Class 1:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hw3xmg2s2bijcwp/go-pro-shots.zip?dl=0
Class 2:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/prc16j8i3nz444t/gopro-02.zip?dl=0
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Illustrator Shapes for Project
Download link for illustrator shapes - section 1:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/thumaq93xjsf2mw/shapes-01.zip?dl=0
Download link for illustrator shapes - section 2:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lg4k96a6k6hmh2e/shapes-02.zip?dl=0
Some cool vector art, by a variety of artists:
Fernando Togni
Caramelaw
Konstantin Shalev
Various
More various
https://www.dropbox.com/s/thumaq93xjsf2mw/shapes-01.zip?dl=0
Download link for illustrator shapes - section 2:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lg4k96a6k6hmh2e/shapes-02.zip?dl=0
Some cool vector art, by a variety of artists:
Fernando Togni
Caramelaw
Konstantin Shalev
Various
More various
Thursday, October 16, 2014
What's due Tuesday: Fair Use Image and Writing
On Tuesday, your "Fair Use" image is due at the beginning of class.
Please keep your source images as well as our finished image, so we will more clearly be able to evaluate whether you have a possible case for "fair use" of those source images. Remember, in class you will present your image, and make your case that your image is a legally protected image; the class will act as the "prosecution," making the argument that your image is not protected by "fair use,' and is in fact in breach of copyright law.
You need to be prepared with a written statement of roughly a page in length, outlining your legal "fair use" defense. What elements of your work correspond to the protections of fair use, and how can you back that up with an argument focusing on your intentions and the evidence of what's there in your work? For instance, you might think of your work as a "parody," but what is the actual satirical comment you're making with the work, and how is that commentary supported by the images and the way they're used?
The intended venue of the work could have a strong bearing on whether your work is "protected" or not -- so please explain if the artwork is intended to be shown on a T-Shirt, in a gallery, on a billboard, or what have you. Please refer to the previous post for some links on fair use and copyright. A successful defense of of your image will address at least some of the "four guidelines" for fair use:
1. The Transformative Factor: The Purpose and Character of Your Use
2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work
3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken
4. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market
How does your image relate to each of those guidelines?
In addition (on a separate page), I want one paragraph explaining what you would change about copyright law. Would you reduce the term of copyright, or extend it? Would you add clearer guidelines for the amount of a copyrighted work that can be used in fair use? Would you introduce more specific standards for setting or reporting damages for copyright infringement? Would you create any broader categories for fair use? Would you create a copyright version of "attribution," where you have broader range of use as long as you have an explicit acknowledgement of your copyrighted sources?
So, by Tuesday, have:
1. Your fair use image
2. Your one-page defense (printed out)
3. Your one-paragraph revision of copyright law (printed out)
Please keep your source images as well as our finished image, so we will more clearly be able to evaluate whether you have a possible case for "fair use" of those source images. Remember, in class you will present your image, and make your case that your image is a legally protected image; the class will act as the "prosecution," making the argument that your image is not protected by "fair use,' and is in fact in breach of copyright law.
You need to be prepared with a written statement of roughly a page in length, outlining your legal "fair use" defense. What elements of your work correspond to the protections of fair use, and how can you back that up with an argument focusing on your intentions and the evidence of what's there in your work? For instance, you might think of your work as a "parody," but what is the actual satirical comment you're making with the work, and how is that commentary supported by the images and the way they're used?
The intended venue of the work could have a strong bearing on whether your work is "protected" or not -- so please explain if the artwork is intended to be shown on a T-Shirt, in a gallery, on a billboard, or what have you. Please refer to the previous post for some links on fair use and copyright. A successful defense of of your image will address at least some of the "four guidelines" for fair use:
1. The Transformative Factor: The Purpose and Character of Your Use
2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work
3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken
4. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market
How does your image relate to each of those guidelines?
In addition (on a separate page), I want one paragraph explaining what you would change about copyright law. Would you reduce the term of copyright, or extend it? Would you add clearer guidelines for the amount of a copyrighted work that can be used in fair use? Would you introduce more specific standards for setting or reporting damages for copyright infringement? Would you create any broader categories for fair use? Would you create a copyright version of "attribution," where you have broader range of use as long as you have an explicit acknowledgement of your copyrighted sources?
So, by Tuesday, have:
1. Your fair use image
2. Your one-page defense (printed out)
3. Your one-paragraph revision of copyright law (printed out)
Monday, October 13, 2014
Tuesday's homework: "Fair Use" idea and sketch
For Tuesday's class, come prepared with a sketch for your idea for the "fair use" project. You need to use something that's copyrighted – an image, a photo, a logo, a tagline, a story, a song lyric, whatever it may be – and you need to change it enough that you think you'd have a "fair use" case for your use of the copyrighted material.
