Assignment for Thursday (8/30)

Image and text project. You will be making two different pictures, working from the same initial image. Produce an image that can relate to text in an interesting way. Create that image either by shooting it yourself (it can be a staged image, or an image "caught on the fly"), or it can be an image that is collaged from at least three sources (if you want to make a drawing as one of your sources, that's perfectly acceptable -- otherwise you can cull images from Google images and so on).

Using that image as a base, make two seperate treatments of the image, with legible text in each.

In treatment #1, use text that has a sense of "interior monologue." It doesn't literally have to be an interior monologue, but it should have that interior quality -- as if we're listening in on the thoughts of someone -- perhaps the thoughts of someone in the picture, perhaps the thoughts of someone looking at the scene (as if we're looking at the scene through someone's eyes, and hearing their thoughts).

In treatment #2, take the same image and place text in it that has a quality of "exterior commentary" -- the type of commentary one might find in a news caption or textbook, explaining what's happening, or somehow passing judgement on the scene. It should be as if the words are coming from a source that's not participating in the scene -- but commenting upon it from some sort of remove.

Each treatment of type should be distinct, utilizing different fonts and different layout strategies. Think about how the text relates to the image both conceptually (in the manner of an idea) and formally (how it sits on the page, how the shapes of the letters relate to the imagery, etc). Try to be as radically different in your font treatments as possible. For instance, if you have one treatment where the text is all one font, horizontal, small, and in one color, the other treatment might mix different fonts, run the text vertically, large, and in various colors.

You will have class time to work on this project on Thursday. But come prepared with an idea, and with your text and images already selected.

Assignment for Tuesday

There's a short reading and response due for Tuesday's class -- "To Thine Own Selves Be True, A Review of Sherry Turkle’s Life on the Screen." Write two short paragraphs in response -- print out your response and bring it to class. We will be discussing the article. Though the article is of a book that's "old" in terms of the development of the internet, I think it brings up some insights and issues that are still relevant (and the author of the book under review, Sherry Turkle, is still writing about contemporary digital culture). The article is partly about the way people negotiate or change their identity in terms of online or "digital" culture, and since we're creating a digital self-portrait, I thought it would be interesting food for thought. There are a series of questions at the end of the article you could address yourself to; I'm most interested in your position on the "ominous" scenario and the "positive" scenario -- which do you think is closer to the truth?


http://www.emcp.com/intro_pc/reading16.htm

Welcome - Fall 2012 Class

Hi there -- and welcome to the blog for the Digital Darkroom Class.

For next class :

Assemble personal materials for scanning to create a digital self-portrait -- be sure NOT to include photos or other images of your physical self. Give some thought to objects and textures that somehow say something about you, your identity, your sense of self. Make sure to bring at least three seperate things (all of them have to be able to be placed on a scanning bed, of course).

Please remember to acquire a jump drive, if you don't already have one -- it would be good to have it for Wednesday.

And here are some links to some of the artists whose work I showed in class:

Jill Greenberg
Flickr "Brushes" gallery
Chris Jordan
Alberto Seveso
Andrea Innocent
Emily Eibel (Tomby Illustration)
eBoy Pixel Art
12:31 and the Visible Human project

Finding Paths through the world's photos:


The Most Photographed Barn in America

Links to syllabi:

Section 1 (10:00-12:45)

Section 2 (1-3:45)

Welcome

Here's the syllabus if you're taking it on the Advanced track:

http://www.box.com/s/glhpxqgmpsdth5lh2he1

And here it is for the Intermediate:

http://www.box.com/s/j8hispbi6nol1vi84ynf

FINAL REMINDER: BRING YOU FILES, AND MUSEUM VISUAL RESPONSE

Just to remind you: bring all your files from this semester, so you can burn a CD of all your projects.

The new projects should be named, per the naming convention we used on the midterm CD:

08-lastname-fairuse

09-lastname-lulu-A
09-lastname-lulu-B
09-lastname-lulu-C
09-lastname-lulu-D
09-lastname-lulu-E
09-lastname-lulu-F

10-lastname-lulucover

11-lastname-vector

12-lastname-music

13-lastname-galacticsanta

14-lastname-museumresponse

Lulu books available online

Links to the books on Lulu:

Experience the Journey:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/experience-the-journey/18692488



My Brainstorm is More Like a Slow Drip:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/my-brainstorm-is-more-like-a-slow-drip/18692647

Field trip info

Field trip on Wednesday, 11/30; meet up at the classroom – DON'T BE LATE, there's not a ton of slack time – and I'll see you at the museum.

For the morning class, the drivers will be Chelsea, Rachael and Sean. For the afternoon, it'll be Nick, Christian and Michelle. If you're a rider, versus a driver, it'd be nice if you threw your driver a buck or two for gas.

160 West Liberty Street, Reno, Nevada 89501 – here's the google map:


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1. Head northwest on Tahoe Blvd toward Deer Ct
1.9 mi

2. Turn right onto NV-431 E/Mt Rose Hwy
24.5 mi

3. Turn left onto US-395 N/S Virginia St
0.3 mi

4. Merge onto US-395 N via the ramp to Reno
8.4 mi

5. Take exit 66 for Mill St
0.2 mi

6. Turn left onto Mill St
0.8 mi

7. Slight left onto Ryland St
0.6 mi

8. Slight left onto E Liberty St
0.5 mi

9. Turn left onto Hill St
Destination will be on the left