I had fun!

A student sketchbook of digital appropriation, inspiration, and design.

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Shadowgram/shadowgraph

"Shadowgraph is an optical method that reveals non-uniformities in transparent media like air, water, or glass." from Wikipedia

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Hand Shadows

A small page dedicated to the alchemy of hand and light.

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Intermediaries: Cyanotypes Artist Natalie Cheung investigates fractal patterns emerging from her experimentation into the cyanotype printing process.

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An artist and a director of the Annenberg Foundation is seeking permission to build a 70-foot water wheel to draw water from the Los Angeles River north of Chinatown to create a stream and shady...

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Photographer Binh Danh uses the chlorophyll in plant leaves to create prints. -From PetaPixel

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"Terminator" http://fontsinuse.com/

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"Flash Dance" http://discreetcharmsandobscureobjects.blogspot.com/

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"Last Tango in Paris" http://discreetcharmsandobscureobjects.blogspot.com/

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Artist Chuck Close writes note to younger self

In the latest installment of "Note to Self," famed portrait artist Chuck Close writes a letter to himself at age 14, offering himself advice...

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Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth (Woodcut), Tugboat Printshop, London, 2010.

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"There's great fun out-doors in taking Brownie pictures and there's great fun in-doors in developing and printing." A great archive of Kodak Brownie advertisements, 1900-1963. I love that this series was marketed so specifically to children/the photographic preservation of childhood. Source

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"An integral concept of Alchemy is “Solve et Coagula” – dissolve and combine.  This is the secret key to manifesting the Philosoher’s Stone, Elixr of Life and immortality.  This ideal is represented with the image of the Rebis – a two-headed hermaphrodite that holds the assets of both genders." "Symbiosis" c-print photographs with applied acrylic Rik Garrett

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"I’m definitely an advocate for revising photographic vocabulary; I think it’s important that techniques such as Layer Masking and Frequency Separation are introduced into the general conversation. I’m also ready to do away with debasing words like “Photoshopped,” which simplifies a complex process by describing it as a single tool." Joshua Citarella

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Photographs by Ron van Dongen artist's website

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Photographic works by Yang Yongliang