here is what i came up with for my book hope you enjoy

this is a photo of my counin dressed up like me for Halloween. its pretty funny.

this is an image i found on line i dont know who took it or where it is but i want to go there. i really like all the art work, the variety seen in this one shot

my first attempt at the paper doll project. it took me a sec to figure out how it all is supposed to fit together but in the end i think i got it. and i tried to put his facial features on different sides of his head but i dont knoe how it will look but i thought he would end up looking stupid or slow you know wonky eyed. i imagine him saying "ggrr..duuh..."

this is an image from the codex seraphinianus. it is a encyclopedic book written in an undecipherable language about an unknown place. all the illustrations in the book are super trippy and unique. the book written by Luigi sarafini is about 360 pages and $400+ so i have never actually been able to look at the real thing. sarafini was an italian artist/designer in the 1970s.

favorite spot

this is a photo my girlfriend Laura took in Bend at our favorite swimming hole. i guess i like it because this is how i felt when we first stumbled upon it. we thought we were trespassing and tryin to be sneaky but the path opens up to the best spot on the deschutes. oh yeah! but we spent about a million hours tanning and swimmin and laxin in the sun. its a good memory. makes me wanna go back.

old scratch

this is an image i made in paint years ago. i really like this assignment. i always have fun doing stuff like this.

scratch 2

look out for this guy when the moon is out eeow!

here is a scratch i did. i used to do stuff like this in paint all the time but PS opens up so many doors and tools. i had a bit of trouble with coloring stuff in quickly but have come up with some tricks of my own to make things quicker.

this is an image of a Bert Grimm tattoo. Grimm was a big name in tattooing for years. he started when he was 12 in 1912 and continued for the next 70ish years. i really like him because of his art and he started in portland my home town. Bert Grimm is rad check him out if you like tattoos.

here is one of my self portraits. i was attempting to takne pix of the other and saw my reflection. i like the repeates idea of being in a window in this. there are elements of the foreground that are seen in the reflection and then the fact that i am being reflected in a window through a window taknig a picture through a tiny window. its weird

I spent a while carrying a camera around waiting for the right stranger and then I just started taking photos of every one. through all this though i didnt have any quality photos until i saw this old dude cruizin around and snapped one as he passed. I feel like the thing that i take out of this assignment is to go after it and take a ton of pics because in the digital world it is better to have more to work with than less.

this is my pic of another, this lovely lady is my girlfriend laura. i took a few in the same sitting and ended up with two i really liked. i tried to compress the background while still maintaining some solid elements like the two trees and the phone pole in this one. anyway thats what i came up with

this is at grizzly peak near the summit earlier this month. my girlfriend, laura, took the photo. it was hard to pick one of these to add to my blog because she took so many rad pix but this one stood out because of the clouds and the defused back ground and back lighting. i think it is a very powerful composition aswell, there is a strong use of thirds with the washed out white juxtuposed with the defined blacks and browns. and besides all that it was so awesome up there the view was to die for and we could see above the clouds. it was sick!

cambodian taxi

I took a trip to SE Asia last December and January with my parents. this is a photo my ma took while en route to Cambodia. first off the reality of this photo is nuts, to see a van jam packed with people and things, and stacked with even more, is just unbelievable. I also really like the colors this picture was not altered this is real color the yellow van the blue sky and the green jungle juxtaposed with the static grey of the road. I really gotta give my ma props on this one its one of my favorites.

this here is a Garry Winogrand photo. I really like his use of decisive moment. this particular photo stood out because of its visual hierarchy. in the fore ground and back ground there are people, standing, walking, talking and you end up scanning the crowd looking for the subject. then you see its the guy on the ground, looking directly into the camera. this picture is a bit of a shocker to me at least because of that.

B

so here we are my second letter collage. as you can see i used B this time. i didn't really have any idea where i was going when i started this one but i guess it isn't so bad. i like the back ground i created by distorting the sideways B. and i experimented with a few new effects like the blur and plastic wrap filters. i didn't love this assignment but i will say practice makes perfect and the more time i spend on PS the better i get and that is a fact.

I found this photo of i guess a barbershop quartet and this poster just came out of it. I was disappointed at the lack of contrast between the men and their cloths, the hands and shirts blend too much as well as the woman's top and the mans grey hair. all the same I am happy with the final result despite some minor shortcomings.

