
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Theda Bara photo #2

A femme fatale role model - Theda Bara

Friday, December 4, 2009
link to webpage - didn't know how to upload animated GIF(?) file
I wish I knew how to upload an animated GIF (?) file, but I don't, so you will need to follow this link:
http://lala.cursivebuildings.com/tagged/reaching
Stereophotographs, or stereograms, or stereocards, are two photographs taken side-by-side, separated by approximately the distance between the human eyes, and used to simulate human binocular depth perception, on a flat surface, using a special viewer. Sir Charles Wheatstone is credited with inventing the first stereophotographic images in 1840. For a number of decades, they were quite popular with the public, and stereocards and stereoviewers were all the rage. They were later updated to the plastic 3-D viewers and circular cards with minaturized photographic slide-like inserts. What is so appealing about so many of the stereocards to me now, is the historical quality of the photographs. The gentleman at the above-listed website came up with a clever way to somewhat duplicate their qualities on a regular computer monitor, without the need of the original 3-D viewer. I believe he uses an an animated GIF file. Apparently he overlays one of the images on top of the other one, and uses animation features to switch back and forth between the two images, very quickly, so that the brain puts it together as a single image, which creates the illusion of depth, without the special viewer. Because the points of view are slightly different, however, the brain also perceives a slight 'wobble', and the slight differences between the two images also tends to make the lighting 'flicker'. I am extremely intrigued by these images. I am very interested in history, and physical reminders of the past, and I think that these images are absolutely fascinating. The flickering quality of the light gives one the impression that one is watching a video clip of very early moving picture images. I would like to learn how to do this technique. I have a few older stereocards in storage somewhere, and I haven't been able to find them yet. Meh!...
http://lala.cursivebuildings.com/tagged/reaching
Stereophotographs, or stereograms, or stereocards, are two photographs taken side-by-side, separated by approximately the distance between the human eyes, and used to simulate human binocular depth perception, on a flat surface, using a special viewer. Sir Charles Wheatstone is credited with inventing the first stereophotographic images in 1840. For a number of decades, they were quite popular with the public, and stereocards and stereoviewers were all the rage. They were later updated to the plastic 3-D viewers and circular cards with minaturized photographic slide-like inserts. What is so appealing about so many of the stereocards to me now, is the historical quality of the photographs. The gentleman at the above-listed website came up with a clever way to somewhat duplicate their qualities on a regular computer monitor, without the need of the original 3-D viewer. I believe he uses an an animated GIF file. Apparently he overlays one of the images on top of the other one, and uses animation features to switch back and forth between the two images, very quickly, so that the brain puts it together as a single image, which creates the illusion of depth, without the special viewer. Because the points of view are slightly different, however, the brain also perceives a slight 'wobble', and the slight differences between the two images also tends to make the lighting 'flicker'. I am extremely intrigued by these images. I am very interested in history, and physical reminders of the past, and I think that these images are absolutely fascinating. The flickering quality of the light gives one the impression that one is watching a video clip of very early moving picture images. I would like to learn how to do this technique. I have a few older stereocards in storage somewhere, and I haven't been able to find them yet. Meh!...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
back cover for book assignment
pages 10-11 of book
pages 8-9 of book

pages 6-7 of book

pages 2-3 of book

create-a-book assignment - cover

Friday, November 20, 2009
Dazzle #7 - modern dazzle canoe

Dazzle #6 - painting inspired by camouflage inspired by modern art

Dazzle #5 - authentic period full-color Dazzle designs

It would be fun to have your acid-rainbow tie-dye design officially accepted, and then painted all over an unspeakably expensive Ronald Reagan-class aircraft carrier, such as the 'USS Sugar Magnolia'.
Miles, has anyone made cubeecraft ship templates? Coming up with dazzle-schema design projects would be a fun DMF 201 assignment.
Dazzle #4 - 'Poster ship' in B& W photo
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Dazzle #3
Dazzle #2
I love Razzle-Dazzle!

This example is the French cruiser 'Gloire'.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
katazome stencil #2

katazome stencil #1

Back in the day, when I was going to school the first time, I cut a number of these stencils using x-acto knives. The Japanese normally made them to repeat them top-to-bottom, as they would use the stencil, then pick them up, and repeatedly move them down the narrow bolt of kimono cloth in this manner. I modified this Japanese design so that it would also repeat side-to-side.
Friday, November 13, 2009
cuubee craft #1
Saturday, November 7, 2009
book jacket #5
'Scratch' assignment #2 - wallpaper design for an optometrist's waiting room
'Scratch' assignment #1 - mouse line drawing of a street dandy contemplating an apple
self-portrait #1

Friday, November 6, 2009
"What we have he-ah, is a fail-yuh to communicate..."

Did the same person who took the instructions do the decorative text, or was that handed off to someone else? If there was more than one person involved, one would normally assume that that would increase the chances of this one not 'slipping through the cracks'.
You do have to give the cake maker an A+ for diligently following directions (and an 'E' for effort). They even made the '12' fancier without being asked.
'No - (somebody help me out here...)
Another Navajo rug

'Germantown eye-dazzler' Navajo rug

book jacket #4

book jacket #3
'the other' - photo
Sunday, November 1, 2009
book jacket #2

I'm not quite sure what to write about this one. I really enjoyed designing this book jacket, also. There is a much-heralded and unconventional western film which I have been meaning to see, 'Johnny Guitar' (directed by Nicholas Ray). I like the sound of the title and wanted to do an Indian take on it, since the graphics that I am using for this jacket are Indian matchbox labels. I liked the vibrant colors in the graphics, and the strong diagonal line made by the title. I tried to make the color of the title line at least be analgous to some of the orange shades in the dancing woman's sari. I like the visible horizontal lines running through the maharajah's face.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
What about just building a fence?...

("Caution: adjust personal philosophy to Fatalism for the next 2 miles")
How do you protect yourself from falling cows?
It would be fun to set up a video camera just to get the varied responses of tourists, and edit a compilation of video clips. This reminds me of a scene from the movie, 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'.
'Red-Blue chair'

book jacket #1

Friday, October 23, 2009
collage assignment #2

A cut-and-paste job from various sources, including photography books, a book of japanese patterns, matchbooks, and a matchbox label. The sky comes from a photo I took in Arcata, Ca.
Poster assignment #2 (yowzah, yowzah, yowzah...)

Typography assignment #2

This letter has been manipulated to a much greater degree than the earlier one. It is a capital 'A' in 'old English', which has been greatly enlarged, cropped, and distorted, with semi-translucent colored panels overlaid. The colored areas are using the open areas of the letter as a frame, although with some looseness as to the color overlays. I was thinking of Piet Mondrian when I did this.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
'alphabet soup'

So, this assignment was all about engaging in an exercise of observation; trying to find letter forms where we could see them. It was a useful exercise in visual observation and mental 'cropping', I think. I don't think I have a lot to say about the following individual entries; if I have to state what each letter is supposed to be, than I have probably missed the mark. We'll start out with an easy one...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Poster assignment #1

I wanted to create a high-contrast between the background field and lettering, but I didn't want to use black, which would have been a little too clean for the feel I was going for here. I wanted to do everything possible to add to the tawdriness, and the background color ('botulism grey'?) is meant to add to that overall feeling. I wanted the visual hierarchy to go from the top to the bottom. The (fictitious) film title needs to stand out, but in this case I wanted it to not overpower the first word on the poster.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Typography assignment #1

Collage assignment #1 - 'March of Progress'

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