portrait photographer. She is most recognized for her captivating pictures of celebrities, which frequently feature subjects in intimate settings and poses. Her passion for photography came because of her mom's passion for dance, music, and painting. Her first picture was in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. Her photos represent intimate or staged moments that expose the lively and expressive qualities of her sitters, and she is skilled at portraying their personalities and inner life. “Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we’re really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that’s when you start taking pictures.” These are her words about her art, based on these and other things she's said, I think she believes that the photo is based on the photographer's point of view. What they think is worth capturing in the moment. This is personally my favorite piece from ...

Camille -  She is a French singer, songwriter, and occasional actress, but more known for her music. Labels she's worked with include Virgin Records and EMI, along with Nouvelle Vague and MaJiKer. Listening to her album Le Fil, something caught my attention right off the back, which was the music in the background were not instruments but rather humans. When I say humans, you could hear snaps, hums, beat noise, and others. She believes that everyone has a different energy that can be channeled through their voice, these energies may clash. But she likes the challenge of working with things that are not meant to fit in normal society. She considers that patchwork, where you analyze the areas where something can belong versus where it does not. She believes that society is also a form of patchwork, where certain things can succeed and others might not. Through song producing and writing she tells stories, by using different tones and actions. Her content and style are out of the...

  Since I've never been to LBSU, I decided to do UOP's campus. Between my map and the "real" map, the buildings that say not sure are the buildings I've never been in, also I did forget a few again mainly because I haven't been in them. My focus was the general campus I remember from over a year ago, as a freshmen I already had no idea where half of the things were but I did put areas where I had classes. I forgot the chem building, the main tower, the auditorium, a few of the business buildings and art.  The automatic drawing was weird, but not too bad because I did it with my sister so we just were laughing at our stupidity. First we tried a maker which didn't work because the tip didn't touch the paper. So we tried a highlighter same problem, but then we took one of our moms lipsticks and gave it a shot and it worker. At first I was spectacle about how it would work, but as we were laughing and moving around the lipstick started leaving marks. The o...

  Post your 6 sketches Was it fun? Frustrating? Do you like to draw? Will you ever try again? Do you think if you practiced for 100 hours, or 1,000, that you would get a lot better? What is your major? Can you think of ways that simple sketching could be useful in your major? Is Drawing a  Language ? Can we  say  things with drawings that are hard to say with words? Name your blog post:  Week 5 – Art Activity – Drawing It was kind of fun but also frustrating having to erase and start over when you didn't like it. The mirror image was the one I kinda gave up on because everything I was drawing was not to my liking. No, I don't like to draw because I'm very picking about my assignments. Personally, if I had a choice I would not try this again.  Of course, anyone that practices would get better at whatever it is such as sports or dance or whatever you can think of. My major is biology, something that can be useful in my major through drawings might be images o...

Describe Kara Walker’s work is it “Drawing”? what is she saying with her work? how does her style help or hurt in communicating her ideas? what does her work mean to you? Describe Russell Crotty’s work is it “Drawing”? what is he saying with his work? how does his style help or hurt in communicating his ideas? what does his work mean to you? Name your blog post:  Week 5 – Artist – Kara Walker & Russell Crotty  Kara Walker - The pieces of work she has have nothing in common with one another except for the message. Her work explores race, gender, sexuality, and violence through forms such as drawings, paintings, text, shadow puppetry, film, and so on. No, her work is not just "drawings" I would consider what I drew as "drawings" as it chose attempt but here work consists of a message and emotions that I could not show. Her work is showing what we see in today's generations and the problems that are consistently ignored. She's making sure that light is show...

  Our artists this week are Molly Soda and Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis). Describe Gregg Gillis’ work Should his work be illegal? Should it be legal? If his work is illegal, does that stifle creativity? If his work is legal, does that steal from other artist’s livelihoods? Describe Molly Soda’s work Could her be work have been done in any earlier time? Or only in our present technological moment? How are Gregg Gillis’ and Molly Soda’s oeuvres similar? How are Gregg Gillis’ and Molly Soda’s oeuvres different? Is the work that artists like Gillis and Soda do connected to work by past masters like Mozart or Picasso or Warhol? Or is it of a fundamentally different nature and not connected to past art and artists? Explain. Name your post:  Week 4 – Artist – Molly Soda & Girl Talk Gregg Michael Gilli, better known by his stage name Girl Talk, is a mashup and digital sample DJ from the United States. He makes mashup remixes, in which he uses a dozen or more unlicensed samples fro...

  Photos or videos of your project. Or audio or data or whatever is appropriate. Describe what you tried to do Do you think you were successful? Why or why not? Did your project come out somewhere other than what you expected when you started? Or did it go mostly as you envisioned? Can you think of examples of mashups you have experienced or noticed out in the world? What do you think of the  Girls Around Me  app? Is it cool? Is it creepy? Should it be illegal? If it is not illegal, who should protect us from software that many people see as predatory? Name your Medium post:  Week 4 – Art Activity – Remix Through this very bad drawing of faces, I tried to show one's outside appearance versus what is happening inside. I think it was somewhat successful as the words show the real meaning of the words one says to another, but the picture is a little shitty (not an artist lol). I wanted to show that society expects everyone to be perfect and happy, but in reality, most o...