So I have been behind on my blog post. I have an outstanding blog post for both of my CyberARTS teacher. They didn't get done for two reasons: 1) I was busy with work for other classes so I sort of forgot. 2) Most likely laziness. Anyway, I been doing the Shazaam Project which I may have gotten into in an earlier blog post but is a project in which art students make things depending on that years theme. Last year we did T-Shirts and this year we're doing murals about the perception of our school. I won't show what I have so far( I want it to be a surprise) however today I spent six hours on this part of my project which is a vector tracing of my school in Adobe Illustrator CS4. This took six hours and consist of 51 layer excluding the picture I traced this from.

Presenting...The Rib Chair

My class and I did a project where we had to make a chair that exudes our personality in someway. I made The Rib Chair.

Conceptually, I wanted to make the Rib Chair resemble the human ribcage a bit to kind of give it the weird gothic look to it. Part of it's design was originally based upon an earlier design that I was thinking of in the beginning which was meant to be reminiscent of Dr. Evil's chair from Austin Powers. I think this exudes my personality because I like creepy, gothic stuff, I like office chairs with wheels that spin and of coarse chairs sooo comfortable that you could fall sound asleep in them.

I was really behind in this project so I was one of the last ones to finish it however I put in a lot of time after school to finish. Piece of advice, if you're going to use the glue gun, any mistake in terms of placement need to be corrected immediately. I found this out the hard way when one of the chairs legs were slightly off. Something else that went a bit wrong with this was the seamless white tape didn't work out too well for me. It started to peel and it didn't bend as well as I'd hoped it would. What I did like with this project though was that I got to work with the circle cutter and the straight cutter. The straight cutter took a bit of practice before I could make perfect circles that weren't dented. I also got to work with foamcore which was a medium that I never used before. Overall, my one regrete for this project is that I wish I had more time to make it better.

Video on Trial 2: Back with a Vengeance

I have returned with a new video to punish and a new video to reward with my admiration(because that is worth soooooo much). Anyway, the 2 videos on trial today is Change by Deftones and Saint Veronica by Billy Talent.

Case#1: Let's start with the good video today. Saint Veronica by Billy Talent was a good video. The song was about a girl named Veronica who found her mother's pills and went into a coma. I like this video because although it doesn't match word-for-word with the song, it's still relevant because the events of the video could be what she's experiencing in her coma, like it's just a really messed up dream that she's having where she and her family are living rag-dolls. At the end of the video, one Veronica's threads get caught on a nail as she was running away from her family. She then unravels and possibly dies. I liked the look of this video because for whatever reason, it reminded my of the Village or Strangers...even though The Plot of the Village had so much more potential to be a seriously awesome move but failed because it was an M. Night Shyamalan film. Anyway, I find this innocent of being a well executed video with a REAL story behind it *cough* Drake *cough*. 8/10

Case#2: The the bad video :/. This video made me sad because I had high hopes for this video because I thought the song was awesome..however I was clearly wrong. Change by Deftones was an awesome song before the video however watching this video ruined the song a little for me. In this video the shots are mundaine and don't look like they have at all..anything to with the song. In the song its self was good. How I imagined it, I thought of someone changing before your eyes and becoming a much colder person than from when you met them. In the video, it was the band playing at some party with lots of booze and hardcore drugs and animal masks for whatever reason. This video was a huge disapointment and I find it guilty of being a poorly executed mess. 4/10.

Anyway that's if for now. If you want to feel what an eye seizure feels like, go to Burningmeh's blog and look at his video on trial blog post where he review Bon Jovi's Have a Nice Day. *sigh* Honestly Bon Jovi, nobody likes you that much. >.<

Trip to the Tim Burton Exibit

Last Thursday, my class and I visited the Tim Burton Exhibit. We saw lots of his early work as well as authentic props and costumes from movies like Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attack. Unfortunately, I was unable to take any photos of the exhibit but I saw some really interesting stuff like the Martians from Mars Attack, the Catwoman costume from Batman Returns and the Batman cowl from Batman, a prototype model of Oogie Boogie. It was very fun. From there we spent like 2 hours walking around downtown doing absolutely nothing.

How to Zombie-fy yourself on Photoshop

I found a cool tutorial on how to Zombie-fy yourself in photoshop. I just wanted to share it with you guys. I thought it looked kind of cool :)