Computer Art 2007

I "unearthed" these works in my files while I was searching for some portfolio worthy work. I apologise in advance for the tiny files, I didn't have time to find the original files and make them so that when you click on the thumbnails, you get a nice larger image to view.

Assignment: time. I did a past, present, future type image. Babies grow on trees and over time, these trees become more and more robotic and space-agey. I don't remember how I came up with this idea.

Digital
8.5 x 11 inches


Assignment: Self portrait. Using many many MANY layers in Photoshop, I created a watery surface with my reflection in it.

Digital
11 x 8.5 inches


Assignment: something to do with perspective and place. I wanted to show what Florence, Italy, could look like if it was over grown with greenery (something it is lacking in the city itself, not including the parks).

Digital
8 x 10 inches (or around there)

Assignment: from what I remember, take a part of a song, and illustrate the rhythm. The song: Ants Marching by Dave Matthews Band

Digital
13 x 18 inches


Assignment: show movement. This is my cousin-in-law, Kelly, and a jar of Christmas chocolate.

Digital
17 x 11 inches

PhotoFrankenstein

When I studied abroad in Florence in 2007, I took a photography class. My final project was taking night pictures of the amusement park section of the big Cascine Park. I used a super slow Rollei Pan 25 ISO film so the prints are virtually grain-free, but the slowness meant I had to go around with a tripod - which came in handy in case i needed to beat off some drunks in the park (almost happened).

Instead of printing on regular photo paper, I printed on lithfilm - it gave the prints a more eerie feel - the blacks were really black and when backlit the images glowed. I had planned to make light boxes for each of the prints but never got around to it, plus I don't have space for storing 15 of them!

Anyway, so while I was packing up some stuff from Italy, I found an envelope of my test strips for the project. I was about to toss them when I started putting the different pieces together and came up with the image above. One eye belongs to a bull, the other to a merry-go-round tryceratops, and rest of the face is a caterpillar coming out of a flower. I taped the pieces together onto a piece of paper and held it up against my window to take the photo.

The eyes are particularly creepy, I hope I don't ever meet somone who resembles this guy.

Materials: lithfilm, Rollei Pan 25