She lives!

Another in my "Alive in Wonderland" series.

~JD

Photons and such.

Experimentation with photo sensitive paper.
Please excuse dust from the scanner.

~JD

Blue Van Dyke Print

Experimenting with alt processes. :D

~JD

Art attack

Prepare for a visual onslaught of art projects I have neglected to put up.

Assignment three

Dinner for One

Assignment four:

 Which inspired my final series, "Alive in Wonderland":
I have many ideas, but this is the set I printed, matted and turned in:

~JD

Still Life

I dig it.

I'm also attempting this "sizing" thing... It seems to be working.

The music box, a machine that produces the sounds of life in a simplistic form. Music in simple beauty.

The setup. Not quite as lovely.

The Music Box was created by photographing a small, clear, piano-shaped music box. Lit from beneath and the opposite side, using a light table, strobe and soft box.

A Night Out; Preparation at its finest.

Lit (I think) from below on a light table, with a soft box to the opposite side. I think this is the setup I used... There were lots of variations of more or less the same thing.

Thumbnails:

~JD

Light Painting.

Hooah! Prepare to be possibly offended.

Image Un:

Where would you go if you only had the time?

 It was absolutely freezing outside. Because I had to wait equal time from the shutter length for the image to process, it was like the time to make twice as many images. And it was bloody freezing out there. So I only had the chance to make a few shots.
 For this image, I wanted clocks everywhere, lit up in yellow. I wanted them to be like a forest or flower bed floor of clocks. The shot that had more clocks in it was okay, but I liked the floating clocks in this one better.
 To make this, I taped down the shutter with a twig and some duct tape. And by 'I taped it down' I mean Lucas (the one in the image) taped it down because my cold fingers couldn't make it stay. After that, I took a small LED flashlight and painted over the background trees, leaves and the ground. I learned right away to face away from the camera or there would be light trails when I moved. From there, I took the yellow light, a headlamp actually, and flashed the clock. I would paint it in one spot, then move to another, and another and so on. I also learned to keep my feet away from the flashlight beam, else ghost feet appear. Lastly, I had him peer from behind the tree and painted over him, before releasing the shutter and waiting while breathing on my frozen fingers.
 Result? Wonderland clocks! :D
 I would like to try this again when it is not 30 degrees outside.


Image Deux:

Here lies the previously silenced commentary on religion and humanity.
(Inspired by lyrics of my favorite band, Green Day, and their song "East Jesus Nowhere.")

This image was a blast to make. I came up with the idea and tried it myself, which did not work well, because while painting ones' self, one moves and therefore looks like a zombie with their face melting off in the final image. So what did I do? I recruited help. And by 'recruited,' I mean I begged and pleaded with people I trusted to help light paint me in my underwear for a blasphemous image.
 I finally found a wonderful assistant and we had a spectacular time light painting at 2:30 in the morning. I first tried painting the words on a black canvas in front of the lens, but it sucked up the light and you couldn't read it. So I tried pointing the laser at the camera. However, you could imagine it difficult to write backwards. Then, I decided to write on the wall behind me. Totally worked. However, lesson learned: Make sure not to point the laser directly straight at the wall or it covers the red lines! I had to make it on an angle so the camera caught the light. Anyway, I did that, then stripped off my warm, dark outer layer and stood as a scantily-clad Jesus to have my lovely assistant make me glow. Then I had her draw the stigmata blood on me and that was that.
 I tried several different ideas with this. I wanted to look seductive or evil. Hopefully that came across. Anyway, another phrase I tried (many times) was 'VISIT ME IN HELL' scrawled across my lower limb area. There were lots of images that were nearly successful, but had little things I was displeased about - my expression, a finger cut off, the laser missing my head just a little, the words not quite straight... Anyway, this turned out pretty good, and I am pleased to offend in the name of art.

~JD

Words.

Because this is also a personal blog outside of my classes and there may or may not be followers actually interested in my life, this will be an all-text post under the break. Sorry there is no photo, but you can read (if you so choose) about my reaction and class discussion of an excerpt from the "Surrealist Manifesto."

"Everything is valid!"

Starchild

Aka Art Assignment 2: Re-imagined space.

~JD

Art

I don't think I remembered to post my first art assignment. So here it is if you care to see:

Assignment One: Objectify a person or personify an object. Light with hotlights.

~JD

420 studio portraits, Assignment 1

420 Studio shots.

Kaitlin Thorne stands in front of the backdrop she painted on Sept. 9 in Central Michigan University's Wightman Hall photo studio.
Kaitlin is an artistic young woman, whose interests range from painting to acting, with everything in between.

Taryn Wattles lies amongst her collection of hundreds of rubber ducks Sept. 14 in Central Michigan University's Wightman Hall photo studio.
"That's the thing I like about ducks ... They can be anyone. They can be a knight in shining armor and save the day, or they can be a cat."

~JD

I got a 50 and I ain't afraid to use it!

This is me! :)

Upstairs tenant and his wife's nephew at a Pampered Chef party in our yard.

I have a not-so-secret love of graffiti.

~JD

Annnnnnddddd PORTFOLIO SITE!!

Paper Cranes 3D art exhibit for tsunami victims.

Each paper crane represents 50 of the over 10,000 estimated deaths from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan.

Last week it started hailing in the middle of a thunderstorm (and class).

~JD

April 12 post, busy week!

Alright. Finally up to date. :)

Two segments today: Journalism and art.
JRN

Barb again. :)

Crafts!

We went to the houe she grew up in. It was falling apart.

(We later discovered it was not her house.)

Brady

APO likes food.

Art; Project theme: "Exploring the surreal."
My commentary on the dark/evil/strangeness that everyone possesses somewhere inside them.

I ended up selecting the other one for my final image because it is darker, but I love this one.

~JD

Lots of pics this week.

Up All Night, art project, comedian Keith Wann, winter.

Where's Waldo?

Inflatables Bungie-run at CMU Up All Night

My Narrative for Art; Reverse-chronological order.

Snap, Insanity, Paranoia, Something is not right, Duality (fondly named "Jackyl & Hide")

ASL comedian Keith Wann

Snow fell in a cool pattern. I don't know how.

~JD

Night photos+announcement!

Hi again! I've been doing night photography for my art class and I'm really proud of some of them! Also, a special announcement...

Jackyl & Hide

Insanity

Silence (later named "Snap")

I made it into a story. Because I can. :)
Hehe. Those were 3 of the 5 I chose. Seeing them together made it into a story just now.

ANNOUNCEMENT NOW! :)
I am working on a real, professional-type online portfolio.
It's really cool and really exciting!
As soon as it is up and running, I will post a link.

~JD