Kendall Buster

Kendall Buster's work is very fascinating and futuristic.  I enjoy the way he has a cloud affect to them. His work is very clean and very good craftsmanship. Each of his works reminds me of clouds or an alien ship. I feel that my experience at NASA in Florida really causes me to have the alien futuristic look. His works are massive and some hang above you as objects do in NASA. His form is smooth and elegant. The 2.4 parabiosis #4, is my favorite work he did, because it reminds me of so many items at once. Jellyfish, balloon animals, snowflakes, and an alien ship are all thought of when I look at the work. 

The Photographer's Eye

 John Szarkowski’s, The Photographer’s Eye explains how the elements of a photo and why they look the way the do. The story also teaches you taught me about how the photographers control in the photo by using the frame and different vantage points to change the outlook of what the photographer will see as a whole with his own eyes. The advancement in shutter speed, materials more sensitive to light and better lenses changed the way humans looked at things. I thought it was neat and never really realized about the ancient drawing of horses legs where they all going forward until Muybridge changed it when he took a picture of the galloping horse showing its legs paused in time. In the reading although it says, that photography cannot tell a narrative. I don’t feel to really agree with that because when looking at a past photo of a family at the beach with the children burring each other in the sand tells a story to me. It can bring back a big long family discussion about the trip. The reading taught me a lot about photography I didn’t know due to the fact I’ve never really worked with photography.

Ways of Seeing, Episode 1: Psychological Aspects

John Berger film was very informative but rather dull and boring to watch. I enjoyed when they combined music with the pictures. I never realize how much the music affects the picture or the meaning.  The way that the mood of a song can complete change how you feel towards a picture. I found it interesting that throughout the years I’ve never really realized that. The movie though was repetitive in telling that a painting cannot be reproduced.  The reproduced art changes the meaning of the art when placed in different settings.

Camera Lucida

Camera Lucida 
by Roland Barthes was about the point of view on Photographs and where they came from, to how a photo is violent. A photo is violent according to Barthes “not because it shows violent things, but because on each occasion it fills the sight by force, and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed”. That is very interesting to me because as clear space on my camera stick and look back on photos it can bring back things that can’t be change now.

Master's Of Illusion

The Master’s Of Illusion was a really interesting documentary. It covered over many major influences in perspective drawings.  I was really interested in the study inside the palace. I like how the wood venire was made to look like a 3d room made of wood but when looked at from a different angle it is no longer in linear perspective. The painter who drew the studies of octagons in different places surprised me that he could draw the chalice in the wire drawings that look as if they were from the computer.  The most fascinating drawings were the stretched ones or anamorphic technique.  The drawing with portraits and war battles mixed together was very crazy to see that an artist can take those pictures and turn them into that piece.