FLYING V

It says it in the name Flying V. This is a guitar photographed upside-down to highlight its wicked-awesome V-shape. Although this one didn't take a whole lot of thought I really likes how it came out. I especially like the shadow bisecting it, I feel it adds an eerie yet still rock n' roll sense to the photo.

In this photo I am using the negative space as as much as the positive. The contrast between the dark blue on the white wall etch an S into the frame like a yin-yang in a way. The frame is divided in two with very different things on both sides. Out of the 5 or 6 photos I snapped of this S shape I liked this one the most because of the business in the left hand side of it.

here we have my sink in my kitchen. it looks like a lowercase I in my eyes. i like the blue green of the sink as the background in this picture because it makes the chrome really POP!

I thought this looked like a W. the leaf imprint in some fresh cement. I did crop a big chunk of this picture while intentionally leaving a big negative space with a lot of texture and lines.

so in class on monday the 19th someone said that B's are hard to come by. I took this as a challenge to find at least one B and here it is. this is a waffle shaped like mickey mouse, the eyes make the B shape and the red is strawberries in his nose. this was the best tasting B i ever ate!!

this is the framing around the window in my front door. It looks like an X. i spent about a half hour wandering around my apartment looking for letters. I like this one because its off center and a little crooked. the uneven negative space gives the eye something to wander around in.

this is my poster I did in class. I have a bunch of photos of me and my friends shooting and that photo of the lady is a picture of my girlfriend when she actually got shot. so i started with some funny pics I had on line and then I just had to arrange them how i wanted 'em. Delia is a really good song performed by johnny cash, about his woman who treated him wrong and he shot her. its a really funny song and i though this sort of cowboy motif would be fitting.

this is my first collage attempt from lab. Its pretty much the first time i have used photo shop or a mac so i was pretty happy with it. I used the pics miles picked and one other i found on the interweb, the cigar. this was ust an experiment for me to build me Photo Shop skills sisnt really mean anything though.

original ed

I love iron maiden for their music and their art work. the band created Eddie a terrifying zombie type monster as a kind of mascot in the 70's. Eddie first appeared on the Running Free single pictured here although he had no name yet. the bands next album Killers featured another picture of Eddie. I really like this painting because of the depth of field, there is a scary hand coming out of the foreground and Eddie coming out of the back ground and some Innocent heavy metal kid stuck in the middle. the artist is Derek Riggs. Riggs although best known for his work with maiden also worked with The Iron Maidens a female tribute band and Gammaray

Mexican Bar fight

this is a photo i call mexican bar fight. it includes a shot glass full of 3 parts tequilla and 1 part chunky salsa along with someone stupid enough to drink it. i like this photo because its as blurry as you vission is after a few of these. its a really grimmy photo that takes a second to figure out exactly what your looking at, i imagine it on the wall of a sleezy bar or in the back of a free news paper. but if you ever get a wild hair you gotta try a mexican barfight

This is a Salvador Dali painting. I really like Dali, his strange view of reallity always makes me have to do a double take. I chose to post this painting because it has alot of the elements of a Dali painting while being so much creepier than most. there is the elongated legs of the figure and the vivid skyscape. but the subject is so frightening the emaciated face coupled with the fetishesc breast groping. this painting is one that I really had to sit and think about because it is so creepy.

This is a painting I did a while back. I used spray paint and acrylics mostly with a touch of paint pen and sharpy. I think that graffitti is a really cool style so this is sort of an attempt to extract some of that style onto a canvas or in this case a door. thats another point too that I really try to find interesting canvases to start a piece of art, I believe that your medium says as much as the painting its self.

So this is my little cousin Nick and we took this picture of him shooting this old .22. I thought it was a really funny one so here is what i came up with. Im not a vegetarian or anything... but this makes me laugh.

Stamm

this is a collage done by Jordan Stamm. This contemporary artist based out of portland uses the old fashioned scissors and paste method with one exception... the finished product is always scanned and digitized and the original discarded. First off i think this is really fantastic art because of the content and I think the original thought implemented in the process is especially creative. This shows one way to combine traditional printed art with the new digital frontier.

E-World

here is my first attempt at this letter project. Its called "E-World." Like sea world. anyway i got a kick out of this assignment

fire dog

I don't have PS at home, so here is something I did in paint. I think its fun