Obviously we're creating this project for class, but I want you to imagine your fair use project being used in some other venue. The intended venue of the work could have a strong bearing on whether your work is "protected" or not -- so please imagine the artwork is intended to be shown on a T-Shirt, in a gallery, on a billboard, or what have you.
If you want to refresh yourself on some copyright info, there are free digital versions of a Duke Copyright Fair Use comic here:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php
Again, fair use can be invoked for the following reasons:
To report on news
To make a parody
To copy for class
To criticize
To quote for scholarly purposes
For research
For the purposes of this project, you'll be leaning on either the "parody" or "criticism" angle.
There are also "four guidelines" for fair use - we'll examine this more closely on Tuesday's class:
1. The Transformative Factor: The Purpose and Character of Your Use
2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work
3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken
4. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market
More detailed info here:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html
Obviously we're creating this project for class, but I want you to imagine your fair use project being used in some other venue. The intended venue of the work could have a strong bearing on whether your work is "protected" or not -- so please imagine the artwork is intended to be shown on a T-Shirt, in a gallery, on a billboard, or what have you.
If you want to refresh yourself on some copyright info, there are free digital versions of a Duke Copyright Fair Use comic here:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php
Again, fair use can be invoked for the following reasons:
To report on news
To make a parody
To copy for class
To criticize
To quote for scholarly purposes
For research
For the purposes of this project, you'll be leaning on either the "parody" or "criticism" angle.
There are also "four guidelines" for fair use - we'll examine this more closely on Tuesday's class:
1. The Transformative Factor: The Purpose and Character of Your Use
2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work
3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken
4. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market
More detailed info here:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Midterm files
For the midterm, I'm collecting the following projects. Please bring all your projects to date to class. You should give them filenames like this:
"(2-digit project number)-(your last name)-(project title).fileextension"
So if your name is Jane Smith, and the project was the self portrait, you would name the file:
01-smith-selfportrait.jpg
If you have more than one image for the project, append letters (A,B, C):
01-smith-selfportrait-A.jpg
01-smith-selfportrait-B.jpg
All the files should be flattened files.
And here are the project titles I'd like you to use.
1. Digital self-portrait, from three scans:
01-lastname-selfportrait
2. Text/image combo project (at least two versions)
02-lastname-textimage-A
02-lastname-textimage-B
3. The response to the collage artist
03-lastname-collageresponse
4. The "composite" project (something small made large, or something large made small)
04-lastname-composite
5. The "fake news" project
05-lastname-fakenews
6. The "multiple me" project
06-lastname-multiple
In a folder called "Writing," you should have:
1. A short reaction to "To Thine Own Selves Be True."
01-lastname-selves
2. A three-page response paper to a collage artist.
"(2-digit project number)-(your last name)-(project title).fileextension"
So if your name is Jane Smith, and the project was the self portrait, you would name the file:
01-smith-selfportrait.jpg
If you have more than one image for the project, append letters (A,B, C):
01-smith-selfportrait-A.jpg
01-smith-selfportrait-B.jpg
All the files should be flattened files.
And here are the project titles I'd like you to use.
1. Digital self-portrait, from three scans:
01-lastname-selfportrait
2. Text/image combo project (at least two versions)
02-lastname-textimage-A
02-lastname-textimage-B
3. The response to the collage artist
03-lastname-collageresponse
4. The "composite" project (something small made large, or something large made small)
04-lastname-composite
5. The "fake news" project
05-lastname-fakenews
6. The "multiple me" project
06-lastname-multiple
In a folder called "Writing," you should have:
1. A short reaction to "To Thine Own Selves Be True."
01-lastname-selves
2. A three-page response paper to a collage artist.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
For Thursday
Two Assignments:
Tutorial
On Thursday (10/2), you should be prepared to give the class a photoshop tutorial, on any topic or effect you'd like to research. Google something you'd like to learn, or click around in the links on the "my blog list" column on the righthand side of this page (there are lots of good tutorials on those blogs). Remember, step yourself through it BEFORE you come to class, to make sure you understand all the steps, and have all the materials you need. You should be able to make your demonstration in about ten minutes.
Post a link or a one-sentence description of the tutorial you'd like to do in the "comments" to this blog post, including an indication of whether you're in the morning or afternoon section, checking to make sure no one else in your section has picked the same tutorial before you.
"Multiple You"
The other assignment is to create a picture that will have five (or more) images of yourself in one single environment. Put another way, it'll be a picture of some space -- a room, landscape, whatever -- in which there are at least five images of you, realistically inhabiting the space. There should also be some overlapping among at least two of the "yous."
Part of this assignment is technical - thinking of how you are going to best execute your idea, making sure the lighting works in the way you want it to, making sure you've staged the scene in a way that works, utilizing a tripod perhaps in stabilizng your multiple shots. The other part of the assignment is creative -- thinking through what the realtionship between your four (or more) selves might be, and what their relationship to the environment might be. It will be relatively easy to just position yourself in a room in four different poses, and just piece the four photos together. But there should be some sort of drama that is expressed in the picture.
