Self Portrait

I started this project by taking pictures of myself hula hooping because it is one of my favorite activities.  The pictures were taken by the waterfront in Chestertown, which looked pretty but I wanted to add a background that had more meaning. I have seen the show Cirque du Soleil that includes acrobats and contortionists, as well as hula hoopers. I remembered how unique the tents for the show were of blue and yellow. I put these tents in the background to make it look like I was going to hula hoop at Cirque du Soleil.

Ballas talk

I found Professor Ballas' talk on new media in digital imaging interesting because I did not fully understand what it was before. I like the idea of being able to make art that looks like it is out of a video game, such as Brody Condon. Being unfamiliar with video games I will probably try and draw my own pictures to animate for my project

Visual Poetry

For my project I chose a quote from the song "Scarlett Begonias" by the Grateful Dead. I have always liked this quote because of the picture that comes to mind of the sun being blue and the sky being yellow. The blue sun in this picture comes from a crayon painting I did on a small square canvas. I took a picture of it and cropped it onto a picture of yellow sky i found on the internet in Photoshop. I then added the text quote and made it into a spiral pattern in the center of the sun.