Digital Surrealism

        The concept for my digital surrealism was to display the different sides of our personalities that don’t always show. I was trying to explain how sometimes we don’t show our true selves and how we act differently & alter our personality and our actions based on our audience and our surroundings. That our true selves are rarely shown or seen. I portrayed this by taking multiple shots of me in different positions and outfits doing different things. Each variant signified an alteration or piece of my overall personality. One was on the floor, laying belly down watching TV. That one is the “Core Persona”. Being the main part of my overall personality, he’s wearing simple street clothes. I figured the aspects he would represent would be things related to my most notable traits, such as humor, etiquette, and my mostly relaxed nature. There were two other copies of me representing the other parts of my personality that wouldn’t really be noticeable just by looking at me.

           

I started out by sketching the birds-eye-view of my living room layout so I could determine where to position myself and where to position the camera. I decided on placing my camera on a tripod beneath and arc like entryway that leads to my living room. I set the camera to the 10-second countdown mode. I would then get in position and wait for the camera to take the picture. Once the picture is taken I would go over to see it and check if I needed to alter the environment in terms of lighting and stuff. Once I got all the pictures I started working in Photoshop. I used a picture of just my living room as my background and I altered the brightness and contrast because it looked a little dark. Next I started dragging in the pictures of myself and editing them out of their original pictures and putting them onto the background. After all of the Josh Variants were in I also inserted my cat into the picture just for fun.

Throughout this project I learned a lot more about layering, changing things like brightness and contrast, and I also learned how to use opacity. I’m pretty satisfied with how the end product turned out. It didn’t end up exactly how I imagined it but I’m still happy about how it looked in the end.

Inuit Throat Singing Girls at Trudeau's Swearing in Ceremony.

During Justin Trudeau's ceremony of getting sworn in as prime minister, two young inuit girls did a throat singing presentation. How it works is they stand face to face, link arms, stare into each others eyes and begin throat singing. Similarly to a staring contest, where the first person to blink loses, whichever girl laughs first loses that round.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/inuit-throatsingers-steal-the-show-at-justin-trudeau-s-swearing-in-ceremony-1.3304148

Fire and Storm Transformed

By Fire and Storm Transformed

Created by: Aaron Paquette

This picture is of a tall woman in a flowing red dress getting struck by lightning. I am uncertain as to what the artist used to make this. The lines in this picture are arced and wavy along with the jagged lines used for the lightning and the electricity. There is also a lot of oval like shapes. The colours in this picture are bright and vibrant. The woman has a warm colour scheme of red yellow and a hint of orange, where the background has a cool colour and grey colour scheme going on.

The first thing you see upon looking at this picture is the red dress because of how bright and vibrant it is against the grey background.The next thing you notice is the bright white lightning. The light is coming from the lightning and the darker parts of the picture is closer to the bottom. This picture is nothing but flat space and it would be symmetrical if it weren't for the lightning.

7 Grandfather Teachings Project

After a few long weeks of time and effort we've finally finished our seven grandfather teachings water-colour project. Basically,what that means is we first learned about the seven grandfather teachings which were a bunch of positive character traits symbolized by animals, for instance Love was represented by an Eagle and Humility was represented by the Wolf and so on. So we drew little slips of paper out of a basket to determine what animal or trait we received. I received the bear which represents courage so I partnered up with the person who ended up with courage. Together we made a great big poster with elements of line, we inked it, and watercolored it. This was the end result.

Logo Design Project

Above is my final decision for my combined logo. Now I was debating between two designs. I wasn't sure if I wanted the name of my company printed on my box or coming out of my box. I made two variants and I just decided to post them both.

Here is my final for my pictographic, (top) and the designs for my pictographic (bottom). When I started this project I had the idea for a brown box in mind from the beginning so I didn't test with colours very much. I tried a few variations for the black and white colour scheme however and it ended up looking really cool. In terms of the greyscale variant I actually tried using the gradient tool but it didn't turn out very nice. I ended up going with the Fog Grey Box, the Monochrome Box and the classic brown box.

For my typographic, I had started with some random font like, marker felt or something. While I was brainstorming I realized that the word "scattered" starts with s and ends in d, and the other way around for "dreams". Once I realized this I eliminated one of the "d's" completely and connected the two words. For the font I decided on Bauhaus 93, which is the Amiibo Font. 

This is the original Image

Our first CyberARTS homework assignment

We got an assignment to do over the weekend of the 3rd-4th of October for CyberARTS. We were supposed to do the assignment over the weekend as homework however nobody did so we all just did it on monday. The assignment was to watch a video, which I will link to at the end of the post. The video was about this guy who was talking about his design process for making logos which was what he does every single day. It was really unique and each variation of the logo had something special about it and a reason for why it looks like it does, along with his thought process for making it. It was really inspiring knowing that you can actually make a living off of what you love to do. In the video he said "Doing this kind of stuff gives me more of a reason to get out of bed in the morning because I know there will be something new and fun waiting for me."

Here's the link to the video: https://vimeo.com/113751583

Rhythm Assignment

Steady Line

For my Steady Line, I created a diagonal pattern that went from the top right corner to the bottom left corner. The line size was pt.8 and the lines got pinched in at the ends. My thoughts were quite random at first but then I just kept going with what seemingly turned into what reminded me of a yellow police tape design. I think it worked out nicely because all the lines are the same size and type. I spaced them out a bit nearing the edges of the page to draw the eye towards the centre of the page where the lines are slightly closer.

Dynamic Line

            For my Dynamic Line, I wanted to make a heart design but I wanted to make it subtle. So I arranged the line patterns to make a heart in the negative space. The finished product had a very nice flow to it. The way that the lines go in a rough circle like shape around the heart reminds me of Charlotte’s Web.

                                                                                     

A new story begins

This is my first blog post.

I am a student at LCI in the CyberARTS program. In this blog I will be keeping track of my life inside and outside of CyberARTS.