You can dress in different costume for your five or more selves, so that the multiple yous are multiple characters. Or you could take the multiple yous as different expressions of the same central personality. Is one version of you the ego, and the other the id? Is one a voice undermining you, and is another a contrary voice of optimism and hope? What are the different faces of your personality, and what sorts of relationships or conflicts do they have with one another? How could those relationships/conflicts be expressed through action, through expression, through gesture?
This doesn't have to be heavy at all -- you can have a comical take on the problem -- but the bottom line is that there should be some psychological relationship betwen the multiple "characters." It doesn't have to be obvious or over-the-top -- in fact, part of what made Mickey's image interesting was that there was a degree of ambiguity to the relationships, which invited the viewers to try and figure out what was going on. So it doesn't have to be "spelled out" -- but it does have to be there, somewhere.
You'll need to have your photos taken before next class -- which wil be a work period for combining the photos, split up with the tutorial presentations. It might be a good strategy to pair with someone else in class; it'll be a good way of covering people who don't have access to a digital camera, and it will be far easier to compose and shoot yourself properly with someone other than you taking the pictures. We will eventually be making prints of these images, so make sure you take the photos at print resolution.
Tutorial
On Thursday (10/2), you should be prepared to give the class a photoshop tutorial, on any topic or effect you'd like to research. Google something you'd like to learn, or click around in the links on the "my blog list" column on the righthand side of this page (there are lots of good tutorials on those blogs). Remember, step yourself through it BEFORE you come to class, to make sure you understand all the steps, and have all the materials you need. You should be able to make your demonstration in about ten minutes.
Post a link or a one-sentence description of the tutorial you'd like to do in the "comments" to this blog post, including an indication of whether you're in the morning or afternoon section, checking to make sure no one else in your section has picked the same tutorial before you.
"Multiple You"
The other assignment is to create a picture that will have five (or more) images of yourself in one single environment. Put another way, it'll be a picture of some space -- a room, landscape, whatever -- in which there are at least five images of you, realistically inhabiting the space. There should also be some overlapping among at least two of the "yous."
Part of this assignment is technical - thinking of how you are going to best execute your idea, making sure the lighting works in the way you want it to, making sure you've staged the scene in a way that works, utilizing a tripod perhaps in stabilizng your multiple shots. The other part of the assignment is creative -- thinking through what the realtionship between your four (or more) selves might be, and what their relationship to the environment might be. It will be relatively easy to just position yourself in a room in four different poses, and just piece the four photos together. But there should be some sort of drama that is expressed in the picture.
You can dress in different costume for your five or more selves, so that the multiple yous are multiple characters. Or you could take the multiple yous as different expressions of the same central personality. Is one version of you the ego, and the other the id? Is one a voice undermining you, and is another a contrary voice of optimism and hope? What are the different faces of your personality, and what sorts of relationships or conflicts do they have with one another? How could those relationships/conflicts be expressed through action, through expression, through gesture?
This doesn't have to be heavy at all -- you can have a comical take on the problem -- but the bottom line is that there should be some psychological relationship betwen the multiple "characters." It doesn't have to be obvious or over-the-top -- in fact, part of what made Mickey's image interesting was that there was a degree of ambiguity to the relationships, which invited the viewers to try and figure out what was going on. So it doesn't have to be "spelled out" -- but it does have to be there, somewhere.
You'll need to have your photos taken before next class -- which wil be a work period for combining the photos, split up with the tutorial presentations. It might be a good strategy to pair with someone else in class; it'll be a good way of covering people who don't have access to a digital camera, and it will be far easier to compose and shoot yourself properly with someone other than you taking the pictures. We will eventually be making prints of these images, so make sure you take the photos at print resolution.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Tuesday's assignment: Fake News
The current assignment is to fake a news story. This should involve at least four images you'e composited, and some supporting text -- the text could be as simple as a caption or headline, or you could write a mini news article to accompany the image, if appropriate. The "fake news" could be either something plausible, or something completely absurd. Either way, strive to make the image itself as convincing as possible, and try to create the accompanying caption or story in a way that it sounds like a real news story. Tuesday will be an in-class work day for this project.
Come to class Tuesday with your raw materials for the project selected (or shot, if you're using any photos you plan to shoot yourself), the text (for caption or story) written and printed out, and a basic sketch of your idea for the project. I will collect the writing and sketch as a graded assignment.
Come to class Tuesday with your raw materials for the project selected (or shot, if you're using any photos you plan to shoot yourself), the text (for caption or story) written and printed out, and a basic sketch of your idea for the project. I will collect the writing and sketch as a graded assignment.
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